About to start a 2.5 day conference at Vic Uni.
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"It is time to claim ourselves as an indigenous land. And for those of you who identify as Tāngata Tiriti to stand with us. The answer to many of the world's problems today lies with 'indigeneity'."
"When we say world leaders, the mind goes to Prime Ministers and Presidents, but it is indigenous leaders who are looking after their people, their lands, and showing true leadership."
What we've seen in Australia, Canada, the US, despite democracy, indigenous voices aren't being heard. It is always based on majority votes, and we will never be the majority.
What does it mean to live on indigenous lands? We rely too much on Te Tiriti as a turning point. It's a reference point, we need to think about the generations before that.
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What we've seen in Australia, Canada, the US, despite democracy, indigenous voices aren't being heard. It is always based on majority votes, and we will never be the majority.
What does it mean to live on indigenous lands? We rely too much on Te Tiriti as a turning point. It's a reference point, we need to think about the generations before that.
Our life expectancy remains far too low, not because we don't want to change it, but because of the systemic challenges that exist and hold us back.
Is it perhaps time that Māori work more closely with indigenous cultures across the world?
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Our life expectancy remains far too low, not because we don't want to change it, but because of the systemic challenges that exist and hold us back.
Is it perhaps time that Māori work more closely with indigenous cultures across the world?
Day two of #KiaTikaKiaPono starts with a session from Dame Marilyn Waring, entitled "Vigilance, evidence, action".
Very entertaining speaker. Lots of stories... none i can condense into pithy quotes unfortunately.
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Day two of #KiaTikaKiaPono starts with a session from Dame Marilyn Waring, entitled "Vigilance, evidence, action".
Very entertaining speaker. Lots of stories... none i can condense into pithy quotes unfortunately.
Amazing talk. Covering everything from unpaid labour by women keeping the economy alive, the Springboks tour, our nuclear free movement, the Raglan airport protests, the Cuban missile crisis, UN charters, select committees, death threats, physical assaults, the pay equity looting, calculating GDP, the value of National Parks, counting manufactured weapons as fixed assets vs consumables...
Amazing history. Amazing speaker.
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Amazing talk. Covering everything from unpaid labour by women keeping the economy alive, the Springboks tour, our nuclear free movement, the Raglan airport protests, the Cuban missile crisis, UN charters, select committees, death threats, physical assaults, the pay equity looting, calculating GDP, the value of National Parks, counting manufactured weapons as fixed assets vs consumables...
Amazing history. Amazing speaker.
"When minister Willis announced she wanted to be the Minister for Economic Growth, you realise how little she knows about it - because anyone who knows anything about Economic Growth would not want to have anything to do with it"
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"When minister Willis announced she wanted to be the Minister for Economic Growth, you realise how little she knows about it - because anyone who knows anything about Economic Growth would not want to have anything to do with it"
"Whatever you are meant to do, do it now. The conditions are *always* impossible."
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"Whatever you are meant to do, do it now. The conditions are *always* impossible."
[It's sad that] "everywhere that has been bombed will have _great_ GDP for the next 10 years, because GDP is all about 'How do you pay for the war?'. "
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[It's sad that] "everywhere that has been bombed will have _great_ GDP for the next 10 years, because GDP is all about 'How do you pay for the war?'. "
Talk two this morning. Been looking forward to this, after meeting one of the speakers yesterday.
"For those who don't know, Ihumātao is one of the longest occupied villages in Tāmaki Makaurau."
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Talk two this morning. Been looking forward to this, after meeting one of the speakers yesterday.
"For those who don't know, Ihumātao is one of the longest occupied villages in Tāmaki Makaurau."
"If there is to be a future, what must we reclaim, and how?"
"We enhance mana by embodying tika, pono, and aroha."
Tautoko tēnei!
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"If there is to be a future, what must we reclaim, and how?"
"We enhance mana by embodying tika, pono, and aroha."
Tautoko tēnei!
"If you don't know about a situation, how can you possibly care?
In consent hearings, only adjoining land owners could attend, not even those just one street away."
"You think you can't stop a trans national company, and that sounds right... But that's what we did, using 5 pou (pillars):
1. Ka mua, ka muri - learn from past to move into the future
2. Mana taketake - indigenous led
3. Mahi tahi - community supported action
4. Matarau - multi-pronged action
5. Kia tau - ..." -
"If you don't know about a situation, how can you possibly care?
In consent hearings, only adjoining land owners could attend, not even those just one street away."
"You think you can't stop a trans national company, and that sounds right... But that's what we did, using 5 pou (pillars):
1. Ka mua, ka muri - learn from past to move into the future
2. Mana taketake - indigenous led
3. Mahi tahi - community supported action
4. Matarau - multi-pronged action
5. Kia tau - ..."5. Kia tau - A graceful response"
"People came for the land, but stayed for the people."
"As I stood there, I felt 800 years of our tūpuna kick in and flow through us."
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5. Kia tau - A graceful response"
"People came for the land, but stayed for the people."
"As I stood there, I felt 800 years of our tūpuna kick in and flow through us."
"Justice is always relational and foundational, for land reclamation.
Relational [whenua-based] learning nourished ethical commitments.
Cultural sustaining narratives are essential to build a movement to get the government to stand on the right side of history.
Finally, we owe it to our mokopuna to believe. Believe it is possible to drive the required change for justice, reconciliation, and healing."
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About to start a 2.5 day conference at Vic Uni.
Really looking forward to it
️@Phil_Tanner Sounds like a great conference, Phil. I have enjoyed your 'toots' from it. Some great quotes. The opposite of poverty is not wealth, it is justice" is my favourite - so far!
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Amazing talk. Covering everything from unpaid labour by women keeping the economy alive, the Springboks tour, our nuclear free movement, the Raglan airport protests, the Cuban missile crisis, UN charters, select committees, death threats, physical assaults, the pay equity looting, calculating GDP, the value of National Parks, counting manufactured weapons as fixed assets vs consumables...
Amazing history. Amazing speaker.
@Phil_Tanner this thread is making me extremely envious.!
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@Phil_Tanner this thread is making me extremely envious.!
@jdmcg honestly? I wish every person in the country could hear these talks.
I am in awe of how eloquently they are distilling hugely complicated social issues down to the nub, and crystalising the various pull factors to get at what is driving the inequities.
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"Justice is always relational and foundational, for land reclamation.
Relational [whenua-based] learning nourished ethical commitments.
Cultural sustaining narratives are essential to build a movement to get the government to stand on the right side of history.
Finally, we owe it to our mokopuna to believe. Believe it is possible to drive the required change for justice, reconciliation, and healing."
Talk #3 this morning about to kick off.
#KiaTikaKiaPono
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Talk #3 this morning about to kick off.
#KiaTikaKiaPono"Our people don't disengage from learning because they don't value education, but because they don't fit into the systems forced upon us"
"Justice is not about repairing damage once it's occurred, it's about designing places to avoid that damage happening in the first place."
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"Our people don't disengage from learning because they don't value education, but because they don't fit into the systems forced upon us"
"Justice is not about repairing damage once it's occurred, it's about designing places to avoid that damage happening in the first place."
"Confidence in young people can be built once they know where they come from and therefore who they are"
"People will tell you that the problem is the troubled youth - but that's not the problem. The problem is the system trying to fit them into a space they're not welcome in."
"Fitting into a Pākehā school system required a sacrifice of some parts of who i was in order to fit into the system."
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"Confidence in young people can be built once they know where they come from and therefore who they are"
"People will tell you that the problem is the troubled youth - but that's not the problem. The problem is the system trying to fit them into a space they're not welcome in."
"Fitting into a Pākehā school system required a sacrifice of some parts of who i was in order to fit into the system."
"Identity and wellbeing are not separate from success. That's where we start from, not policy design."
"We didn't set out to change the system, we were just responding to what we saw in front of us."
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"Identity and wellbeing are not separate from success. That's where we start from, not policy design."
"We didn't set out to change the system, we were just responding to what we saw in front of us."
"What could we do instead of responding after the fact, but by designing at the beginning instead?"
"A just society is not created by a single policy. But by a collection of just places."
"I dream big, but don't always know how to achieve these things. What we do always need is leadership - even if that leadership is to step out of the way..."
