Hi friends, Here are some West Papua events you can go to in Tāmaki Makaurau for the Morning Star flag raising to learn about West Papua and Papuan independence
I’m going to try and go to Kokiri marae in the morning too because I love urban marae ESPECIALLY ones for the kaupapa, but travelling is hard for me having dyspraxia and it’s one of my autism stressors
But I will be at Westhaven for sure
No need to be shy (bc I’m chronically shy and have no sense for social cues) we’re all learning but solidarity for our brothers and sisters are important and our struggles are the same – right now the treaty principles bill hopes to remove the only solid barrier between transnational corporations from raping our land for profit, and that is exactly what’s happening in West Papua, and it’s killing them, it’s a slow-motion genocide destroying their food sovereignty, colonising their food, destroying their environment, and destroying their Indigenous spirituality as their atua, known as dema, reside in the environment
I’ve also been researching it a lot for my mahi so if you’re a learner thru kōrero always feel free to talk to me, currently working on connections between WP, Treaty Principles, Kanaky and Palestine and always love to kōrero xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
