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Indigenous | Ngati Porou/Ngati Pikiao |She/her |Second generation Ngā Tamatoa | Anti-carceral | Prison abolitionist
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Awatea @awatea72aotearoa.bsky.social · Jan 8
Available worldwide, watch 'Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen' here:https: www.maoriplus.co.nz/movie/merata
The image is the landing page on Māori Television for the documentary, 'Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen'. Picture features Merata Mita, and her son Hepi Mita as a young child, in profile.
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Our wonderful registered counsellor Veronica has some opening for new clients, and is offering sessions at Auckland Women's Centre for $100. All women and non-binary whānau welcome.

Click the link or give us a call on (09) 376 3227 to enquire about an appointment. awc.org.nz/counselling/
February 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
awatea72aotearoa.bsky.social
Heated debate in the house is not an excuse for racism and xenophobia. #chaosistheladder
Greens ask PM to condemn 'outwardly racist' rhetoric
NZ First's Shane Jones yelled "Send the Mexicans home" during a debate on Tuesday.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
awatea72aotearoa.bsky.social
Another submission opportunity, folks - this time for a law we've actually asked for! Let's ensure the anti-stalking bill isn't bait-and-switch. Closes 13 Feb. Our guides aim to help stalking victims decide how to have their say. awc.org.nz/options-anti...
Aotearoa Free From Stalking supports: item: Putting stalking in the Crimes Act item: The proposed list of stalking types (broadly: surveillance; following; unwanted contact; life sabotage; taonga/property damage; any distressing or frightening act eg threats) item: Including stalkers’ harmful use of others, and stalking of family members (eg using or threatening children to get at their mum) and interference with pets item: Victims being able to keep their distress more private (as stalking consists of acts “which would cause fear or distress to a reasonable person” rather than to the specific victim) item: Police being able to warn a stalker after one act (this has helped prevent escalation in some cases overseas) item: Convicted stalkers being prohibited from owning a gun for ten years – to protect victims Aotearoa Free From Stalking does not support: item: That for stalking to be considered a crime, it requires: subitem: 3 acts (it should require only 2 acts) subitem: a time frame (3 acts in 12 months; it should require 2 acts in an unspecified time) subitem: the stalker knowing their acts will likely cause fear or distress (it should be “knows or ought to know” to cover denial, and deluded stalkers) new item: AFFS does not support excluding acts of stalking friends, employers, employees and supporters (such as refuge workers) of the primary target item: AFFS does not support police being able to warn a stalker without letting the victim know and without taking the victim’s informed preference into account item: AFFS does not support that people charged with stalking but not yet convicted don’t mandatorily lose the right to own a gun (conviction can take years) item: AFFS does not support that there’s no mandatory consideration of stalker rehabilitation, such as non-violence programmes, and/or psychological, psychiatric, cultural and/or addiction interventions
January 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
awatea72aotearoa.bsky.social
What an innovative approach.
Marae-based study into psychoactive mushroom for treating methamphetamine addiction completes first phase of trials
Over the past month the first cohort of participants have undergone sessions with mushroom extract containing a specific dose of psilocybin at Rangiwaho Marae south of Gisborne.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
awatea72aotearoa.bsky.social
Deeply disturbing.
aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Jan 18
Israeli PM Netanyahu says the first stage of the Gaza ceasefire deal is temporary and that both US President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will back Israel’s right to resume fighting in the second phase of the deal.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/dcziju
January 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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sanjanah.bsky.social
Snapshot of discourse in comments responding to ACT Party's post on Facebook, & those by Hobsons Pledge. A broadly shared, awful vocabulary - defined by violative, dehumanising, denigrating, & dangerous speech targeting Māori - illuminates an ideological overlap too. Govt gives all this succour.
ACT plastic, blood traitors, merely occupiers, temporary occupants, crying to your marae, stone age warrior clans, minimum wage, few sandwiches short of a picnic Hobsons Pledge tribal elite, not even full-blooded, tribal warfare, marae mafia, half-bred, mongrels, tribal overlords, tribal mythology Common Terminology gravy train, grievance industry, radical activists, primitive culture, professional activists, race-based, tribal, extremist
January 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
awatea72aotearoa.bsky.social
What a great idea for Waitangi Weekend. Scan the QR code for more information.
Graphic design of a Māori waharoa. A noho marae takatāpui weaving event on Waitangi Weekend.
January 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
awatea72aotearoa.bsky.social
Jane Kelsey's Submission on the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill is an informative piece. A good read if you want to know more.
open.substack.com/pub/melanien...
Jane Kelsey's Submission on the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill
A guest post by Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey, sharing her in-depth knowledge of neoliberalism and the Regulatory Standards Bill
open.substack.com
January 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” #nzpol #climatechange
RNZ headline “water bottlers face no summer restrictions as residents told to cut back”
January 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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January 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
awatea72aotearoa.bsky.social
The Treaty Principles Bill going through the Justice Committee has received record responses, triple the submissions of any previous Bill.
January 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
awatea72aotearoa.bsky.social
Available worldwide, watch 'Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen' here:https: www.maoriplus.co.nz/movie/merata
The image is the landing page on Māori Television for the documentary, 'Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen'. Picture features Merata Mita, and her son Hepi Mita as a young child, in profile.
January 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
awatea72aotearoa.bsky.social
Kia ora, I joined Bluesky today to transition away from the Metaverse. Looking forward to friends, old and new. Ngā manaakitanga.
January 8, 2025 at 6:24 AM