General Debate 6 June 2010

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hj

Why te tiriti is good for the environment (I think?).

when it comes to the redress of colonisation and facing up to the huge environmental crisis coming our way, Pakeha are not collectively well equipped.
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The most powerful metaphor of colonisation to me is to do with a deeply glamorous topic, sewage. It is remarkable how many public toilets and landfills have been built on waahi tapu and food gathering areas. It’s almost as if the city fathers (and I use the word advisedly) wanted to send a message that “we shit on your culture”.

All over the country from the bay opposite Te Tii marae at Waitangi, to the kaimoana beds at Turanga nui a Kiwa, from the sewage ponds at Whaingaroa to the pipi of Whangamata, from Moerewa waterfalls to Whangarei harbour, human waste is being dumped on traditional food sources.

In the numerous local campaigns to clean up this habit the enduring leadership has come from tangata whenua and those environmentalists willing to be aligned with them.

[Pakeha have been doing it all over the place and it has been going down to the coast where tangata whenua gather kaimoana and they object as they have a no poo -in -food- gathering -area culture. Whereas Pakeha don’t mind poo in water or shelfish…(provided there aren’t flies buzzing around)]
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In 2005 some of us toured the country with the “Sawmill Workers Against Poisons” and the Vietnam Veterans: a motley crew of environmentalists, young tangata whenua activists and people who had been poisoned by dioxin. We traveled together with respect for the leadership of the tangata whenua and with awareness of Te Tiriti as our driving force. [tangatawhenua were leading because rangitiratanga is more powerful than kawagatanga?] Those people still inspire me. But in 2007 we still cannot look to the majority of Pakeha to fight the ongoing corporate globalisation of Aotearoa, [Save Manapouri, the Marui beech forest campaign?] not if it means publicly standing alongside Maori. Our roots are still too deeply embedded in the privileges of colonisation. It is like a tapeworm in our guts, which causes us to hunger for capitalist consumption and dominance even though it’s killing the planet, our well being and our humanity.
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It is our job as Pakeha Te Tiriti activists to kill the tapeworm in the guts of our culture. We have to awaken in Tauiwi and especially Pakeha [especially Pakeha foreigners] the recognition of the common ground that is staring us in the face. The effects of greed and the gross concentrations of wealth threaten the survival of humans on the planet as the environment collapses around us. It’s not an accident or a matter of “the environment”in isolation; it’s grounded in our financial systems. Pakeha have a choice, obsess about getting on the Rich List or take the opportunity to stand *behind* the indigenous protectors of planet earth [we shouldn’t confuse lack of technology with conservation].
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0702/S00068.htm
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June 6, 2010 9:23pm
Hurf Durf

Dammit, hj, we’ve already seen Krazy Katherine’s lunacy today.

Makes me wish we had an Operation Condor to deal with these people.
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June 6, 2010 9:57pm
krazykiwi

Dammit, hj, we’ve already seen Krazy Katherine’s lunacy today.

Hey! I resemble that remark!
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June 6, 2010 11:31pm
krazykiwi

LRO – If Gazans hate being at war with Israel then they just have to stop. It’s that simple. Elect a government that is committed to peace and the welfare of their people. It’s that simple. Can you see that happening? I wish I could… but I can’t. They are religiously programmed for self-destruction.. a tragic truth for innocent kids who become victims, who become pawns, who become statistics.
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June 6, 2010 11:36pm
krazykiwi

Does this man look well to you? The introduction of the ETS, the most insideoous new tax in a generation rests on his shoulders, and on climate science and policy spin that should be a criminal offence. Know your enemy!
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June 6, 2010 11:41pm
Jack5

hj at 9.23pm Sunday:

…Our roots are still too deeply embedded in the privileges of colonisation. It is like a tapeworm in our guts, which causes us to hunger for capitalist consumption and dominance even though it’s killing the planet, our well being and our humanity…

hj’s garbage proves why the Greens have never won an electorate seat and never will. The melon greens are flakes who for political support depend on the thin layer of nutters spread through the community. Even old Marx called this tiny stratum the lumpen proletariat. I think statisticians find a consistent percentage (around five per cent) of no-nothings who cannot answer comprehensibly no matter how pollsters simplify questionnaires etc. These are the core Green supporters, as hj demonstrates.
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