Post AXnkXayVNtMoKnhMSe by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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(DIR) Post #AXlV5iGYnMFbD8TDP6 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-07-16T22:01:20Z
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I've never been more proud to be from Aotearoa than when I saw a huge crowd of metal fans, from all around the world, going crazy to Alien Weaponry at Wacken. Their music is a glorious expression of both their whakapapa Māori and their European ancestry. The music video for Raupatu is right up there with the video to Right in Two by Tool, as one of the most deeply affecting piece of audio-visual art I've ever seen:https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CrGHGwH2wlg#Aotearoa #NZ #AlienWeaponry #Raupatu #music #metal
(DIR) Post #AXnPDpjSi1fjH5Oi8m by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-07-17T20:05:19Z
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Every time I watch the Raupatu video the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. Even now, years after it's release. Sometimes it makes me righteously angry. Sometimes it literally reduces me to tears. Especially the final few seconds, with the nutshell summary of the history and consequences of raupatu (land confiscation), that continue to impact tangata whenua to this day.(1/2)
(DIR) Post #AXnPIVFiHQBlCni328 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-07-17T20:06:17Z
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Every time I watch the Raupatu video the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. Even now, years after it's release. Sometimes it makes me righteously angry. Sometimes it literally reduces me to tears. Especially the final few seconds, with the nutshell summary of the history and consequences of raupatu (land confiscation), that continue to impact tangata whenua to this day.(1/2)
(DIR) Post #AXnQKl46Yk7smUv23c by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-07-17T20:17:58Z
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Raupatu also gets me thinking about "anti-gang" laws, and the Proceeds of Crime Act, which disproportionately target and confiscated property from Māori. The original raupatu was justified by the state branding whānau, hapū, and whole iwi(1) as "rebels". (2/2)(1) whānau: extended familieshapū: village-scale social unitsiwi: defence and trade alliances made up of many hapūAll three are connected by whakapapa (ancestry relationships) as well as diplomacy.
(DIR) Post #AXnR6mgJqwZjh6h5Qu by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-07-17T20:26:39Z
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Modern day raupatu works by branding (predominantly Māori run) groups that are fiercely independent of the colonial state as "gangs" of "criminals". A bit like the way Panther groups were demonized as "gangs".Now to be clear, I acknowledge that members of these groups sometimes engage in anti-social and even violent behaviour. I'm not condoning any of that. But I don't think they're all as irredeemably nasty as the state and corporate media like to make out for votes and clicks.(3/3)
(DIR) Post #AXnYd5B5Jr080NQs6K by sebastianlara@mastodon.uy
2023-07-17T21:50:45Z
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@strypey Given the colonial heritage and the State as a guarantor of capital and violence, it cannot do anything other than criminalize dissent regardless of how it is organized, it is obvious that those from Wallstreet will never be classified as a mafia. :blobeyes:
(DIR) Post #AXnZ7Nfr7BUQ3eGxnM by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-07-17T21:56:24Z
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@sebastianlara> Given the colonial heritage and the State as a guarantor of capital and violenceExactly. As Derrick Jensen points out, violence is only recognized as such in hierarchical societies when it goes *up* the hierarchy. Violence down the hierarchy is business-as-usual and doesn't usually make the news unless media activist projects like Indymedia embarrass corporate media into reporting it.
(DIR) Post #AXnaiHUBBZg1X9yDvk by sebastianlara@mastodon.uy
2023-07-17T22:14:05Z
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@strypey It also has to do with the ways of building knowledge, art, etc. that they consider alien to the indigenous peoples who only get to have beliefs and craftsmanship.
(DIR) Post #AXnjAfkzL5BSYDsivY by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-07-17T23:49:02Z
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@sebastianlara> indigenous peoples who only get to have beliefs and craftsmanshipThe recent debate about whether "Māori science" exists is a classic example of this. I did an entire Philosophy of Science paper on Māori Values in the Sciences back in the noughties.
(DIR) Post #AXnkXayVNtMoKnhMSe by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-07-18T00:04:23Z
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If you're into metal (or other heavy guitar music) and you don't get haka, just think of it as a cappella metal.#music #haka #ACappella #metal
(DIR) Post #AXnmO6N5zu8eionjsW by ojala@mastodon.nz
2023-07-18T00:25:01Z
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@strypey Link gives 502 Bad Gateway
(DIR) Post #AXo6aG27to85FI4CUi by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-07-18T04:11:22Z
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@ojala> Link gives 502 Bad GatewayTry:https://inv.pistasjis.net/watch?v=CrGHGwH2wlgYT is messing with Invidious instances pretty hard ATM.
(DIR) Post #AXp2E0AO0OwR0S1RGy by sebastianlara@mastodon.uy
2023-07-18T14:56:55Z
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@strypey We agree, the constitution of a plurinational citizenship in the Bolivian State goes through processes short, medium and long-term educommunication and research, which obviously should be reflected in the academy in transdisciplinary approaches that allow us to apprehend reality, which implies protocols, methods, methodologies and experiences that affect the curriculum...