Personal note: Thank you to my followers, here and on other social media platforms. I really appreciate all the financial support that has come in different forms of donations, subscriptions, work trade and jobs. Many of you know my living situation has been dangerous for years. Hawaii is ghetto AF. Everyone in my current building is in trouble and in danger. None of us can do anything about it. Anyone that isn’t poor moved out, including 10+ year commercial residents who’s businesses started to fail in the last few months. A direct effect of colonizing land Grabbing in Hawaii. ~ I recently went to a senate bill meeting for the first time in Hawaii. It was sooooooooo embarrassing. The head of the so called “Hawaiian” committee was (no offense) a haole, supposedly born in Hawaii, and he couldn’t even pronounce a simple Hawaiian name like “Hawaiki”. Someday I’m going to find the public video and roast that guy all over social media. They’re on youtube, I just have to remember the date and go look for it. At one point a kanaka wahine got up and they tried to cut her off after 2 minutes. She went OFF. She said (correctly) that the court had zero jurisdiction at all as The State of Hawaii is an illegal criminal corporation, illegally occupying Hawaii. She wasn’t going to follow his rules, or listen to anything anyone had to say until she was finished. I started sobbing. When I finally saw the viral videos of Maipi-Clarke and Waititi, I also started sobbing. Some of us will never stop speaking out until the day we die.
The New Zealand legislator who faced consequences for performing the haka in Parliament is Rawiri Waititi, co-leader of the Māori Party (Te Pāti Māori). On May 12, 2021, Waititi was ejected from the debating chamber after performing a Māori haka in protest against what he described as racist arguments from opposition lawmakers. The Speaker of the House, Trevor Mallard, had asked Waititi to sit down, but instead, he performed the ceremonial dance, leading to his removal from the chamber.
The "haka pornography" remark by Shane Jones was an insult directed at the political use of the haka, especially by Māori leaders like Waititi. It sparked backlash as many saw it as a disrespectful dismissal of cultural protest and Māori sovereignty in the very house that governs them.
Uggggggh. He really said the use of traditional Haka was like porn, and apparently, he’s polynesian.
(behind a paywall)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/senior-maori-mps-rawiri-waititi-shane-jones-trade-blows-on-haka-pornography-after-treaty-bill-row/NI5Y5UROXNAJ3N7LIEI2T5YEBY/
Full video here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2021/may/12/maori-party-co-leader-ejected-from-new-zealand-parliament-after-performing-haka-video
In a more recent incident, on June 5, 2025, Waititi, along with fellow Māori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and MP Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke, was suspended from Parliament for performing a haka during a session on the controversial Treaty Principles Bill. The protest was intended to oppose the bill, which many Māori groups argued would undermine Māori rights under the Treaty of Waitangi. The MPs were suspended for 21 days, marking the longest suspensions in New Zealand parliamentary history .
I highly suggest reading this article on Maipi-Clarke.
But now Maipi-Clarke faces censure from her own colleagues. A committee found her and two other lawmakers behind the haka protest in contempt of Parliament, alleging they intimidated their opponents, and recommended unprecedented unpaid suspensions. According to the Associated Press, these would be the harshest penalties ever assigned to New Zealand parliamentarians. Parliament’s debate on the censure is delayed until early June.
Featured in TeenVogue here:
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/hana-rawhiti-maipi-clarke-haka-new-zealand-treaty-bill-maori
(https://thesun.my/binrepository/nzealand-politics-082431_5278857_20250605171033.jpg)
The original Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840 between the British Crown and various Māori chiefs, was intended to establish a partnership: it guaranteed Māori full chieftainship over their lands, forests, and taonga (treasures), while granting the Crown the right to govern and offer protection. However, major differences between the English and Māori versions—especially regarding sovereignty and ownership—led to long-standing disputes. The Treaty Principles Bill, introduced by the New Zealand coalition government in 2024–2025, sought to redefine or limit these Treaty principles in law, effectively weakening Māori rights and protections derived from the Treaty. Critics argued the bill attempted to erase obligations to Māori under the Treaty, particularly around co-governance, consultation, and recognition of Indigenous sovereignty, prompting widespread protests and the haka-led demonstration in Parliament by Māori MPs.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/y-1CPxpPYuQ?si=oha1swVrhjHD6Rrp
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