Hone Harawira
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Hone Harawira to join AFFCO Picket Line
Posted on May 15, 2012 by admin in Hone Harawira, Press ReleasesMedia are advised that MANA leader Hone Harawira will be joining AFFCO workers tomorrow (Wednesday 16th May) on the picket line. Harawira will be with the workers at the following locations and times: 1. AFFCO Feilding, Campbell Road,…
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Te Waka Toi: Mainstreaming or Backsliding
Posted on May 10, 2012 by admin in Hone Harawira, Press Releases“Mainstreaming doesn’t work for Maori” said MANA leader Hone Harawira. “That’s why MANA is opposed to the bill* that will disestablish Te Waka Toi and set up a single arts council with four Māori reps instead”. Te Waka Toi wasn’t perfect…
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No Asset Sales petition now available (+petition)
Posted on May 10, 2012 by admin in Hone Harawira, Press ReleasesHere’s the officially approved Greens’ Keep Our Assets petition form that all other parties are using too. The return address is at the bottom. Most important, is that there is a signature for each entry whanau, along with the rest of…
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Our Assets, Our Future
Posted on May 10, 2012 by admin in Hone Harawira, Press Releases“Every once in a while an issue comes along that brings parties with widely different philosophies together” said MANA Leader Hone Harawira. “The Government’s plan to sell off our assets is just such an issue”. “Selling our state assets didn’t work last time” said…
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Boycott Talley’s campaign begins in earnest
Posted on May 9, 2012 by admin in Hone Harawira, Press Releases“Lifting the lockout on a few AFFCO workers wasn’t a goodwill gesture” said MANA leader Hone Harawira. “It was a nasty and spiteful decision to try to force workers to cave in to company demands or get their emergency benefits…
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Happy Birthday MANA!
Posted on April 30, 2012 by admin in Hone Harawira, Press Releases“Happy birthday MANA” states MANA President Annette Sykes. “Today MANA is one year old. In that time, MANA has gone from strength to strength, standing up for the little guy who no one gives a hoot about and…
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Hone Harawira – We’re Marching Again: Aotearoa is not for Sale
Posted on April 23, 2012 by admin in Hone Harawira, Press Releases“I urge all Foreshore and Seabed marchers to join us again on a hikoi” says MANA Leader Hone Harawira. “If the word on the street and the messages from iwi are anything to go by, then this hikoi could be as…
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A Bruised Community and Battered Protestors – Glen Innes Last Night
Posted on April 18, 2012 by admin in Hone Harawira, Press ReleasesThe first state house left Glen Innes last night on the back of a truck with a massive police escort and left in its wake a bruised community, battered protestors and one woman taken to Auckland hospital by ambulance after…
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Domestic Violence is Going Up, Not Down
Posted on April 13, 2012 by admin in Hone Harawira, Press Releases“Domestic violence is going up, not down” says MANA Leader Hone Harawira. The Minister of Police, Anne Tolley, stated last week that “…we have safer communities and far fewer victims of crime”. Statistics from the NZ Police…
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Maori health review nothing but “Blatant bloody racism”
Posted on April 11, 2012 by admin in Hone Harawira, Press Releases“Blatant bloody racism” is how MANA leader Hone Harawira described National’s call for a review into ‘the cost effectiveness of Maori health providers’. “Government spends $7 million over several years on an assessment tool for adult literacy but only $150,000…
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