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IWI TAKETAKE – Ae Marika!
Posted on March 26, 2013 by admin in Ae Marika, NewsIn 2012 the United Nations General Assembly agreed to hold a World Conference of Indigenous People’s Conference. The conference will be held 22-23 September 2014, in New York (WCIP14). Because it is a UN meeting, WCIP14 will be hosted by…
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Ae Marika – 19 March 2013 “You gotta laugh…”
Posted on March 19, 2013 by admin in Ae MarikaYou gotta laugh … We’ve been suffering through the worst drought we’ve seen in decades over the last couple of months, with water resources stretched, all the paddocks going brown and farmers going to the wall, and then the very first…
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“A bit of Counsel for the Council” Ae Marika! 12 March 2013 – MP Hone Harawira
Posted on March 12, 2013 by admin in Ae MarikaA BIT OF COUNSEL FOR THE COUNCIL You’d think that after 100 years, and having attended the Treaty Settlement signings for Te Rarawa, Ngai Takoto and Te Aupouri, and having been directly involved in negotiations for months to establish a Statutory…
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Ae Marika! 5 March 2013 – Tame Iti & Ralph Hotere – by Hone Harawira
Posted on March 5, 2013 by admin in Ae MarikaTame Iti got outta jail last week so I popped up to Waikato to catch up with him. Tame’s name is linked in everyone’s mind with Tuhoe, but his mum is from Ngati Wairere and his “coming out” breakfast was…
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Ae Marika! 26 Feb 2013 – Te Matatini 2013
Posted on February 26, 2013 by admin in Ae MarikaGoing to the Matatini last week was a real thrill – all the best kapahaka groups in the country gathered together at the Rotorua International Stadium for a four day extravaganza of Maori performing arts. The stadium was well set out,…
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Maori education – Ae Marika! 19 Feb 2013
Posted on February 19, 2013 by admin in Ae MarikaMaori education doesn’t always get a good review so here’s a couple of positive stories. Firstly a good home story to start with. Yesterday I attended the opening of Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Pukemiro in Kaitaia. It gave me…
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Ae Marika – 12 Feb 2013 – MP Hone Harawira
Posted on February 12, 2013 by admin in Ae MarikaLast week I talked about how the ongoing inequality that Maori continue to face today, confirms how far away we are from realising the dream that our tupuna had when they signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. This week…
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Ae Marika! 11 December 2012
Posted on December 11, 2012 by admin in Ae MarikaThe biggest problem for Maori in 2012 has been government’s commitment to the “free market”. That attitude has allowed businesses like Ports of Auckland, Pike River and AFFCO to reduce safety standards, shift companies offshore, and cut wages in their…
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Ae Marika! In SOLI-darity
Posted on December 4, 2012 by admin in Ae Marika, NewsBack in 1981, Kihei “Soli” Niheu flew into Aotearoa to march with us to Waitangi. Soli was a Hawaiian activist. He’d met Maori activists at the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific conference in Hawaii the year before and wanted to…
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Ae Marika! 13 November 2012
Posted on November 13, 2012 by admin in Ae MarikaBack in August I put my Education (Breakfast and Lunch Programmes in School) Amendment Bill into the ballot. Last week it got drawn which means that it will go on the Order Paper and likely come before the house for consideration in…
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