Strategy for the next Primeminister

Strategy for the next Primeminister

    Joe Trinder editor for the Mana News In World War 2 the Allies won the War because they formed an alliance of Nations against the Axis forces. In the last elections the opposition blamed Kim Dotcom for their election loss but refuse to shoulder any blame when the real problem was poor strategy the […]

“No New Coal Mines”

“No New Coal Mines”

       Pat O’Dea Mana News climate change editor     Panui, Panui, Panui! At 2pm on the Monday of the Labour Weekend break, 27 October 2014. Auckland Coal Action is calling a protest rally on the roadside opposite where Fonterra say they are planning to develop a new coal mine in North East […]

Stop Deep Sea Oil (shhhh don’t mention climate change)

Stop Deep Sea Oil (shhhh don’t mention climate change)

        Pat O’Dea Mana News climate change editor   I tried to relate their protest against unconventional fossil fuels, like deep sea oil, to climate change, and the need to stop coal. The organisers shouted me down and telling me to “shut up”, and “keep to the subject”. Last Tuesday I went to […]

MANA to fight mass privatisation of state housing

MANA to fight mass privatisation of state housing

       John Minto Mana vice-president Announcements over the past 12 hours from the Minister responsible for Housing New Zealand, Bill English, and Minister for Social Housing, Paula Bennett, make clear the government’s intention for the mass privatisation of state housing. This comes during the middle of a housing crisis with over 3000 families […]

Hold fast to your Mana – Harawira

Hold fast to your Mana – Harawira

Hone Harawira today called on the voters of Tai Tokerau to hold fast to their mana, and not be dictated to by those party leaders who have ganged together to tell them how to vote.“I call on our people to answer them in the strongest way possible, by making sure that every one of your […]

Mana’s challenge to the 51st Parliament

Mana’s challenge to the 51st Parliament

  Ten years ago I led 50,000 Maori on the historic FORESHORE AND SEABED MARCH from Te Rerenga Wairua to the very steps of this parliament, in a march against the greatest land grab in the history of this country – Labour’s theft of the foreshore and seabed – a watershed moment for Maori because […]