
Speech to the launch of Mana | Hone Harawira
Posted on May 26, 2011 by admin in Speeches“INTEGRITY AND COURAGE”
Speech to the launch of MANA
Hone Harawira, Te Reo Motuhake o Te Tai Tokerau
Saturday 30 April 2011
Let today be the day that we reject the politics of fear, because I know that if we are united, then there is nothing that we have to fear, and nothing that we can’t achieve
Let today be the day that we reject the politics of compromise, because we deserve better than the weak and accommodating representation in parliament that we walk away from today
And let today be the day that we set ourselves the challenge:
- § of setting clear goals
- § of acting with integrity and courage in all that we do
- § and most importantly, of coming back to the people regularly to seek your guidance for our actions, and your support for our plans
- § We will honour the sovereignty our tupuna signed up to in 1835 when they signed Te Whakaputanga and affirmed in Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840, and the rights of all New Zealanders that derive from the Treaty, including the right of Maori representation at all levels of government
- § We will do our best to keep Te Reo Maori in the hands of the people, and away from government control and government bureaucracy
- § I want us to put people and papatuanuku first
- § I want us to put an end to economic policies that drive people into poverty, and then penalise them for being poor
- § I want us to put an end to the billion dollar bailout of failed finance companies
- § I want us to recall the $36 million being wasted on that yacht race in San Francisco and spend it instead on emergency heating in the poorer suburbs of Christchurch that government forgot
- § I want us to put a halt to the sale of New Zealand’s assets because the immediate cash return will never compensate for the loss of economic opportunity once those assets are gone
- § I want us to guarantee affordable food and shelter for all NZers
- § I want us to take water, power and housing out of the hands of profit driven corporations and put them back into the hands of the people
- § I want every Kiwi to get a decent days wage for a decent days work
- § I want us to overturn National’s 90-day Slave Bill
- § And I want us to support the rebuilding of a strong union base to give workers back the rights they’ve lost over the last 20 years
- § And I want us to oppose the current tax regime that penalises the poor and advantages the rich
- § And I want us to launch the HONE HEKE TAX where every dollar spent is taxed at just 1%, which means poor people don’t pay much because they don’t have much to spend, and rich people pay more because they spend a lot more.
- § The HONE HEKE TAX will mean we can chop down the GST on essential services, immediately reducing the cost of food, electricity, petrol and housing, and enabling ordinary Kiwis to start rebuilding their lives
MANA
- § But most importantly I want us to be a movement to rebuild the MANA of our people
- § MANA tamariki, MANA wahine, MANA tangata, and the MANA of our kaumatua and kuia
- § the MANA of beneficiaries who are treated like a blight on society
- § the MANA of workers who have been reduced to near slavery
- § the MANA of our Pacific cousins who continue to be used as cheap labour and exported home every season, and
- § the MANA of our people, worn down by decades of deceit and dishonest dealings by the Crown, and governments who would reduce us to being no more than another ethnic minority, in our own land
- § And that is our greatest challenge – the restoration of MANA in a way that lifts every heart, and every soul, and challenges us to accept that only the best will do for ourselves, our children and our grandchildren …
- § E te iwi – I am grateful and I am humbled by the support that I have felt from all across the country, and I am grateful to all those who have offered their help to build a movement that can change this nation …
BY-ELECTION
- § In my time in parliament, I have made it clear that it is the people of Tai Tokerau who determine my future in politics – not Tariana Turia, not Phil Goff, not John Key – but the people of Tai Tokerau
- § They have supported me in the good times
- § They have supported me in the bad times
- § They supported my leaving the Maori Party although they were gutted by the way I was forced to leave
- § They supported my travelling the country to gather support for a new movement
- § They have supported the call from across the country for a new direction
- § And last night, they supported the call for me to come back to the Tai Tokerau to seek a mandate for that new direction
- § I intend to honour that request
- § I understand that last night the Maori Party President told our chairman that they will not approach anyone else to stand against me in elections in 2011
- § Accordingly, I intend advising the Speaker on Tuesday that I will be seeking a mandate from the people of Tai Tokerau, and asking him to put in place the machinery for a BY-ELECTION in the north as soon as possible, to affirm that mandate, and so that I may return to parliament as the first in a long line of MPs for MANA, movement of the people
- § And from there, I want us to take up the challenge to change the world – step by step, and if necessary, electorate by electorate
- § These times come but rarely – this is our time
- § Happy are those who dream dreams, and are prepared to pay the price to make those dreams come true
Brian John Evans says:
Post Author May 28, 2011 at 7:33 amUS Congress about to make satanic obscene history at this link next
Click on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjcvql6By4s
Ron Paul: (presidential candidate)
This is very very serious as the president and all future presidents, would take total power to wage unlimited war, anywhere in the world, without needing congress approval, ever!
All set in to a new rule so that no trial can ever ever set him up as a war criminal ever!
Vote Mana and Green parties for no more war
What is the Mana Party going to do about our alliances with countries which wage war on poor people who are innocent of any wrong doing. and who jail and torture and have dumped decency and human rights for making rich people richer?
Do we keep sending kiwis off to win a VC , say, for invading and killing other folk on the strength of disgusting lies or just media-fed rumours?
Brian John Evans says:
Post Author May 28, 2011 at 10:01 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl2JQfxnnHU&feature=player_embedded#at=52
http://www.bestpoet.com
Kia kaha
When we sheep vote for the wolves,
We get all their wars:
Labour National and act are whores,
For America’s ‘ignore all creation’s laws’;
America’s junk food , television claws,
Rip our once sweet cause-
Our mokopuna – disappear in their jaws…
Brian Evans
Brian John Evans says:
Post Author May 28, 2011 at 10:29 pmVictory! David Cameron planning celebratory tour of Libya with Nicolas Sarkozy ‘when the time comes’
David Cameron is to make a victory tour of Libya with Nicolas Sarkozy.
The French president blurted out the secret plans yesterday at the G8 summit of world leaders in Deauville.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1391735/Victory-David-Cameron-planning-celebratory-tour-Libya-Nicolas-Sarkozy-time-comes.html#ixzz1NhsgpXtD
Now we see how our leaders these scum, these wolves push us dumbed down sheep, around using all the artifice of their state-run zionist owned television and newspapers and talkback radio.
Pretty soon China and Russia are not going to take all this crap anymore
Good bye world.
It is already that for those arabs already poisoned by depleted uranium, with a life of billions of years.
Brian Evans
dubbed
“The Talkback Terrorist of New Zealand”
on “Eating Media Lunch” with ‘Newsboy
100 different voices..
The cops come to his house and beg him to stop.
The cops are getting younger, madder and brutal as the American TV films turn them in to attack dogs.
Brian gladly joine the Mana Party
but with Green Party stickers on the beanie – Cher!
http://mana.net.nz
http://bestpoet.com
http://evanscartoons.com
http://greens.org.nz
Brian John Evans says:
Post Author May 28, 2011 at 10:56 pmListen to Alex Jones and specialists and brilliant co-hosts, scientists and guests
and the corporates’ varied victims on internet Radio 24/7
Marines made mad by war
People tricked out of their homes by foreign bank rule
People bashed by cops
Veterans shot by cops
Students bashed
All coming to Aotearoa , be sure of that!
It plays
365 days a year all day and night.
Nothing like it on earth..
Taking frightful risks of assassination
Listen now (while you keep surfing)
The talk today is about Obama and future wars and also Genetically modified food which has posoned 80% of America’s babies and 90% of their mothers
Download VLC Player & install.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Then listen to Alex Jones by downloading the pls file to play on VLC Player at next line.
http://www.infowars.com/stream.pls
Brian John Evans says:
Post Author May 28, 2011 at 11:31 pmLook—
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDkhzHQO7jY&NR=1
George Carlin – “We Like War”
“Now we only bomb brown people”
Advisory:
Like the true man he is George Carlin saya it like it is.
There is a total biological veracity in George’s sexual and anatomical aspersions about the effeminate men who want war.
ie that there are few real men left in America, to proudly stand up and say “No!” to war.
What sort of men fill the American Congress when it is only a very few, like Ron Paul and black woman Cynthia McKinney saying no.
And by low-down tricks they got Cynthia out.
Brian John Evans says:
Post Author May 29, 2011 at 10:59 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOWe4-KXqMM&feature=related
I don’t attack all America
There are people there taking big risks there to right the fascist wrongs
It is pretty obvious our debates in NZ are never allowed to happen like that above, where public debate mines the truth, gold, gets revealed and held up to see, and shared on air.
I call NZ ‘The She’ll be right fascism’ where the intellectual left gold is all gone gone gone,
if it ever existed.
Each one is on his own with only a fascist media as Sheriffs over us
Not good
Hone just says ‘BOO!” and the media does girly squeals of rage. and the people go baaa baaa baaa like the sheepies we have become
Brian John Evans says:
Post Author May 29, 2011 at 9:54 pmFour Doormats
I bought four doormats on a spree,
(I owned no home you see,)
And laid one by this comfy tree ,
And climbed on to the lowest leaves,
For some sleepy reverie;
It felt so good I dreamed at peace,
And schemed unselfish dreams:
Where the city’s homeless grieve-
Find three forgiving doors-
(No bourgeois outraged screams)-
With porches to keep the rain at bay;
The irony is, “the worst of times”,
Had freed more guys like me;
Three doors like wooden headstones,
For my hardcase homeless team,
Now as doormat-rich as me.
Another door was boarded up,
And I laid my rope mat there,
We live against our locked-tight doors,
Till the Good Lord opens all.
Brian Evans
http://alternativereel.com/includes/poets-corner/display_review.php?id=00102
Kia kaha
Phillip L says:
Post Author June 1, 2011 at 10:28 amMy party vote is yours, and many people i know are behind the mana party also. The media has tried to make this whole political movement a race related issue (& Therefore limit votes to the maori demographic & force maori against maori). We can see through the Spin.
I would like to see a Mana party, Greens, Maori party,NZ First?, Labour Coalition Govt. at the next election. Hopefully the maori party survive this election as we do need the numbers and we do have a common enemy.
I have no doubt Hone will win his electorate and with time gain more seats in parliament.
Keep up the outstanding work. I have full confidence in you all.
Arohanui