If you'd like to give a hand to those who need it, from delivering groceries and food to walking dogs to just giving those that are self-isolating or vulnerable a brief phonecall for their mental wellbeing, please chuck the ACU an email at solidarity@communityunion.org.nz or put yourself down in this spreadsheet if you live in or around Wellington. Anything would be appreciated.
Thanks.
The introduction of Aboriginal Australian nations with today's update is a bit bizarre. There's effectively no written history for these peoples, which by the time of European contact were still hunter-gatherer, pre-agricultural tribes.
I note that in the 1776 bookmark - before European contact - they are at level 10 tech, meaning that in 1776 they were as technologically developed as Europe was in the 16th century. This is absurd. The conditions for the development of agriculture did not exist in Australia and they had close to literally zero exposure to civilizations beyond their continent before the 18th C. Hence these tribes were less technologically advanced than 8th Millenium BC Mesopotamia.
They really shouldn't be included as playable or organised nations in-game. They were simply nowhere near this historically. They were much better represented in previous patches as native peoples in colonizable areas.
It's going to grind my gears massively to see that they've adopted institutions before coming into contact with the outside world. That shit's ridiculous lol.
Edit: at 1500 in my observer mode game, the Maori nation of Aotearoa is around tech 6-7, one tech behind the Ottomans and, no longer a Tribe, it is led by a "Duke". Hmm........
EDIT 2: Broadly speaking, consensus seems to be that Aboriginal, Maori and other tribes who were simply not organised enough to be considered proper states should be made optional in the game's settings.
NEW ZEALAND’S MODERN CULTURAL CRINGE A bizarre craze seems to be sweeping New Zealand right now. All things derived from Europe except our creature comforts must be set aside as we are expected to embrace all things Maori. It's racism on a grand scale. No longer do our television stations refer to New Zealand. In fact, we are lucky if it's Aotearoa-New Zealand. No reference to the fact that, as Michael King shows, Maori didn't have a name for these lands, and only came to accept "Aotearoa" in relatively recent times.
Several newspapers are falling into line and are now calling our country Aotearoa, a name unknown to most people beyond our shores. No public debate. We are expected to acquiesce. The name "New Zealand" which dates back to Abel Tasman's visit in 1642 came more into early use and is the name by which our land has always been recognized abroad. It won't be long before the woke who are driving all this insist on officially changing our country's name.
Instead of being proud New Zealanders, we'll be expected to call ourselves Aotearoaians. They'll try to avoid a referendum lest it results in rejection like occurred with changing the flag. Just impose it! The woke have no respect for democracy. Government departments and public institutions are being renamed at such a rapid rate that it isn't clear what the names refer to. Waka Kotahi for Transport? Why? Since all forms of transport except the canoe were unknown to Maori and were imported from overseas, why a Maori name? Where did Waka Kotahi come from? Waka, yes. But Kotahi? It doesn't appear in the revered Bruce Biggs' Maori dictionary. Waka Kotahi wasn't a term used by Maori before settlers arrived in the 1840s and 1850s.
There are other institutions with self-bestowed Maori names that are unrecognizable to ordinary Kiwis. Radio New Zealand, too, has been working full time. They are deleting the words both "radio" and "New Zealand" from everyday use. Nowadays it's "Te Irirangi o Aotearoa" or "RNZ". Don't mention dreaded English terms! Some Radio New Zealand reporters fall over themselves trying to conform to a ruling from on high that they should introduce themselves in Te Reo, despite the fact that the concept of radio came from overseas, and was absolutely unknown to Maori.
We have also been told recently that all streets in New Zealand are to be given a Maori name. Wow. That will be an expensive exercise! Who will dream up the new names? The Maori Language Commission that seems to
... keep reading on reddit ➡My friend works for an organisation called Literacy Aotearoa. Her contract says she gets paid $38 per hour. Then they deduct $2.81 for holiday pay. So now she is at $35.19. Now here comes a catch. The employer actually says that each hour is actually for 1.5 hours work, so the new hourly rate is 35.19 / 1.5 = $23.46. On top of this she has to pay her own kiwibank employer contribution,so subtract another 3% and she is on $22.76. If you factor in that the employer will only allow her to work 40 weeks per year (no work or pay during school term breaks), and you spread the amount she can earn over a normal 48 week working year, then the hourly rate now becomes $18.97. It goes without saying she hasn't had a pay rise for years
Portraits from the Stop Asian Hate march in Tāmaki Makaurau
https://www.renews.co.nz/portraits-from-the-stop-asian-hate-march-in-tamaki-makaurau/
By Maggie Shui
"Hundreds gathered at Aotea Square in Tāmaki Makaurau today for the Stop Asian Hate march. Tunes from the Nepal Festival - which fittingly shared Aotea Square with the protest - provided background music for the rally speeches and chants. We spoke to some attendees about what moved them to lend their voices to the march.
Tao Lin
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What motivated you to come out today?
I think being part of the Asian community, no matter where you are, we feel such rage and sadness and anger at everything that's going on - not just in America, but all the anti-Asian racism and violence that's happening. I really feel like it's important to show up and to help amplify our voices.
How does it feel to see so much of the Asian community out here today?
It's honestly so moving. I feel like as Asians, we tend to just keep to ourselves and to keep quiet and to keep our heads down and to just get on with things. It's so nice to come out and be present with a community and to feel a part of the community and to know that there are others here who also feel the same way.
Can you describe for me a moment where you were treated in a dehumanising way?
One moment, in particular, where I felt dehumanized as an Asian woman was when this was a few years ago, and I was lining up for a show with my white friend. And a guy walked past us and he yelled out to my friend, what's wrong? Can't you find a kiwi girlfriend? And nobody said anything. Which was probably just as bad as the guy who walked past and yelled that out. So yeah, that that's probably something in recent memory that's happened.
How did you feel in that moment?
I was shocked. I just didn't know how to react. I think when you're in that situation, you're kind of shocked and you just - you don't know what to say.
What would you say to those people now?
There's a certain point where I think there's only so much you can do and say, if people were so stubborn about being bigoted, and racist, and I don't think there's a lot that you can say to that person in particular. It's more important to continue doing the work and to speak out and to join in these kinds of events.
Naz Ahmed
... keep reading on reddit ➡Today the world looks to Colombia; its streets and highways have been the scene where the people have overflowed with dignified rage in an impetuous cry that resounds and cannot go unnoticed. The social protest, which has been taking place uninterruptedly since April 28, is the answer to the exacerbation of poverty and the precariousness of life (an inevitable consequences of the neoliberal model) in the midst of the health, economic and social crises. This translates into 1.7 million Colombian households that eat only twice a day, an unemployment rate of 14.2% and close to half of the population, 42.2%, living in poverty.
Similar situations are experienced by peoples in different regions of the world, in Latin America, for example, at the end of last year, the poverty rate reached 33.7%, the unemployment rate at 10.7% and 78 million people were in extreme poverty (8 million more than in 2019). The response of the governments of the day to this social crisis has been the attempts at 'economic adjustment', that is, an increase and diversification of taxation for the working class, manifested, in the Colombian case, in the third attempt at tax 'reform' by the ultra-right government of Iván Duque. Once again, those who pay for the crisis are not its main generators but the impoverished and exploited people.
In this context, thousands of people in Colombia have mobilized, especially the popular youth. In the neighborhoods, streets and highways the protest with barricades, cacerolazos and assemblies with resistance is being maintained. The just struggle that the Colombian people are waging today fuels the wave of protests and revolts that, since 2019, has developed in Latin America in disruptive moments that reactivate popular organization.
For its part, the Colombian state has responded, as all states do when their interests are threatened, with repression and disproportionate violence. The figures are terrifying and speak for themselves; As of May 8, 47 people murdered (39 due to police violence), 451 injured (32 with eye injuries and 32 with firearms), 12 victims of gender-based violence, 548 disappeared and 963 detained. [1] .
Faced with the brutal repression perpetrated by the government of Iván Duque against those who fight in Colombia, we call for active solidarity, to organize days of protest in all territories and to denounce, by all possible means, what today afflicts the Colombian people. Internationalist solidarity is a safeguard for the str
... keep reading on reddit ➡Or is it compulsory these days to profess your love for all things Maori over European culture if you have a public presence? Are international and regional organisations scared of being called racist if they don't bend over backwards to celebrate Maoridom with Aotearoa this and kia ora that?
The latest issue of Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement newsletter Out Now
Includes: Christchurch Call, Wellington Climate Strike Report, On anarchist organising, International May Day Statement, The function of the state, Reviews
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https://twitter.com/kvetchings/status/1392287395513442306
" To see the solidarity for Palestinians from @MaramaDavidson, @golrizghahraman, @_chloeswarbrick, @Duncan_Webb_, @MarjaLubeck, @IbrahimomerNZ, @teanau_tuiono, @RMarchNZ
& so more for World Keffieyh day is heartening.
Aotearoa we can be leaders & stand up to Israeli apartheid. "
Like all native peoples confronted by the Christian/Judaist cults in the Age of Euro Colonial Murder & Theft, there were many spinoffs and interpretations. Most disappeared. Kupapa Collaborators went with the Anglican cult. Others got duped by the Catholicist cult. Some Maori fighting The British Crown Colonials chose to identify with Jews. None of it mattered to Colonials as it's all just a psyops ruse anyway. Part of a play for mass organised Euro Colonial theft. Jews came to Aotearoa alongside The British Empire and joined in the backstabbing of Maori to enrich themselves. Setting up separate communities preaching racist exceptionalism, while still being targeted by random European anti-jewish bigotry. Colonial Religious Schools have always indoctrinated with their particular race hates and entitled fantasies while taking private and public money on our stolen lands they duped our people for. They should be banned. Cults like Gloriavale & the National Party bribing Exclusive Brethren get away with continuous criminality merely because they're colonial & white while Maori have had our practices banned and attacked. While we now have some space to heal again, the Right Wing, Christianist, White Supremacist National Party & other scumbags try to stick the boot in for racist profit.
Some Jews rebelled against anti-Maori bigotry and around the world their have been astounding Jews fighting for freedom based on secular or spiritual evaluations despite Israel placing all Jews between a rock and a hard place. Palestinians have been forced to find shelter around the world despite never causing the Holocaust and being continually maligned by Israeli & wealthy Colonial Christianist America etc. Now Israelis are murdering innocent kids & adu
... keep reading on reddit ➡"he first, forgotten Anzacs, more than 50 years before Gallipoli
Scott Hamilton | Guest writer
Essay
Australian and New Zealand volunteers fought together in the Waikato War, yet still its place in the Anzac tradition is unacknowledged by our defence forces or Returned Services Association.
When I was a boy cub I attended Anzac Day services in the South Auckland suburb of Drury. A crowd would gather around a cenotaph that rose between the Great South Road, the main trunk line, and our local rugby club’s changing sheds.
I would stand with my fellow cubs, behind a thin tweedy line of RSA members. A bugle would blow, the sun and the national flag would rise, and medals would flash from the blazers of the veterans, as they stood to attention in front of the cenotaph. I would puff out my bronchial chest, which was covered in badges my mother had sown onto my cub jersey, and pretend I was wearing a row of Victoria Crosses.
A local minister – some years he was Anglican, others he was Presbyterian – would speak about the sacred Anzac tradition, which had begun on the beaches of Gallipoli in 1915, when New Zealand and Australia troops had fought side by side. When the sermon was over, the veterans would march off slowly towards the Jolly Farmer, our local pub, with tears in their eyes.
A grenade’s throw away from our cenotaph, on the other side of the Great South Road, stood St John’s, one of the network of fort-like Selwyn churches that Anglican settlers of South Auckland had raised in the 1850s and 60s. I never thought of visiting the neglected graveyard of St John’s, but if I had pushed my way through its hawthorn hedge and long grass I would have found a white obelisk, about eight feet tall, on which the names of eight men were inscribed. I wouldn’t have known it, and the other Kiwis who gathered across the road every Anzac Day wouldn’t have known it, but the men commemorated by that monument were the first Anzacs to die in battle. They didn’t die on a Turkish beach in 1915; they were slain by Māori muskets and tomahawks in a battle at Tītī Hill, a few kilometres south of Drury, in the cold spring of 1863.
Almost 52 years before Gallipoli, Australian and New Zealand volunteers
... keep reading on reddit ➡The funeral director was asking us what we think Mum should wear in her casket.
Mum always loved to wear sarongs (fabric wraps that go around the torso and drape downward a bit like a long skirt would), so my uncle suggested that she wear a sarong in there.
The funeral director looked a bit confused, as did some of our family members, to which my uncle added:
"What's sarong with that?"
I started laughing like an idiot. He was proud of it too. The funeral director was rather shocked. We assured her, and our more proper relatives, that Mum would've absolutely loved the joke (which is very true).
His delivery was perfect. I'll never forget the risk he took. We sometimes recall the moment as a way help cushion the blows of the grieving process.
--Edit-- I appreciate the condolences. I'm doing well and the worst is behind me and my family. But thanks :)
--Edit-- Massive thanks for all the awards and kind words. And the puns! Love 'em.
Honourable Members of the House of Representatives, it is a privilege for me to announce the formation of a new government with the confidence of the House.
E nga Mema o te Whare Paremata o Aotearoa, tenei aku mihi mahana ki a koutou, tena koutou katoa.
Following successful elections to elect new members for the House of Representatives, I am pleased to welcome my new Government to the duties of ensuring that the realm of New Zealand can receive good governance.
My Government has been elected with one of the largest majorities in New Zealand history and I hope that my Government will use this to enact a strong agenda for our future generations.
My Government will continue to prioritize its ambition to get this country moving in the aftermath of COVID-19. To do this, this government will adopt a strong financial policy and take proactive management of this country's finances to reduce debt while investing in our national services. My Government will provisionally drop Goods and Services Taxation to 12.5% in the budget it plans to present during the term. My Government will commit to ending the deficit to allow for our future generations to not be saddled with the debt of the present. My Government will further work to reform our state services to create efficiency through cooperation with the private sector while opening up our economy through reforms to overseas investment.
A good nation is one where our future generations can receive good education and learn strong practical skills for their future careers and for their general knowledge. My Government will restore the Charter Schools system which will uplift our Maori, Pasifika, Disabled and Specialized educational standards and deliver stronger frontline education for our children. My Government will introduce a free school lunches scheme which will provide nutritious healthy meals to allow for our students to come to school without worrying about a full stomach. My Government will set our Universities to a higher standard if they wish to continue to receive the support of the taxpayer and will address slipping standards in Education which will uphold the principles of our Bill of Rights, setting out free speech standards in every University to make them centers of learning and ideas once again.
This Government takes a keen priority in ensuring that Business New Zealand and the working families and individuals who run their own business can receive the support they require. My Government will scr
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https://twitter.com/MaramaDavidson/status/1377006561009180672
"Beautiful flag raising here at Parliament to say loudly Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Love to our trans whānau xxx"
https://twitter.com/insideoutkoaro/status/1377002386279989251
"The trans flag was raised this morning at Parliament for Trans Day of Visibility to acknowledge our trans whānau in Aotearoa and to acknowledge the work that is still to be done in parliament and in our communities. It was awesome to see rangatahi raise the flag"
Georgina Beyer on Carmen Rupe: 'We had to live in this twilight'
“From the good and the great to the lowest of the low, she bridged a gap,” says Georgina Beyer of transgender trailblazer Carmen Rupe.
Carmen was born Trevor Tione Rupe in 1936 and grew up in the small North Island town of Taumarunui. She was one of a family of ten, and was brought up doing ‘the kinds of chores a girl would do.’
Carmen realised she was different when she was about eight-years-old, and explored her trans identity throughout her teens and early twenties, taking direct inspiration for her name from one of her idols, Spanish Romani dancer, Carmen Amaya - the first female flamenco dancer to do footwork largely reserved for male performers.
Also a keen flamenco and belly dancer, Carmen had a variety of jobs before she headed off to the bright lights of Sydney’s cabaret circuit, and the infamous red-light district, King’s Cross.
But on returning to New Zealand in the late sixties, Carmen was keen to add some spice to Wellington’s nightlife scene. She set up a number of businesses including cafes, a brothel, a curio shop, and a nightclub.
One of her most popular businesses was Carmen’s Coffee Lounge - a late-night international cafe, which ran from 6pm to 6am.
Georgina Beyer, New Zealand’s first-ever transgender MP,
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"Kassie Hartendorp (Ngāti Raukawa) has been looking to Māori stories and storytellers to learn more about our gender identities before colonisation. There’s a lot to be read between the lines, she writes.
Te ao Māori can be a very gendered place to be. In some settings, your gender can tell you where you stand, what you wear, who you sit by, and what your role is. And you only have two options to choose from. Yet, my own experience of te ao Māori is incredibly gender diverse. It is full of wise and regal older queens, kind and thoughtful men and intelligent, cheeky souls who walk in between. This world is rarely talked about, or we are told that being transgender or non-binary is ‘a Pākehā thing.’ So I thought I’d dive into whakapapa, and see if it would bring me any insights.
Whakapapa maps out our relationships to who and where we come from; reaching back to the beginnings of our universe, to our atua, our physical environment, and to each other. It runs in our blood, through our deepest relationships and underpins the way our society is organised. As Moana Jackson says, ‘our whakapapa are a series of never-ending beginnings.’ It opens up a world of connections, and provides us with the basis of how we understand the world, and how to act within it.
Ani Mikaere has researched Tainui traditions based on the whakaaro of Te Rangihaeata and concludes that whakapapa was the primary lens of our forebears. She writes that:
“Each and every component within the web of whakapapa is important, because the absence of even a single link compromises the integrity of the network as a whole.”
All tūpuna had a role to play in whakapapa, and each role was necessary to the benefit of the wider group. Ani adds that “without the unique characteristics of each and every individual, the strength of the collective is diminished.” This visioning of whakapapa is one where every person is valued, because it is through their contribution that the wider whānau is enhanced.
Mikaere also questions the idea that hierarchy is implicit in whakapapa. Within the whakapapa given by te Rangihaeata, the children of Rangipōtiki are treated as equivalent in ranking. Mikaere makes the argument that the key point of wha
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But Bill kept the Windows
Media release
20 February 2021
Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says New Zealand has arrived at a key point in its pandemic response, with today’s first vaccinations of border workers.
>“Today’s vaccinations reinforce the value of what we’ve all been doing for the past 12 months to keep COVID-19 at bay,” Dr Bloomfield said in addressing a media conference in Auckland marking the vaccinations.
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>“Vaccination of our hard working and dedicated border staff marks a significant step forward – a milestone that protects those at highest risk of getting the virus and helps to reduce the risk of it spreading into the community.
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>“Yesterday, 29 vaccinators here in Auckland completed a week of preparations, by receiving the first COVID-19 vaccines.
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>“Today, we kick off the largest immunisation programme in our history, by vaccinating the first of our border workforce, a critical step in protecting everyone in Aotearoa.
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>“This is an important first step and we will be moving through these first few days and weeks in a measured way to make sure our systems and processes are solid.
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>“On Monday, we’ll roll out the programme in Wellington and then Christchurch on Wednesday, before starting to vaccinate the rest of New Zealand’s about 12,000 border and MIQ workers over the next few weeks.
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>“Once they’ve been vaccinated, we’ll start vaccinating the members of their household contacts.
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>"The finer details of the wider public roll out later in the year are being finalised and information on when and how people can get their vaccinations will be announced soon.
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>“People from across the health system and many other agencies have been and continue to be single-minded in ensuring that the vaccination programme will be a sustained success.
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>“In a rapidly changing environment, our system has had to be flexible in its response to delivering firstly on our elimination strategy and now on the vaccination programme.
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>“I sincerely thank everyone who has contributed.
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>*“I particularly want to acknowledge the support of the New Zealand Defence Force, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and the teams at their managed isolation facilities, the All of Government team,
https://www.teaomaori.news/legacy-miriama-rauhihi-ness-remembered
"Legacy of Miriama Rauhihi Ness remembered
Māori and Pasifika rights activists around the country are mourning the loss of Polynesian Panthers pioneer Miriama Rauhihi Ness.
The mother of singer Che Fu, Rauhihi Ness is a descendant of Ngāti Raukawa and was instrumental in the mobilisation of the Polynesian Panthers as well as the 1975 Land March.
Panthers founding member Will Ilolahia spoke to Te Ao Māori News and says Rauhihi Ness' death has come as a shock and Māoridom should know about her legacy.
"I would say that Māoridom should credit her for the things she has done for this country. She stood out and she was a real feisty, fiery mate -you didn't want to get on the bad side of her because she would just tell it how it is."
Rauhihi-Ness was not only one of the main organisers of the 1975 Land March, but she also helped lodge the Māori language petition in 1972, which resulted in Māori becoming an official language in Aotearoa in 1987.
Her noble work also included bringing the Pacific community together to stand up for the rights of Māori.
The whānau of Miriama Rauhihi-Ness only found out about her cancer in recent weeks, and just yesterday she died.
He mihi aroha ki te whānau pani."
A pioneering indigenous activist is being farewelled this morning after losing a short battle with cancer.
Miriama Rauhihi Ness was a member of the Polynesian Panthers and Ngā Tamatoa movements, fighting for both Māori and Pasifika rights in New Zealand.
Will 'Ilolahia, a founding member of the Polynesian Panthers, said Rauhihi Ness was always on the frontlines of indigenous activism.
"She was our Minister of Culture and our first full-time community worker when we existed back in the 70s.
"Her fierce, strong, no-muck-around attitude has done a lot of things that a lot of people don't really acknowledge."
Rauhihi Ness, Ngāti Whakatere / Ngāti Taki Hiki, helped lodge the Māori Language Petition of 1972, led the 1975 Land March and was part of the Patu Squad that protested the 1985 Springbok tour.
"The Patu Squad that [South African] President Nelson Mandela came to New Zealand to say thank you - she was a m
... keep reading on reddit ➡True story; it even happened last night. My 5-year-old son walks up behind me and out of the blue says, "hey."
I turn to him and say, "yeah, kiddo? What's up?"
He responds, "it's dead grass."
I'm really confused and trying to figure out what's wrong and what he wants from me. "What? There's dead grass? What's wrong with that?"
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He says, totally straight-faced, "hay is dead grass," and runs off.
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/the-myth-of-tikanga-in-the-pakeha-law/
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At E-Tangata, we’re especially pleased to present this lecture of Annette Sykes’, partly because it’s in memory of Nin Tomas, a legal academic and a great friend who was the first chair of the Mana Trust which oversees E-T. But the speech is also a reminder of the courage, insights and impact of Annette’s work as a human rights and indigenous rights lawyer since she began practising in 1984.
Annette opened her speech with this statement:
“When you fail to sustain your beliefs, sovereignty and freedom, you become lost in yourself as you are subsumed by those whose customs and practices you must now serve.”
As Eva Rickard would always remind us, you need to be strong in the inherited understanding that this land, this whenua Rangatira, is ours, to care for, to manaaki, to fill with love — as much to care for the ecosystem to which we belong, as to ensure the mutual survival and respect of those that live on this part of the planet.
An obligation that we must not and cannot shirk from. This obligation is especially important when considering how we nurture tikanga Māori and any effort to maintain our own Māori justice system.
My message: If you really believe in tino rangatiratanga, if you want a tikanga-based legal system, if you are committed to genuine systemic change, you need to be prepared to walk the talk.
Don’t expect the Crown to become a revolutionary and hand over, or even share, real power. Don’t expect to get rich or popular. Or even safe.
Don’t expect resistance and co-option just from the Crown either. Eva warned us that the most difficult matters you will have to confront in your struggle for independence is the sometimes open hostility of your own, those who have aspired to participatory roles in the corporate world of creating capitalist futures or as part of the apparatus of the judicial system that oppresses our people.
Perhaps the struggles at Ihumātao illustrate how the acts of resistance I was involved in at Raglan, Pakaitore and Takahue have played out in the contemporary context. The Crown’s response to that occupation is almost textbook. It is a movement led by wāhine toa who, without compromise, have steadfastly demanded their whenua back.
They have used the parallel strat
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Now it’s syncing.
He replied, "Well, stop going to those places then!"
I will find you. You have my Word.
“thank you for your cervix.”
...sails are going through the roof.
Made me smile
"Dr ELIZABETH KEREKERE (Green): Tēnā rā koutou, rau rangatira mā, wāhine mā, tāne mā, takatāpui mā, tipua mā. Haere mai rā, haere mai rā, whakatau mai rā.
Tēnā koe e te Māngai. E tika ana kia tuku mihi ki ngā atua, ngā kaitiaki me ngā tipua e karapoti nei i a tātou i tēnei wā. Tēnā koutou.
Ki te hunga mate, koutou kua riro atu, koutou kua takahia nei i ngā tapuwae o ngā mātua tīpuna, e moe.
Te Atiawa, Ngāti Mutunga, otirā Taranaki whānui, tēnei te mihi ki a koutou katoa. E raungāiti nei i tēnei rohe ataahua. Nā koutou i rangatira ai tēnei kaupapa.
Huri atu rā ki a koutou katoa ngā hoa mahi me ngā manuhiri tūārangi, tēnā koutou.
He mokopuna tēnei nō te uranga mai o te rā, nō Te Tairāwhiti. Nōku te honore nui kua whai wāhi mai au ki te whakakanohi i ngā hapori huhua ki te tūranga i te Whare nei.
[Greetings distinguished leaders, women, men, LGBTIQ, the supernatural. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Greetings Mr Speaker. It is only right that I acknowledge the deities, the protectors and the supernatural beings that surround us at this time. Thank you.
To those who have passed away, those who have followed the footsteps of our ancestors, rest in peace.
Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Mutunga, Taranaki Whānui, I would like to acknowledge you all who make up this beautiful area. Your presence honours this occasion.
Turning to you all, my colleagues, the visitors from afar, greetings.
I am a descendant from the rising of the sun, from the East Coast. It is an honour that I am able to represent the many communities in this position in this House.]
To everyone here and your purple fabulousness—yea-ah! As we acknowledge the haukāinga of this rohe and the beauty of their home, I acknowledge the pain and anger facing them. Shelly Bay and Mau Whenua may have replaced Ihumātao and SOUL in the headlines, but the fact is that whānau, hapū, and iwi all over the country are fighting in some form to protect their whenua, their awa, and their moana. Fifty-two successive Governments and their agencies have failed to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi, despite it being the contract that confers their right to govern.
In this 53rd Parliament, with the mandate given by
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A taxi
But now I stand corrected.
His work was complex and beset with difficulties, calling for talent, infinite patience and an ungrudging sacrifice of time. Bennett's loyalty to his church never flagged and he maintained a constant faith, a catholicity of outlook, and a quiet, unruffled calm.
All but one of Bennett's 19 children survived into adulthood. Seven sons served in the armed forces during the Second World War and were commissioned; the service of Charles with the 28th (Māori) Battalion was particularly distinguished. Bennett was determined to give his children the best advantages his meagre resources would allow, and most graduated from tertiary institutions. All were active in public life and many received honours and awards. His son Manuhuia became the third bishop of Aotearoa.
This biography, written by Manu A. Bennett, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 1996. It was translated into te reo Māori by the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team.
Frederick Augustus Bennett was born on 15 November 1871 at Ōhinemutu, Lake Rotorua. His mother, Raiha Ratete (Eliza Rogers), a high-born woman of Ngāti Whakaue section of Te Arawa, gave to her son the culture and whakapapa of her race. His father was Thomas Jackson Bennett, a storekeeper, who had emigrated to New Zealand from Ireland in 1849. He had a splendid command of the English language and was a keen church worker. Frederick's dual ancestry equipped him powerfully for his life's work.
His early years were spent in Maketū, where he was baptised by S. M. Spencer. He attended Maketū Native School, and, on the family's return to Rotorua, Ōhinemutu Native School. In 1883 he gained a scholarship to St Stephen's Native Boys' School in Auckland, and in 1884 studies were continued at Te Wairoa Native School at Lake Tarawera. The Pink and White Terraces there were the centre of the tourist trade; consequent problems developed with liquor traffic and a temperance organisation was formed. Frederick, at 14, was secretary of this society, and the interpreter for guests. It was here that Bishop A. B. Suter of Nelson met him. With parental consent he took Frederick back to Nelson to continue his education at Bishop's School, then Nelson College where he was a prefect and member of the First XV. He sang in the Nelson cathedral choir, taught Sunday school, and assisted at services in outlying areas.
In 1893 Bennett accepted a post at Pūtiki, Whanganui, as lay reader under A. O. Williams at the Mā
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Today the world looks to Colombia; its streets and highways have been the scene where the people have overflowed with dignified rage in an impetuous cry that resounds and cannot go unnoticed. The social protest, which has been taking place uninterruptedly since April 28, is the answer to the exacerbation of poverty and the precariousness of life (an inevitable consequences of the neoliberal model) in the midst of the health, economic and social crises. This translates into 1.7 million Colombian households that eat only twice a day, an unemployment rate of 14.2% and close to half of the population, 42.2%, living in poverty.
Similar situations are experienced by peoples in different regions of the world, in Latin America, for example, at the end of last year, the poverty rate reached 33.7%, the unemployment rate at 10.7% and 78 million people were in extreme poverty (8 million more than in 2019). The response of the governments of the day to this social crisis has been the attempts at 'economic adjustment', that is, an increase and diversification of taxation for the working class, manifested, in the Colombian case, in the third attempt at tax 'reform' by the ultra-right government of Iván Duque. Once again, those who pay for the crisis are not its main generators but the impoverished and exploited people.
In this context, thousands of people in Colombia have mobilized, especially the popular youth. In the neighborhoods, streets and highways the protest with barricades, cacerolazos and assemblies with resistance is being maintained. The just struggle that the Colombian people are waging today fuels the wave of protests and revolts that, since 2019, has developed in Latin America in disruptive moments that reactivate popular organization.
For its part, the Colombian state has responded, as all states do when their interests are threatened, with repression and disproportionate violence. The figures are terrifying and speak for themselves; As of May 8, 47 people murdered (39 due to police violence), 451 injured (32 with eye injuries and 32 with firearms), 12 victims of gender-based violence, 548 disappeared and 963 detained. [1] .
Faced with the brutal repression perpetrated by the government of Iván Duque against those who fight in Colombia, we call for active solidarity, to organize days of protest in all territories and to denounce, by all possible means, what today afflicts the Colombian people. Internationalist solidarity is a safeguard for the str
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