jcrabappleParliament suspended as Maori reps perform Haka.
Fuck yeah!
Tamonten@jcrabapple This is f’in baller.
Nixie@tamonten @jcrabapple Can I get some context? (I mean, suspending parliament isn't kinda bad?, this may be a.mistranslation on my part, too)
New Zealand MPs disrupt parliament with haka to protest Indigenous treaty bill
New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori.
David Mitchell 
So my understanding from the article is that this was just first reading and it is expected to fail after this, but Maori people are still protesting massively. This is fabulous… we should all aim to be this demanding and disruptive even for threats that are only theoretical or performative.
“Hundreds have set out on a nine-day march”
nanosekundeWould you say the same if it were Republicans in the US ripping abortion rights?
This *is* how Republicans have been, we need to fight back with the same proactive vigor.
@DavidM_yeg @tamonten @Nixie
I don't know. That's kind of legitimises their behaviour and I don't want give them that angle to attack.
I don't know. That's kind of legitimises their behaviour and I don't want give them that angle to attack.
Let’s be clear what is being ‘legitimized’ here: a brief interruption of parliamentary process to protest an attack against them as a people, and a protest march and demonstration.
These *are* tools of protest - always have been - and without them, we sit quietly on our hands while injustice is done, and that seems worse to me.
Demands for ‘civility’ can be a form of oppression too.