Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 9, 2020 3:38:43 GMT 12
THE 5 BIG POLITICAL ISSUES FOR MAORI IN 2020 ELECTION – Martin Bradbury
As we enter the 2020 election, these are the 5 issues I think that might shape the Maori political agenda.
1: Water & Climate Crisis
David Parker will be gently trying to inch his water reforms under the political radar to enact in a second term because he will know how easily National and NZ First can manipulate any suggestion of Māori water rights into a political dog whistle.
The growing environmental degradation caused by the climate crisis will generate a resurgent environmental guardianship amongst Māoridom as western capitalism utterly fails the biosphere.
2: Honour the Treaty don't settle the Treaty movement
The lasting legacy of the Ihumātao protest will be a new generation of activists who will demand the Treaty be honoured not settled. Their desire to unpick the past agreements because the pittance paid for land theft actually compounds the injustice rather than alleviates it will become the new starting point for their decolonisation activism.....
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_story_id/MjM0MDM=/The-5-big-political-issues-for-Maori-in-2020-election
MAORI CALL FOR IRAN WAR BOYCOTT
Teanau Tuiono from Manawatu Peace Action says the US has wanted war with Iran for decades, the erratic actions of President Trump have brought it closer.
Mr Tuiono says New Zealand troops, which include a high percentage of Māori, are better deployed in their own region working on issues such as climate change.
He says it’s time for this country to break with the so-called Anglo alliance with the US, UK and Australia and align itself with countries like Iceland and Finland which share similar values....
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjM0MDI/Maori-call-for-Iran-war-boycott
As we enter the 2020 election, these are the 5 issues I think that might shape the Maori political agenda.
1: Water & Climate Crisis
David Parker will be gently trying to inch his water reforms under the political radar to enact in a second term because he will know how easily National and NZ First can manipulate any suggestion of Māori water rights into a political dog whistle.
The growing environmental degradation caused by the climate crisis will generate a resurgent environmental guardianship amongst Māoridom as western capitalism utterly fails the biosphere.
2: Honour the Treaty don't settle the Treaty movement
The lasting legacy of the Ihumātao protest will be a new generation of activists who will demand the Treaty be honoured not settled. Their desire to unpick the past agreements because the pittance paid for land theft actually compounds the injustice rather than alleviates it will become the new starting point for their decolonisation activism.....
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_story_id/MjM0MDM=/The-5-big-political-issues-for-Maori-in-2020-election
MAORI CALL FOR IRAN WAR BOYCOTT
Teanau Tuiono from Manawatu Peace Action says the US has wanted war with Iran for decades, the erratic actions of President Trump have brought it closer.
Mr Tuiono says New Zealand troops, which include a high percentage of Māori, are better deployed in their own region working on issues such as climate change.
He says it’s time for this country to break with the so-called Anglo alliance with the US, UK and Australia and align itself with countries like Iceland and Finland which share similar values....
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjM0MDI/Maori-call-for-Iran-war-boycott