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ANG Senior Editor Sina Brown-Davis Interviewed by David of UNITYblog

The Tino Rangatiratanga Flag of the Maori sove...Image via Wikipedia

UNITYblog: Sina Brown-Davis : Whenua Fenua Enua Vanua


1) After almost three decades of Treaty of Waitangi settlements, of “biculturalism” and “partnership” between Maori and the Crown, Maori remain at the bottom of all social statistics, such as income, employment and life expectancy.

Why is this? And what can be done about it?

The settlement regime is a neoliberal extinguishment of land & Treaty rights. Its purpose was twofold, to co-opt & contain & pacify a radical treaty protest/land rights movement within the state’s neoliberal agenda.

Secondly, with Maori leadership focused on the settlement of historical grievances with the state, the vast majority of non tribal working class urbanized Maori were easy to be forgotten as the rubbish of structural adjustment.

Working class Maori still haven’t recovered from the extremist economic “reforms” of the eighties when an entire generation of Maori & Pacific Island children and youth has suffered under the reforms launched by the Labour government of 1984-90.

This is exactly what was intended way back when the treaty settlement process & fiscal envelope were touted and subsequently implemented.

Maori have already been kicked in the guts from the recession;
disproportionally we have already the highest percentage of recently unemployed.

Treaty settlements distracted us from our struggle, when our grassroots whanau were going to the wall. The great majority of our flax roots, our workers, our youth, our gang members and all our whanau at the bottom of the heap struggling to survive.

The most dispossessed in Aotearoa will have nothing to loose. The liberation of the great mass of our people will not come with more failed parliamentary reformism. If an economic structural adjustment put & kept our people on the bottom of the heap only a peoples’ structural adjustment (a revolution) will improve the negative social indicators & living standards of Maori.

The Maori Party’s cooption within the National government is completely opposed to the interests of the majority of Maori who are working class.

It seems foolish to try & enact a pro Maori agenda (albeit a conservative one) within an anti worker & anti environment government.

The recent Maori Party endorsement of Nationals ETS [Emissions Trading Scheme], put the interests of the dairy industry and the tribal capitalists of Iwi Corporations, ahead of duty to care for our environment & the survival of Indigenous peoples in the Pacific .

What to do? Working class Maori, our beneficiaries, our gang whanau, our youth need to educate themselves about their struggle & organise in their communities & workplaces. We can’t afford to think that any political party will represent our interests.

Self Determination can come from below, Tino Rangatiratanga will only be meaningful & lasting if it comes from below.


2) A huge amount of land stolen from Maori is now in private hands, but Treaty settlements only involve Crown land. Despite this, both National and Labour MPs have condemned the on-going occupation of privately owned land by members of Ngati Kahu in Taipa, Northland.

What are your views on this protest? Should privately owned land be part of Treaty settlements?

The sacred cow, middle-class property rights. Ripe for the picking. Occupations should increase & intensify, not only against privately owned land, but land & resources taken by transnational corporations.
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CONFERENCE "ROMANI BUDJI" in VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Romano_Liloro

Dear Shavale, thai Sheja,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

Iam
glad to announce the conference:

"ROMANI BUDJI"

Roma
& Sinti and the European Labour Market - Success Stories and
Perspectives

On the 28th & 29th of June 2010 in Vienna,
AUSTRIA

The full programme with all speakers will be
announced around mid-April. Registration is already possible.

There
is no participation fee. We don't cover travel costs for guests but ..

WE ARE LOOKING FOR SPEAKERS

(perfect would be Roma
but not obligatory) about the topics:

BEST PRACTICE JOB
MARKET PROJECTS IN EUROPE and/or

ROMA & THE JOB MARKET
also

ROMA ACTIVISTS WITH EXPIERIENCE IN LABOUR MARKET
PROJECTS.

Travel Costs & Accommodation will be covered
100% for speakers.

For further information &
registration please contact me:

Gilda Horvath

+43
676 83 40 22 34

gilda.horv...@volkshilfe.at

The Conference will take place in Vienna and is organized
by the Roma-Project "THARA - Counselling & Dialogue", a project for
young Roma & Sinti people who seek for jobs and need help with their
job-orientation. The project is existing in Vienna since 2006 and is
one of the most successful Roma-Projects in Austria.

Gilda
HORVATH,

Roma-Journalist for Radio, Print & Internet

Public-Relations Officer in the Project THARA - Counselling
& Dialogue

Lovara-Romni from Austria with Hungarian
Roots

_________________________________

_________________________________

Gilda-Nancy Horvath

Öffentlichkeitsarbeit /
Public Relations

__________________________________

+43
676 83 40 22 234

gilda.horv...@volkshilfe.at

__________________________________

THARA
Beratung & Dialog

Bachgasse 6/TOP 1

1160
Wien/Vienna

AUSTRIA

Tel: +43 1 33 20 277

Fax:
+43 1 33 20 277 - 13

th...@volkshilfe.at


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Supporting SAIA, Students Against Israeli Apartheid at Carleton University «

U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel

February
7th, 2010

Dear Friends at SAIA, Students Against Israeli Apartheid – Carleton,


We are a group of Palestinians and Jews, citizens and residents of
Israel, who are struggling to end Israeli apartheid and the decades-long
occupation and oppression of the Palestinians. We are writing to
express our unequivocal support of SAIA’s admirable divestment campaign
at Carleton University. We will stand by you, as SAIA struggles to
insure that the Carleton University pension fund disinvests initially
from five companies deeply involved in Israel’s subjugation of the
Palestinians in the occupied territories, in gross violation of
universal human rights and of International Law. Four of these five
companies went as far as supplying the crucial means of destruction for
the Dec. ‘08-Jan. ‘09 Israeli onslaught on Gaza.


Since the beginning of the “peace talks” period, we watch with dismay
the charade in which Israel and its backers abroad attempt to portray
oppressor and oppressed as two equal sides in a conflict to be remedied
if they would simply straighten out their mutual differences.
International Law is crystal-clear but Israeli policy openly flouts the
law, in grave violation of universally recognized conventions and basic
human rights. In addition, the faux peace negotiations lend no voice to
Palestinian refugees, who are still forbidden to return home and denied
proper compensation for their land and property. This empty “peace
process” likewise ignores Palestinian citizens and residents of Israel,
who are not and never have been equal citizens under Israel’s
ethnocratic regime.


Meanwhile, Israeli aggression has not only continued but intensified
against Palestinians in the occupied territories. Israel’s annexation
wall was built in direct violation of the International Court of Justice
ruling from July 2004; illegal Israeli settlements and the military
occupation regime grab ever more water, land and resources belonging to
Palestinians; the operative system of apartheid by law and in practice
increasingly restricts Palestinian movement with more checkpoints and
roadblocks and a grid of roads paved on Palestinian land but on which
Palestinians are forbidden to travel. This aggression culminated in last
year’s devastating attack on the Gazan population and in the years-long
immoral and inhumane siege, while the deadly incursions and air strikes
carry on to this day in the Gaza Strip.


Therefore, it is of vital importance to adopt an approach of
solidarity with the oppressed Palestinians – those in the OPT, those
inside Israel’s ‘48 borders and those living in the diaspora. Such an
approach, we believe, is shared these days by SAIA and BOYCOTT!, as well
as an ever-increasing number of groups and individuals around the
world.


We praise you on this practical approach, dealing with some of the
most harmful companies which the Carleton pension fund is invested in,
while not giving up on a long-term commitment to the July 2005
Palestinian call for BDS. Indeed, we should be sending a clear message
to the government of Israel and its complicit institutions, stating no
to normalization with Israel and no to carrying on with “business as
usual” until Israel renounces its ethnically discriminative and immoral
practices which violate the core of accepted humane behavior. Common
people, organizations and governments of every country and ethnic group
are now collaborating together in this growing global awareness
movement. We affirm that such engagement in non-violent BDS tactics is
far from being anti-Semitic and is, in fact, our foremost responsibility
as human beings living in this land. Standing up for these values is
the beginning of a true dialog.


It would only be fitting, days after passing away of the late Prof.
Howard Zinn, a great scholar and humanist, to end with a quote from his
“A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p. 16:


“The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces:
money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of
the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.


Truth has a power of its own. Art has a power of its own. That
age-old lesson – that everything we do matters – is the meaning of the
people’s struggle here in the United States and everywhere. A poem can
inspire a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution. Civil
disobedience can arouse people and provoke us to think, when we organize
with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out
together, we can create a power no government can suppress. We live in a
beautiful country. But people who have no respect for human life,
freedom, or justice have taken it over. It is now up to all of us to
take it back.”


Signed,

Ronnie Barkan

Natalie Cohen

Daniel Dukarevich

Naama Farjoun

Prof. Rachel Giora

Ofer Neiman

Dr. David Nir

Deb Reich

Emily Schaeffer, Adv.

Ayala Shani

Tal Shapira

Dr. Kobi Snitz

Jonatan Stanczak

Dr. Dorothy Naor

Neta Golan

Angela Godfrey-Goldstein


On behalf of

BOYCOTT! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within

http://boycottisrael.info



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olympic resistance movie online

City of VancouverImage via Wikipedia

Submitted by IIN Victoria, BC Bureau Chief correspondent John Shafer:

For immediate release :

After 4 years of work the final version of the documentary film Five
Ring Circus is finally completed.
The film is an investigation into many of the failed promises made by
the Vancouver Olympic organizing committee, the BC Government and City
of Vancouver.
It features interviews with

Richard Walton, Mayor of North Vancouver
Derrick Corrigan , Mayor of Burnaby
Jenny Qwan, Member of the Legislative Assembly
Kathy Corrigan, Member of the Legislative Assembly
George Monbiot
Professor Helen Lenskyi, University of Toronto
Chris Shaw, Author of the book Five Ring Circus
Harriet Nahanee, First Nations elder
Betty Krawczyk, Women of the Woods
David Eby, Executive Director of BC Civil Liberties

To view the film online please visit http://www.thefiveringcircus.com/

For more information please contact Greg Hamilton Greg

Tel number 604 220 1746

The film premier will be
Where: Dharmalab (aka.HD Lab) (1814 Pandora St)
When: 8pm Friday Feb 19
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[Abahlali] Tin Town: A short documentary on the Symphony Way Anti-Eviction Campaign

** Click here to view the documentary 'Tin Town' **

Promised housing by the South African government, more than a hundred Cape Town families found community through their struggle as squatters on a sandy road known as Symphony Way. Recently moved by court order to an indefinitely temporary relocation area dubbed 'Tin Town' or 'Blikkiesdorp' in Afrikaans, community members reflect on that road in their past and on the road ahead.
------------------------------------------------

Title: Tin Town

A Film By: Nora Connor, Clementine Wallace & Colton Margus

Produced By: Barefoot Workshops, Inc

Instructors: Alison Fast, Teddy Symes & Chandler Griffin

Created: December 2009, Cape Town, South Africa


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DR Congo: Over 8,000 Women Raped By Combatants

Scoop::

Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 10:06 am
Press Release: United Nations

More Than 8,000 Women Raped Last Year By Combatants In Eastern DR Congo – UN

New York, Feb 8 2010 3:10PM The number of women raped in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where sexual violence committed by warring factions has become endemic, topped 8,000 last year, according to fresh estimates released by the United Nations Population Fund (<'http://www.unfpa.org/public/'>UNFPA) today.

Although the mainly ethnic Hutu rebel militia, known as the Forces d�mocratiques de lib�ration du Rwanda (FDLR), who have been operating in the DRC since 1994 Rwandan genocide are thought to be responsible for most of the rapes, members of the national army (FARDC) are also guilty of sexual abuse in North and South Kivu provinces.

UNFPA noted that humanitarian agencies have praised the Government for its efforts to end rape committed by its troops, but believe that much more can be done to put an end to impunity.

Meanwhile, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan militia notorious for abducting children to use as child soldiers and sex slaves, continue its attacks on civilians in Orientale Province – also in north-eastern DRC – with great intensity, reported the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (<"http://ochaonline.un.org/">OCHA).

OCHA said that in 2009 the LRA killed 849 civilians and abducted a further 1,486, including 185 children, according to the available data.

In addition, OCHA said that on 27 January, two children were abducted from a village close to Niangara in Province Orientale while an attack on the same night close to Dungu, in the same province, left one person dead and five homes burned to the ground.



ENDS


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