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News :: Indigenous struggles : Police : Tino Rangatiratanga |
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Ko Te Manamotuhake Oo Tuuhoe - Maintaining the mana of Tuuhoe |
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by AIMC |
29 Jun 2006
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 Update: Tame Iti was found guilty in the Rotorua District Court this morning!!! He was fined $300 on each charge and has to pay court costs ($260). He will appeal this decision. The flag and the shotgun shells were being sold on tradme to raise moeny to pay the fine. These were withdrawn by trademe. This of course is absurd considering they allowed the sale of the 'Minto Bar', which is a police baton used to assault people during the protests against Springbok Tour in 1981.
Tame Iti (pictured) will be going to court once more this Friday in Rotorua to hear the verdict of his firearms case. He was charged with two counts of unlawfully possessing a firearm after a Waitangi Tribunal hearing in January 2005. At that powhiri in Ruatoki (Bay of Plenty), Tame Iti ceremonially shot the New Zealand flag "to show the disgust of Tuhoe of the atrocities that happened to Tuhoe." [ Indymedia Feature ]
About the protest Tame Iti says: "We wanted them to feel the heat and smoke, and Tuhoe outrage and disgust at the way we have been treated for 200 years. (The Crown) destroyed people's homes and burned their crops and we wanted them to feel that yesterday. We wanted to demonstrate to them what it feels like being powerless. The confiscation and subsequent colonisation have had a devastating effect on Tuhoe over the past 100 years."
Links: Tame Iti | Aocafe | Tuuhoe | Ngai Tuuhoe |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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Police Produce Misleading Statements on Tasers |
by S Oosterman
Email: simon (nospam) enzyme.org.nz |
28 Jun 2006
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A Campaign Against The Taser.com report of police statements about the proposed taser stun gun trial in September shows “a woeful mix of misleading statements and unsupported assurances.”
Campaign Against The Taser.com has completed a comparison between police public statements and their internal policies regarding taser use.
“A clear pattern emerges from our comparison,” says Campaign Against The Taser.com spokesperson Marie Dyhrberg, barrister. “The Campaign Against The Taser.com’s report shows that internal police documents are frank about how the taser will be used while the public comments are intentionally misleading.”
[Campaign Against The Taser | Scoop video: "Pressure mounts on MPs over Taser"] |
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News :: Globalisation |
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New Caledonia: Workers vs. Globalisation - Ouvriers contre la Mondialisation |
by Omar Hamed (trans. smush)
Email: ohamed (nospam) ihug.co.nz |
23 Jun 2006
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Update: After more than a month of conflict an agreement has been reached which will stabalise the volumes of containers between Nouméa and Australia and New Zealand. USTKE spokesperson Pierre Chauvat said yesterday, "Still, our struggle to overule globalisation is not over yet, the fight must carry on. We have won a battle but not the war."
“We all have the same goal and that's to fight globalisation wherever it hits us. It's only by joining our struggle together that we will stop globalisation”, wrote the spokesperson for the Union of Kanak and Exploited Workers (USTKE) Pierre Chauvat, a day before his union went to blockade the port in Nouméa, New Caledonia, where one of the largest multinational shipping corporations was planning to unload its cargo, guarded by armed forces.
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Update: Après plus qu'un mois de conflit on a atteint un accord qui fera stabiliser les volumes des récipients entre Nouméa et l'Australie et la Nouvelle Zélande. Le porte-parole Pierre Chauvat d'USTKE a dit hier: "Notre lutte contre la mondialisation n'est pas encore finie, le combat doit continuer. Nous avons gagné une bataille mais pas la guerre."
"Nous tous avons le même but et c'est de combattre la mondialisation partout où la nous frappe. Il est seulement en joignant notre lutte que nous arrêterons la mondialisation ", avons écrit le porte-parole pour l‘Union Syndicale des Travailleurs Kanaks et des Exploités (USTKE) Pierre Chauvat, un jour avant que son union soit allée bloquer le port de Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie, où une des plus grandes sociétés multinationales d'expédition projetait décharger sa cargaison, gardée par le militaire.
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News :: Children & Education : Protest Activity |
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Chile, Germany, Greece - Students on the barricades |
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by AIMC |
10 Jun 2006
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 Students are protesting in countries all around the globe to demand free education for everyone. IMC Athens reports that 320 academic departments (75% of all departments) are occupied by students in Greece. Certain clauses in the Greek Constitution (stating, among others, that education has to be public and free for all and that no police forces are allowed to enter university grounds) have made the enforcement of a neo-liberal agenda to the country's higher education institutions particularly difficult. However, the Conservative government is now attempting to push forward crucial changes in the functioning and role of the country's Higher Education institutions. A so-called "committee of experts", appointed by the government itself, has released a list of proposed changes.
In Germany students are in the second year of fighting the introduction of fees. They are combining the fight against fees with the struggle against neo-liberal 'reforms' of the Christian-Democrat/Social-Democrat government.
Chilean students want reforms in the education system a free public transport. Over one million people participated in huge demonstrations. Protesters and riot police clashed in the streets and hundreds of students were arrested. |
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News :: Biotech : Borders : Environment : Globalisation : Indigenous struggles |
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Aziz Choudry:New Report on US Biotech Agenda |
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by Aotearoa Indymedia |
08 Jun 2006
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From the Newswire: Bilateral free trade agreements are seen by the agricultural biotechnology industry as an important conduit for spreading genetically modified organisms (GMOs) around the world. US agribusiness corporations are looking into bilateral and regional trade agreements “to expand foreign understanding and acceptance of US regulations and standards, particularly with respect to agricultural biotechnology.”
Aotearoa activist and researcher Aziz Choudry has released “Bilateral Free Trade and Investment Agreements and the US Corporate Biotech Agenda” while following the negotiations of bilateral free trade and investment agreements between the US and the countries in the South.
This report is the first of a series of Special Release published by the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) and the Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PANAP). This publication aims to provide critical analyses and raise awareness on Food Sovereignty issues.
Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific | People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty | Download Report | Newswire Article |
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News :: Tino Rangatiratanga |
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US, Australia, New Zealand Reject Indigenous Declaration |
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by Aotearoa Indymedia |
07 Jun 2006
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From the newswire: As the world's indigenous people get closer to achieving long overdue international recognition of their rights, some of the powers that conquered their territories in the past still say "no way".
At a two-week meeting of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues being held at U.N. headquarters in New York, indigenous leaders say they want their people to exercise full sovereignty over their ancestral lands and resources.
The United States, Australia and New Zealand are the only countries that remain in opposition to the proposed Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People, which recognises the principle of indigenous sovereignty.
PCPD's Resources on dDRIP | PMA's Resources on dDRIP | Newswire Article |
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