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- "~TUHOE!!! Kaua e koropiko ki nga ture a te pakeha, PATUA te WHEWHEIA!!!~"
- 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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TE AHI KOMAU
Saturday 31 o October 2009
9:00am – 4:00pm
Ahurei Grounds - Ruatoki
Cost - A Donation
Nau mai mai…Haere mai
FREE CONCERT & FAMILY DAY
Great Company, Fun, Amazing Entertainment,
Kapa Haka, Live Bands, Children’s Rides,
Taa Moko Specialists, Art Exhibition,
Hangi, Great Food Stalls
Laughter and Memories
Contact: Angie or Colleen 07 31 29 670 or angierh@xtra.co.nz
Out of the ashes emerges fresh growth …new beginnings
Te Wharekura ō Ruatoki Benefit Concert
Guest entertainers include …
Waka Huia Tauira Mai Tawhiti
Te Wharekura o Ruatoki CAVIAR
DIVA - ISIS Girls Kereru
Kawata Teepa Shelly Akuhata Ed Temoana
TRIBAL CONEXIONS UpRiSiNg
Harley Kruze Tribal Conexions
Te Hurepo Ponika Whanau
Rangataua o Aotearoa ki Ruatoki TWISTED VIBES
Te Kura o Taneatua KiNdREaDz
OPOTIKI MAI TAWHITI
T A K e hi ōmau
Saturday 31 o October 2009
9:00am – 4:00pm
Ahurei Grounds - Ruatoki
Cost - A Donation
Nau mai mai…Haere mai
FREE CONCERT & FAMILY DAY
Great Company, Fun, Amazing Entertainment,
Kapa Haka, Live Bands, Children’s Rides,
Taa Moko Specialists, Art Exhibition,
Hangi, Great Food Stalls
Laughter and Memories
Contact: Angie or Colleen 07 31 29 670 or angierh@xtra.co.nz0 Comments 12 days
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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 Comment 23 days
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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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Search and Surveillance Submissions a sick joke
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Nga Potiki
Submitted by October 15th Solidarity (not verified) on 14 October 2009 - 2:17pm0 Replys 3 weeks
"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." -
REMEMBER THE STATE TERROR RAIDS OF 2007
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Nga Potiki
On Monday, October 15th 2007, more than 300 police carried out dawn raids on dozens of houses all over Aotearoa / New Zealand. Police claim the raids were in response to 'concrete terrorist threats' from indigenous activists. 20 people are facing charges under the Arms Act, in a trial that could take several years.0 Replys 3 weeks
Beyond Resistance is proud to present Tuhoe: History of Resistance, the fiery account of Tuhoe’s resistance to the NZ Governement and its volatile relationship with the Crown, in rememberence of the State Terror Raids of 2007. Presented to mark the 3rd anniversary of the raids, all proceeds from the night will go to the ongoing struggle of the arrestees and their defense fund.
"The Tuhoe people of the Urewera region have suffered since a Crown invasion and persecution from the 1860s. It is a Sunday in January of 2005 in the Ruatoki valley. A Waitangi Tribunal hearing has been called. Tuhoe are waiting to meet the visitors many are on horseback. Determined to remind the Crown of these many wrongdoings, Tuhoe have come out in force. Robert Pouwhare’s film documents and records that day.
Tame Iti elaborates "We wanted them to feel the heat and smoke, and Tuhoe outrage and disgust at the way we have been treated for 200 years, (The Crown) destroyed people's homes and burned their crops and we wanted them to feel that yesterday. We wanted to demonstrate to them what it feels like being powerless. The confiscation and subsequent colonisation have had a devastating effect on Tuhoe over the past 100 years."
Reflecting on the day Iri Akarana-Rewi of Ngapuhi says "Maori culture has lost something, it has become catalogued and contained on performance stages at kapa haka festivals, Tuhoe have taken it off the stage and used it to challenge the powers that be and here it is where it should be in all its honest intensity, in the valleys, on the roads and streets a functioning part of everyday life. My uncle once said that the struggle of people against power was the same as the struggle of remembering against forgetting. Today Tuhoe has chosen not to forget, today Tuhoe has shown us the way."
Watch the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uBOH...
Food, drinks and childcare will be provided, so come on down and join your local anarchists as part of our monthly film nights at the WEA! Zines, books and more will also be available on the night thanks to the lovely folks at Katipo Books.
Thursday 29th October, 6.30pm. WEA (59 Gloucester Street), Otautahi/Christchurch.
$5 entry — all proceeds to the October 15th defense fund.
Film length: 60 minutes
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otautahianarchists (at) gmail.com
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FUNDRAISING CONCERT FOR TE WHAREKURA O RUATOKI
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Nga Potiki
Kai ngā whānau o te1 Reply 4 weeks
Wharekura o Ruatoki
Kai te iti, kai te rahi
Kai ngā kaiako o mua,
Nga kaiako katoa
Kai ngā ākonga o mua,
Ngā ākonga katoa
Kai a Tuhoe whānui,
Tēnā koutou katoa
Kai te hiahia nga whānau o tō tātau whārua o Ruatoki ki te whakatū kōnohete hai tautoko i tō tātau kura, i Te Wharekura o Ruatoki, i ngā tamariki, i ngā kaiako, i te hapori hoki o Ruatoki.
E titiro atu ana i te wiki tuatoru o te wāhanga whakamutunga o tēnei tau mō tēnei rā whakangahau.
I tēnei wā ka huri atu ki a koutou hai āwhina mai i tā tātou kaupapa, tukuna mai o koutou whakaaro, te hunga hiahia ki te waiata, ki te whakatangitangi Puoro, ki te mahi ki te aha ake rānei.
Wāea mai ki a Angie, ki a Colleen rānei mēnā he whakaaro, he tautoko, he pūtea, he mahi, he aha ranei kai a koe, a, ki te hiahia rānei koe ki te mohio i ngā whakanekeneke inā oti te whakarite.
Angie: angierh@xtra.co.nz
Colleen: temanutaiko@tuhoematauranga.org.nz
Host: Angie
Type: Music/arts - Concert
Date: Saturday, 31 October 2009
Time: 11:00 - 14:00
Location: Te Wharua o Ruatoki
Town/City: Ruatoki, New Zealand
Phone: 073129670
Email: angierh@xtra.co.nz
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Riwia Te Kaawa
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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-Freshknockout.8 weeks agoGuess I'm a child of the mist aswell!?x
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-TotallyInlove-9 weeks agoSalutations,
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. -
Taame9 weeks agoe kare maa kei tono ki te haumaru o Nai TAneatua nau mai hei haumaru te hui a TET kei Otenuku marae a te Mane ... hei haumaru taua hui raa 9.00am
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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Riwia Te Kaawa
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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Riwia Te Kaawa9 weeks ago
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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Riwia Te Kaawa11 weeks ago
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.
Much Luv and Support to my tuhoe iwi...xxoo
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Mz Jaxon
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?
Let your voice be heard - don't just air it out here, make your vote count too. Our leaders can only lead if we ALLOW them the right and PRIVILEGE to do so.......kia kaha whanau -
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IMPLANTED IMPLANTS FUNDED SOCIETY O TRUSTEE`S by THE NEW SOUTH WALES SETTLERS PARLIAMENT JOHNNY B GOOD KUPAPA F&%KN KUPAPA
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Riwia Te Kaawa
Anei he manawa, i wish i could say something positive about the CNI but i can't.
coz i'd be lying.
Don't preach kotahitanga then stab peeps back eh Mr Akuhata, don't receive money that you know would be better spent else where Matt Te Pou and yes shit happens but it's wot u do about it that matters
And no Tuhoe does not have Para Mount Chiefs just Paru Mouth Chiefs-you Temaras will neva be anything more than that becoz you's act moa like the little cuzzins than me!!!!
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Riwia Te Kaawa18 weeks ago
Oh my God have you guys seen wot Clifford Akuhata is sending out to all his contacts. If yous want it email me and ill forward it on. It States to only vote for Clifford, Max,Monty and MInnie as everybody else is just a Te Umutaoroa Follower how rude is that and he wants peeps to vote for him wot a joke dont vote for Krupted peeps vote for peeps you feel will do the best job for you and you whanau and hapu.
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