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to finding solutions even though these problems have been caused by industrial manufacturing and production we have responsibilities and obligations ourselves as indigenous peoples look at how our ancestors for millennia our parents and grandparents and great grandparents lived within their means and only taking what they need in the pasefika we don t face continuous threats of war and genocide as many other people do yet we have to be vigilant to ensure that we are not bullied by our governments and by transnational companies advancing the economic growth agenda i know that many of us are concerned about the corruption in our pasefika region of the suffering of our peoples where those in power seem to be prospering what is beautiful is that we have the opportunity and the space to be able to organise ourselves to critically question decisions and hold decision makers responsible and to challenge injustices of which there are many i dedicate this update to the advance pasifika march supporters who drew attention to social inequities for pasifika to te whanau a apanui fighting deep sea drilling and fracking in their rohe area to taranaki iwi still fighting for their rights regarding drilling of gas in their rohe to tame iti who in my opinion has been unfairly imprisoned to those of you putting your time and energy into fighting social injustices and those of you making a difference in your own families aiga kainga whanau on a daily basis the most powerful thing we can do is teach our loved ones to question what why when how where which who m to question and challenge authority with confidence soifua ma ia manuia posted by ana at 15 24 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 6 14 12 fool me once the regional lessons from the impacts of tonga s wto acces fool me once the regional lessons from the impacts of tonga s wto accession is a look through the eyes of tongans what membership to the world trade organization has meant for them and their country tonga became a member of the wto in 2005 under what has been described as arguably the worst terms ever offered to any country requiring the pacific island nation to make wide ranging and binding commitments on trade liberalisation speaking about the impacts as felt through a cross section of society this video documents how the promised benefits of wto membership have failed to not only materialise but have increased hardship across the country the film ends with a plea to other pacific countries considering joining the wto to learn from their mistake and not be fooled by the promises that accompany membership the documentary was produced by the pacific network on globalisation pang for more information see www pang org fj posted by ana at 14 15 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 5 23 12 interview with emily bailey and urs signer from the urewera 4 this week the urewera 4 emily urs rangi and taame will be sentenced in the auckland high court this is happening on thursday may 24 at 9am the court is open to the public and we encourage people to come to support them the pre sentence report required by the court has recommended community service but the crown is pushing for jail time the decision is up to the judge the maximum term for arms act charges is 4 years or a 5000 fine if this wasn t a racist police operation then we would actually see those responsible for serious criminal offending being punished by this of course we mean the police involved who were found to have committed wilful trespass onto tuhoe hand and breached human rights in the process we are working to have these arms act convictions thrown out by having the decision of the supreme court applied to the remaining four defendants this is only one step to a just outcome for the horror wrought by operation 8 we also want the terrorism suppression act repealed the victims of the raids compensated te urewera returned to tuhoe and tino rangatiratanga for all iwi and hapu posted by ana at 13 29 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 4 26 12 anti capitalism must feature at hikoi against asset sales by valerie morse anti capitalist why the c word needs to feature as part of the hikoi against asset sales starting this week a nation wide hikoi is leaving the far north and traveling to wellington carrying a raft of messages to the government these include opposition to state asset sales opposition to the trans pacific partnership agreement tppa and opposition to expansion of resource extraction e g off shore oil drilling fracking gold and coal mining there is considerable appropriateness in bundling these issues together and the opponents of these issues see them as interrelated briefly put the linkage stems from a view that the country is being sold out to multinational corporations with little or no benefit accruing to the people and with negative social political economic and environmental consequences it is hard to overstate the validity of these concerns however absent most of the discourse about these issues is what lies at the heart of all of them capitalism in particular neo liberal capitalism the failure to direct our analysis to the root cause of these myriad social economic and environmental issues will allow a further strengthening and entrenching of it neo liberal capitalism or neo liberalism in shorthand is characterised by the privatisation of public assets deregulation of trade finance investment education and healthcare by nation states in favour of trade management through a global rules based system the growth of multinational financial institutions such as the imf and world bank the rise of foreign direct investment the development of intellectual property as a commodity and a focus on individualism and societal atomisation indeed neo liberalism has been called capitalism with the gloves off because business forces are stronger and more aggressive and they face less organised opposition than ever before 1 this description fits well with the general thrust of the national government s political agenda in reality however it is not so different from that of the previous and potentially next labour government this is why a debate about the more fundamental organization of our economic political and social systems must be had this is why we need to talk about capitalism déjà vu new zealand has already been subject to the extremes of neo liberal capitalism under the fourth labour government and its successor in the 1990s national government under helen clark some of the worst excesses of the neo liberal capitalist polices were abandoned like private prisons and charter schools but in other ways neo liberalism became even more deeply embedded into the political economic and social fabric of new zealand life one of the best examples is the vigour with which the clark government negotiated free trade agreements and significantly relaxed overseas investment commission oversight of foreign land and asset buying new zealand society and social life has been transformed in the past 30 years in particular there is a discernable shift from collective responsibility for social issues to individual responsibility health care and higher education once viewed as a right and a collective good respectively are now sold to us as an individual benefit the cost of which must be borne individually as a two time victoria university student i was aghast at the ease with which the university council raised student fees again and again against significant student protest when they had themselves been the beneficiaries of completely free university degrees capitalism has no country part of the uproar about the national government s approach is simply the brazenness with which it is being carried out key makes no apologies to those who don t embrace his worldview exacerbating the gap between rich and poor by making the rich richer blaming the poor for being poor and if possible criminalising them at the same time yet what is critical for us to understand is that while key s approach is utterly odious to those of us who seek a more just world it is simply part and parcel of capitalism a government any government which operates a capitalist economic system operates a system of unavoidable injustice that is the very nature of capitalism it is the theft of the labour of the working class and the transfer of that wealth to the owning class the dominant feature of neo liberal capitalism in the past 40 years is the growth in power of multinational corporations again it is difficult to overstate the power exerted by corporations on the political and economic choices made by nation states it is now reported that more than half of the 100 largest economies in the world are corporations corporations such as exxon chevron general electric and walmart have revenues that far outstrip new zealand s entire gross domestic product while these corporate names may strike you as decidedly american a number of very well known kiwi brands equally well meet the definition of a multinational corporation i e they are a corporation with 25 or more foreign ownership included among these are the bank of new zealand skycity entertainment group contact energy and telecom the long and short of it is that the location of ownership is irrelevant there is no such thing as chinese capital or new zealand capital there is money the overriding impetus of corporations is to maximise profits local corporations exploit the environment and workers just like multinational ones do the fight shouldn t be about domestic or foreign ownership the fight should be about ownership full stop this is why a fundamental alteration to capitalist economics is so necessary in order for us to consider what other ways we can be in the world we must recognise first and foremost that the system is rigged it is a system reliant on exploitation and inequality if we don t want those things then we are going to have to try something else the first step is to re introduce the critical discourse about capitalism to the forefront of our struggles only then we will be able to more clearly see where power lies and what avenues are available for change 1 robert w mcchesney 1999 noam chomsky and the struggle against neoliberalism monthly review 1 april posted by ana at 17 31 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest aotearoa is not for sale in solidarity with the aotearoa is not for sale hikoi i m posting a presentation i did melbourne round presentation at the tpp stakeholders meeting held in melbourne in march this year he karanga tenei ki nga hau e wha hei tautoko i te iwi moemoea no ahiterairia na te mahi whakaware o te kawanatanga me nga kaporeihana e whai putea ana e whai rapatu ana kei te noho whakawhuia nga tangata whenua he pouri tenei ahuatanga me kaati ra ko te tohenga ma ratou te iwi moemoea ki te whai i ou ratou ake tino rangatiratanga kia hapaitia e ratou te mana motuhake kia kaha ake kia whawhai tonu na reira tautoko atu a wairua a hinengaro a tinana hoki kaati noa ra ko tenei te wa ki te tu rangatira tu kotahi i te kawau maro o tenei kaupapa i would like to dedicate this korero to the urewera 4 te rangikaiwhiria kemara wairere tame iti emily bailey urs signer indigenous peoples in the pacific have found the great ocean of kiwa a spiritual cultural home for thousands upon thousands of years we lived in harmony with our environment and each other we were self sufficient and had 100 of our lands 100 of our culture custom language white supremacist capitalist imperialism genocide shattered that world for many indigenous peoples in the pacific last century as we meet here today on the stolen lands of the kulin nations we are aware that occupied australia is the land of genocide and apartheid for its indigenous peoples the invasion of aboriginal lands was illegal under international law at the time of the arrival of the first fleet this invasion involved the perpetration of war crimes crimes against humanity genocide and theft of aboriginal homelands the current contempt and lack of respect rights treaty and third world conditions that indigenous peoples face in australia is an international shame like new zealand canada and the usa australia is a colonial settler state based on invasion dispossession and colonisation its past 30 years of free market fundamentalism must be understood in the context of an ongoing colonial occupation of aboriginal lands and resources on which the australian nation state is based as we faced last century today indigenous peoples of the pacific are facing the onslaught of globalisation trans national corporations and the neo colonialism of the tppa the tppa is a direct denial of the rights of maori as stated in the 1835 declaration of independence and as reaffirmed in the treaty of waitangi and the declaration of the rights of indigenous peoples it is also a continuation of the new right policies of individuated colonisation for indigenous peoples struggling for liberation this means there are two waves of colonisation to fight the first wave of colonisation has left the indigenous amongst the most disenfranchised disempowered and dispossessed groups on the planet this is well documented the object of deliberate genocide tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of indigenous people have died during our time in the struggle to retain the right to live on and care for their territories to which they not only depend for survival but also have ancient deeply held spiritual and genealogical connections the governments of australia new zealand and the united states worry that recognition of collective indigenous rights could impinge on corporate exploitation of indigenous resources interestingly these are precisely the three nation states where intentional genocidal policies were pursued policies that sought to exterminate all the indigenous peoples living in the lands seized by settlers from the british isles the populations of those states should be ashamed not only of their horrific pasts but also of the present refusal of their representative governments to make amends with the descendants of those indigenous peoples who survived these genocidal policies it is within this context that the neo colonialism of the tppa is seen by indigenous peoples as wahine maori maori women our long and deeply held traditional values and understandings of collectivity of manaakitanga of kaitiakitanga caring for earth mother for tangaroa god of the sea and for their children is in direct opposition to what is being proposed in the tppa the tppa represents a significant and disruptive challenge to maori similar free trade agreements have had devastating impacts on the lives of indigenous peoples around the world these agreements have by passed indigenous involvement at any level the complete lack of consultation with also...