Ae Marika
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WHAT THE HECK ARE WE GONNA DO NOW?
Posted on June 12, 2012 by admin in Ae MarikaThe saga of Doctor Lance has not been good for the far north’s favourite doctor (and his family) and even less so for the region’s largest Maori health clinic, Te Hauora o Te Hiku o Te Ika. What is very clear…
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Ae Marika! 29 May 2011
Posted on May 29, 2012 by admin in Ae MarikaI don’t always agree with National’s Minister of Finance, Bill English, but he was dead right when he called the 2012 Budget a zero budget – because after you cut through to the guts of it all it was clear…
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Ae Marika! 15 May 2012, MP Hone Harawira
Posted on May 15, 2012 by admin in Ae MarikaEvery now and then an issue comes along that brings together parties with widely different philosophies, and government’s plan to sell off our assets is just such an issue. Last Wednesday I attended the launch of a petition to force…
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Hone Harawira – Ae Marika!
Posted on May 9, 2012 by admin in Ae MarikaLast week I asked a question in the House about “how forcing people out of their homes and selling off the land to wealthy property developers, fits with Government assurances that every New Zealand family should have warm, high-quality housing?” The…
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Celebrating the Worker | Ae Marika! – Hone Harawira
Posted on May 2, 2012 by admin in Ae MarikaMay the First is INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY – worthy of our reflection on where we’re at and where we’re we going. National governments are notorious for their philosophy of slash-their-bloody-wages-and-then-flog-the-workers-some-more. This one has been particularly so and Bill English’s recent comment…
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Hone Harawira | Ae Marika! 25 Apr 2012
Posted on April 26, 2012 by admin in Ae Marika17 years ago my mokopuna crawled under a hedge and onto somebody else’s driveway and got run over. It was an accident, but he almost died. He broke both his legs, his ribs, both his arms and cracked his skull…
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KAPAZ & 80s
Posted on April 17, 2012 by admin in Ae MarikaAh, the smell of a stadium packed to the rafters with expectant families all riveted to their seats while their darlings are up on the stage belting out the latest tunes and twisting and turning to the choreographic demands of…
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Aotearoa is NOT FOR SALE hikoi!
Posted on March 20, 2012 by admin in Ae Marika, Events, News, Press ReleasesTe Rerenga Wairua 23 April to Wellington 5 May. I don’t do this often, but here’s the scoops straight off my email a couple of days ago. Mike Smith’s organising it, MANA will be supporting it, and I’m going…
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Ae Marika | 13 March | MP Hone Harawira
Posted on March 12, 2012 by admin in Ae MarikaLast week the Let’s Flog off Our State Assets Bill (otherwise known as the Mixed Ownership Model Bill), squeaked past at first reading 61-60. The Maori Party spoke against it although party stalwarts would have been embarrassed by Pita Sharples’…
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Ae Marika | Hone Harawira | 6 March
Posted on March 6, 2012 by admin in Ae MarikaLast week I talked about the lockout down in Moerewa, and how it fits alongside the lockout down at the Ports of Auckland in shaving even more money off workers while directors and CEO’s of these huge companies are raking…
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