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[George Laking @glaking]

Tangata Whenua are the strongest defence against fascism in Aotearoa, and the anti-Māori crowd knows this.

[George Laking @glaking]

Every right entails a duty. Every Māori person has duties (ngā here, obligations) to Papatūanuku, Whakapapa, and Hapori (just for starters). Te Tiriti protects Māori capability to exercise those duties. Te Tiriti creates rights for Tangata Tiriti, and duties to Tangata Whenua.

[George Laking @glaking]

I don't think the USA has ever reconciled the contradictions of its origin in invasion, dispossession, extermination, occupation, enslavement and settlement. Despite all attempts to make something better, these are the foundations it is built on.

[George Laking @glaking]

@jameskjx Was thinking of how democracy is valorised. A majority vote doesn't define what is right or undo obligations.

[George Laking @glaking]

Being in control of your actions does not in itself make you a good person. Nor does it excuse you from duties and obligations. Some of those might have been inherited, for example, if you took over the family business. You can't just walk away from them. #Democracy #Tiriti

[George Laking @glaking]

"Anyone who supports this directive, either actively or complicitly through their silence, is supporting the undermining of our collective scientific knowledge and commitment to evidence-based medical practice."

[E-Tangata @etangata]

“The government’s directive is not just an attack on Māori, but an attack on science and good medical practice.” — Doctors from the universities of Auckland and Otago.

https://t.co/jSHDDGxwwL

[George Laking @glaking]

Big thanks to Prof Holly Thorpe and team for writing about our work in TeTairāwhiti and Hawkes Bay https://t.co/PV5yY4JOlj #Gabrielle

[George Laking @glaking]

At @TeOhuRata Hui-a-Tau Scientific Meeting

[NZSOncology @NzsOncology]

Welcoming to #NZSO2024 Mary-Kaye Wharakura (Tainui, Ngātiwai, Ngāpuhi) co-presenting with @nwalker25021458 during He Akoranga Whakahoungia session. Combining their skills & knowledge, they will discuss all aspects of clinical trials, and engaging Māori participants & community.

[George Laking @glaking]

Live Long and Prosper. 🖖 The "Minister for Killing More People on the Roads" is just stone cold Vulcan logic. Road deaths increase as a function of speed. Many are child deaths. The Dutch learnt this in the 1970s, and that's why they switched to bicycles.

[Russel Norman @RusselNorman]

The Minister for Killing More People on the Roads, Simeon Brown, consulted the petrol and diesel car importers and they said EVs would be a bad idea, so he weakened the fuel efficiency standards so NZ could have 58,000 fewer electric cars by 2035 https://t.co/zq8p5tKRcO

[George Laking @glaking]

Tika te kupu

[Maxine Ronald @maxine_ronald]

Dr Jason Gurney leading authority 4 health inequity AoNZ. Health care is already race based - it is just that it is Pakeha race based. As soon as we try to address issues that impact Māori and Pacifica people more - we are being "racist". The hypocrisy is killing our people.

[George Laking @glaking]

Tika te kupu

[George Laking @glaking]

TBH an SMS seems entirely in keeping for the whole fiasco

[Barbara Edmonds @BarbEdmondsMana]

MFAT: “Careful and deliberate communications with the Korean Government would be required in advance of any public announcement,"

Nek minnit:
https://t.co/jlEqxOA4oj

[George Laking @glaking]

NZ Transport Minister's policies will kill

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

"I happened to be cycling when I realized that my presence aroused a sort of hysteria in bystanders or people passing in cars. They shouted abuse...they threw things..."
—Paul Theroux on how drivers react to cyclists and walkers in the US.
in re: Gaudreau Brothers tragedy
🧵

[George Laking @glaking]

@RawiriTaonui And Manaakitanga is one of the values

[George Laking @glaking]

@RawiriTaonui '"He said much of the food was being eaten by staff and patient visitors: "In our current fiscal environment, it is untenable for these practices to continue."' STOP – THINK – WHY #FeedThePeople #Manaakitanga

[George Laking @glaking]

50 km/h Will Kill Children

[Richard Edwards @ProfEdwardsNZ]

Systematic review of studies of 30kmh city-wide speed limits in 40 European cities. Road fatalities decreased 7%, crashes 23%, road injuries 38% and emissions by 18%. Any thoughts @DrShaneRetiMP @SimeonBrownMP? https://t.co/FDBOETRyAI

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

Saying that everyone has to shut up about an active genocide because it is ruining the vibes of your political movement is so nihilistic that I really can't believe any human who lives and breaths could even imagine thinking it.

[George Laking @glaking]

Tēnā koe @tinangata for saying it rightly

[E-Tangata @etangata]

“Māori rights, like all Indigenous rights, have always been the strongest roadblock to corporate mineral and freshwater extraction, and that is why we are consistently attacked in the media.” — Tina Ngata @tinangata

https://t.co/D40uufa2bC

[George Laking @glaking]

@MarkJeffery4 Thanks @MarkJeffery4 and keep posting 👍🏽

[George Laking @glaking]

Also with these guys it's a straight line from Crown ownership to sell-offs and privatisation.

[WestSide 8345 @tauhenare]

#ForeshoreSeabed No one was going to be denied access to the beach, it was always bullshit. Designed to play Pakeha off against Māori, Every week since this Govt has been in Power, there has been a RacistAF Diatribe from one of the Coalition members.