"If the public, which was so comprehensively misled by the SIS in this fashion in its public utterances for the past decade is to have its trust in the security services restored, it needs something more than the say/so of the Royal Commission that all is now ship-shape and in tip top working order down at SIS HQ. The documentation of what the SIS was asked, and what the SIS said in reply should be released."

#christchurchshootings #christchurchcall #nzpolitics

http://werewolf.co.nz/2020/06/gordon-campbell-on-the-opaque-workings-of-the-royal-commission-into-the-mosque-shootings/

"A proper reckoning with March 15 2019 demands that we take up a generations-long struggle to destroy all the exclusions that make up our society and produce the conditions we know as racism. An essay by Morgan Godfery."

#longread #racism #nzculture #nzpolitics #christchurchshootings

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/13-03-2020/they-are-us-an-urgent-uncomfortable-call-to-action/

"One bullet ruined restaurateur Ahmed Jahangir’s health, another ended his chef’s career, and together they put six other staff out of work. Six months on from the Christchurch mosque shootings, Ahmed is fighting to reclaim his life and start serving authentic Hyderabadi dum biryani once more."

#christchurchshootings #otherpeoplesexperiences

Content warning: descriptions of gunshot injuries.

http://shorthand.radionz.co.nz/Christchurch-attacks-6-months-on/