I LOVE this so much. Maori MPs in the New Zealand parliament protest attempts by the centre-right government and far-right "ACT" coalition partners to pass legislation that water down treaty rights of Maori.
New Zealand is one of the only places (the only?) in the British Empire where the Crown signed a treaty with all Indigenous peoples at the time of contact. It has shaped NZ Law and Society ever since!
Thank you to @b9AcE for the video.
#NZPoli #IndigenousRights #CanPoli
@b9AcE I've only watched this a million times now….
I am awestruck by the power of the MP (she is 22!) Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke. I also realized later that at the end of the Haka she positioned herself in the centre of the circle. The ultimate position of power.
She knows her place!
Here's a little more about her time in Parliament since last year.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14086861/hana-rawhiti-new-zealand-youngest-mp-haka-dance-parliament.html
@chris It's like an addiction. I keep thinking "oh, I'll just watch it one last time...", then a while later, "oh... OK, one more". :-)
I have the Daily (hate) Mail under near absolute boycott, but I made an exception.
Very inspiring person. Hope a lot of people, anywhere, feel inspired to take action too in their conext relevant ways.
i boosted them all. go back on my TL. it feels more and more epic as you see it from different angles and see all the people who joined in. literally, almost the whole floor and people up in the balconies.
@peterbrown
That was the entire video via Aryen TV (feminist, pro-diversity, secular, etc opposition to the Iran-regime satellite TV, transmitting from Sweden) and also matched the same published via one of the two major evening papers in Sweden, so I would guess it's the entirety as distributed by/via AP, Reuters or similar.
I did see @blogdiva say they had boosted a bunch of versions of the video, so maybe you can find more there.
@chris
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] The power of Maori influence for me is best exemplified by the singing of Pokarekare ana, a love song, after the acceptance of the amendments to the Marriage Act to provide for equal rights for everyone, 11 years ago. This is how government represents people. #loveislove https://youtu.be/q9pOJ8Bc_-g?si=fMdMz9DaJcF92EiT
Calling this mob a centre-right government does them a disservice.
They are a far-right government led by skinhead Christopher Luxon, and the most corrupt government I can remember in my reasonably long life.
This bill is an attempted coup. It is trying to invalidate New Zealand's most important constitutional instrument with a cynical bunch of specious lies.
The date of this bill's introduction was brought forward to conveniently coincide with Luxon's trip to APEC.
To give a little more context:
The targets of the haka are members of the ACT Party who have engineered the introduction of this treasonous bill as a condition of allowing Luxon to form a government.
ACT are a ginger group to the right of and with extremely close links to the National Party which Luxon leads in parliament. ACT are also closely linked to the #AtlasNetwork and thence to #Project2025.
1,286 likes, 51 comments - tinangata on November 15, 2024: "What standing in your power looks like! Please stop clipping out the beginning that's the most important part!".
Attached: 4 images My previous avatar on Mastodon (pic 1) was a cropping from one of the docus I mentioned in the previous too, about our squatting group, showing me as the group's spokesperson designated by our general assembly. Above me, out of frame, visible in pic 2, the door was sprayed with "Here Ends Sweden", in global Ⓐ squatting-tradition, because inside only our own rules applied. Above that was a banner of "ACAB" on a very flowery cloth. Press and others took to calling me "Spiderman", because I was only visible to them in balaclava and black shiny long under shirt+pants that I happened to have bought just before we started so I looked a bit like black suit Spiderman, especially when climbing in the window, which was the only entry for security purposes. That's how I was dressed seen in pic 3 on one of the many major newspaper front pages with headline "The Clean Squatters" because we had made the house so nice with decor, etc. Superimposed is the name of the State Security Agency's "Chief Analyst" of their "Constitution Protection" department, because the documentary maker juxtaposed my interview with that person's stances. Pic 4 is just one of the many gatherings of supporters that would hang outside. There were also e.g. school classes brought by teachers to be taught what activism looks like.
Aye.
The Treaty of Waitangi was signed between emissaries of the British crown and various Maori groups. (Not all tribes signed up.)
The Parliament/Government/administration is formed under the aegis of the treaty, not the other way around.
If the Government breaches the treaty (again and again and again) they cede legitimacy, and risk the Crown acting against them, in my hopes, in my dreams.
The armed forces are answerable to the Crown, not the Parliament.
@zl2tod
One could claim something similar exists here too, in that what is now one large country used to be be very many different independent ones and those were generally respectively run through each their own general assembly (þing) and any kings chosen by, and revocable by, those þings, which eventually through violence and eventually inheritance in practice started electing same kings but still could revoke and sometimes did hundreds of years and only lost as the most powerful king at any time kept crushing those who didn't recognize the centrally hoarded power, I think in some ways all the way up to the end of the 1500s.
Sápmi (shown https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/111222099483024759 here) is also unceded AFAIK.
Now the laws have been rewritten so many times so all that remains AFAIK is the first line of the constitution, "All public power in Sweden proceeds from the people." and for traditional reasons a new monarch is still expected to go on a trip to old places of local power to ask to be confirmed as monarch, but now that's just a spectacle and they can't really say "no thank you, we're independent now".
I can only very, very, much hope that the military in your scenario would actually recognize the history and source of legitimacy claimed by the govt, so also recognize a revocation as they must.
@chris
Attached: 2 images Here's a map from a piece (in Sámi language) by Public Service TV of Sweden on how Sámi activists against the State of Norway continuing to violate the law for over two years since the Supreme Court's ruling, showing how some had to travel all the way from Tromsø (I added that sign+arrow) in Norway-held part of Sápmi to Gárasavvon/Karesuando in the Sweden-held part then all through the Sweden-held part of Sápmi just to get to the capital city of Norway, but they did it by bus instead of flying because air travel is shit for the environment, 18 hours one direction but "this is important". The second picture is an earlier picture by me showing Sápmi compared to the occupying States. Aaaactlly, Sápmi could easily be considered much larger, as ancient Sámi culture has been found as far as Gävle which is farther down south than the center point of Sweden, but no writing at the time so it's being ignored.
@chris @b9AcE I don’t like to promote Substack, but there’s a NZ sports blogger who breaks this down as a play by play with perfect linkouts for context if needed. She does an incredible (and supportive ) job of making it understandable for thems (like me) with minimal awareness of the political and historical context.
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