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- Me, Myself, and I
- < < < ‘Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini. My strength is not that of a single warrior, but that of many.
The freedom that Tuhoe long for, is true freedom – it’s the freedom to live as one with the land, not own the land. It’s the freedom to gather kaimoana and fish for whanau without being fined for getting more than your quota. It’s the freedom to engage in the reo handed down by our ancestors as our FIRST language, as our ONLY language. It’s the freedom to raise our tamariki free from violence and fear as in the days of old. It’s the freedom to treat illness with rongoa not with pills and potions that make you sick. It’s the freedom to teach from the marae, not from a school with its imposed rules and regs. It’s the freedom to gather kai from the land to enjoy, not eat toxin enhanced food from fancy packets. It’s the freedom to train rangatahi in the ways of weaponry as handed down by our tupuna, NOT to be accused of running terrorist training camps!
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October 15th 2007 – Lest we forget
Published: October 16, 2009
by Catherine Delahunty
Yesterday was the second anniversary of the so called “terrorism” raids. Police carried out dawn raids on dozens of houses in Te Urewera and around Aotearoa which was definitely terrifying for the victims of this debacle who turn out not to be terrorists.
I will not forget the conversations I had with people from Ruatoki about short term and long term trauma for their tamariki, and with the people who became afraid to leave their homes and afraid to stay at home. It was also very disturbing to hear stories from young families of armed police bursting through their doors and rummaging through their baby’s clothing drawers.
Tuhoe bore the worst and let us not forget that Tuhoe remain an unconquered people who paid the price of their independence.
This week the Green Party supports the cultural events commemorating the human rights outrages and the spirit of solidarity and activism.
So let all activists and community people working for change remember October 15th and lets support the cool art exhibition, workshops and art auction this Saturday. The name of the exhibition is “Explosive Expression.”
If you have never heard the words “Come out with your hands up” bellowed through your broken doorway at dawn, please don’t imagine it cannot happen.1 Commentaar 68 dagen
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Remeber the Terror Raids 2007
Tomorrow 15th October 2009 will be the 2nd anniversary of the 'Terror Raids' of the Tuhoe Nation - two years on and there is still a lot of mamae - no one will ever forget the day of 15th October 2007 here in the Nation of Tuhoe. My moko in my profile pic is one of many tamariki affected by the 'Raids'. . . . Kaua e koropiko ki na ture a te pakeha . . . Patua te Wheiwheia . . . Tuhoe moumou Tangata ki te Po.....!!!.
HIGH COURT THROWS OUT SEARCH WARRANTS IN "TERRORIST" RAIDS
17 September 2009
In a monumental Court decision, Judge Helen Winkelmann of the Auckland High Court last week threw out 6 of the 9 land search warrants authorised by the Court in the "Tuhoe Terrorist" raids in 2007. The Judge ruled there was "No reasonable grounds for issue of (the) warrants". Winkelmann J also ruled the Police did not have implied licence to be on the various roads and track for the purpose of covert surveillance.
Counter-intuitively the Judge ruled the searches and seizures did not constitute unreasonable search and seizure under s 21 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. The legal admissibility of the evidence collected in the illegal raids is to be the subject of another hearing.
In an 81-page judgment, Justice Winkelmann plodded methodically through the law and evidence to reach a conclusion which guts the Police and New Zealand Solicitor General's original claim that a gang of dangerous terrorists threatened New Zealand's clean-green image, and life itself. Her ruling gingerly points the finger instead at the illegality of the Police raids and seizures which occurred with the complicity of some New Zealand Judges.
In a sour note to Justice Winkelmann's historic ruling, Her Honour ordered her findings suppressed from the media, seemingly to save embarrassment to the Police, as well as fellow High Court Justice Judith Potter - who was the judge who approved many of the unlawful search warrants. In stark contrast to this current shroud of secrecy, the Police raids and massive arrests consumed "mainstream media" coverage for weeks in New Zealand when they occurred two years ago, as well as prompted breaking news bulletins around the world.
What started out as a prosecution under the Terrorist Suppression Act 2002 by Solicitor General David Collins in 2007 has now been diluted into an Arms Act 1983 prosecution. In November 2007 S-G Collins backed down from the Terrorist charges after a month of mass protests brought attention to the lack of credible evidence being publicly released and resulted in increased suspicion concerning the NZ Court's blanket order suppressing the Police affidavits.
The 18 accused are represented by 14 barristers and countless solicitors, as well as Amicus Curiae Paul Dacre - an Auckland barrister who is the former Pitcairn Island Public Defender. An 'Amicus Curiae' is a neutral 'friend of the court' appointed by the Judge to give an independent analysis of the facts and relevant legal position. After several weeks of deposition hearings last year, 5 of the 18 defendants were additionally charged with participating in a gang under the Crimes Act. The cost of all this to the Crown has already surpassed $8 million and could exceed $20 million. Most of the defendants are on legal aid.
Preeminent defence barrister Rodney Harrison QC has been recognised by consent as lead counsel for the accused, with Maori rights lawyer Annette Sykes afforded distinct status by the Court in relation to the tikanga of Tuhoe and implied licence.
The written factual background laid out by the Judge in the substantive prosecution could clog a copier but quite simply can be summed up as "Police were panicked by 9-20 men dressed up in camouflage using rifles in the Urewera National Park and surrounding area, resulting in an intensive 13 month covert operation, 9 court-ordered land warrants, countless other search warrants and road blocks."
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‘Explosive Expression
Ko ‘Explosive Expression’ - he whakaaturanga o ngā mahi toi, me ngā mahi whakatūtū hei tuku whakautu ki ngā ‘State Terror Raids’ nō te tau 2007. Ka whakatūwheratia tēnei whakaaturanga e Tame Iti ā te 6pm, 13 o Whiringa-ā-nuku, hei te Thistle Hall, Cuba St, Te Whanganui-ā-Tara. Ka whakahaeretia tēnei huinga mō te wiki katoa, ka whakatūria hoki ētahi awheawhe, ētahi whakaaturanga kiriata, me ngā kōrero o ngā ringatoi, ā, hei te Rāhoroi ka tū tētahi mākete hokohoko waituhi (mā Nandor Tanczos rāua ko John Minto e whakahaere) hei whakakapi i ngā mahi o te wiki. Ka taea ngā pikitia te hoko ā te Rāhoroi, te 17. Kei roto i tēnei whakaaturanga ngā mahi toi o ētahi ringatoi rongonui o Aotearoa, ko Tame Iti hoki tētahi, nāna i homai te waituhi e kīa nei ko: ‘Self Portrait’.
E mōhiotia whānuitia ana he kaiwhakatūtū a Tame Iti, ā, kua kaha āna mahi hei tautoko i te Mana Motuhake o Tūhoe me te kaupapa Tino Rangatiratanga. He kaiwhakaohooho ia kei roto o Tūhoe. Kua mahi ia ki te tautoko i ngā taiohi me ngā tāngata kua pāngia e te kino o te waipiro me te tarukino. E ai ki a Tame Iti, he tino whakahirahira tēnei momo mahi mō te tino rangatiratanga: “Kāore te kaupapa Mana Motuhake mō te hanga kāwanatanga hou, iwi hou rānei, engari ka haere ngātahi taua kaupapa me ō mātou koiora ia rā, ia rā.”
Ko te ‘Self Portrait’ he mea peita e Iti hei whakaata i te āhua o tētahi whakaahua i kapohia i tana kāmera-waea-pūkoro (ka tangohia taua waea e ngā pirihimana i ngā ‘State Terror Raids’). Ka waituhia te kanohi o Iti engari e whakamau ana ia i te pōtae-uhi. Ka uhia e pēnei ana, e kore e taea te kite ko wai ia, ā, ka whai tēnei āhuatanga i te whakaaro nei: i ngā ‘Terror Raids’ kāore te marea i mōhio ko wai ia, i pōhēhē rātou he kaiwhakamataku (arā he ‘terrorist’) ia. Ka herea tēnei ki te wairua mataku huri noa i te ao mō te mahi whakamataku, ā, ka tae mai ana ēnei whakaaro ki Aotearoa ka huri anō te marea ki te tūāhua kaiwhakakoroni. Ka whakakorehia e Iti te hononga i waenganui i te mahi whakamataku me te Mana Motuhake: “E herea te Mana Motuhake ki te mana: tō mana Tūhoe, tō mana Ngā Puhi, Waikato rānei. Ki a au nei koirā te aronga o Mana Motuhake - tō mana hoki hei Pākehā, tō mana ahakoa te aha”
Ka tū Explosive Expression mai i te 13 Whiringa-ā-nuku ki te 18 Whiringa-ā-nuku ki te Thistle Hall, Te Whanga-nui-ā-tara. Ka taea ngā waituhi te titiro mā runga rorohiko, ka taea te pīri hoki. Haere mai ki te whārangi ipurangi: http://october15thsolidarity.info/, waea mai rānei ki a Graham Jury (0273070448 nietzsche.vs.nurture@gmail.com), ki a Robyn E. Kenealy (04-9779611, r_kenealy@yahoo.com), tuhi mai ki tēnei īmera rānei: info@October15thSolidarity.info mēnā kei te pirangi koe ki ētahi atu whakamōhiotanga.
Mā ngā Kaiwhakapaoho: Kei a mātou ētahi kōpae hoki. Kei runga i ēnei kōpae he ‘High Res’ pikitia o ngā waituhi me ngā HD, SD kiriata o Explosive Expression. Ka taea te mātakitaki te kiriata nei ki: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBUVa...
Ko ngā moni katoa i whiwhia ai i te mākete hokohoko waituhi ka hoatu ai hei utu mō ngā utu-kōti mō ērā tāngata i hopukina e te ture i ngā ‘State Terror Raids’ - ko te tokomaha e whakawātia tonu ana.
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Two Flags, Two Peoples, A Divided Nation
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New Zealand has a lot to be proud of but there are some aspects of life ‘down under’ that we would prefer not to mention. Near the top of that list is racism.0 Reacties 1 week
Racism is alive and well in New Zealand. That is, anti-white racism of the sort recently made public by a Member of Parliament. In claiming that ‘Whities’ had been ripping off Maori for centuries, MP Hone Harawira exposed the underlying attitude that drives the Maori sovereignty movement - along with its beneficiaries the Treaty of Waitangi gravy train and indeed the Maori Party itself. This undercurrent of anti-white racism has existed for years but remains one of those truths that most are reluctant to admit and that few have the courage to address.
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Historian's case for Tuhoe independence
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Once, not such a long time ago, in colonial New Zealand, Tuhoe were permitted to rule themselves within the boundaries of what was left of their land.0 Reacties 3 weken
It was the late 1800s and they were the only tribe to gain legal autonomy from the Pakeha Government. For a short while. Then it was taken away.
The desire for autonomy never dulled though, nor was ceded by the Urewera mountain people; and today it is on the table again with John Key's Government, as part of a singular constitutional claim.
In a powerful new book on Tuhoe, eminent New Zealand historian Dame Judith Binney argues for that autonomy to be restored.
The time has long come, Binney told the Weekend Herald. She believes there is nothing to be feared from a separate Tuhoe nation operating within New Zealand and that the tribe has a strong case.
Such precedents exist around the world, she says, from Scotland and Ireland to Catalonia, which has been restored as an autonomous area within Spain, and the large Inuit state of Nunavut in Canada.
Her book makes plain that Tuhoe never wavered in their efforts to retain self-governance, from the moment colonists first began taking their land.
Her book Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921 is a painful, yet compelling, account of the treacherous means used to strip them of their land and subjugate them to Pakeha rule.
The book exposes in meticulous detail, gleaned from historical records and oral histories, the scale of the hurt inflicted by a colonial state hungry for farm land, and driven by the mistaken belief there was gold in the Ureweras.
Within the book's 600-odd pages Binney describes how every method possible - confiscation, war, poverty, sickness, starvation, fraud and ever-inventive legal mechanisms - was relentlessly exploited to take more land.
Just one of the many so-called legal methods used was to insist on surveying land, against Tuhoe wishes, only to charge huge sums for the survey then take the debt back in acres and acres of the best land.
Encircled Lands also rewrites the perception of little-known Tuhoe leaders of the day.
Once considered savages to be feared, Binney says as the men spoke to her unexpectedly across the pages of early records and she got to know them, she found the opposite was true.
She came to admire them as leaders of integrity and determination, men to whom sovereignty was everything.
She remains in awe of them, writing in her dedication these leaders "chose to walk the long paths to peace."
Aside from the nature of the land-grab, which is shocking in its relentlessness and for the poverty which followed, the book may shock in other ways.
Binney also reveals little-known historical evidence which casts doubt on the motivations of one of Maoridom's heroes, lawyer and early politician Sir Apirana Ngata, of Ngati Porou, who Binney says was responsible in the 1920s for taking even more land from Tuhoe, knowing full well their suffering.
The 69-year-old Auckland University emeritus professor anticipates strong reactions to her book from some quarters, but does not shy away from what she has written, hinting in her preface that the narrative she offers "will surprise some readers".
At her home in Mt Eden, Binney explains how her relationship with Tuhoe began in the 1970s.
She knew little of the history when she and some friends set out to walk through the remote Urewera forest to a little place called Maungapohatu they had found on a map.
When they got there they found a collection of derelict buildings, very few people and a feeling they were intruding.
A shiver went up her spine. She could feel the history - a strong sense that here was "a very present past."
She was hooked. Binney had arrived at Tuhoe's sacred mountain where the prophet Rua Kenana, a controversial figure even within Tuhoe, built a thriving religious community in the early 1900s as he tried to restore mana motuhake to his people.
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Search and Surveillance Submissions a sick joke
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Submitted by October 15th Solidarity (not verified) on 14 October 2009 - 2:17pm0 Reacties 10 weken
"Is it an act of provocation and arrogance or just simple ignorance that the Justice and Electoral Select Committee is meeting on the 15th of October to hear submissions on the Search and Surveillance Bill?" asked Peter Steiner of the October 15th Solidarity Group.
Two years ago to the day, New Zealand woke to the so-called 'Terror Raids'. Police Operation 8 was in full swing; Ruatoki was locked down, a school bus was stopped, other children were held in sheds and over 60 different places across the country were raided. 17 people ended up remanded in custody. It took a month for all of them to get bail.
"This bill legalises the dodgy and arguably illegal police tactics used in Operation 8. It is not at all extreme to suggest that this law creates a police state. The Parliamentary response to police breaking the law should not be to retrospectively legalise what they have done and give them more power."
Referring to the recent release of many SIS files, Peter Steiner said, "People have been appalled at the information contained in SIS files, they find it ludicrous that children as young as ten were followed. However, what is often over-looked is the fact that many of us are regularly under surveillance by the police, as proved in Operation 8 files.
"If the Bill comes to pass," Peter Steiner said, "the laws in this land will be fundamentally altered."
Peter Steiner explained that the Search and Surveillance Bill will allow more enforcement agencies to use more surveillance devices. It will also allow more searches without warrants. And very chillingly, the right to silence is removed.
"Using an Examination Order," he explained, "someone can be ordered to go to a certain place to answer questions from the police. People will be ordered to report for interrogation, if they do not talk, they can be charged."
At the time of the raids, there was public disbelief at the rampant state paranoia that obviously existed. There was shock at the level of police surveillance, including the knowledge that thousands of people's TradeMe accounts were looked at. And there was deep disgust expressed at the actions of the police in Ruatoki. Many people were offended by the police erecting a road block on the confiscation line.
Now, two years later, whilst some of those people caught up in the raids are commemorating the event with 'Explosive Expression', an art exhibition in Wellington, others will be in Parliament on the 15th presenting submissions against the Search and Surveillance Bill.
Some of the people caught up in the road block have contributed art work to Explosive Expression and are in Wellington this week.
"We invite people to visit the art exhibition at Thistle Hall," said Peter Steiner. "But we also ask people to speak out against the Search and Surveillance Bill. This Bill must be stopped."
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Moheka Williams
Anei he aroha mou e Nai Tuhoe, mai i tenei uri o Tanemoeahi, heke iho ki a Pukenga, anaa, ko Ngati Pukenga e mihi atu nei.
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Kia Ora Whanau, just a reminder that submissions for the Search and Serveillance Bill are due by the 18th of September.
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-Bubba Scaarx.15 weken geledenGuess I'm a child of the mist aswell!?x
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-TotallyInlove-15 weken geledenSalutations,
Indigenous peoples have been crushed, demoralized, stripped bare of pride, enslaved and more importantly: mentally-indoctrinated with the idea and concept of: "Aryan Superiority" -- the idea that European culture is the culture to mimic and follow, to absorb and duplicate. History has shown us that Imperialism under European supervision has evolved into the present day situation, where society has become split into racial-social classes.
Where ones ethnicity has come to mean ones social-class. Look at the Aboriginals of Australia for example; Aboriginie = Poverty. This is the goal of Imperial mentality! To degrade, to mentally enslave, to strip the mana from all native peoples world wide. -
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In reply to: "Apocalyptic visions of a New Heaven and a New Earth are not, of course, restricted to the radical environmental movement. " by Tuhoe Freedom -
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sorry forgot to leave us some aroha, coz sum of us need it moa than others.
Kia ora to Annette Sykes who walked the terorehe hikoi before most of us alongside Tame and Uncle Tuhoe and kept us informed during the court hearings back then.
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Well what are everyones thoughts on te whakamoana whenua, and have the negotiators been back to your rohe to give you an update on where your claim is?Ruatahuna has the 3 negotiators in on the 29th of September to let us know what they have done with Te manawa o te Ika and how real the whole consoladations thing is. we want our land back the way it was when taken full ownership not management lol who co-manages something that is yours in the first place? ki ahau nei ko nga tangata kai te tautoko i te whakamoana i nga whenua katoa o Tuhoe, kaore o ratau ake whenua o roto o Tuhoe. so here are my whakaaro who else is got sum.
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Good on you Ngati Haka for doing your Homework and Te Umutaoroa for supporting them. Of course the people who dont understand whats been happening within their own iwi are going to get all shitty and big mouthed but where are they when theres mahi to do! Sitting on the fence
Its easier to talk to yourself than to others
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Kataraina.S. Nohokau
"Kia-Ora Whanau" Born and Bred in Ruatoki, Ngahina Rd. Now Living in Sydney but am comin home soon 2 bring my little ones home etc.
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Never forget whanau..........we are all ONE as uri of Tuhoe. Don't allow the powers that be to divide and conquer us in any way whether that be the kawanatanga or representatives of our marae or hapu.
What/who will benefit us as a nation of people living in Aotearoa? If there are representatives of our iwi who are trampling on the mana of others to elevate ourselves, once placed in a position of higher power, who/what else would they seek to take/trample on for their own gain? The mana of our kaumaatua? The mana of our whenua?
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