the images coming out of rafah are fucking horrific, like everything has been fucked but this especially, what the fuck!!! I feel fucking insane that I’m supposed to to just carry on with my day while it’s apocalyptic over there

I repeat, one of the greatest myths of Western modernity, capitalist development, and Eurocentrism is the belief that the colonial hell imposed on others is the road to civilization.

There's something about liberal democracy, particularly in settler colonial states like NZ, that stigmatises and punishes any militant decolonial movement as inherently wrong, even though Indigenous peoples have the right to resist colonialism. This pacifist context does not help

Waimarie katoa māua i te manaakitanga nui mai ki tēnei whenua ki Colombia. We are incredibly grateful for the week that we've spent with various iwi from this beautiful whenua. We've made so many beautiful connections. Thank you to NZinColombia for taking such great care of us.

The depth of knowledge shared with us by our colleagues here was so appreciated. We learned so much. Tēnā koutou katoa.

Kanak youth being shot at from French military helicopters in Kanaky. French are not winding down the violence AT ALL. #FreeKanaky

“I wrote the book in te reo Māori first. For me, that's a whakamana o te reo: an elevation and validation of our reo. The English version is the translation. Te reo Māori wasn’t the second thought here. It was the first.” — Qiane Matata-Sipu Qiane Matata-Sipu   e-tangata.co.nz/arts/qiane-mat…

🤬 rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Hobsons Pledge white supremacist propaganda on the front page of our most widely read national newspaper. While they don't have a huge amount of organic support, they have heaps of money and mates in high places. Unsurprisingly its landlords and capitalists all the way down.

New book spotted in the wild.

An empty shopping trolley in front of an overgrown site (in Onehunga) that should have Kāinga Ora building on it—but the site is also empty because this Govt has stalled the building of public housing, even while people are turfed out of emergency accommodation. An empty vision.

This looks like an awesome kaupapa

Koianei ētahi whakaaro mō te whakaraora reo. Some thoughts this wiki o te reo...