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Tēnā koe Friend
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Mōrena,
E tū e te rā koroneihana tekau mā whā, Kīngi Tūheitia Pōtatau Te
Wherowhero Te Tuawhitu, nei rā te maioha atu ki a koe i tōu rā, pai
mārire. E tangi ana ki ngā mate o te wā me te mihi atu ki a tātau
katoa i te huringa o te rā pōti ki te Oketopa.
Heoi, ki ngā whanaunga te atu nā ki Tāmaki Mākaurau, tēnei te tuku
atu i te rau aroha ki a koutou, kia tū kaha, tū māia i roto i hēnei
whakamātautautanga o te wā
As you’ll all know by now, the election date has now changed to
Saturday 17 October and that means we have 56 days to get our
people to believe in Māori. The change in Alert Levels has also
impacted our whānau in Auckland and around the motu as well as our
campaign. It’s times like this that we have to draw on our superpowers,
like we did in Rotorua recently, to help us navigate the uncertainty
of the second wave and to fight the onslaught of racism that affects
us as a people day in and day out.
In this pānui, we also share more on Rawiri Waititi.
We need your help – Saturday 17 October
With the change of date for the election that means an extra month
of campaigning and we need your help. Can you ask your friends to sign
up as members and help with our kaupapa and/or to donate
to the Party to help us continue to focus on winning this campaign.
This is our biggest fight for candidate seats since the party was
established.
This government has been able to win hearts even though they have
done little to change the challenges confronting our people. As a
result of COVID-19, the pre-election lolly scramble is the biggest
it's ever been. Yes, it’s money for our people, but the challenge
with lolly scrambles is that after the sugar rush, everything is
deflated again and we return back to the hard realities.
With the change of date, it also means that the campaign teams need
your help as well so please contact your local candidate to help out
as we pivot with the new changes.
Rawiri
Waititi mō Wairiki
Rawiri
and his whānau aren’t strangers to politics and this is his second
time to stand in an election for the Waiariki seat. His worldview is
from Tihirau at Whangaparaoa but his whakapapa connects him to most of
the iwi of the Waiariki electorate. He’s married to Kiri and they
have five tamariki and is a tohunga in te Hāhi Ringatū.
Rawiri brings a realness to this campaign where his understanding
of te ao Māori means that he doesn’t only speak Māori but he thinks
Māori and maintains a Māori way of life by planting his kumara to the
moon in this video,
diving for kai and being active in his community while wearing his
cowboy hat where ever he goes. Rawiri acknowledges that he has come
back to the mana motuhake side of politics and this is evidenced in
his ABC (Apanui Border Control) work and his attempt at a Tik
Tok during the first wave of COVID-19 earlier in the
year.
The thing with Rawiri, as is the same with all our candidates, he
isn’t shy to be a voice for you and will fight because he is part of a
liberated indigenous voice that want to be in Parliament fighting for
our whānau. In addition he has an amazing whānau support network as
you see in this Marae
article and with his wife, Dr Kiri Tamihere-Waititi, as
his campaign manager, they are a formidable team.
Keep it on up – Kia kaha rā tātau
As we focus on the next 8
weeks lets be inspired by our Māori musicians and the
waiata that comes to mind at the moment is "100" by Katchafire which
states:
“Keep it on up. Keep it on top. Keep it 100…”
These lyrics remind us of keeping things focused for our campaign
and to also keep our spirits up for our whānau in Tāmaki Makaurau.
So, can you donate
$25, $50, $100 or whatever you can afford to help us keep up
the fight and achieve the goal of returning back to Parliament at this
election.
Hei tērā pānui ka aro atu ki te rohe o Ikaroa-Rāwhiti me te tuahine
a Heather Te Au-Skipworth.
Kia haumaru te noho.
Nāku iti, nā
Che Wilson
President
Māori Party
http://www.maoriparty.org/
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