4emailprint Kanohi ki te kanohi – a thing of the past online survey Dee O’Carroll (Ngati Ruanui Te Atiawa), a PhD student in the Whariki Research Group at Massey University, is looking at the the effects of social media on Maori ways of connecting with each other, she has asked TangataWhenua.com to use Maori online [...]
A racist remark on Facebook against Aborigines might mean an Auckland man loses his job and quite possibley damage his employer’s business at the same time. An Australian blogger is suggesting that customers consider boycotting an Auckland inner-city restaurant after its employee Brian Castello joined a racist rants against Aborigines online. The anonymous blogger, known [...]
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If you were there, you would have thought you were watching the start of a fight, but really what you were watching was the nexus between Maori culture and technology all about celebrating the Rugby World Cup 2011. The word went out to meet down at Auckland’s largest mall, Sylvia Park and the answer came [...]
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(Stuff) Counties Manukau Police have launched their own Twitter account following a bomb scare yesterday that led to widespread panic after a famous Kiwi musician nearby tweeted that someone had been shot. Police were called to the Mangere work and Income after a staff member noticed a suspicious package about 2pm. The Ascot Avenue building [...]
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(By Andrea Vance) MINISTER OF TWITTER: Tau Henare wrote: ‘Hone Harawira is so racist, he has chocolate milk in his cup of tea’. National’s Tau Henare has “overstepped the line” by calling Hone Harawira “so racist, he has chocolate milk in his cup of tea,” a fellow MP says. Henare – who has been dubbed [...]
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Independent MP Hone Harawira’s new Mana party is embracing the use of social networking to keep their supporters informed and engaged. As a way to share the day with an even greater number of people around the world, Facebook and Twitter feeds will be running live from Te Mahurehure Marae in Auckland, where the launch [...]
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HONE HARAWIRA – Love him or hate him – This event is an email campaign! Email the Maori Party and tell them that we don’t agree with their decision. Click here to view the event online. Hone has been consistent in his expression of views of many of our people that the current legislation related [...]
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If you’ve spotted this cool graphic recently floating around Facebook you now have the chance to get a limited edition Tshirt run of it, specially made for you by Maori Boy Productions which includes famous Ngati Porou graphic artist Warren Pohatu. Each month Maori Boy Productions will produce a limited edition print run. We’re told that it [...]
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A friend was Googling relevant strings of words and so we decided to do the same… First on our list was to Google “Maori Facebook” and hit “I’m feeling lucky” well this is what we found: The comments about the graphic (click here) range from totally racist to enlightened and everything in between (WARNING: content will [...]
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