“Te reo can’t be revitalised to its fullest extent without addressing some of the fundamental constraints under which its revitalisation is taking place.” — Awanui Te Huia @AwanuiTH
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Hobsons Pledge white supremacist propaganda on the front page of our most widely read national newspaper.
While they don't have a huge amount of organic support, they have heaps of money and mates in high places. Unsurprisingly its landlords and capitalists all the way down.
Grateful for the opportunity to spend time with Dr @ElisaLoncon the former President of the Chilean Constitutional Convention. Inspiring to learn more about her work on indigenous rights and language activism. Ngā mihi nui ki a koe e te mareikura Dr Loncón🙏🏽.
By now we know thru western media the name, age, photos, & story of each of the 4 Israelis who were retrieved from Gaza, but no one knows the name let alone the story of a single one of the 200+ Palestinians whom Israel massacred in the process.
Blatant dehumanisation.
@ChioneNgozi Kia ora, I'm pretty sure residents can make submissions. I can check this too. 🙏🏽 Not just tangata whenua. We encourage tangata Tiriti to make submissions opposing this bill.
A new bill that proposes that "Taumata Arowai must not have regard to the hierarchy of obligations contained in Te Mana o te Wai" effectively sidelining hapū/iwi voices in water related decisions, is open for submissions today closing next Thursday. At this point...
“I wrote the book in te reo Māori first. For me, that's a whakamana o te reo: an elevation and validation of our reo. The English version is the translation. Te reo Māori wasn’t the second thought here. It was the first.” — Qiane Matata-Sipu @qianephoto
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There's something about liberal democracy, particularly in settler colonial states like NZ, that stigmatises and punishes any militant decolonial movement as inherently wrong, even though Indigenous peoples have the right to resist colonialism. This pacifist context does not help return stolen land.
I repeat, one of the greatest myths of Western modernity, capitalist development, and Eurocentrism is the belief that the colonial hell imposed on others is the road to civilization.
That 7-month old baby who has just died due to malnutrition in Gaza,,, 7 months!!! He is as old as the genocide is. He was born when the genocide started. The genocide was everything he had lived. Hunger & dehydration is everything he experienced in his entire existence. Imagine
Este intercambio de experiencias nos permite encontrar puntos de encuentro y aprendizajes similares en pro de las comunidades étnicas de ambas naciones. @tai_ahu@AwanuiTH (3/3)
Waimarie katoa māua i te manaakitanga nui mai ki tēnei whenua ki Colombia. We are incredibly grateful for the week that we've spent with various iwi from this beautiful whenua. We've made so many beautiful connections. Thank you to @NZinColombia for taking such great care of us.
Productivo encuentro con el Grupo de Justicia Étnico Racial de la @ViceColombia. Dos expertos maorí, en justicia restaurativa para pueblos indígenas y revitalización de las lenguas, tuvieron la oportunidad de compartir historias del camino de NZ🇳🇿 hacia la reconciliación (1/3)🧵