One Perfectly Good Park Riposte – By Sumner Burstyn. Take one perfectly good park. In fact more than good. A park with broad playing fields and picnic areas, trees to climb and bushes to hide in, with a pond and Pūkeko and flax and a wetlands restoration project and pathways winding through and around. Welcome [...]
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Riposte – By Sumner Burstyn: One Perfectly Good Park
Written by Sumner Burstyn on Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
Riposte – By Sumner Burstyn: Pimp My Child
Written by Sumner Burstyn on Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
Pimp My Child Riposte – By Sumner Burstyn. A child being pushed along a crowded downtown pavement on a hot Saturday afternoon in Toronto. Nothing strange about that. Until you realise there’s an excited crowd around the stroller and coterie of videographers surrounding mother and child. Next you notice the stroller. It’s totally tricked out. [...]
Riposte – By Sumner Burstyn: Manipulate This
Written by Sumner Burstyn on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
Manipulate This Riposte – By Sumner Burstyn. How do you create public opinion? If you were in New Zealand the best person to turn to would have to be Pauline Colmar. Over the last few weeks Ms. Colmar has been popping up at select corporate speaking engagements discussing her latest polling project, The Solid Energy [...]
Riposte – By Sumner Burstyn: Lucy in the Sky with Ritalin
Written by Sumner Burstyn on Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
Lucy in the Sky with Ritalin Riposte – By Sumner Burstyn. Here’s a trend. Say your normal child is not doing so well at school. No real problems, just not that attentive or interested in learning. The teachers are not happy; after all they have unit standards to achieve. The school board and principal are [...]
Riposte – By Sumner Burstyn: The A Word (again)
Written by Sumner Burstyn on Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
The A Word (again) Riposte – By Sumner Burstyn. In Canada, that most liberal of countries, there’s a new way for conservative politicians to talk about abortion without ever having to mention the A word. It’s called Motion 312. Proposed by Conservative Member of Parliament Stephen Woodworth, the motion called for reviewing and potentially redefining [...]
Riposte – By Sumner Burstyn: New Poor Law
Written by Sumner Burstyn on Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
New Poor Law Riposte – By Sumner Burstyn. In the 1980’s when I first became aware of the theory of welfare bludging I was a newly single parent with three small kids. I went from a socially acceptable wife and mother to that lower form of life known as the solo mother. Even while living [...]
Riposte With Sumner Burstyn: Privatizing Violence
Written by Sumner Burstyn on Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
Privatizing Violence Riposte – By Sumner Burstyn. American actor and activist Peter Coyote wondered last week if he was the only person old enough to remember Dick Cheney inviting the Taliban to the White House. “It was to discuss a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan’s Dauletabad gas field, across Afghanistan to the North-western town of Fazlika [...]
Riposte – With Sumner Burstyn: If Genetics Don’t Matter
Written by Sumner Burstyn on Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
Riposte – With Sumner Burstyn: If Genetics Don’t Matter Under proposed changes to New Zealand’s 50-year-old adoption law to be debated by Parliament same sex couples would be able to adopt. Whatever your opinion on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people having the same rights as heterosexuals, the amendment is a smokescreen. It is [...]
Riposte – With Sumner Burstyn: What We Talk About When We Talk About Terrorism
Written by Sumner Burstyn on Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
Riposte – With Sumner Burstyn: What We Talk About When We Talk About Terrorism EDITOR’S NOTE: Producer and writer Sumner Burstyn is an award winning, widely published journalist. She produced the multi-award winning documentaries This Way of Life, and, One Man, One Cow, One Planet. This is her first post with LiveNews.co.nz. Column: What We [...]