For over 55 years we have seen the flourishing of Kaupapa M\u0101ori movements leading to much healing and reconnection. As this has happened poverty levels have stayed around the same. We have seen the somewhat mainstreaming of Te Reo M\u0101ori, while 1 in 3 or so M\u0101ori live in poverty. This is about the same for Pasifika families, and about 1 in 6 for P\u0101keh\u0101. This poverty for me is really at the core of the injustice in our country. Capitalism can only operate with an underclass. We have seen liberal governments give the cultural nod in support of Te Reo M\u0101ori and Matariki holidays etc, while neo liberalism continued its havoc and poverty grew. We have a current government who is hostile, racist or indifferent towards M\u0101ori Kaupapa, while pushing neo liberalism and growing the poverty gap even faster than its predecessor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
311 families own as much as the bottom 2.5 million of us. The government made a choice this year to give wealthy landlords 2.9 billion dollars in tax breaks. They also made life on the dole even harder, and early reports from those working with the homeless say homeless numbers are increasing fast. Culture assimilation serves as a valuable personal technology; wealth redistribution serves as a relational gain, meaning someone\u2019s personal and external relation is given new value. we should advocate for the poor, so they are also able to join us fully in Kaupapa M\u0101ori, or any other programs that uplift their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anei pea ng\u0113 e taku rangatira, me hei t\u0101ua ki te p\u014dtiki tangi kai, e tomo ai a Ia, ki t\u014dna wharenui<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe here my leader, we should give importance to the livelihood of the crying young one, so she may enter her house of learning.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I have attached an article on class and culture interact over the history of the New Zealand Education Curriculum <\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/socialspacejournal.eu\/11%20numer\/Bruce%20Curtis%20-%20Class,%20neoliberalism%20and%20New%20Zealand.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n And a wonderful foundational video by professor Walter Benn Michaels on a Socialist view of the economy \/ class\/.race\/ anti racism \/ and justice \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ay3MbwuwQ-w&list=WL&index=59&t=1713s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For over 55 years we have seen the flourishing of Kaupapa M\u0101ori movements leading to much healing and reconnection. As this has happened poverty levels have stayed around the same.…