My hunch is we should not rush prematurely into action, but stick with our despair for a while, deepen and process it. One important clue was the affirmation of identity by the massed women’s protests in the United States. The truth is we have let the old bastions of identity atrophy: the trade unions, the churches, the political parties. As with the Springbok tour and the peace movement, we need to develop new networks with the expertise and imagination and passion to reach out to the inner city and the suburbs and rural New Zealand and wake people up. It could trump Trump.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 29, 2017 17:19 UTC