By Randall Richards, Mountain Spirit Media
Penny Marie, a motivated mother and “new journalist”, with a marketing background, is making the rounds on New Zealand’s South Island for a two-week whistle-stop tour, called “Finding Your Brave”. She recently spoke in Cromwell in Central Otago, to an attentive crowd of locals interested in preventing government overreach.
Her main advice, “Show up at a school board or regional council meeting as an ally”. To warm the waters, she starts out with a traditional Maori introduction, called a “Pepeha” as part of one’s “mihimihi” or story or personal history. “It’s a wonderful way to put context of who you are, and your connection to people and place. That immediately allows a more relaxed sense of communication between parties”, said Marie. She then presents issues in a non-confrontational way. “If they don’t listen”, she says “Then go run your own meeting somewhere else”.
Her address to her local school board of trustees, was delivered in an honorable, but firm way. She asked for a response within a month. Finally, she said, “giving them a timeframe to reply is important, and if none is forthcoming, then go back for another request”.
Although Penny’s talk covers the broad subject of standing tall, she’s particularly been fired up by the recent so-called curriculum refresh and more specifically modifications to sex education aimed at our young children, not only in New Zealand but worldwide.
As a recent example, our local Liger Leadership Academy, a private high school in Queenstown recently arranged for the organisa7on ‘Inside Out’ who are sponsored by the government to deliver a presentation to their students as part of the their Healthy Citizens curriculum. After a number of
parents raised concern and asked for more information about what would be presented to their
children, the school was receptive and arranged for ‘Inside Out’ to meet and present to parents first
which provided an opportunity for parents to ask questions directly to the presenter from Inside Out.
As a result, numerous parents chose to opt their children out of the presentation which is their legal
right and the school arranged for these children to participate in alternative activities.
As a side note, I did a quick overview of Liger, a relatively new private school in the area, and it looks like it’s based on some great experiential educational principles not found in the public system, plus it emphasizes a strong scholarship program for parents who find the $15,000 per annum tuition load a challenge.
Penny stated, “Before these presentations most, if not all board members, teachers and most parents aren’t aware of the sexualtiy edcuation curriculum being imposed in their schools”. adding, Parents are so busy working and maintaining home-life they’re often unaware of what’s being presented”. To make matters worse, either by design or for simplicity, unfortunately, the privacy act in New Zealand appears to be misused.” There is little support for young people who want an even and balanced perspective on these big matters. Penny sees a need to create a network of people to help those in need of support who are currently in the educational system. If people are wanting to help develop a network get in touch with her at rsesupport@proton.me She listed off a number of website links, and suggested people look into the story of Chloe Cole told on the Family First website, and Walt Meyer’s advice to those thinking of transitioning on the sexchangeregret.com website. In short, Penny is asking parents, teachers and boards to not only re-think “gender education” but to take a step back and take hands off our kids in this regards. see resistgendereducation.nz and familyfirst.nz for more on this.
Penny’s other mission while on her tour is to encourage local community members to form local media content groups whether online and/or in print. If this interests you, get in touch Penny at penny@voicemedia.nz She has recently been helping promote New Zealand’s own new platform, Voice Media started by Mykeljon Winckel, who goes by Mj. This stand-alone subscription based platform is free for journalists, both professional and amateurs, to join, but asks readers to sign up for an subscription before gaining access to the site’s contributors and their content. As Mj puts it “Voice Media is publicly funded free speech platform as opposed to the tax paying tyrannical corporate media. It’s the Noah’s arc of free speech”.
I have started a channel on Voice Media, as has Penny, and I also encourage not only local community groups to get on board but other professionals as well by contacting Penny. The beauty of the platform is it’s safe haven for one’s content. Unlike YouTube or Facebook, one’s work won’t get censored off the internet.
As if in perfect synchronicity, Penny has also been asked to coordinate Kerry Murray’s United Free Press’ Austria- New Zealand’s media community. UFP, we hope, will replace the globalists’ mouthpieces like United Press International, AP, and Reuters. (I used to work for UPI back in the day, but no more).
Penny will be encouraging local reporters and content providers to become accredited members of United Free Press, by applying to be a member and abiding by UFP’s code of ethics. Penny also recently joined the Free Speech Union of New Zealand which she encourages others to look into.
mainstream
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
mān′strēm″
noun
The prevailing current of thought, influence, or activity.
The prevailing opinion or practise.
That which is common; the norm.
The idea is to do an end run around, what I used to call, the Mainstream Media. I don’t call them that anymore, because it’s becoming obvious they’re no longer the mainstream. I also don’t like “Legacy Media” which some use, but prefer “Dinosaur Media” instead as it more accurately depicts their current status. I’m about to do another piece on the sea-change happening daily where big new media events are changing the landscape faster than anyone expected. It’s the “wild-west of communications”. My professors, nor anyone else could have predicted, when I took my university courses in communications and public relations in the early ‘80’s that we’d see such cool changes happening in real time. It’s an interesting time to be alive. Keep an eye on Penny Marie. She’s not in this for the glory, rather because she’s passionate about getting the truth out, in an open-hearted way based on compassion. And most likely she’ll pull it off on a global scale with her knack of tapping into the synchronicity of connecting people, Voice Media and United Free Press. I wish her God’s speed on her journey, and look forward to seeing where this leads. I plan on being there every step of the way.
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