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Ngāti Tūwharetoa/Ngāti Kurauia te hapū Māori/Jewish/Samoan /Anarchist he/him 🇵🇸 @Zarahn_Tuwharetoa_Southon @mastodon .nz
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I painted Power Cut after reading Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread, Graeber's Debt & Bookchin's Post Scarcity. It's my reflection on living under neoliberalism & debt peonage. An enforced quarantine of bodies & ideas. An ode to time, artistic guild solidarity & revolution.
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Never forget how Israel treated the Warsaw Ghetto uprising hero Marek Edelman for supporting Palestinian struggle. Despite receiving the French legion of honour and Polands highest honor at th 65th commemoration, Israel refused to acknowledge him, a 'non-person' in Israel 1/
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In 2002 he wrote an open letter to the Palestinian resistance "He wrote in a spirit of solidarity frm a fellow resistance fighter, not dissimilar in desperation to the Palestinian uprising" critical of killing of innocents however staunch in his resolve for the Palestinian Cause
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'An internationalist, Edelman remained steadfastly anti-Zionist. He insisted that Zionism was imperialist in both design and application and argued that it threatened a global multiculturalist aspiration...
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A young Polish journalist asked him, "what does it mean to be a Jew?" He answered "To be a Jew is to be on the side of the weak."
To Edelman "never again" meant "never again for anyone." It was a statement of human solidarity
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Israeli scholar Baruch Kimmerling described Gaza as 'the largest concentration camp ever'. Norman Finkelsteins mother a Warsaw Ghetto & Majdanek survivor whn asked about innocent Germans she replied "our feeling was if we're going to die we're going to take some of thm with us"
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He condemned Israel as a cause lost to anti-Arab apartheid and militarist genocide'.
'He challenged the Zionist fable that the holocaust was part of a continuous road that led to the Israeli state and that the Ghetto Uprising was part of that same road.'
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Showing homes of mana whenua of Ngāti Whatua on the Orakei Reserve on fire after being demolished on the instructions of the Commissioner of Crown Lands to make way for the Queen's visit in 1952 -1953 along Tamaki Drive. It took the land under the Public Works Act 1/
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@HikariUber
It's highlighting hypocrisy and has nothing to do with being "sad". It shows Zionism and the use of Holocaust trauma as political ideology rather than a genuine acknowledgment of antifascist struggle. I'm sure Marek would have worn it as a badge of honour.
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Finally finished this painting. Karamu, our tupuna calls us to return to Tokaanu. Our child is named after our tupuna, like our kuia, they have a non gendered name"Ka karanga a Karamu" oil on linen, 1000 x 700mm, 2022
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Plz consider donating to Palestinian Solidarity Network Aotearoa
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Since Dapper Māori is doing the rounds here a photo from Tokaanu. Our dapper tupuna of Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Sons of Lawrence Marshall and Te Kahui (Te Heu Heu) Grace.
From left: Haami, William Henry, Dr Richard. Taken 1911. 1/
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These are photos people uploaded to social media of the damage done to the Māori urupā at waikumete cemetery. Gravestones smashed and graves dug up.
This is anti Maori racism that's been whipped up in the country by the Nactfascists
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This carved wooden cenotaph was erected at Te Kōura marae in memory of those who died in the 1918 influenza pandemic. It was carved by Tene Waitere of Ngāti Tarāwhai, who created a similar cenotaph at Te Ihingarangi marae,Waimiha. Death rates among Maori were highest in the world
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Māori Warden at Palestine Freedom March Queen Street Auckland
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As a member of one of the first Māori Jewish families in Aotearoa, I stand with Palestine.
Mai Maketū ki Tongariro - from the Mountain to the sea
Our Tauparapara (incantation) from Ngāti Tūwharetoa
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Some photos from yesterday's Palestinian Solidarity Rally at the Auckland Domain
Free Palestine
من النهر إلى البحر
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From the River to the Sea is no different to our Mai Maketu ki Tongariro, from the mountain to the sea. Recited for hundreds of years used by resistance fighters in th NZ Wars too. Now a rallying cry.
Our Ariki Tumu Te Heuheu explains it's significance
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We won our Māori Land Court case. For the last three years our whanau trust has battled antisemitism, conspiracy theories and slanderous allegations directed at my great grandparents Hoani Atirau Asher and Paekitawhiti Ngakuru Paurini, threatening the mana of Ngāti Kurauia 1/
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An anti-war demonstrator on Queen Street this afternoon
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The African American reclamation of the N-word is unique, and we have no right to reclaim it as our own. Māori have a racial history very different from Black experiences. Our struggle has largely been tied to our relationship to the land, the Crown, and the 1/
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They tried to beat Efeso down but he came out swinging. Efeso has it all over the snarky Brown. Efeso is a true matai. Polynesia rising. Let's boot the pale, stale, and male
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Trade union anti-fascist demonstration, in support of the nationalisation of the Bank of New Zealand, at the steps of parliament buildings, Wellington 1945.
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Māori Land Court meeting 1914 at Tokaanu. My Nan remembered how refined all her uncles and aunties were. They lived a communal life, everything was shared. Tureiti Te Heuheu would go to Wellington, once siding with the strikers. He described the government as Tyrannical 1/
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Today I learned someone felled an 800 year old tree in our rohe, the iwi is devastated... indigenous knowledge will change that type of mindset, respect for those atua,
the ancestor will be brought home
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Our 13 year old is non binary been constantly harrased with gay slurs anti trans & violent threats frm a boy at school. Our kid stuck up for themselves today, kicked the boy wth him retaliating wth scissors. The school stood both down for 2 days. I got called in...
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Photographs from yesterday's rally Aotea square to the US Consulate
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A genuine revolt of the caring classes
@davidgraeber
Hospital staff come out to applaud
#GeorgeFloyd
protestors in New York - demonstrators shout back ‘Thank You’.
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Like a drone worker 'yes, but these are the rules'.
I'm going higher. This is BS
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Swedish diplomat Count Folke Bernadotte. He negotiated the release of 31,000 prisoners from German concentration.
Bernadotte was appointed United Nations Mediator in Palestine but was assassinated in 1948 by members of the group Lehi, a Zionist terrorist organization 1/
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Completed portrait. oil on linen 350 x 300mm
Whaea Jacqui, was chosen by the people of Avondale as Whau Local hero 23
From whau Avon Hub
" Every year she goes above and beyond, this women will give her heart and world to all people, animals around all community...
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I noticed the local dairy had removed their Palestinian donation box that's been on the counter for years. The Muslim owner told me their family have been receiving threats boycotting them, called terrorists and constantly harrased by several locals.
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1/My grandmother spoke of the pain as a child due to pākehā segregating the Tokaanu hot springs, our tribe's wāhi tapū. Segregation began in 1900 & continued into 30's & 40's. Binney wrote the "barbed wire fence...a fortress of racial prejudice" (Pic, Tokaanu children, Aunty Hui)
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Ko Katerina Te Atirau tōku kuia tuatoru, i mate ia i te mate urutā. Ko Ngāti Pukenga rātou ko Ngāti Pikiao ōna iwi
OTD November 3rd 1918 at 6pm in the evening my great great grandmother Katerina Te Atirau died of the Spanish flu at her home in Tauranga. Born in Maketu in 1854
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John Broadbent, many years later he gave the Waitangi Tribunal a graphic account "I remember the smoke drifting across Tamaki Drive. The smoke was billowing and swirling and illuminated from all sides by the flames of collapsing buildings...2/
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I remember vividly the wailing of the wahine and the confused shouts of the young. It could clearly be heard on the harbour."
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The burning, smouldering whares and the embers, glowed through the night. I would say the embers smoulder still...Reports of an old man being dragged from the fire are wrong. he actually cast himself into the holocaust of his home...3/
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Some photos from todays march down Queen Street finishing outside the U.S. Consulate
Free Palestine من النهر إلى البحر
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that painting both perpetrator and victim as equally responsible, victim blaming, and not addressing the boys violent threats actually works to the advantage of perpetrators by entrenching misogyny and bigotry. The deputy principle agreed with everything I said, but...
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The deputy principal proceeded to tell me the school has a zero violence policy, in which I replied the school has failed our child and what sort of message are you sending to kids if you punish both th perpetrator and victim. Adding that the school had failed...
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This is a karakia used to open the kaipara council meetings. Not that it matters but its a secular karakia. As an agnostic I have no problem wth theistic karakia either, they're beautiful poems. Rebelling against colonial structures of Reason requires bridging romantic traditions
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Hākari at Korohe marae tūrangi 1930's for wedding of Peter and Ruinea Rota
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In their duty of care by not providing the necessary environment for minority kids to feel safe in. That there is research into the negative real world effects of schooling systems not providing safety for minority kids and girls facing discrimination and misogyny from bullies..
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My 11-year-old son likens nazism to a virus like covid. The last time he saw this symbol was on the streets of Estonia. The Spectre of European fascism haunts us, its tentacles reach us this evening in New Lynn. People walk by nonchalantly, and we reach for our brushes.
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@eosfuturedesign
Definitely a prophet, but as a Polish leader in the Bund and anti-Zionist he was recognised in his country, that being Poland. I think whats striking for me, except those closest to him, is the condemnation he received from other holocaust survivors and historians in Israel.
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Only 60% maori vaccinated in turangi, only 1 GP practice and four available. Taupo hospital is 40 minute drive wth only 10 beds. Despairing. The moderators of one TWT page wth 8000 followers are blocking impnt vaccine info & spreading disinfo. We don't know whose running the page
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Is any major news outlet going to headline a story about stochastic terrorism? Fueled by the opposition and msm while a cooked former real estate agent runs round the country inciting violence toward Māori
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Te Kura Maori o Nga Tapuwae brought so much peace and solace to the occupation. Their song warmed the soul.
#Ihumatao
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Boba is Intergalactic Te Arawa
Boba Fett isn’t white and he doesn’t act white and he’s not coded white you stupid, stupid, stupid people.
I absolutely adore what Tem brings to this character who’s always been a fanboy’s cypher in Star Wars. I love his Boba and how he plays him. Quit putting your BS onto it.
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'We the undersigned, as Māori medical practitioners, medical students, academics, and as members of the global Indigenous health community, wish to convey our grave and urgent concern for the genocide th people of Palestine face on their ancestral lands'
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BS Jobs An important observation of current jobs is that the more important your job is, the less you earn. Cleaners, nurses, teachers ... if these jobs were to disappear, we would have a big problem, but these people earn the lowest salaries
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The pākehā left supporting Twyford's gas lighting and insensitivity shows how out of touch they are with working class and BIPOC struggle.
He would never takahi speaking at our marae about historical bloodshed committed by our ancestors.
This is bigotry
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'Fire and Fury' is an excellent documentary in many ways, but casting anti-authoritarianism and anti-statism in a negative light does a disservice to genuine indigenous and far left critique of state and capitalism.
A short thread🧵 1/
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A rangatira deletes her sincere post because of all the anti vax haters over 100 in the pile on. Cynthia is descendant of survivors of the Te Kooura marae Pandemic where the cenotaph stands today in taumarunui. Our tuwharetoa moderators are koretake
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No one should be surprised by Taika Waititi signing th open letter. He played cop during BLM and built his career on jewish and indigenous trauma.
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Assimilation of racism affects working-class Māori as much as the elite Māori already mentioned. Therefore it is necessary to view our experience of racism and the segregation that comes with it in a particular light very different from an African diaspora experience of it. End/
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@dbseymour
Funny you should say that because here's a clip of a the Palestinian community applauding a Jewish person speaking before the Greens saying they've never felt more proud to be Jewish standing with Palestinians.
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Photographs from today's rally at Aotea Square and march down Queen Street
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To give more context the bully has a record of intimidation and threats to girls, and apparently has already been disciplined for threatening to stab a girl online, he threatened mine online too
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The far-right attempt to infiltrate iwi structure thru propaganda. An iwi admin shares the debunked Celtic origin myth & is rebuked by whanau & a prominent Te Reo leader. Their reply reveals depoliticization as a necessary condition for the dissemination of far-right propaganda
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Tureiti Te Heuheu as a child accompanied his father Horonuku Te Heuheu, Ariki of Ngāti Tūwharetoa at the battle, Te Porere. Horonuku was arrested & released. After a visit to Auckland, he vowed he would never visit again the "Pakeha-City" where he had been treated like a dog
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Five generations in the house of Pūhaorangi Ngāti Kurauia, Aunty Paekitawhiti Southon with her daughter, grandaugter, great granddaughter and greatgreat grandaughter
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whether wyt or Māori we should acknowledge the climate of fear that some of th migrant are living with. We have privileges & freedoms unknown to migrants. Notice it when broaching topics abt Palestine. There is an uneasiness if you're a stranger, sumthing we need to be mindful of
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Predominately of Māori working class origin Ihumātao symbolises grassroots activists organising through social media to disrupt centralised mainstream media and government narrative. Tautoko, karawhiua!!
#Ihum
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#protectihumatao
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The occupation brings together all, as Māori Muslim wāhine toa teaches Māori tai chi to calm the nerves, Tai Chi Black Panther Fist
#Ihumatao
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My son and I woke up new years day on our marae. Visited Te Pōrere where our ancestors fought last battle NZ Wars.
Cooked our dinner in the puia (geo thermal vent) using traditional methods for hangi.
Will return to Auckland soon, refreshed. Free Palestine
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Sorry closing who can reply to this cos the racist pieces of shit have weighed in
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These photos have been shared with our Tuwharetoa whanaunga and are open source, too special not to share. The 1914 land Court meeting was a historical moment luckily captured by the photographer Arthur Breckon 2/
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It kind of amazes me that people proclaiming to uphold a type of ethical standard regarding human behaviour based upon pluralism feel they need to send me racist messages mocking maori protocol
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Getting through the painting, adding kai next and also more detail to the figures for added volume and form.
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Its disappointing seeing some of our polynesian christian whanau falling for Israeli propaganda. Start sharing on your social media pages anything from christian groups in Palestine or statements from the churches in Jerusalem denouncing th madness
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assimilationist policies of the 20th century. Land rights, kinship groups, intertribal and pan-tribal marriage, and who gets to be part of our struggle as Tangata Whenua lacks the historical significance of othering experienced by the African Diaspora in the USA. 2/
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I recall being excited to see this photo by H Winkelman in Kings book Māori: A Photographic History. Showing the first example of moving photography in Aotearoa. Titled Off to the Wedding, it is most likely Nan's uncle Koro Peeti's cart. He was the first Māōri to bring one home.
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They weren't camera shy. Lindauer had been there in 1910 phtographed Koro Peeti (2nd back row) wth Veterans from Te Kootis last battle of NZ wars at Te Porere. Nan was whangai to Koro Peeti, this photo is close to where the marae is today 3/
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Adorning European attire however making it tūturu Māōri. Te Reho and Waeroa at Tokaanu 1890's
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Nan painted her memories of Tokaanu in th 1920s, I could never make out th figures. Assuming they were pākehā in Edwardian attire, but they were Māori.
They lived in houses surrounding a piece of land, veg gardens & a large communal kitchen. The marae today stands here 4/
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However, they gave us our pride, our whakapapa, the ghost of our Ariki was always present. I remember the Ariki his voice, his oro, statue and gentleness. They were there when I was sitting in the the archive rooms, or late into the night researching. Ngāti Kurauia stands strong
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In 1917, Wellington labourer & former member of the Industrial Workers of the World, Joseph Herbert Jones, was tried for sedition. Jones had told 500 people to resist conscription. “I want the working class to say to the masters, we don’t want war. We won’t go to the war.”
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Edelman "We knew perfectly well that we had no chance of winning. We fought simply not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths. We knew we were going to die. Just like all the others who were sent to Treblinka....
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In every social movement are power seekers, they blend in, say the right words & repeat slogans.
To think they turned is a mistake, they never had soul.
Empty, lacking individuality and originality. Whether at grass roots or in the halls of power they mirror & assimilate.
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Forced into this by the land courts I know my grandmother & her sisters would be very proud. Our Paurini whanau built our marae with aroha. Nan gave birth to my eldest uncles & aunties there. Its tūrangawaewae that runs deep. When the old ones died we lost our pou for a while 2/
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Sorry unable to be at the protest this Saturday, I have a hui in Turangi. However, I will send the fires from maunga Tongariro, the same ones the sisters of Ngātoroirangi sent to the tohunga when they called for them.
Always in my thoughts the LGBTQIA+ Hapori. E tū ana koutou!
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we can’t dismiss Māori Aryanism & its system of racial hierarchies that influenced generations of Māori. Māori were unaware of the global Black power movement's focus on intersecting race and class until Ngā Tamatoa in the 1970's, when new voices pushed back at conservatism 11/
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In James Belich’s Myth Race and Identity in NZ he remarks that “Myths interact with theories 'above' and attitudes 'below', but can lead as well as be led by them”. And what intrigues Belich is the pan-Māori assimilation of the racist theory of The Aryan Māori. 3/
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In the 18th-19thC the confederation of Ngāti Tūwharetoa had 144 hapu many of these groups were based upon anarchist principles of free association. Due to colonisation and political strategy, these have been amalgamated into 26 hapū, in which Ngāti Kurauia ki Tokaanu is one 1/
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Thanks everyone for the support. We received an impersonal letter forwarded by the class teacher by the school principal about our child's 'gross misconduct' and throws around some bureaucratic nonsense to intimidate us. Its ridiculous. And june 12 is my Bday lol
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@secondzeit
You mean the zionist community stop conflating Zionism with being jewish. Jewish activists have just occupied the statue of liberty have no qualms with the slogan neither do my pākehā jewish whanau, however due to Zionist zealots within the community feel frightened to speak out
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Māori had agency when adapting to a white supremacist system of racial hierarchies. By adapting our storytelling and inter-tribal kinship bonds of marriage ‘ to retain bloodlines’ we unwittingly and at times purposefully adapted racist ideology into an indigenous struggle.5/
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9/Uncle John( Hoani Takakopiri Asher) (pictured aged 11 1934). In 2017 the Crown returned our hot springs acknowledging 150 years of racial injustice & theft. Although there is still mamae, it's the memory of cups of tea & caramel cakes at our uncles & aunties that endures.
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