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11/6/10

Annette Sykes: Bruce Jesson Lecture 2010

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Speech: Annette Sykes

Annette Sykes: Bruce Jesson Lecture 2010

Read full lecture as a .pdf fileKi te kore koe e mau puu ana ki o tikanga me toou Mana Motuhake,
Kua ngaro koe ki te poouri otira e whai kee ana koe i ngaa tikanga a tetahi noatu When you fail to sustain your beliefs, sovereignty, freedom
You become lost to yourself as you are subsumed by those whose customs and practices you must now serve

In 1980 following the furore which was engendered by the publication of the Maori Sovereignty articles, Bruce Jesson commented:
“Essentially, Maori sovereignty is about the complete incompatibility of the Maori and Pakeha ways of life, and about how economic and political power has resolved this conflict in favour of the Pakeha.”
At the time there was a strident group of Maori radicals who readily identified with the concept of Maori Sovereignty and with Maori resistance to Pakeha intrusion into their territories, their values, their mindscapes and their landscapes.2 The core was drawn from an urban underclass from the communities of South Auckland, Hastings and Wellington. Their message was simple: Pakeha have colonised our hearts and our minds and have substituted our traditional systems and institutions with ones that Awatere described as exploitative, oppressive, dehumanised and spiritually deficient.3 It was time for the nation to turn the page on an era of greed, irresponsibility and injustice and an era of change was demanded.

To read full lecture as a .pdf file - CLICK HERE
ENDS

9/23/09

Tapene Whanau (Tawhai)

-=[.TU ANA.]=-

TU ANA AU KI NGA TIHI TAPU O NGA PAE MAUNGA...

O TE WHARETAPU O NGA PUHI...

KA TITIRO, KA WHAKAARO
KI TONA MAKOHA MA KI AHAU E, ANO....

ANO, TE ATAAHUA, O NGA WHENUA NEI

E WHAKARONGO ANA MAUA KO TARINGA KI TE REO, O NGA PUHI

PAREKAREKA KI TE TARINGA
PAREKAREKA KI TE WHAKARONGO ATU

AHAKOA ITI REAREA NOA IHO AHAU

TEITEI KAHIKATEA, KI TE AKO, I TE REO O TA KAINGA

KA TAEA E AU, KA TAEA KO AHAU (2X)

(KEY CHANGE)
TU ANA AU KI NGA TIHI TAPU O NGA PAE MAUNGA

O TE WHARETAPU O NGA PUHI

8/8/09

Opinion piece for the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

by Navanethem Pillay
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

More than a symbolic celebration

The estimated 370 million indigenous peoples need and deserve more than just symbolic celebrations on 9 August, when they commemorate everywhere the International Day devoted to the reaffirmation of the value and resilience of indigenous life and cultures. After centuries of repression, they need comprehensive tools to defend their human rights, their way of life, and their aspirations.

One such tool is the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Among other provisions, the Declaration emphasized human rights principles of equality and non-discrimination for indigenous peoples. It established their right to self-determination and to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions, while retaining their right to participate fully in public life. Crucially, this document underscored indigenous peoples’ right to preserve or freely dispose of and trade their traditional lands and resources.

Following negotiations that spanned more than two decades, the Declaration was adopted in September 2007 by the General Assembly with the support of 143 member states. This support keeps expanding. Significantly, Australia and Columbia—two of the countries that originally did not approve the text—have now endorsed the Declaration. These developments are encouraging, but we must continue to strive for universal acceptance of this crucial document.

Such acceptance is key to counter the daily hardship and discrimination that indigenous peoples endure. It is estimated that at least one in every ten indigenous peoples in the world is facing extreme poverty. These peoples are more likely to receive inadequate health services and poor education—if any at all. Economic development plans often bypass them or do not take into sufficient consideration their particular needs and traditions. Other decision-making processes are often equally contemptuous of or indifferent to their contribution and customs. As a result, laws and policies designed by majorities with little regard to indigenous concerns frequently lead to land disputes and conflicts over natural resources that threaten the way of life and very survival of indigenous peoples.

We must step up our common efforts to make the Declaration something more than a mere pledge of intent. We must translate its letter and spirit into concrete change, change that can be felt in indigenous peoples’ daily life.

In line with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and other human rights instruments, States, indigenous peoples, the United Nations system and others concerned must join their efforts and reach solutions based on true dialogue, mutual understanding, tolerance and respect for human rights.

I am confident that giving indigenous peoples a true voice and say in decision-making would benefit not only them, but also our whole societies, as we look for answers to address major challenges. Consider, for example, the impact of climate change. Indigenous peoples, such as indigenous reindeer herders in the Arctic or the pastoralist Maasai community in East Africa, face the risk of bearing the brunt of climate change. But their cultures, experience and knowledge of the environment can—and ought to—provide solutions to address this and other common global threats. When we defend indigenous peoples’ rights in the face of land grabs and expropriation, we are also likely to protect biodiversity. This is evident in places, such as the Amazon region, where sustainable forestry methods mastered by indigenous peoples can help to address the serious problem of deforestation.

Ways to promote indigenous peoples’ rights in policy development and their participation in public life must be found primarily at the national level. But governments can also benefit from the human rights expertise, legislative savvy and advocacy of UN human rights mechanisms, as well as contributions from civil society. These partners in indigenous rights can help refine reforms according to international standards and make indigenous peoples’ concerns resonate at the international level. These mechanisms include the Permanent Forum of Indigenous Issues, which gathers hundreds of indigenous representatives annually, and the Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples, who has helped to advance their human rights in a range of country situations. In addition, the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is tasked to formulate advice on their entitlement to education, a key theme for indigenous peoples around the world.

There is still a long way to go. No doubt the road ahead will be bumpy. But let us work together to move the principles of the Declaration from paper into practice. We need to act now to ensure that indigenous peoples live in dignity and prosper. They have waited a long time. They expect nothing less.
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10/14/08

State Terror Raids NZ-One year later

Ka warea te ware

Ka area te Rangatira

Hongihongi te whewheia

Hongihongi te manehurangi

Kei au te Rangatiratanga

Ignorance is the oppressor

Vigilance is the liberator

Know the enemy

Know the destiny

Determine our own Destiny

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Location:New Zealand Settler Consulate
Street: 350 Collins Street
Melbourne, Australia

Sina Brown-Davis
Te Ata Tino Toa ki Ahiterairia

Nick Kelly
President of Wellington Tramways Union

Jasmine Freemantle
President of Vic Uni Student Union

Liz Thompson
Ongoing G20 Solidarity Network

Solidarity will also be given to Lex Wotton the alleged ringleader of the 2004 Palm Island riot who is facing trial in Brisbane.

“In the coming months, the case of the 'Urewera 18' will be heard in the District Court in Auckland. My great hope for this trial and for the future of Aotearoa New Zealand is that the raids will contribute to disrupting the false peace of this colonial state and radicalize people to struggle for justice and freedom.” (Valerie Morse)

9/10/08

Mana Whanau - Put 'em up, hoist 'em up!!!

oh Fly, o, fly to the people!!
fly, o , fly to the nation

fly o, fly as a symbol
o fly o fly flying high!!!!

Oh transit give us a chance!
to represent us,
the true people of this land
show the world that you care
about a nation,
lost in it's own lands

im tellin u to

fly o,

waiata Copyright to mana whanau
video to tinorangatiratangatv1 nguha313

8/19/08

Maori group puts up Pou Whenua on Stolen land

A Northland Maori group has erected pou, or boundary markers, on disputed beachfront land at Matapouri.

The group is taking action in the High Court against the Department of Conservation, the Department of Land and Survey Information and the Attorney-General in a bid to have the land designated a reserve.

Te Whanau o Rangi Whakaahu say they sold the Otito Block to the Government in 1970 as a scenic reserve in the belief that reserve status would safeguard it for all time.

However, they say part of the land was wrongly included in a freehold title by private survey in 1999.

The hapu says the five manuka posts it has erected on the land are to
make a statement, and watch over wahi tapu.

continues here

8/8/08

Shellfish harvest angers hapu

STAUNCH: Rueben Porter Nga Hapu o Te Rarawa

People who use heavy machinery to harvest shellfish on Ninety Mile Beach run the risk of confrontations with local hapu.

That is the warning from Nga Hapu o Te Rarawa after a tractor that was used to gather mussel spat became stuck below the high tide mark near Waimimiha last week.

Continues here

6/29/08

ORA

Kia Ora MCDubstarr

5/15/08

Moko - Art of Nature

Is a story of a Maori man and his family, demonstrating their commitment to a living culture, portrayed through the ritual of Ta Moko kanohi, the process of Maori facial tattoo.

The film charts the process from its origin and purpose, to its effect on the recipient, the family group, and the wider world.

Thanks to serenagiovanna

5/8/08

Noho Whenua ki Takaparawha

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the re-occupation of Takaparawha. I remember being taken up to the occupation by my great aunt as a child, this has laid the foundation for my commitment to my peoples and their struggles. At the time the occupation certainly cemented the momentum and Maori drive for self determination, Takaparawha also showed the strength of solidarity with union placing green bans in support of the protest and support of many non Maori.It was a very visible reassertion of identity, pride & collective power. For a haapu that had been made virtually landless by the colonial imposition of Auckland, Takaparawha demonstrated the importance of fighting for the ahi kaa in our whenua and ourselves, and that is not meant to provide any comfort to some of the cousins that are enamored with crown & corporate & kupapa bullshit, who shame our history of struggle and led us further down the path of assimilation. To all the warriors that we have lost in the past 30 years, love & respect and to our warriors to come, time to stand up and continue the fight.

Mauri Ora
Ana

" On May 25 1978, 600 police officers, supported by the Army, stormed onto Bastion Point above Auckland’s exclusive Tamaki Drive, and began evicting the Maori owners living on their land. 220 people were arrested in a major turning point for the Maori movement for self determination.

‘Bastion Point’, Takaparawha, and much of Auckland was Ngati Whatua land at the time of English colonisation. Ngati Whatua chief, Apihai Te Kawau, came under immense pressure from the government last century to sell land as Auckland city expanded. Much Ngati Whatua land was sold to the Crown, but before his death Te Kawau secured the 280ha acres at Takaparawha enshrined in law in perpetuity for his people.

Despite this protective legislation however, successive governments seized increasing amounts of Takaparawha under various guises, such as defence purposes and public reserves. In 1951 the tribe was evicted from its tribal centre papakainga on the Okahu Bay foreshore and relocated into state houses in Orakei.

The dispute simmered in, courts, appeals to government and public appeals with little progress until Wellington builder, and Ngati Whatua son, Joe Hawke in 1977 led a small group back to Takaparawha to reoccuppy their land.

The occupiers erected make-shift housing for many of the tribe who began to come home, beginning a 506 day stay. The occupation was long and hard on its members. Nine year old Joann Hawke, niece of the occupation leader, died in a tragic fire in one of the huts.

But, following the Maori land march of 1975 which had highlighted the breadth of Maori concern about their oppression and the alienation of their lands, the Ngati Whatua stand at Takaparawha acted as a catalyst for action, and an example for others to voice their grievances.

And the forceful response of the government to a challenge from below, awoke many pakeha throughout Aotearoa to the realities of state violence and ruling class interests. When police forcibly removed the Ngati Whatua again from their lands, and bulldozed down their houses, the government lost the dispute. Although it took another ten years of legal challenges, the weight of public opinion had moved decisively. Bourgeois property rights were turned back in the faces of the settler ruling class, in 1988 the land was returned, and a precedent set for a wave of Maori land claims."

Television film of Bastion Point eviction

When the Crown announced that the last area of uncommitted land at Bastion Point was to be developed for high-income housing, some Ngāti Whātua occupied the site. They had hoped that this ancestral land might be returned to tribal ownership. After 506 days, the protestors were evicted on 25 May 1978. This television footage records the event. Army trucks are seen descending upon Bastion Point while flares are lit by its occupiers.

5/6/08

E Tu !

3/7/08

Ruatahuna Kakahu Mauku - Whakawatea

2/10/08

Taame talks Mana-motu-hake @Waitangi 2008