2011 September
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Annette Sykes to contest Waiariki Electorate for MANA
Posted on September 29, 2011 by admin in Annette Sykes, Press ReleasesProminent criminal and civil rights lawyer and social justice campaigner, Annette Sykes, was endorsed at a Waiariki Electorate hui last Thursday by the Electorate and confirmed by MANA’s national executive as the candidate for the Waiariki electorate. No other nominations…
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MANA will reverse ACT’s brutal Voluntary Student Membership attack on Tertiary Students
Posted on September 29, 2011 by admin in John Minto, Press ReleasesMANA education spokesperson John Minto says if MANA MP’s are see that ACT led vicious attack on them is reversed with a repeal of legislation which makes student association membership voluntary. Mr Minto says student associations play a vital role as…
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Mana calls for an immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan in wake of another NZ death
Posted on September 29, 2011 by admin in John Minto, Press ReleasesMANA’s thoughts are with the whanau of Lance Corporal Leon Smith who has died fighting in Afghanistan but MANA also demands New Zealand troop withdrawal from this foreign war said MANA Foreign Affairs spokesperson John Minto. “Prime Minister John Key has…
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MANA slams spy bill
Posted on September 28, 2011 by admin in Hone Harawira, Press ReleasesLEGISLATION FOR A POLICE STATE “When the NZ Herald calls government’s new spying bill the act of a police state then we should all be very concerned” said MANA leader and Tai Tokerau MP Hone Harawira, “and when they want…
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MANA accuses govt of gross hypocrisy over Mokomoko pardon
Posted on September 28, 2011 by admin in Annette Sykes, Press ReleasesMANA spokesperson Annette Sykes says while government moves to restore the mana of Whakatohea Maori Chief Mokomoko wrongly accused of murder and put to the gallows in 1871 are welcome, the action at this time wreaks of hypocrisy. She says the…
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MANA repulsed at Govt Abuse of Students
Posted on September 28, 2011 by admin in John Minto, Press ReleasesMANA education spokesperson John Minto says the government should listen to University Students, not bully and threaten them. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10754706 He says tertiary education minister AnneTolley’s threatening of University Students to ‘keep their heads down’ as a response to their legitimate concerns…
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MANA opposes Food Bill
Posted on September 28, 2011 by admin in Press Releases, Tawhai Mc ClutchieMANA is strongly opposed to the Food Bill currently before parliament. MANA candidate for the Te Ikaroa Rawhiti electorate Tawhai Mc Clutchie says under the guise of improving food safety the government is claiming from Maori ownership of food and the…
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MANA Supports Students
Posted on September 28, 2011 by admin in John Minto, Press ReleasesEducation spokesperson John Minto says the direct action being taken by students around the country against measures which will wreck havoc to their student union organization has the full backing of MANA. Mr Minto says this time of the year is…
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MANA Supports Auckland Uni Students
Posted on September 28, 2011 by admin in Hone Harawira, Press ReleasesMANA Leader Hone Harawira says the actions of Auckland University Students who have barricaded themselves in a management studies building are understandable. Mr Harawira says government moves to make student membership voluntary will destroy students bargaining power. “Many Maori students in particular…
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MANA says it’s time for a new economic direction
Posted on September 26, 2011 by admin in Hone Harawira, Press Releases“When the IMF says the global economy is broken then it’s time we fixed it” said MANA leader Hone Harawira. Mr Harawira said that the kinds of measures followed by successive NZ governments, and being proposed by both Labour and National in 2011,…
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