Rueben Taipari Porter Piki mai taku manu Kake mai taku manu Te taha o Te Wainui Te taha I Te Wairoa Ka tuu te rupe ki tai Ka whakakikii Ka whakakakaa Naumai piki mai haere mai For our many communities here in Ahipara and Te Hiku o Te Ika, the statement from Pal Haremo Vice […]
By Te Ringahuia Hata Fighting for Tino Rangatiratanga with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe The protest in North Dakota by members of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation over the destruction and desecration of sacred burial sites and cultural sites by construction crews to build a four-state $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) has turned into a […]
Pat O’Dea Climate change editor Living in the new age of corporate welfare Leaks around the secret text of the TPPA has revealed, that the TPPA seeks to enshrine the rights of bankers and investors, above national laws that protect the welfare and rights of the people and the environment. The weakening of social welfare […]
By Mike Nixon A number of us are deeply concerned by the trivialising of the killing and eating of the native wood pigeon, kereru. It was very offensive for me to see a reporter on 7 Sharp trying to make a joke about it all by offering what was presented as kereru to members of […]
Mana vice president John Minto Environmental destruction and the blatant abuse of the law by National Party-linked businesses are at the heart of swamp kauri exports from the far north. Contractors are destroying Northlands remaining wetlands and polluting local waterways as they rip out kauri preserved for tens of thousands of years. The kauri logs […]
Pat Odea Climate change editor The memory of leadership and leadership abandoned “All men are created equal” ABRAHAM LINCOLN “Quit India” MAHATMA GANDHI “We shall never surrender” WINSTON CHURCHILL “I have a dream” MARTIN LUTHER KING “The ideal of an equal society… It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.” NELSON MANDELA […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder In Auckland on Saturday a march of 6000 people protested against deep sea oil drilling. Rueben Taipari Porter who lead the Waitangi day protest against the Norwegian company Statoil has been vocal in his opposition to Oil rigs off the coast of Northland. In the media Mr Taipari Porter explained how a […]
Reuben Porter and Heeni Hotorene living self-sufficient TVNZ Waka Huia
Rueben Taipari Porter When the Mana Movement asked me to stand in the Northland by election (and after a discussion with my wife and whanau), I accepted and successfully completed the Movements nomination process. I accepted because I saw the need to stand for the issues that no other political party will address in this […]
Roschana Webby Mana News Fracking plans send ‘Shock Waves’ into targeted farming community. New Oil and Gas Permits Threaten Dannevirke, Palmerston North and the entire East Coast. On December 9th 2014, Mosman Oil and Gas -an Australian Company listed on the London stock market, was granted three of 15 exploration permits by the NZ government. […]
