You choose not to be held hostage in the present
Forgiveness is a choice. You choose not to be held hostage in the presentShirley Glass#Forgiveness pic.twitter.com/8e6vFL9Ohz — Barry Pearman (@barrypearman) July 14, 2016
Make an educated decision
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Details of all unsolved murders are only a mouse click away.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/81671533/Sensing-Murder-A-cold-case-of-tricks-or-something-more NZ Skeptics chair Mark Honeychurch says the psychics from Sensing Murder have not been instrumental in any developments with the cases they investigated. But as the New Zealand Skeptics Society points out the details of all of New Zealand’s unsolved murders are only a mouse click away. Skeptics Society chairman Mark Honeychurch said with…
Convicted sex offender destroyed a nine-year-old boy’s innocence
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/child-sex-offender-sentenced-preventive-detention-after-grooming-boy-online While living at a monitored address, with random room searches and no unsupervised Internet access, Stevens accumulated several mobile devices and downloaded 5000 objectionable images. Prosecutor Evan McCaughan said the supervision conditions should have been sufficient to prevent Stevens reoffending, but it was questionable how strictly monitored those conditions were. Justice Kit Toogood described…
Racism not part of human nature
One particular “common sense” claim I repeatedly heard in my research is that racism is “part of human nature”. This was a mantra offered to me among people in far-right racist movements and among many on the white left. I recall mingling with guests at a writers’ event when another author – a white middle…
Body image censored
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/82069978/controversy-over-nudity-in-documentary-embrace-hits-nz-film-festival New Zealand’s censorship laws mean that if a film is restricted in Australia, it needs to be classified for New Zealand audiences by the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC). While the film is being classified the festival is not allowed to sell tickets to anyone under the age of 18. A decision…
Put your history on the table and let people judge you on the facts
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/81809452/rapist-haunted-by-his-crime Our opinion is that the public’s safety has to be the priority. Rights to privacy [for an offender] are part of the problem,” the trust’s founder Garth McVicar says. “I’m a big believer in New Zealanders being able to forgive and move on, but the more we … allow offenders to hide their identities…
Snapchat filters enable survivors to speak freely on camera
https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/using-snapchat-s-filters-to-conceal-interviewee-identities/s2/a654554/ The complex face-mapping software used by Snapchat allows users to transform their appearance with a range of filters, and turn themselves into a dog, a lion, or a fire-breathing dragon, for example – usually seen as features designed to entertain. But this technology can have “serious applications for journalism,” Omar told Journalism.co.uk. He found…
Survivors record their interviews using Snapchat filters
http://www.teenvogue.com/story/snapchat-filters-sexual-assault-survivors-tell-stories Opening up about sexual abuse is a very hard and scary thing. While some survivors choose to be vocal about their abuse, others don’t want to talk about it at all. Some, though, want to share their story, but might want to remain anonymous. That’s why a journalist in India turned to Snapchat. According…