{"id":10871,"date":"2019-05-01T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10871"},"modified":"2020-10-26T02:31:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T13:31:40","slug":"kelvin-davis-time-to-man-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10871","title":{"rendered":"KELVIN DAVIS \u2013 TIME TO  MAN UP ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"504\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Man-Up-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10943\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Man-Up-2.jpg 960w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Man-Up-2-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Man-Up-2-768x403.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Man-Up-2-570x299.jpg 570w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Man-Up-2-701x368.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignleft columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Man-Up-1.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10876\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Man-Up-1.png\" data-link=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?attachment_id=10876\" class=\"wp-image-10876\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Man-Up-1.png 225w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Man-Up-1-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Man-Up-1-30x30.png 30w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table aligncenter is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Press Statement from MANA Leader, Hone Harawira Wed 1 May 2019<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><br><strong>Five years ago, the Brian Tamaki inspired Man Up programme was    born out of a desire from prison inmates themselves to seek positive change in their lives. Its reach and its success have grown in leaps     and bounds since then.<\/strong>  <br><br>Two years ago, when he was in Opposition, Kelvin Davis strongly               condemned National\u2019s policies on prisons and particularly their impact   on M\u0101ori, and promised that if he became Minister of Corrections he      would change the world!Davis became Minister of Corrections in 2017,   and changed nothing.<br><br>Meanwhile, Man Up continued to change the lives of some of our most   <br>hardened criminals. Last year Brian Tamaki led a delegation to <br>parliament seeking financial support for <strong>Man Up<\/strong>, and Davis\u2019 response <br>was to do nothing. This year Tamaki came out stronger, saying <strong>Man Up<\/strong> <br>deserved funding for doing what Corrections couldn\u2019t, but this time the<br>response was far nastier and far stronger. <br><br>This time, Prime Minister Jacinda Adern, Finance Minister Grant <br>Robertson, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Corrections Kelvin Davis all launched a series of well-coordinated and well-publicised nasty, personal and mean-spirited attacks on Tamaki, ridiculing his <br>\u201cself-appointment\u201d as a Bishop, his wealth, his anti-gay comments, his <br>public pronouncements on Christianity and <strong>Man Up\u2019s <\/strong>gang imagery. <br><br>Not a word about the worth of <strong>Man Up,<\/strong> no evaluation of the programmes          stunningly positive effect on M\u0101ori men in prisons, no examination of the changes to wh\u0101nau outside prison, no comment on the reduction in          recidivism of <strong>Man Up<\/strong> graduates, no consideration given to the millions   of dollars being saved by keeping M\u0101ori men from reoffending, and        being churned back through the judicial system.<br><br>No analysis of <strong>Man Up<\/strong> at all, just a vicious, offensive and disgusting <br>governmental assault on a man who is making changes that society can   only dream of. I know, because I have seen these brothers change.For a while I found it hard to reconcile the smiles and the hugs of the newly     converted, with the scowls and the beatings dished out by the same         brothers in a past life, but its\u2019 real.  It\u2019s real because I have seen the          changes for myself, it\u2019s real because I talk to the wives who have               blossomed in the new life afforded them through <strong>Legacy,<\/strong>  it\u2019s real             because I see the kids happy to have a daddy who is a good man, it\u2019s real because even some of the greatest sceptics, the police, are starting to       have a grudging respect for men they hunted just a few years ago.  <br><br><strong>Man Up<\/strong> isn\u2019t about Brian Tamaki\u2019s clothing, or his wife\u2019s car, or his           personal  philosophies, and it shouldn\u2019t be judged on those things.   I      mean, the Catholic Church is internationally condemned for its                 paedophile priests but our government continues to fund their                  educational and social  programmes. <strong>Man Up<\/strong> is about changing the lives of men to help them     become better members in our society, to reduce  the offending and the violence, to improve the lives of families, reduce    the pointless waste of   government spending in a vicious cycle of blind    stupidity.<br><br>Kelvin Davis \u2013  its time for you to Man Up. To set aside your own inability to make change. To park your ego at the door. To invite Brian Tamaki to  the table. To consider what it is that <strong>Man Up<\/strong> can do. To consider whether there is indeed value in the programme. And then to fund it if it can help get M\u0101ori out of prisons and help keep them out. That\u2019s what <strong>Man Up<\/strong> <br>does. It helps a man become a better man. Something we can all learn      from. <br><br><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover aligncenter has-background-dim\" style=\"background-image:url(http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MAN-UP-renata-1.jpg)\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><br><br><br><br><br>Man Up <br>seek positive change in their lives<br><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Statement from MANA Leader, Hone Harawira Wed 1 May 2019&nbsp; Five years ago, the Brian Tamaki inspired Man Up programme was born out of a desire from prison inmates themselves to seek positive change in their lives. Its reach and its success have grown in leaps and bounds since then. 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