Waatea News Column: Maori taking pandemic matters into their own Tino rangatiratanga hands
I salute those Māori who have taken matters into their own hands to police pandemic checkpoints and screen those entering their lands.
I salute those Māori who have taken matters into their own hands to police pandemic checkpoints and screen those entering their lands.
There isn’t going to be a returning to normal, even under the best case scenario we are at level 3 or 2 for months at a time with the occasional shut down and heavy handed quarantining, testing and tracing programs with no tourism other than returning citizens until a vaccine is available.
April 14: Day 20 of living in lock-down…
Todays gratitude – Shout out Wednesday to the those public servants who are tracing and tracking the sick. Without your focus this plague could keep building.
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There are times aren’t there that you look at the faces of the men and women who stand around the Present as he rants and you see something in their faces that actually explains their silence.
If we are not going to seriously tackle the reason why the gang wars are brewing then we won’t actually stop it from erupting.
“The lockdown may have been the final straw but the responsibility for the Burger King receivership lies squarely with it’s…
A bunch of middle class Ivory Tower Academics weened on the public teat & inoculated in plush self-isolation, demand we go back to work in the teeth of a pandemic which viciously impacts the working classes worst?
We can’t trust ‘news’ on social media and we can’t trust the Governments themselves – one of the legacies of this universal experience we are globally experiencing will be that there wasn’t a universality of truth, that were were a thousand different lies masquerading as the truth all desperately promising explanation while erasing complicity.