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Tens of thousands Mar. in New Zealand Maori rights protest

World Socialist Web Site · 14h

New Zealand opposition parties seek to contain mass protests against racist Treaty Principles Bill

Labour, the Greens, Te Pāti Māori and the pseudo-left ISO have sought to keep the anti-government protests within the framework of capitalist politics by glorifying the Treaty of Waitangi, falsely promoting this colonial document as the means to end racism and inequality.

Al Jazeera on MSN · 4d

Why are New Zealand’s Maori protesting over colonial-era treaty bill?

A fight for Maori rights drew 42,000 protesters to the New Zealand Parliament in the capital Wellington on Tuesday. A nine-day-long hikoi, or peaceful march – a tradition of the Maori – was undertaken in protest against a bill that seeks to reinterpret the country’s 184-year-old founding Treaty of Waitangi,

The Washington Post on MSN · 8d

New Zealanders are marching, performing haka to protest divisive bill

The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to revise New Zealand’s foundational agreement with Maori people and is hugely unpopular, with even the prime minister deriding it.

World Socialist Web Site4d

New Zealand government’s racially divisive Treaty Principles Bill passes first reading

New Zealand’s National Party-led coalition government ... Part of the November 19 protest in Wellington against the ...

8don MSN

Lawmakers stage Māori protest in New Zealand’s parliament during fraught race relations debate

A vote in New Zealand’s parliament was suspended and two lawmakers ejected Thursday amid debate over a controversial proposed ...

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