• 955205: WANANGA REO PAPAHO - TE REO MAORI FOR SCREEN PRODUCTION

This course has been specially designed by Te Ara Poutama, in consultation with Ng? Aho Whakaari, to strengthen the use of Te Reo Maori for those in the Maori screen industry. The aim is to develop oral communication skills through practical, situational and functional use of Te Reo Maori in the screen industry.

The course is delivered over two sessions, to be held during weekends in March and May 2012 by Erana Foster (Waikato, Ngati Hako, Ngati Maru, Ngati Maniapoto) and Hohepa Maclean (Ngati Kahu, Ngati Hine). The first session in March is a Noho Marae, including a sleep-over for two nights. The second session in May is class-room based, without a sleep-over. The course is open to all, regardless of previous knowledge of Te Reo, and free of charge to New Zealand citizens.

DATES & TIMES
6pm, Friday March 23rd to 3pm, Sunday March 25th
8.30am, Saturday May 19th – 3.30pm, Sunday May 20th

VENUE
Powhiri, Nga Wai o Horotiu Marae, 6pm, Friday 23rd March
Auckland University of Technology, Corner Wellesley, Symonds and St Paul Streets

ENROLMENT
Places are limited. To secure your place on the programme, please complete and return the attached enrolment form before February 27th to Ella Henry. Under the Programme Pathway on the Enrolment Form please add AKCOP (Certificate of Proficiency), Paper Name: W?nanga Reo I, Paper Code: 955205.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Ella Henry, Te Ara Poutama, Private Bag 92006, Auckland 1142
Ph: (09) 921-9999, ext 6097, Fax (09) 921-9971, Mob (021) 455-120
Email ella.henry@aut.ac.nz

“We have as part of our communication strategy wanted to look at ways in which we could improve how we let our shareholders and the wider community get a better understanding of our business and the people involved,”  says Chief Executive Mr Dion Tuuta.

“We are excited by this new opportunity and have already had excellent feedback especially from our many whanau living overseas.  However we realised that with the timing of going online just before Xmas, and the January holidays, this has meant not a lot of people know of this new initiative”.

There will be four online issues of Whenua Magazine throughout 2012, two of which will go to print.

“We understand that there are still many of our people who don’t have access to the internet and who prefer the tacit experience of holding a magazine in their hands so we are coinciding our print editions with our Half yearly and Annual General Meetings notices”, explains Mr Tuuta.

To encourage feedback on their new online magazine, readers are invited to send in their thoughts with a free edition of “Beneath the Maori Moon – History of Maori Rugby” written by Malcolm Mulholland and donated by NZ Maori Tourism as a reward for the best email or letter received.

For more information contact Dion Tuuta on 067699373 or dion@pkw.co.nz

This event is open to everyone but designed for Trustees of Ahuwhenua Maori land so please invite your fellow trustees, associate trustees and senior management teams.

• We will introduce DairyNZ and the benefits Maori can gain by working with the resources they have.
• We will introduce a governance reporting template that is helping Maori dairy farms gain traction.
• We will hear about the latest Environmental initiatives being lead by Maori in our region. And,
• We will hear from Maori leading the Dairy industry in our region.

Event Programme

Chad Hoggard – BNZ

• Welcome
• International economic outlook
• Best practise governance for Maori dairy farms

Clinton Hemana – DairyNZ

• Who are DairyNZ, what do we do, what are we doing with Maori?
• Best practise governance options – Focus Farm findings

Tina Porou – TARIT CEO

• Maori initiatives in sustainable resource management
• Te Arawa River Iwi Trust – who are they, what do they do?

Richard Wyeth – Miraka CEO

• Maori leading in the dairy industry
• Miraka Ltd experience – how are they going, what are they doing,
• what are the issues and opportunities?

Wednesday 15 February 2012
5:30pm – 7:30pm
Rotorua BNZ partners building
Pukeroa Oruawhata Trust – Central Mall
1192 Amohau Street
Rotorua

He wawata mo nga wheturangi

The simultaneous growth in the size of the Maori economy combined with the ongoing need to address social issues puts pressure on existing leadership and creates a demand for succession and development of new leaders. The symposium will provide a forum for discussing mechanisms for growing the potential of Maori engagement in business and Maori business leadership.

The programme includes an outstanding line-up of speakers representing a range of backgrounds and experiences.

Highlights of the programme include:

• an address on leadership by Sir Ralph Norris, retiring Chief Executive of Commonwealth Bank of Australia
• perspectives on the Maori economy and Maori leadership from Tukoroirangi Morgan, Waikato-Tainui and Iwi Leaders Forum, and Whaimutu Dewes, Ngati Porou, Contact Energy and Aotearoa Fisheries
• reflections on Maori in business from Jim Mathers, Chief Executive of Maori Television, and on being in business, with Maori, from Sir Henry van der Heyden, Chairman of Fonterra

The symposium will be hosted by one of the Foundation’s sponsors, law firm Chapman Tripp, at its central Auckland offices. The symposium will be of interest to iwi, policy makers, and corporates supporting Maori through the post-Treaty settlement phase.

Registration

To register please email your details to secretary@kawharu.org.nz or write to Kawharu Foundation, PO Box 2206, Auckland 1040
before 20 January 2012.

Registration and receipt of payment will be confirmed by email.Places are limited so please register early.

Payment instructions

There is a charge of $225 (incl GST) to cover costs for the day. Any surplus will be used by the Foundation to help fund its education initiatives. Payment may be made by electronic deposit of funds or by cheque.

• Direct deposit to BNZ account 02-0100-0002193-000

Please state your name clearly when making a deposit.
Please ensure that you also email your details to secretary@kawharu.org.nz or post them to Kawharu Foundation, PO Box 2206, Auckland 1040

• Cheque, made payable to Sir Hugh Kawharu Foundation, sent together with your details to Kawharu Foundation, PO Box 2206, Auckland 1040

Event details

• Date: Thursday, 9 February 2012
• Time: 9.30am – 5.00pm
• Venue: Chapman Tripp, Level 35, 23 Albert Street, Auckland

• Optimising Indigenous Economic Wellbeing
• Healthy and Thriving Indigenous Families
• Enhancing Indigenous Distinctiveness

All presentations will be 20 mins, plus 5 mins for questions, and are expected to address one or more of the following outcomes:

• Indigenous Knowledge Creation
• Building Excellent Indigenous Research Capability
• Research and Indigenous Transformation

More information on the themes and outcomes can be found on the website.

All Abstracts will be assessed by the Conference Abstract Committee, guided by the Conference Advisory Panel. There is potential for a limited number of panel presentations, please contact us as soon as possible if you are interested in convening a panel. There will be a published, reviewed conference proceedings and all accepted authors will be invited to submit their full paper to the conference proceedings.

• www.indigenousdevelopment2012.ac.nz

The civil rights leader, scholar and Baptist minister took the stand and began his famous “I have a dream speech” with the following words: “I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.”

King talked about Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which he said was a beacon of hope for “millions of Negro slaves seared in the flames of withering injustice.” He could easily have included “millions of Indigenous Peoples” in that statement since the United States was founded on the genocide and labor of Indigenous Peoples and African slaves.

A year later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson. By the time King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, he had expanded his vision of freedom and civil rights for African Americans into a universal message of freedom and human rights for all. Along the way of becoming an American icon of non-violent resistance and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, King left a legacy of soaring oratory on peace, justice, and the dignity of being human.

Here are some of his most inspiring words from his writings, speeches and sermons:

“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.”

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”

“I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.”

“If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.”

“It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.”

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

“The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.”

“Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: – ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”

“We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”

“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”

“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.”

“If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.”

“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”

“In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”

“When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact…that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We’ve learned to fly the air like birds, we’ve learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven’t learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters…”

“I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream—a dream yet unfulfilled.”

“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”

Other inspiring quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.:

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

“I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsom and jetsom in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events, which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”

“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.”

“The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.”

“The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education, which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.”

“They tell me that one-tenth of one percent of the population controls more than 40 percent of the wealth. Oh America, how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.”

“On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. I believe today that there is a need for all people of good will to come together with a massive act of conscience and say in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “We ain’t goin’ study war no more.” This is the challenge facing modern man.”

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. … Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/01/16/martin-luther-kings-quotes-on-humanism-an-inspiration-and-source-of-support-for-rights-of-indigenous-peoples-72603 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/01/16/martin-luther-kings-quotes-on-humanism-an-inspiration-and-source-of-support-for-rights-of-indigenous-peoples-72603#ixzz1jhxhVKxf

The decision to ban Chicano and Native American books follows the 4 to 1 vote on Tuesday by the Tucson Unified School District board to succumb to the State of Arizona, and forbid Mexican American Studies, rather than fight the state decision.

Students said the banned books were seized from their classrooms and out of their hands, after Tucson schools banned Mexican American Studies, including a book of photos of Mexico. Crying, students said it was like Nazi Germany, and they were unable to sleep since it happened.

New Zealand gives LBJ colorful welcome

The first is an article from ‘The Free Lance Star’, the newspaper for Fredeicksberg, Virginia.  It is a newspaper piece from Wednesday Oct the 19^th, 1966 and covers the Pacific tour of President Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson.  It reads that no US President had visited the protectorate of Pagopago, that Hawaii and American Samoa welcomed the delegartion with nice receptions and that the pohiri in Wellington was well received.  Not sure who the Kaiwero in the photo is but we’ll ask around.

Fierce Maori Warriors Drive Axis Desert Army Back with Bayonet Charge 

The next article from The Palm Beach Post (Florida), Tuesday July 7^th 1942 heralds the acts of the 28^th Maori Battalion and their heroic deeds in El Alamein.  Many of us grew up with the stories of this very charge, directly into the jaws of the German Nazi Armoured Divisions, who themselves were led by the feared and admired Rommell.  American reports point out the Maori tactical brilliance in regaining the momentum for the British, a terrifying bayonet charge, leading to the momentum swing back to the Aliies – so hats off to our brave kaumatua and respect to Florida for reporting as such.

Te Wananga O Raukawa’s budget has been reduced because just 43% of undergraduates finish their studies at the Otaki-based institution.

Couse completion is about double that at the country’s other two wananga – Te Wananga o Aotearoa (76%) and Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi (89%).

The commission and the wananga have been working together since last year to improve performance, agreeing on a new target completion rate of 55%.

Te Wananga o Raukawa founder Whatarangi Winiata says it should be measured against being committed to maximising its contribution to the survival of Maori as a people.

He says the Crown has an obligation to treat Maori differently

Professor Winiata says Maori have tino rangatiratanga, or sovereignty over their taonga, or treasures – and included in taonga is matauranga Maori, or knowledge.

However, the commission says the Government is funding a formal qualifications approach to tertiary education and believes better employment and earnings are achieved when people gain formal qualifications.

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