Dry your eyes and look at the sun

I know most of tumblr is thinking about the USA right now. but fuck the nz government right now too. tomorrow, the treaty principles bill, the 'worst, most comprehensive breach of Te Tiriti in modern times' is being introduced to parliament early, because there were activations planned country wide and the cowards decided to pull it forwards. fuck this government. a friend of mine had to go home early, crying. I've been in shock all day since it came out.

check on your Māori friends, e hoa mā. see what they need. see how you can help. everyday, we see and experience racism. from people around us, up to our government. community care will save us.

non-kiwis that are having a negative opinion on the haka in nz parliament recently need to shut their trap it’s seriously annoying me

you don’t know about the history of new zealand, the history behind this bill and the treaty, the history of how māori have been treated, the political sphere in nz, especially in the last year and to do with david seymour please listen to kiwis and especially māori before making a comment on any tiktoks or posts, david seymour is not an underdog victim, he is a vile man

Not to mention Māori culture and the cultural context of haka. I won't repeat some of the bullshit I've seen people "educating" others with

Yesterday was the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill and it passed. It is one of the most disgusting pieces of legislation to ever be introduced, it is racist and another act of colonial violence.

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, is the youngest MP since 1853 in Aotearoa's parliament, she is from Te Pāti Māori (Māori party) and is the MP for the Hauraki-Waikato electorate. Know her name, she has faced so much discrimination and violence especially since campaigning and continues to lead with power. She ripped up this disgusting bill and started a haka. The House was suspended after.

This is what the haka is. This is why us Māori do it.

I am so glad we have an opposition with a proud young wahine Māori like her. That we have a whole opposition who STOOD up in solidarity with Māori or who joined in this haka, MPs from Labour, Green, and Te Pāti Māori joined in.

Other MPs were kicked out, a very senior politician here, Willie Jackson was kicked out for rightly so calling Seymour a liar. And this haka is being called inappropriate by the right. It is not. You can't call the haka inappropriate only when it has brown bodies doing it as an act against colonial violence.

Fuck Seymour and as Rawiri Waititi said, see you next Tuesday. Ake ake ake!

Saw you ask what kind of Bill it is in a reblog. It's a racist Bill being introduced by our right-leaning government that's another act of colonial violence against Māori (we are the indigenous people of Aotearoa) it re and misinterprets Te Tiriti o Waitangi, our founding document, to strip away the rights of Māori and delegitimise our indigeneity.

Here's some links if you want to read more!

Toitū te Tiriti - the official campaign.

Action Station info and petition.

A post I made summarising the Bill and its issues (also has links to other documents if you want to do more research)

Happy reading and learning!

IT PASSED?!!?!?!!!??!! WHaT THE FUCKKKKKKK

A coalition condition was that the Nats would get the bill to select committee, which is disgusting, BUT with the entire opposition voting against the bill AND both NZ First and National pledging to oppose it at its second reading, there's no way this thing is actually becoming law.

Knitting, 2021 - by Joseph Ford, English

this is one of a [series] and they're all fantastic

joseph ford is the photographer and the knitter who made the pieces is nina dodd (ninadoddknits.com)

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

Further context: bills in Aotearoa are passed after being "read" (voted on) three times. This one is going to select committee, who will prepare a report on the implications of it is passed (basically); the public can make submissions to the select committee.

The courts cannot override this; although the courts do have a part to play in common law (much like in the UK), Aotearoa has "parliamentiary sovereignty" meaning that the courts cannot override parliament. (IIRC - though don't quote me on this - King Charles or the Governor General could override parliament in theory. In practice that's probably the beginning of the country's path towards being a republic)

Already fell in love with this hot beat, so I'm putting it here in case I can't find good music to listen to while working. :)

accidentally hit something on the treadmill at my gym and it opened a web browser??

they’re bffs btw

I’m really not normal right now

Beech tree avenue in Dorset, England by leighdoreyphoto

fans every time MCR posts anything

the second frank started denying mcr5 like peter denied christ i knew for sure it was happening

I wouldn't get up hope. He's also denied mcr5 when we were all excited for mcrx, when we were excited for makeup, when foundations was released...

Gulmp.

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