@worried_mind A lovely surprise to see what the paint does with the grain after seeing your comment about not wanting to paint the chair for gain reasons :)
Look through and if you spot your iwi/trust/rūnanga, send them an email asking for them to pull their project from the list. Rūnanga have to take a principled stand against this, not just think about their own pockets.
I note that several of the mana whenua initiatives is housing builds. We do need more housing and the fix shouldn't look like this legislation. The govt is just leveraging the poverty of our whānau to get this horrific legislation some Māori support.
Govt finally dropping the Fast Track project list on a SUNDAY 😑 Not cool. Seeing a bunch of rūnanga and mana whenua trusts on the list, even more not cool.
https://t.co/nPqSzJxa9p
📢 Hundreds of Fijians joined the NGO Coalition on human rights & its solidarity partners this am. They took to the streets in Suva peacefully, calling for support from Pacific leaders for freedom, decolonisation & human rights in Kanaky & West Papua.
THREAD OF PHOTOS ⬇️
Have a listen to our co-director @LisaMcLaren2013 respond to the government's climate non-plan.
Either the government is committed to meeting our climate change targets, or they can fast-track oil, gas and coal mining. They cannot do both.
https://t.co/UDwdbh2RCF
Of course also answered relief and success for communities and lands like Palestine and Kanaky. As we move into remembering those who have passed in the last year, hold our siblings in struggle around the world close too.
Yesterday I was asked what my hiwa i te rangi wishes are for the coming year. I answered some decent climate policy because the coast desperately needs it. Just got the news that my mum was woken by police at 3:40am to evacuate Haumoana because of coastal flooding. What timing 😩
“New Zealand as a signatory to the Genocide Convention is obligated to prevent genocide and should not be collaborating militarily with a genocidal regime." https://t.co/vZ3sY0QB30
The Env Select Committee is preparing their report for cabinet - this opens up a short window to call on the secret gatekeepers that could stop this bill. Email the four National MPs https://t.co/BUxlFniHPI
PLEASE RT. Kanak & Allied Women released the following report, detailing the numerous the markers of genocide being met by the French government. IMPORTANTLY, this was released AFTER France claimed violence had reduced & after the SoE was lifted.
@uriohau https://t.co/mKPhMFhoZz
How do many Tangata Whenua in Aotearoa-New Zealand see the crisis in #NewCaledonia? Check out this report from Te Ao o Moana, on Whakaata Māori / Māori Television.
https://t.co/UQqaIwPrUL
✍🏼✍🏽 Lourdes Vano, @13daniellemarks and I wrote a thing that we want to share with yous, particularly for our own communities involved in activism. “A humble attempt at wading through some of the complexities raised by Thursday's action and strategy” https://t.co/lg0Q9hw6fn
🧵The closest to all out civil war was th 1913 Great Strike involving 14,000 workers nationwide against “Massey’s cossacks”. On Dec 5th 1913 our Ariki of Ngāti Tūwharetoa Tureiti Te Heuheu Tukino V along with Tuiti Makanara (Mcdonald) addressed 2,500 strikers in Wellington 1/