Today is one year at the DCC! The time has whisked by. Hard to believe.
Anniversary
15 Tuesday May 2007
15 Tuesday May 2007
Today is one year at the DCC! The time has whisked by. Hard to believe.
30 Monday Apr 2007
Posted Dunedin
inThe DCC has advertised my job – Website – Customer Service Leader. Making it real that I’ll leaving.
13 Friday Apr 2007
Posted Dunedin, human rights, politics
inAmnesty International currently has a human rights campaign focussed on China, complete with a tour, whose slogan is “Human Rights: Not Made in China”. AI members had a run-in with DCC staff when they tried to meet with the Mayor Peter (Wing Ho) Chin yesterday.
As a DCC worker and someone who supports Amnesty and human rights I am disappointed that Chin is be shying away from making any stand or comment. But politics is clearly an issue here as ties between Dunedin and China are very close, with Shanghai, China having a meaningful relationship as a sister city of Dunedin. There is also the Chinese Garden development, which has central government support and involvement of Chinese experts.
I recently read a review of The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression, the basic thesis of which on the face rings true. China does abuse human rights and we hear little from our leaders condemning China. Will NZ boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics due to the human rights abuses in China? I doubt it, yet they are willing to call for sanctions on Fiji.
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03 Tuesday Apr 2007
Posted Dunedin
inI have more or less completed my shift next door. Last night though I saw a cockroach in the new place. I was surprised by this as I’d been told that there are no cockroaches in Dunedin. This is clearly untrue. Hopefully no more will appear.