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John Key: Harawira’s white tirade ‘deeply offensive’ [But not antisemitic!]
Hone Pani Tamati Waka Nene Harawira was elected to the New Zealand Parliament as the Maori Party MP for theTai Tokerau electorate in the 2005 general election. New Zealand Herald Photo by Paul Estcourt. Image may be subject to copyright.
Prime Minister John Key has labelled MP Hone Harawira’s email on white people “deeply offensive” and he wants action from coalition partner the Maori Party.
“Hone has a history of making intemperate and outrageous comments and this one is right up there,” Mr Key told reporters a short time ago.
The Maori Party needed to deal with it.
“Hone Harawira has made a statement that is deeply offensive to a lot of New Zealanders.”
Harawira reacted to an email criticising him for bunking off a work trip to visit Paris by lashing out at white people.
In an email exchange released to Radio New Zealand, Mr Harawira accused “white motherf**kers” of “puritanical bullshit” for expecting him to follow the rules.
“… you’re no better than that w**ker Rodney Hide and the white mofos you complain about,” Mr Mikaere wrote, referring to Mr Hide’s actions in taking his partner on an overseas ministerial trip despite the Prime Minister John Key’s direction against the practice.
“And get off you moral high horse while you’re at it – nobody forced you to be an MP.”
Mr Harawira wrote back starting his email; “Gee Buddy, do you believe that white man bullshit too do you?
“White motherf**kers have been raping our lands and ripping us off for centuries and all of a sudden you want me to play along with their puritanical bullshit.”
Mr Harawira then went on to say how much time and energy he put into fighting for Maori and what a big role his wife Hilda played in that.
“And quite frankly I don’t give a shit what you or anyone else thinks about it. OK?”
Then he added a postscript saying he should feel free to go to the media. More on this here …
Maori author wins international award
Maori author wins international award
Photo: Maori author Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira
Maori author Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira has been awarded the international Linguapax Award for her promotion of te reo Maori.
The annual award recognises individuals for their work in multilingual education and linguistic diversity.
Dr Te Heikoko Mataira has written a number of children’s books and novels in te reo, including Marama Tangiweto, He Tino Kuia Taku Kuia and Te Atea, and was heavily involved in the establishment Maori language education.
John Key also target of Maori protest
Key to be target of Maori protest
“Elderly Maori sovereignty campaigners targeting judges’ homes will extend their civil disobedience action to Prime Minister John Key’s Auckland home.”
“The group, led by Ngapuhi elder Tass Davis, plans to start the month-long campaign within two weeks. It will include “occupation-style sit-ins” at Auckland courthouses and private homes of judges.” Media reported.
“Mr Davis, a 75-year-old former Auckland police constable, said there would be no attempt to force entry to Mr Key’s property they would wait until he was at home before acting. “We are non-violent. We will not use any force.”
Mr Key is targeted because he paid “lip service” to Maori issues.
“Mr Key obviously thinks a few seats at the Cabinet table are enough to keep Maori off his back. I’m here to tell him he is sadly mistaken. Perhaps if we are camped outside his front door he might listen a little more to our concerns.” Mr Davis said.
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LML! [Leave My Land!]
Campaigner Carwyn Kawana has given Housing New Zealand an eviction notice. “He also planned to issue eviction notices to Palmerston North City Council, the Inland Revenue Department, Linton Army Camp and The Warehouse, he said yesterday.”
“I have about 20 [notices] I want to hand out,” he said.
“Mr Kawana, 37, claims to be from the principal bloodline of Rangitaane and he [correctly] argues that people who sold land in the area in 1864 had no authority to do so.”
“Palmerston North has to realise that our family still owns this land. We never sold it,” he said.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2613076/Eviction-tit-for-tat-rages
Aussie Police Beat up and Arrest Maori Good Samaritans
Good Samaritan act ends in arrest
“A Maori couple who were pepper-sprayed and arrested as they went to help a man lying in a pool of blood on a Gold Coast street say they were targeted because of their race.”
“Kararaina Ngoungou and Munro Waerea, both 24 and from Whakatane, were leaving their motel in Surfers Paradise with friends just before midnight on Saturday when they came across the man, the pair told the New Zealand Herald.”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/2612441/Aussies-arrest-Maori-good-samaritans
Maori Leader Claiming Sacred Ancestoral Land Nabbed by NZ Gestapo
Maori Leader Claiming Sacred Ancestoral Land Nabbed by NZ Gestapo
A breakaway band of Rangitaane iwi has failed in a bid to claim Palmerston North’s Anzac Park for a marae.
[NOTE: Marae is a sacred place for religious and social purposes: Moderator]
The group of about 20 yesterday marched from The Square to the bush-covered hill reserve on the edge of the Manawatu River.
However, the protest ended when police arrested leader Carwyn Kawana for trespass. The rest of the group dispersed.
Mr Kawana vowed he would be back every day till his bloodlines got the land back.
He said a marae once stood on the land and it was also an old pa site and the “young warriors” wanted a marae to be built again to honour their ancestors. [Source]
[Iwi form the largest everyday social units in Māori populations. The word iwi means “people” or “folk”; in many contexts it might translate as “tribe” or as “clan.”]
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