Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

Goes insanely hard

To provide further context from what I understand the bill wanted to take the rights guaranteed to the Maori in said treaty and expand them to all New Zealand citizens. The issue with that is that it sort of defeats the point of the protections of the treaty.

The Treaty of Waitangi is not even that good of a treaty. But it is better than any treaty the Crown signed with indigenous peoples

And it absolutely was not meant to be

The treaty as written screws over Māori, and was written in Te Reo Māori and English with deliberately misleading translations to Te Reo Māori. I'm not an expert by any means, but basically the Te Reo Māori version has clauses that promise much more independence and sovereignty, while the English version does not

However

The English version promises them rights as Citizens

From what I remember from University 10+ years ago, this clause, this sentence, was added last minute by the writer of the treaty. Like, right before the big signing at Waitangi.

And the Crown was PISSED

Because now they had a legally binding document that promised, in their own language, to treat Māori with the same rights as they would English. Which was absolutely not the goal. The goal was to trick Māori into signing away their lands and that honestly still did happen. The treaty was not a good faith proposal by the Engliah.

But its still better than anyone else got, and it's better than no treaty. And because nowadays we can't just ignore the Te Reo Māori side of the treaty, the government's of the past few decades have been honouring Māori sovereignty, honouring their stewardship of the land, and undoing a lot of the bad faith "sales" or straight up stolen land.

Except our current fuck nuggets, who want to make Te Reo Māori an endangered language again, and steal back that land because they want to mine on it and sell it and they hate that Māori stewardship is so environmentally focused and not profit driven.

So, in a way, the current government is more true to the intentions of the Crown who initially came up with the treaty.

But since those guys were colonising bastards, I don't see "honouring" them as anything good.

Even with criticism of the treaty, without it, Māori would lose a lot of protections to their lands, their culture, their language, and as a country we would go backwards to a time when they were even more discriminated against

Toitū te tiriti

Uphold the treaty

My daughter did not exist before last night.

Audio is from the (excellent) podcast I am in Eskew, episode 22, written by Jon Ware and Munna Hussen, voiced by Jon Ware. They also make the (excellent) podcast The Silt Verses and you can find them on tumblr at @thesiltverses!

Art is by me (Emma). I am me, for the time being.

Shipping a man in a canon het relationship with another man but I'm shaking my head the whole time so you know it's not out of misogynistic disregard for the woman character

i have a suggestion

laughed out loud

what i've learned from my attempts to be more active in discords and other online communities is you just have to show up and participate in conversation and even if youre a little annoying or awkward eventually people will grow a fondness to you out of familiarity alone

been a year since i made this post and I wanna say the same also rings true from the other side. sometimes new people show up and they annoy me at first but after a while the rapport and familiarity takes over.

do not understand people who get bored of seeing common animals. understand even less when they act with annoyance or hostility just because they're common animals. a deer or a sparrow or a field mouse is like a sunset to me

Fanart for @teruthecreator 's wonderful fic, The Road Yet Traveled :D !! The ending made me sob so hard cuz wdym Sylv will never know she was talking to her father at the cafe what do you MEAN NORM HAS TO LIVE WITH THE FACT THAT HIS DAUGHTER COMPLETELY MOVED ON FROM HIM AND HE LIKELY WILL NEVER SEE HER AGAIN HEAD IN HANDS CURLS UP IN A BALL AND DIES WHAT DO U MEAAAAAAAN

Anyways go read the fic it's beyond peak it also has the world's largest pickle what more do u need ^_^

This is me, Ahmad, before the war of destruction on Gaza🍉

This is after the war Especially in yesterday's fire, Ahmed suffered burns in his leg and he cannot move it. He suffers from burn pain on Gaza😭😭😭💔🙏

I hope you donate to me because I really need money. I want to buy Medicine and treatments for my little brothers because they are dying from the injury.The price of the medicine is expensive, approximately $60 to $100 As you know. I hope you will be merciful to me and help me.🥺

As you know, the entire tent burned. We have no shelter, no clothing, or anything. We are now in the street 😭😭We want to buy a tent as well. We are now in the street and it is very cold. Please help us with the price of the tent. Treatment for the young child.💔💔

My dear friend please🙏 DONATE, SHARE, REBLOG🙏💜

My campaign is going very poorly. I started it 3 months ago, but I only collected 1000€.

Let me become 10000€ on 15 Oct🙏🙏💕

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This campaign is #5 on @/gaza-evacuation-funds vetted list here, also vetted by association!

Low Funds! Only €2,505 raised of €60,000 goal!

Please be merciful and kind and help me. I want to buy treatment for my child Ahmed, who was burned in yesterday’s massacre. His treatment costs me $660 Does it cover the amount or part of it? 💔😭😭

Noor, Ayman's daughter, told me that Ahmed's condition is getting worse and they really need money for treatment, on top of their other needs e.g. tent and other essentials.

They currently have €2,875 raised of the €60,000 goal. Please consider donating, especially if you've got a strong currency, or at least sharing their family's campaign.

Below the cut is part of my conversation with Noor.

Thank you for posting and standing by my side💕

🚩⬇️Update on Ahmed's condition. 🚩⬇️

The doctor has prescribed a new prescription to treat my little boy, Ahmed.

Things will get worse if we are not able to stand by each other in order to finish the third stage as quickly as possible. 😭

As of 02:43 GMT on 21 October 2024, Ayman and Ahmed's vetted campaign (#5) is at €3,052 of their €60,000 goal.

They urgently need to pay for further treatments for Ahmed, who was burned when their tent was firebombed last week. (I also don't think they've gotten nearly enough new donations to pay to replace the destroyed tent.)

As of 02:40 GMT on 22 October 2024, Ayman and Ahmed's vetted campaign (#5) is at €3,127 of their €60,000 goal.

They have not gotten nearly enough donations to pay for further treatments for Ahmed's burns, or to replace the tent that was destroyed in the fire.

Please donate me 🙏😭

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post "good end" achievement au i've been chipping away at like a madman with @billymayslesbian for the past 16 days is here. read it if you like complicated friendships, tulpar media frenzies, pain, and thirsty little white dogs