StrypeyI've never been more proud to be from Aotearoa than when I saw a huge crowd of metal fans, from all around the world, going crazy to Alien Weaponry at Wacken. Their music is a glorious expression of both their whakapapa Māori and their European ancestry. The music video for Raupatu is right up there with the video to Right in Two by Tool, as one of the most deeply affecting piece of audio-visual art I've ever seens:
Every time I watch the Raupatu video the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. Even now, years after it's release. Sometimes it makes me righteously angry. Sometimes it literally reduces me to tears. Especially the final few seconds, with the nutshell summary of the history and consequences of raupatu (land confiscation), that continue to impact tangata whenua (indigenous people of the land) to this day.
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Raupatu also gets me thinking about "anti-gang" laws, and the Proceeds of Crime Act, which disproportionately target and confiscate property from Māori. The original raupatu was justified by the state branding whānau, hapū, and whole iwi(1) as "rebels".
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whānau: extended families
hapū: village-scale social units
iwi: defence and trade alliances made up of many hapū
All three are connected by whakapapa (ancestry relationships) as well as diplomacy.
Modern day raupatu works by branding (predominantly Māori run) groups that are fiercely independent of the colonial state as "gangs" of "criminals". A bit like the way Panther groups were demonized as "gangs".
Now to be clear, I acknowledge that members of these groups sometimes engage in anti-social and even violent behaviour. I'm not condoning any of that. But I don't think they're all as irredeemably nasty as the state and corporate media like to make out for votes and clicks.
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Yanamono@strypey
Given the colonial heritage and the State as a guarantor of capital and violence, it cannot do anything other than criminalize dissent regardless of how it is organized, it is obvious that those from Wallstreet will never be classified as a mafia.
Given the colonial heritage and the State as a guarantor of capital and violence, it cannot do anything other than criminalize dissent regardless of how it is organized, it is obvious that those from Wallstreet will never be classified as a mafia.
@sebastianlara
> Given the colonial heritage and the State as a guarantor of capital and violence
Exactly. As Derrick Jensen points out, violence is only recognized as such in hierarchical societies when it goes *up* the hierarchy. Violence down the hierarchy is business-as-usual and doesn't usually make the news unless media activist projects like Indymedia embarrass corporate media into reporting it.
@strypey
It also has to do with the ways of building knowledge, art, etc. that they consider alien to the indigenous peoples who only get to have beliefs and craftsmanship.
It also has to do with the ways of building knowledge, art, etc. that they consider alien to the indigenous peoples who only get to have beliefs and craftsmanship.
@sebastianlara
> indigenous peoples who only get to have beliefs and craftsmanship
The recent debate about whether "Māori science" exists is a classic example of this. I did an entire Philosophy of Science paper on Māori Values in the Sciences back in the noughties.
@strypey
We agree, the constitution of a plurinational citizenship in the Bolivian State goes through processes short, medium and long-term educommunication and research, which obviously should be reflected in the academy in transdisciplinary approaches that allow us to apprehend reality, which implies protocols, methods, methodologies and experiences that affect the curriculum...
We agree, the constitution of a plurinational citizenship in the Bolivian State goes through processes short, medium and long-term educommunication and research, which obviously should be reflected in the academy in transdisciplinary approaches that allow us to apprehend reality, which implies protocols, methods, methodologies and experiences that affect the curriculum...
If you're into metal (or other heavy guitar music) and you don't get haka, just think of it as a cappella metal.