[Imc-aotearoa-ed] [windymedia] young nicks head feature

[clare h]

hey,

your draft is real good, i cut it down a little to 300 words. what do you 
think? (and have longer writing on the newswire?)
i'll add in the links mentioned, as well as the links from yesterday. we can 
have it up by this evening.

clare
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Young Nick's Head Hikoi to Parliament 
 
Around noon on Monday 5 August a group of  about 200 protestors arrived at 
parliament grounds, Wellington. Many of them had been on the hikoi (march) 
from Young Nick's Head, Gisborne, which left 11 days earlier. Most of the 
hikoi participants were from the Ngae Tamanuhiri iwi, who were dispossessed 
of the land around Young Nick's Head in the 19th century.  
 
The protest group asked to see Michael Cullen, the finance minister, who is 
to decide on Friday 9 August whether to allow the sale of Young Nick's Head 
to the US millionaire John Griffin. Mr Cullen was not available, nor the 
prime minister Helen Clark. The Speaker of the House, Jonathan Hunt, told the 
protestors they could stay in the grounds from 9 am to 5 pm but not 
overnight, and were not to erect any tent or other structure. (The precedent 
was the tent embassy in parliament grounds after the Hikoi of Hope in 1999, 
which maintained a presence for four months before being broken up with 
arrests.) 
 
After several hours in biting southerly wind, the protestors were allowed 
into parliament for a hui in the Maori Affairs Select Committee room. Here a 
discussion was held, with media exclusion, on further planned protest 
actions. 
 
 About ten protestors stayed overnight on Tuesday, in defiance of the 
Speaker's warning the day before. At about 10 am on Wednesday morning 
protestors led by Tutekawa Wyllie met with Mr Cullen to ask him to halt the 
sale of the land and put forward an offer to buy the land on behalf of the 
New Zealand people. 
 
Watch this space. Sign the on-line petition (see below). 
 
Links:  Protest website and on-line petition:  www.tekuri.com 
	Article by Peace Movement Aotearoa:  on Scoop website, www.scoop.co.nz 

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On Wednesday 07 August 2002 10:39 am, you wrote:
> Here's my draft feature on events of the week so far. The meeting with
> Michael Cullen is going on at present so I'll complete the article after
> hearing the outcome, and go back to parliament this afternoon if the
> occupation is continuing.
>
> Clare do you have time to put it all together and set up the links to
> tekuri etc.?  The www.tekuri.com site doesn't have any recent stuff but
> we should encourage people to sign the online petition.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ken
>
> On 6 Aug 2002 at 18:39, clare h wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > i've done a draft background feature on this. i say background cos i'm in
> > dunedin and couldn't go to welly and write stuff on the hikoi.
> >
> > i have to do the links still, but will include links to waitangi
> > tribunal, the iwi website on the issue, historical places trust etc.
> >
> > please please can someone write a paragraph on the hikoi. and or embassy
> > ( i know nothing about this, and really want to) then the feature can go
> > up.
> >
> > it's super good that protesters were talked to, (yay :-) but we really
> > need to write stuff ourselves too, especially now when this is all a bit
> > new, and we have to get stuff up quickly.  it would for instance be great
> > to have several views on what is happening up on the newswire (history
> > isn't singular, its multiple!)
> >
> > and if ngai tamanuhiri put something up there is nothing stopping us
> > putting that up as a feature too.
> >
> > well theres my 2 cents worth
> >
> > heres my draft (which obviously needs current happenings added in- 
> > please add them)!
> >
> > clare
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > A Hikoi in protest of the proposed sale of Te Kuri a Paoa (Young Nicks
> > Head) to a New York financier arrived at parliament on Monday, in an
> > attempt to get the government to block the sale.
> > Te Kuri a Paoa was lost to Ngai Tamanuhiri in the 1800s through Crown
> > Policies. The crown later sold this land to the current owners in 1910.
> > The land is regarded as the first place in New Zealand sighted by Captain
> > Cook's crew. It is also the subject of Treaty Land Claims, heard recently
> > by the Waitangi Tribunal. The site has strong historical and spiritual
> > signifcance.
> > In order to maintain their responsibilities and culture as Tangata Whenua
> > (people of the land) Ngai Tamanuhiri are proposing to regain guardianship
> > the headlands of Te Kuri a Paoa.
> >       Occupation of the headland continues, with  30 protestors camped at
> > the clifftop and 60 beneath.
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