“You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others, and still just believe that you have been completely fair.” – Lyndon Johnson, Affirmative Action, 1965 […]
Read more "Colin Craig and the threat to mana tangata whenua"“Indeed the Pākehā did have some useful technology but not the kindness of heart to see that Māori also possessed much great technology which if Pākehā were prepared to adopt would lead to stability and peace and the building of a great new society”. – Te Whiti, 1882 Today on 5th November 1881, the New […]
Read more "#Parihaka – peace, revolution & the hope for a better NZ"This year has witnessed mass movements of indigenous eco-protests the world over, silhouetting a diverse stand against the land-and-resource-monopoly of big multinational corporations. Sadder than the nil coverage of mainstream media, as well as the sell-out agenda of participating governments, is the police brutality that continues to protect corporate greed. For the events that unfolded […]
Read more "#Elsipogtog: Police brutality and corporate greed in Canada"I propose that gender is not a static, platonically absolute ideal. Our humanity, and thus our sexuality, means so much more than simplistic metaphysical maleness and femaleness occupying female and male bodies. Irony is a bastard: I don’t know whether to call it an obsession or an ambivalent affinity, but ironically the sexual policing by […]
Read more "The good news of sexuality"“Ki ngā mana ki ngā mauri o te whenua i raro iho i ngā tikanga o tātou tūpuna” – The prestige and life force of the land is enhanced beneath the mantle of our ancestral ways In a majority of indigenous cultures the Earth is not seen as a pool of capital resource nor a […]
Read more "Earth Mother and multinational corporations: someone rather than something"The TPPA is not in the best interest of the average person. It isn’t in the best interest of the environment, intellectual property, the labour force, health care, local economies, indigenous people groups and local businesses. It isn’t just any run of the mill free trade agreement; it is THE international free trade agreement that […]
Read more "Money talks: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)"It may shock most of my fellow Christians when I say, ‘I believe Richard Dawkins is one of the greatest intellectuals of the past 20 years. I’ve enjoyed reading Dawkins’ literature, he simplifies science in an easy to read manner and I’m fascinated by things like atoms, relative movement, and the genetics of life. Yet […]
Read more "Richard Dawkins: Challenging anthropological bigotry"When will the world take indigenous rights as seriously as the rights of other minority groups? Whether it’s been gender equality; the American civil rights movement; the abolishment of Apartheid South Africa; and the recent growing rights of the LGBT community; it seems that the rights of indigenous voices have been neglected or naively dealt […]
Read more "Indigenous rights: the last voice to be recognised"“You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” – Morpheus Since the Pax Romana (c.30 B.C-200 A.D) and the ‘Christianization’ of the Roman […]
Read more "Addressing worldviews: Exiting the Greco-Roman matrix"“We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Human lives are the new commodity. Indeed the UNODC proclaims that almost every nation in the world is affected by trafficking, “whether as a country of origin, transit or destination for victims” (UNODC, […]
Read more "Human trafficking: addressing the free market of human lives"
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