iwi independence

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kia ora whanau

well the ole declaration has been signed and shit has not even changed in our lives, the efn dope is still dope and attaining the tickets that give you some are as sparse as. anyway the issue that we wish to discuss today is the huge swell of opposition to the governments plans to mine parts of aotearoa that are national parks to boost the coffers as national so briskly puts it. forty thousand people go to the streets of a saturday morning to protest, certainly shows a keen interest by the pakeha public in solidarity against its own governments plans. but then you wonder wtf has that to do with this article well let me tell ya who gives a toss about what you guys think or want that socalled national park is our land it is not yours nor is it the governments it belongs to iwi hapu and whanau it was stolen off us and they used genocide and mass murder to get it and we want it back.

waihi disaster

Each of those national parks have real and still alive today owners we know who they are. like most of us we have unwillingly been held in captivity we are that army of labor force generally found in housing estates all over the country. In times of bust we are the first to be made redundant and employed in times of boom at the moment iwi hapu and whanau are unemployed. What that means is that no matter how long you pakeha march up and down the street protesting at this legislation or that legislation Iwi hapu and whanau can not fully support your cause because on the one hand we are both in opposition to the governments plans to mine parts of the country, for whatever reason, it will lose its pristine condition wanting it to remain like when they stole it off us. we agree in principle but in reality we can never be fully in agreement, firstly because you want that land to remain as your property through the government therefore for you and your grand childrens childrens use. that is there in nothing to stop future pakeha from digging huge holes in your back yard like they did in waihi what a disaster.

For the indigenous people of this country the land is our mother it can not be owned by no government or peoples even us, we do not own her, we are her guardians we are the land our protest is to protect our mother. the earthquakes occurring every few hours all around the world is papatuanuku groaning at the pain being inflicted on her through mining that is another reason iwi are protesting. she is feeling the thousands of cuts governments and multi national corporations are inflicting on her world-wide. what we see are mining companies laying waste to large sectors of the world, but who is instructing them someone is telling them what to do . Is it as per the instructions of their multi-national industrialist governments our government and indirectly all you materialist capitalists. These are the people we all collectively train at the universities to send out to indigenous wildernesses lands in search of the rare minerals we have designed into our machines. much of these minerals are only found deep within the bowels of papatuanuku (earth mother) usually on indigenous lands, this is to satisfy the capitalist societies of the world and their rampant materialist consumerism.

tetahi whakapono



Yes thats right to satisfy our desire for comfort for heat, for lighting, for swift time saving transportation and at present the designing and building of space craft that will enable people to traverse and explore the universe. we are causing our own destruction although we protest at it perhaps we are the main instigators of all the mining hell yeah i want to have a computer at home I want to have the lights on at night when I who doesn't. indigenous people do not have the need to want to own land or to even want to dig up the whenua for rare metals we have no desire for gold or for silver these are pakeha wants and desires. even if mining of parts of the country is scaled back that is no victory in that this will just stave off mining till the pakeha get another government in who will be more agreeable to mining those area's. so for iwi hapu and whanau it is in their best interests to form political movements that are more in line with what the ideas in the declaration of indigenous peoples espouse. if the government wants to deny iwi the right for autonomy then that is denying our right to life.


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