Werewolf Edition 19 Is Now Available - Merry Christmas!
Tuesday, 21 December 2010, 9:56 am Article: Werewolf
Werewolf Edition 19 Is Now Available - Merry
Christmas!
From Werewolf Editor Gordon
Campbell
Hi and welcome to
the Christmas mini-issue of Werewolf which has a certain
retro feel - good record shops, Chairman Mao, rich New Yorkers being consumerist -
appropriate for a festive season that is being conducted
(for the second year running) in the shadow of recession. In
our cover story Werewolf looks at the desperate state of music retailing in New
Zealand, and the added value that good record stores (
take a bow, Slowboat) can bring to the entire community.
Elsewhere in the world, people have more to lose than their
record stores. In the case of West Papua, Jason MacLeod reports on the innovative
- but-traditional forms of passive civil disobedience that are
being used by the local resistance against Indonesian
rule.
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Chairman Mao? You can't govern with him, you
can't govern without him. That's been Nepal's sorry
experience for much of 2010. Strange as it may seem,
Chairman Mao is still taken seriously as a force in Nepalese
politics, and is not treated as merely a relic of a bygone
era, or as an emblem of socialist chic. Werewolf interviewed Nepalese investigative
journalist and editor Kunda Dixit about the divisions
within the Maoists who dominate Nepal's national politics,
and about the reasons for the paralysing stalemate between
them and the non-Maoist opposition. Also, on the flipside
of capitalism : from New York, James Robinson offers some
words and images about Christmas in the world's greatest city.
Werewolf wishes you a rockin' good time
over Christmas and New Year - thanks for your support over
the past year and hope to have you back again in 2011 for
our next issue in late January. As always, Werewolf is a
monthly thank you to Scoop supporters, and aims to provide
a showcase for good journalism and cartooning. If you'd like
to be part of it, contact
me on the address below and we can talk story ideas.
Thanks to Alastair Thompson for helping me to put up the
issue online.
Record Shop R.I.P
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/12/record-shop-r-i-p/
A few seasonal thoughts on the demise of ye
olde record store by Gordon Campbell
West Papua: from Morning Star to
Mourning
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/12/west-papua-from-morning-star-to-mourning/
The freedom & democracy movement in West
Papua is using non-violent action to advance its
cause. by Jason MacLeod
Mao Is Alive and Well (& Living in
Kathmandu)
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/12/mao-is-alive-and-well-living-in-kathmandu/
The Nepalese Experiment with Maoism hits
gridloc by Gordon Campbell
Letter from America : Christmas in New
York
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/12/letter-from-america-christmas-in-new-york/
Santa’s Sleigh makes its way to the U.S.
of A. by James Robinson
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Classics : The Incredible Journey
(1961)
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/12/classics-the-incredible-journey-1961/
About the bond between animals and
humans…. by Gordon Campbell
Milestone Movies : The Best of
2010
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/12/milestone-movies-the-best-of-2010/
Art – and reality are always a
construct by Brannavan Gnanalingham
From The Hood : Mustn’t
Grumble
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/12/from-the-hood-the-year-in-revue/
Lyndon Hood looks back at 2010 and feels
reasonably satisfied by Lyndon Hood
The Complicatist : How To Dress
Well
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/12/the-complicatist-how-to-dress-well/
Memory and desire – plus, the best of
2010 by Gordon Campbell
Cartoon Alley: Barnsey Malone
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/12/cartoon-alley-barnsey-malone/
Barnsey Malone (11) lives in Newtown, she
normally does her drawings on whiteboard and rubs them
out. by Barnsey Malone
Cartoon Alley
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/12/werewolf-cartoon-alley/
Reviews, commentary and comics from local
artists by Werewolf
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