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Conference Programme
Kia ora and welcome to the fifth Social Movements, Resistance, and Social Change
Conference: Activating Collectivity: Aroha and Power. We welcome you to join us and one another in
creating waves of change, joining existing waves of change, and collectively pushing these waves of
change out into the world. We are all here because we are passionate about the future of our people, our
society, and our communities. By coming together and activating our collective aroha and power we can be
the wave-riders and change-makers of the world.
In this booklet you will find the programme for all four days of the conference, as well as key information to
make your experience smoother, such as steps for connecting to the wifi, some small pieces of
information about filming and photography taking place, and our health and safety information. Please
familiarise yourself with the content as much as possible to prepare for the conference. We hope you have a
great time engaging with the conference content and that the sessions offered by our amazing contributors
stimulate the waves of change inside you.
Ngā mihi nui,
The Organising CommitteeImportant Information Guest Wifi Please follow these instructions for guest access to the Wi-Fi: 1. Connect to ‘WellingtonUniversityGuest’ Wi-Fi 2. Open a web browser and navigate to the internet 3. Upon redirection to the Wellington University Wireless Portal page, press ‘Don’t have an account?’ 4. Enter your email address and after reading the terms and conditions, tick the ‘agree’ box 5. Press ‘Register’, and then ‘Sign On’ to complete the sign in process 6. The screen will then display temporary login credentials which you can use on a maximum of 5 devices concurrently if you wish 7. Guest access will expire after 24 hours, though can be initiated again at any time Filming and Photography Over the course of the four days of this conference, filming and photography will be taking place in all areas. We are eager to capture moments of collectivity, aroha and power to reflect back on and remember the experience that we have all had at this conference. There will be volunteers floating around that will be attempting to capture beautiful moments without interfering in what is going on. We understand that not everyone is comfortable with appearing on camera for a multitude of reasons, whether that be film or photographs, and wish for everyone to be as comfortable as possible. We have opted to supply small identifying stickers that are located at the Registration Desk which can be added to your lanyard or name tag so that out volunteers can easily identify if you would not like to be photographed or filmed. Please do make sure that you feel safe and comfortable, and if at any point you require another sticker feel free to collect one from the registration desk, and if you think you may have been photographed or filmed by our volunteers accidentally do not hesitate to approach them and ask for the content to be deleted. In Case of an Emergency In the event of an emergency, please follow all instructions, warn others around you, be aware of what is happening around you, and check Victoria University of Wellington’s Facebook page for updates. In an emergency leave the building through an emergency exit route—these routes are identified by green and white exit signage. Smoke and fire control doors must not be kept open by methods other than specifically installed electronic hold open devices which are designed to release on a fire alarm activation. Do not use lifts in the event of an emergency or fire alarm. Use the stairs. All University buildings have building and floor wardens who are trained in evacuating people in an emergency. In an emergency, listen to the wardens—they will tell you what you need to do and where you need to go. Floor wardens wear bright yellow vests and building wardens wear bright orange vests. You can find more information for an emergency response here.
Our Guiding Values and Wellbeing Policy
The guiding values of SMRSC2020 are:
- Te Tiriti honouring
- Generosity of spirit + respect for diverse identities
- Respect for whenua / place
- Nurturing relational space
- Mana-enhancing knowledge sharing
- Holistic accessibility
This conference aims to bring together Aotearoa’s sharp minds and active contributors to social and
political movements in this country. We believe that incredible work can be done with so many
passionate people together in one space. No attendee comes alone, as we all bring with us our tūpuna
(ancestors), whānau (family), kaitiaki (guides), kaiako (teachers), tauira (students) and many more.
Each of us are in relationship to each other, both through these vast layers of connection, and simply by
sharing the same physical space together.
We ask attendees (and ourselves) to be mindful and active in respecting what each participant brings,
nurturing the relational space between each other, as well as between us and the whenua (land) and
taiao (natural world). We ask attendees (and ourselves) to live into the notion of ‘aroha mai, aroha atu’
(receiving love, giving love outwards) which creates balance and reciprocity.
When we act collectively in these ways, it cultivates and nourishes our shared mauri (life force, essence).
When we take care of the mauri, the mauri is able to take care of us, and contributes to a positive
conference experience.
Still, there will likely be disagreements. There might be behaviour that affects your ability or willingness
to participate. There might be abusive or harassing behaviour. We would like to create a non-violent
space. But the reality is that violence happens in many different ways, all of the time. Our experience
is that noticing and responding to problems early can stop them from growing. We encourage you to
check in with each other and raise concerns as they arise.
He Ara Mataora and what you can do if you have a concern
We are inspired by He Ara Mataora, which is an online toolkit to stop violence. Here is their
understanding of what violence is. The website encourages you to work with people you know to stop
violence, whether you are experiencing the violence yourself, or you see it happening and want it to
stop.
If you would like to talk to someone about a concern, there are a few options on how to proceed:
We have Wellbeing and Support volunteers who are there to help look after our attendees. They can
sit with you, lend a listening ear and help you decide if you would like to talk to conference organisers
about your concern.
The Conference Organising Team will have Support Contacts who can be available to meet and kōrero
with you.
You are welcome to get in touch with the Conference Organising Team via email at
socialmovementsconf@gmail.com and one of us will be in touch.
We also have a team of Pou Āwhina available who may be able to offer guidance and support as
needed during this process.
Violence causes deep harm to people, and to the social movements we are a part of. We all have a
shared responsibility to stop violence and cultivate liberation, whether in ourselves or others.
“… the process of reversing the violence and traumatic events of the past two hundred years will take
time. . . . The question is: what steps will we take, here and now, to create a platform upon which our
children and grandchildren can build?”
— Ani MikaereInformation About Kai and Catering Lunchtime Kai Each day your lunch-time kai is provided by a local caterer. On Wednesday 11th November, your lunch will be Syrian food catered by Hassan from Damascus, a suburban café started recently in the Vogelmorn community centre. It’s well worth a visit if you get the chance. Thursday 12th and Saturday 14th lunchtime kai is provided by Krishna Food who cook lovely vegan kai On Friday 13th, Aye Empanadas and More are bringing their homemade empanadas for our kai. This is a local company started by an Argentinian couple and If you’re even in Kilbirnie, seek them out and try their alfajores. Morning and Afternoon Tea Your morning and afternoon teas are baked by volunteers who have followed recipes from cookbooks that represent social and political movements through time. These movements include Women’s suffrage, Sustainable eating, Freedom from slavery, Māori kai as a symbol of kotahitanga and mana motuhake and an everyday gratitude for the kai we have access to. Recipe cards and further detail available each day. Design Provocations Te Timatanga: Pupuke Te Mahara : Bobby Luke The embodiment of cloth is the conductor of touch points in memory. Titled Whiri Kawe, a three-strand plait, representing a methodology of cloth, performance, and the lens, explores a Taranaki world view of knowledge exchanges within a matriarchal space. KAI-DNESS Design Provocations: Nan O’Sullivan, Leanna Dey, Dana Fridman, Bobby Luke Kai-dness is a collaboration between the schools of Architecture and Design Innovation from Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka, who have joined forces to demonstrate the power of commensality (social eating) and hākari (feasting, to demonstrate hospitality and mana). We aim to create an interactive dining experiences that celebrates the social interaction and co-design opportunities offered in these moments of shared experience. Elucidating both the aim and objective of this work is the metaphor for commensality; ‘coming together to break bread and boundaries.’ The sharing of the food is known to break-down social barriers and in this case also prompt and enable discussion, drawing and dialogue around the conference provocations of aroha, resistance, and social change. Recording the collective acts of Kai-dness and Social Movements being undertaken by the participants of the conference on the tablecloths will prompt ongoing recognition for the boundaries we all attempt to break towards positive shifts in our societies. “FOOD FOR THOUGHT” Cafe: Kataraina Anaru Every idea gets a free coffee. Te Roopu Awhina ki Porirua would love to hear your thoughts on tackling food redistribution issues in our community. Come along and exchange some creative thinking for a coffee. Coffee etc. donated by Butlers Chocolate and Coffex Coffee Roasters. Rickshaw Design Intervention: Natasha Perkins It’s really a pimped-out wheelbarrow to support the delivery of kai and dishes for Hākari at the conference. I’m interested in the operational things that go on in the background to support people to come together around the planning and logistics of food and delivery, the preparation, cleaning and disposal are all important and create spaces where social interactions happen. Manaaki is supported by sharing, through nurturing, growing and challenging people. Marae, schools and sports or cultural clubs are microcosms of community for learning and growth to take place. The ply for the trolley was donated by Black Sheep Construction Ltd that would have normally gone to landfill. The wheels were donated by the Paekakariki Bike Library who say they are always up for a social movement. The time and effort to make the piece was undertaken by Ben Taubert, one of the workshop technicians at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation.
The Koha Cart: Adam Ben-Dror The Koha Cart is a makeshift café on wheels which attends progressive gatherings and runs on the gift economy. For this event it will be serving fresh teas and snacks served on nasturtium leaves. A curated bookshelf, composting facilities, reusable grocery bags made by men at Rimutaka prison, sunflower seeds for planting and other delights are available onboard. Join us anytime for the ongoing DIY keep cup making workshop (bring a glass jar to attend). The Koha Cart was born at the Common Unity Project in Te Awa Kairangi, Lower Hutt and is made from discarded materials.
November 11th: Day One
9.00am Welcome
Wharenui
LT 1
In Person
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9.30am Keynote: Constitutional Transformation
Wharenui Featuring: Professor Margaret Mutu and Dr Veronica Tawhai
LT 1
In Person Constitutional transformation is one of the biggest political ideas Aotearoa must grapple with. But what
Hopin does it mean? How does it happen?
Sparking off our conference, Tayla Cook and Safari Hynes will sit down for a kaputī with Professor
Margaret Mutu and Dr Veronica Tawhai, members of Matike Mai Aotearoa, the Independent Working
Group on Constitutional Transformation.
This intergenerational kōrero will set the scene for the rest of the week, and go straight to the heart of
Aotearoa’s biggest questions around Te Tiriti o Waitangi, tino rangatiratanga, mana motuhake and
political change.
10.30am Morning Tea
11.00am - 11.50pm Parallel Sessions One
Wharenui Papers: “Questioning Place and Privilege”
LT 1 Missing from our Refugee Debate: the Right to Cross Borders
In Person Presented by: Umesh Perinpanayagam
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Over the last few years activists have focused on (increasing) the New Zealand government’s refugee
quota intake — a program which sees the government chose a fixed number of refugees from overseas
to be resettled here. However, challenging the government’s policies to stop potential refugees reaching
New Zealand borders, where they can claim asylum, has been missing from this debate. These
policies have coincided with a marked decline in people claiming asylum here despite an
unprecedented number of people displaced by wars and persecution globally — to which Western
states have been major contributors. This paper outlines New Zealand government policies based on
public sources and official information requests and touches upon their legal and moral implications. It
will also discuss the case of the Andika — a boat which attempted to reach these shores in 2015 but was
blocked — and its significance for refugee activists.
Using My White Privilege - an Irish Woman in Aotearoa
Presented by: Aoife Healy
The esteemed Moana Jackson once spoke about the Irish being a “darker shade of pale” referring
to the past oppression of the Irish people. In recent history, Ireland has wielded significant soft power
globally and this has resulted in a total shift in attitudes towards the Irish culture. Unfortunately, many
Irish people have transitioned out of our own colonial past and are not committed to ensuring other
oppressed peoples have access to the same freedoms we now have.
This forgetting of our ancestor’s fights is not unique to Irish people. The Oppression Olympics is
particularly prevalent in groups who have garnered some level of social mobility - of culture, of gender,
of financial circumstance.
This paper will examine the nuances and complexities of these relationships and how understanding
our own histories can remind us of where who we are responsible to and how we use our privilege in
Aotearoa today.An Aotearoa/NZ Histories Curriculum for Educators at All Levels
Presented by: Tamsin Hanly
Research shows that many NZers have been raised on the “grand colonial standard story” of NZ
history. Generations across all ethnicities and social economic status from Prime Ministers, Ministers of
Education, educators, to the public resulting in ignorance of more accurate histories, lack of knowledge
about things Māori and Pākehā Culture, Te Tiriti, colonization and it’s impacts and Māori survival. I
have designed a critique of and an alternative to the “grand colonial standard story” in the form of
an Aotearoa/NZ curriculum for educators of all levels in 6 books. The content goes from the Māori
origin narrative to the 2000s unpacking a beginners’ guide to Māori worldviews, British worldviews,
what happened when they met, the Declaration, two Tiriti/Treaty texts, colonization, Pākehā Culture
and Māori survival. Educators read and design their own plans in ninety schools currently. NZ history
is compulsory by 2022, I have been trying to get a appointment with Ministry for 6 years, they do not
know about my curriculum.
Awa Making Space for Feelings
MZ05
In Person Presented by: Lenka Rochford
Injustice makes us feel stuff and engaging in the struggle against injustice makes us feel stuff.
We aren’t always entirely aware of what emotions are driving us at different times. Being more concious
of our emotional motivations and reactions to the struggles we engage in can help us be more kind to
ourselves and each other and can help us process them as we go along and avoid burn out.
This workshop will encourage participants to think about their emotional responses to the world around
us. What do we care about? why do we care? and what does it feel like to care?
We won’t be doing group therapy or asking you to feel all the feelings.
Lenka is a pakeha, cis woman, mum, activist and therapist. My ideas come from my life experience and
psychotherapy theories of the mind.
Kōhanga Reo Indigenous Solidarity, Community & Connection
MZ06
Indigenous, Aboriginal, Native & First Nations Peoples only
In Person
Presented by: IPU: Indigenous Pacific Uprising
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A forum space for Native, Indigenous, Aboriginal, and First Nations persons to discuss how we, as
Indigenous* and First Peoples of this region, maintain our cultures and communities in the face of
colonisation, capitalism, imperialism and climate change. How does the remembrance of our ancestral
relationships ground our movements and our solidarity with each other, near and far? How do we learn
from each other without co-option/appropriation, how do we reforge our ancestral ties?
Ātea Peace to Action: How Can Research Support Practical Action for Social
MZ03
In Person
Change?
Hopin Presented by: Dr Monica Carrer and Dr Sylvia Frain
How can academic researchers support activists, individuals, and families to carry out everyday action
for resistance, peace, and social change? In this session, we will stimulate a conversation focused
around this question and welcome diverse perspectives on how to connect to make an impact. We will
share the journeys that brought us to co-found The Everyday Peace Initiative (EPI) to bridge academic
research and everyday peace action. Our goal is to explore practical ways for people to regain their
agency while “unlearning” colonial, political, structural forms of violence. We are guided by answering
these questions through practice: Who is our research for? How do we incorporate and value people’s
knowledges? How do we, as researchers, engage with people and produce outcomes that benefit
them?
Te Kāuta Pre-recorded Papers
MZ01 These pre-recorded papers will be played now, but will be available online through Hopin the
Pre-recorded
whole conference.
Played In Person
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Spaces for Counter-hegemonic Education in Indonesia
Presented by: Ben K. C. Laksana
Much like other states, Indonesia has always endeavoured to reproduce its key ideological values
within its citizens. Education, through its institutions, emerges as the key ‘ideological state apparatus’
through which the state reinforces these values for the next generation. These institutions seek toreproduce these hegemonic, ideological values as the foundation of the ‘ideal’ Indonesian citizen. Such
a citizen is compliant, law-abiding, entrepreneurial and heavily underpinned by the ideas of societal
harmony. Yet, against the backdrop of this hegemonic state, it appears that not all young citizens are
passively falling into line with these expectations. As seen in a number of counter-hegemonic
educational activities within educational institutions and outside, as well as the recent university
student-led movements that arose from that. This study thus draws attention to young people’s attempt
engaging in counter-hegemonic knowledge and explores the factors within and outside formal
educational institutions where young people are likely to learn key counter-hegemonic ideas and
practices.
Broadcasting Epistemic Exploitation Without Accountability: ‘90 Day Fiancé’
Presented by: Bella Chong
In ’90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days’, the reality show depicted white Americans meeting their future
spouses in the Philippines and Nigeria, respectively. However, the show and its cast failed to address the
ongoing effects of colonisation: the international power relation that allows for racial domination. This
power is presented in living conditions and the mainstream ‘knowledge’ on the show. Simultaneously,
white supremacy justifies ignorance of this power relation and weaponizes it in interracial interactions.
It expresses ignorance in the form of racial stereotypes and skepticism towards material circumstances
under the power relation. Subsequently, white supremacy encourages ignorance and the exploitation of
‘knowledge’. By adopting white supremacy, white people can demand and dismiss knowledge,
inevitably harming the people of colour subjected to it. Finally, the media exacerbates the harm by
broadcasting the exploitation without context, for profit.
Creating a Scene: Claiming Citizenship through Performance Action
Presented by: Nick Vale
My research is centred around the theory of performative citizenship: a social process by which societal
stakeholders engage in the claiming and/or the expanding of rights regardless of their formal
membership to the nation-state. Using performative citizenship as a premise, I investigate Isin’s (2017)
concept of the ‘activist citizen’ and pair it with notions of creativity to identify and interpret ‘creative
acts of citizenship’: forms of arts-based activism in support of social justice. I consider the power that
performance art has to challenge and rupture the dominant social norms which serve to marginalise
people based on their ethnicity or immigration status. By employing creativity as a vehicle to claim ‘the
right to have rights’ and the right to greater social and political inclusion, activist citizens open up spaces
to reconceptualise notions of social membership and belonging while reshaping our understanding of
‘citizenship’ along the way.
Whare Kai Weaving Intentions for the Kāwanatanga Sphere
MZ02 Presented by: Dr Arama Rata (Ngāti Maniapoto, Taranaki, Ngāruahine) and
In Person Jess Mio (tauiwi pākehā)
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Matike Mai Aotearoa envisages a constitution that honours Te Tiriti o Waitangi and supports the free
flourishing of all peoples in Aotearoa. Achieving this vision requires complete transformation of the
kāwanatanga sphere: from its current form as the Crown in Parliament wielding stolen power, to a new
system of tauiwi (non-Māori) making collective decisions in accordance with tikanga. This session asks
us to each imagine our ideal kāwanatanga sphere. What values would be at its heart? How would
tauiwi make appropriate decisions for ourselves here on whenua
Māori? What would life be like in that transformed reality?
All are welcome to contribute.
12.00pm - 12.50pm Parallel Sessions Two
Wharenui Pākehātanga
LT 1 Presented by: Tauiwi mō Matike Mai
In Person
Hopin Pākehātanga is the ongoing work within pākehā communities of developing a collective sense of
identity and purpose. This session responds to the call from various corners for ‘pākehātanga’, in the
name of and as necessary precursor and support for decolonisation and constitutional transformation.
Over this hour, members of Tauiwi mō Matike Mai who have been developing a theory of change for
tauiwi pākehā – as well as other pākehā who have been working in this space of pākehātanga in
various ways - will share something of their learning and hold a space where the awkward, fraught,
fumbling work of pākehātanga can be furthered in some way, by explicitly asking together what it
would require, what actions we might or must take, and how pākehā, once gathered or, in part, in the
very act of gathering ourselves, might contribute to constitutional transformation and decolonisation.Awa (Re)defining Community Research: Lessons from Asian Feminist Project Aotearoa
MZ05
Presented by: Helen Yeung
Streamed In
Person
While a growing body of social science research is centred on the identities of marginalised commu-
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nities, this often offers a voyeuristic view of participants’ lived experiences, with an inability to build
mutually beneficial relationships. Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (2014) state, current ethical frameworks
in academia are exploitative and yield material or political outcomes. We must strive to create research
that is “deeply ethical, meaningful, or useful for the individual or community being researched” (p. 812).
In the age of fourth-wave feminism, women have taken on efforts of empowerment and resistance into
the online sphere. The Asian Feminist Project Aotearoa is a community-based research project which
explores the potential of creating feminist conversations with Asian women through their mobile devices
in everyday spaces. In this paper, I reflect on how forms of feminist activism can be incorporated into
research. This includes engaging participants in storytelling, self-learning and consciousness-raising
through discussions of intersectionality and resisting patriarchal norms.
Kōhanga Reo From One Tired Indigenous Māmā
MZ06 Presented by: Tessa Williams
In Person
I constantly see the same people fighting for a better future for the collective, from whānau kitchens
through to the frontlines of land occupations. The same people, over and over, giving all they can give
without being asked. They do it not for themselves but for everyone else. Often these people are
indigenous, often women, often māmā. They don’t expect recognition, but they deserve it. An exhibition
of recent works by Tessa Williams created to give voice to the intertwined experiences of indigenous
mothers and indigenous knowledge from Atua to present day. It demonstrates the value of our ways
of knowing, doing, and moving, as indigenous people. The double session will include a short talk to
kaupapa and each piece in Tessa’s series. Then, an intermission before creating space and time for the
audience who attend to stop and appreciate themselves for all that they are able to do for others. Aroha
mai aroha atu.
Ātea Papers: “In Defence of Whenua”
MZ03 The Common Denominator
In Person Presented by: Chris Huriwai
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Dairy milk consumption and production, its contribution to: climate change, water/natural resource
scarcity, embedded colonial racism, inequality of outcomes for Māori and unjustified animal cruelty. This
presentation highlights a broad range of issues relating to dairy farming in Aotearoa. We’ll explore the
key factors that currently make the dairy sector vulnerable to strategic, cross demographic campaigning.
Trans-Indigenous: Indigenous Solidarity in Moments of Activism
Presented by: Rebecca Chrystal
As Pacific-based activists continue to defend their ancestral lands, resources and sacred spaces from
climate change and various forms of exploitation they are uniting and expressing solidarity with other
indigenous groups who often share similar predicaments. In analysing the film, poetry, social media
posts and physical action that arise from these interactions and collaborations, we can understand the
practices and themes of uniting for and doing activism that emerge as ‘trans-indigenous.’
By exploring very recent examples of indigenous solidarity, this paper aims to identify some of the most
effective trans-indigenous themes and practices that emerge in these moments of solidarity, in the hopes
that they may be engaged with and utilised by future indigenous activists and their allies.
This paper contributes to wider conversations regarding indigenous solidarity and performance of
activism, while drawing very recent events of a tumultuous 2019 into academic discussion.
The Administration of Power in Aotearoa
Presented by: Te Ao Metcalfe
As we progress into the void, into the future upon the crest of a wave called modernity. We need to
understand certain peculiarities about the human condition inside mass societies. This talk is about Race
and its ism and the administration of power. These two concepts are connected, especially in
New Zealand where Maori are subjugated to powerful tools of administration.
The usurpation of a culture is taking place through the guise of policy, the lens of colonial structures
inbuilt to the ethics of our society. It is the duty of our people to bring about meaningful change to this
society of Te Ao Pakeha and weave the identity of Te Ao Maori as an equal in this capitalist order of
Power.
These concepts will be only approached in this talk, however the beginning of unpicking the brutality of
bureaucratic power upon Maori will be exposed and projected.Te Kāuta Growing a Powerful Justice Movement through Imagination, Conversation, and
MZ01
In Person
Storytelling
Presented by: Madeleine Ashton-Martyn, Tania Sawicki Mead and Kiki Van Newtown
A creative workshop on locating our voices on justice transformation that uses imagination,
evidence-based messaging research, and the science of storytelling to turn the volume way up, make
our voices heard far and wide, and grow our power. We welcome everyone to this workshop - whether
you are involved in this kaupapa or standing at the edge keen to take the next step.
We’ll share three tools that we can use to transform the justice conversation, and participants will have
the opportunity to explore and practice using these tools together. This workshop will use connection
and imagination to build bridges between different areas of the change ecosystem and strengthen our
movement for transformation.
By the end of this workshop our ambition is that you will feel confident and grounded to have persuasive
conversations about transforming the justice system with friends, family, colleagues, community, or others
outside your field.
Whare Kai Militarism, Peoples and Planet
MZ02 Presented by: Edwina Hughes (Peace Movement Aotearoa)
In Person
The harmful pervasive day to day costs and consequences of militarism are often overlooked when
compared with the attention given to the tragedy of armed conflict and war.
This presentation provides an overview of those costs and consequences for Aotearoa in relation to
decolonisation, social justice, climate justice, the environment, biodiversity, the co-option of indigenous
culture by the armed forces, attitudes towards violence as a means of resolving conflict, and the
increasing level of militarisation of children and their education. The concluding section has suggestions
for positive alternatives to the escalating levels of militarisation here in Aotearoa, and for a shift from
militarised notions of security to domestic and foreign policy based on sustainable peace.
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm - 2.50pm Parallel Sessions Three
Wharenui Papers: “Confronting Racism and Violence”
LT 1 Is Anti-Racism Possible Under White Settler Colonialism? Canadian Reflections from the Field
In Person Presented by: Manjeet Birk
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After yet another devastating murder of a Black man in the United States, George Floyd’s death has
reignited Black Lives Matters protests globally. His final words “I can’t breathe” have left a mark on
protesters using it as an emblem calling for change and the end of police brutality. These familiar words
also echoed after Eric Garner’s murder in 2014 at the hands of police are a stark reminder that we have
been complacent in this outrage before. At this crucial crossroads of status quo and change again, one
cannot help but wonder, why can’t the police stop killing marginalized bodies especially Black bodies?
Building on research in feminist anti-racist organizations in Canada, I seek to consider the questions:
Can anti-racism exist under white settler colonialism? What are the limits to our activism when we are
working within systemic and institutionally racist systems?
Black Lives Matters Calls us to Expand our Understanding of Pandemic
Presented by: Adele N. Norris
The global calamity caused by the coronavirus catapulted the concept of ‘pandemic’ into mainstream
lexicons, in which the concept is associated with a range of acts that had ‘suddenly’ emerged and had
in effect wreaked terrible costs upon unsuspecting populations. As the world grappled with the
coronavirus and mandated quarantine, the murder of George Floyd by U.S. law enforcement triggered
massive uprisings. In solidarity with Black Lives Matter, millions worldwide mobilized to protest white
supremacy, signally anti-blackness, and systemic racism as an enduring pandemic that needs
addressing. While Covid-19 uniquely revealed sharp class and racial disparities (e.g., health care,
housing, essential work), #BlackLivesMatter expanded the pandemic discussion to include sustained
state-violence directed against Black and marginalized peoples as an embedded societal feature that is
not random. Employing Fanon’s conceptualization of the “zone of nonbeing”, this paper illustrates how
Indigenous and Black communities understand ‘pandemic’ in generational terms.Te hāpai ō as Fanon’s les damnés
Presented by: Garrick Cooper
The rhetoric of unity is a feature of resistance movements. Unity has been actively woven into the so-
called Māori renaissance and features in many Maori proverbs, for example, “Te amorangi ki mua te
hāpai ō ki muri”, (the front prospers due to the efforts of those at the back). What happens though when
the front no longer needs the efforts of those at the back, or worse, prosper off the back of those out
back? This question is deliberately provocative, some might go so far as to say hyperbolic. I will argue
that far from being hyperbolic, the question is one that requires serious attention. Fanon’s “les damnés
de la terre” often translated as “the wretched of the earth” speaks of people who are damned of, and
perhaps to, the earth. Fanon’s les damnés provides us with theory to make sense of this
phenomenon. To be damned is a function of people damning others to a particular existence and is
not intrinsically a feature of who les damnés are. I will explore these themes in relation to how unity has
become a ruse, that ensures les damné (aka “te hāpai o”) remain damned.
Awa Towards Eliminating Coercion in Mental Health Care
MZ05 Presented by: Martha Savage, Giles Newton-Howes, Kris Gledhill, Mary O’Hagan, Kerri Butler,
In Person Michael Naera, Marilyn Morris
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We will consider New Zealand’s mental health care through a perspective of its comparison to other
Pacific Rim nations as well as through the eyes of New Zealanders who are trying to improve mental
health care here. It will use a mix of methods. There will be a showing of a short (~10 minute)
documentary video describing problems of mechanical restraint usage in Japanese psychiatric hospitals
and its comparison to New Zealand’s approach to mental health care. It will be followed by a
presentation of a research report about how mechanical restraint varies in countries around the
Pacific Rim. Finally, we will consider the state of New Zealand’s mental health care and how it can be
improved, through short presentations and a panel discussion by people with varying perspectives,
including service users, a family carer, a psychiatrist, a mental health lawyer and an advocate for Māori
mental health.
Kōhanga Reo Grounding to Presence - A Creative Pause
MZ06 Presented by: Sian Quennell Torrington
In Person
Sometimes when I listen to lots of wonderful words, my head gets very full. Then I need to pour out onto
the page, and come back into my body. In here, by moving and using charcoal to make marks on a
page, I get to process and ground, and relax in the present. Pouring out so I can fill up again. In this
session I will share drawing exercises where we put what is inside, on the outside. Easy, embodied ways
of expression. Big storms, soft slow drags; just whatever is there, is welcome here. People tell me they
always feel different afterwards. Absolutely no drawing experience necessary, everyone is welcome.
Ātea Maintaining Collectivity During a Global Pandemic
MZ03 Presented by: Karen Nairn (co-facilitator) and Kyle Matthews (co-facilitator). Panel members: Pania
In Person Newton (Protect Ihumātao); Ruby Powell (Action Station); Bruce Kidd (Generation Zero); Tabby Besley
Hopin (InsideOUT); Poppy Mitchell-Anyon (Thursdays in Black); Tania Sawicki Mead or Kirsten Van Newtown
(JustSpeak)
Our research with young activists about their hopes and visions for social change in Aotearoa is in its
third year. With the onset of covid-19 and a lockdown, our participants have had to turn their minds to
what activism consists of during and after a lockdown, and what opportunities the covid disruption offers
for social change.
We have invited a panel of participants from each of the six groups we are working with: ActionStation,
Generation Zero, InsideOUT, JustSpeak, Protect Ihumātao and Thursdays in Black to discuss how they
work together collectively and how their activism changed or not as a result of covid.Te Kāuta Creating a Ministry of Peace in Aotearoa
MZ01 Presented by: Liz Remmerswaal
In Person
This is a workshop where we look at what we need to create a Ministry of Peace in Aotearoa, using
non violent ways of dealing with problems and conflict at every level, including personal, family, work,
school, nationally and globally. It will be an interactive session where contributions are welcome with
the aim of achieving this as reality within the next ten years.
3.00pm Keynote: Caring for Whenua
Wharenui Featuring: Pania Newton and Pua Case
LT 1
In Person From the summit of Mauna Kea to the land at Ihumātao, Indigenous-led movements teach us about how
Hopin to care for place with aloha/aroha. They teach us how to conduct ourselves, how to stand for earth,
how to forward with the wisdom of our ancestors. In this keynote panel, leaders and protectors Pania
Newton, from the movement to protect Ihumātao, and Pua Case, from the movement to protect Mauna
Kea, come together to discuss what it means to care for whenua in relational, embodied, intimate, and
sacred ways. As women who stand on the frontlines to protect our lands, our spaces, and our right to be
in those spaces, they offer us hope and offer us the chance to rise and be braver than we ever thought
we could be.
4.00pm ESRA Book Launch / Counterfutures Journal Launch (with nibbles and drinks)
Māra We’re excited to be launching Counterfutures issue 10, and the edited collection Whose Futures at the
In Person conference. Join us for drinks and nibbles, and nab yourself a copy of these timely publications.
Counterfutures 10
Edited by Jack Foster
In Counterfutures issue 10, Mohan Dutta and Sue Bradford discuss their work co-constructing voice
infrastructures at the margins and interrogate the tensions that emerge in relationships between
communities, activists, and academics. Emalani Case offers a treatment of militarism in the Pacific,
tracing its interconnections with the structures of settler colonialism and white supremacy. Mark Derby
reflects on the life and work of the late historian Dick Scott, author of the ground-breaking Ask that
Mountain: The Story of Parihaka. Roland Boer, author of the five-volume epic, On Marxism and
Theology, discusses the myriad connections between Marxism and Christianity. Murray Edmond leads a
dérive through Auckland’s inner-city monuments. Tim Bryar considers the prospects of a Left secretariat
in the Pacific. And Murdoch Stephens and Richard Keys interrogate the politics of the returnee. Plus book
reviews and more.
Whose Futures?
Edited by Anna-Maria Murtola and Shannon Walsh
Many of us have become accustomed to speaking of what comes next in terms of a singular ‘future’.
Such accounts of the future tend to operate within the narrow confines of colonial capitalism and assume
continued economic growth. But there is no ‘one’ future; there are many. As contributions to this book
attest, irreconcilable and interrelated futures are already playing out in the present. When futures are
approached in this way – in the plural and in relation – they open to questions of which futures and
whose futures. In other words, they open to politics.
In this collection, we challenge dominant narratives of the future by bringing together a broad collection
of voices and perspectives from Aotearoa New Zealand on the question of possible futures. Chapters
interrogate whose lives are at stake in different visions and projects of the future, whose voices and
visions count, and what elements are at play in the unfolding of certain futures over others. The chapters
highlight the need to be attentive to how various social technologies and institutions invite certain ways
of being, thinking and acting and exclude others. In doing so, they offer a series of reflections on futures
‘from below’ to amplify voices and fight for alternatives.
Contributors: Hana Burgess, Luke Goode, Kassie Hartendorp, Aitor Jimenez, John Morgan, Anna-Maria
Murtola, Te Kahuratai Painting, Anisha Sankar, Sy Taffel, Arcia Tecun, Samuel Te Kani, Shannon Walsh,
Toyah Webb
End of Conference Day OneIn the Māra...
Māra A Visual Exploration of LGBTIQ+ Homelessness Research
Presented by: Brodie Fraser
This exhibit focuses on a series of photographs I made while analysing the data for my PhD on
Takatāpui/LGBTIQ+ homelessness. It also includes other relevant materials that weave together my
participants’ narratives, the research process, and my reflections of how the research mirrors and alters
my own experiences as a member of the LGBTIQ+ community who has experienced homelessness. The
purpose of this contribution is twofold; firstly, to present my research findings in an accessible manner
in order to raise awareness of experiences of LGBTIQ+ homelessness, and secondly, to encourage
attendees to think about both the joys and difficulties of striving to create change when the topic at hand
is a deeply personal one.
Māra Collage Space and Pop-up Bookstore: 5ever books
Presented by: Sasha Francis, Achille Segard, Sarah Lee and others
5ever brings the print medium from the street to conference, remixed and cut-up, pasted, collaged,
purchased and donated.
Please pop by our two on-site spaces located in Rutherford House and open for the duration of the
conference:
- The collaborative collage space: a safe haven where one can retreat from the big talks and energy of
the conference to have a creative breather. All materials supplied, open to all.
- A not-for-profit pop-up bookshop, stocked with books for purchase from independent, underground
and other publishers from around Aotearoa, as well as a selection of quality books from local
second-hand bookstores.
Profits from the pop-up bookstore fund a prison book drive of all remaining unsold stock and
additional similar titles. Talk to us to find out more, and help support increasing access to radical titles
for incarcerated people in Aotearoa.
WORDS, IMAGES, BOOKS, PRINT, TRASH, AROHA, POWER - how are we collectively making sense?
Stop by, read, imagine, reflect, and sit amidst the kōrero.
Māra Big Kaupapa, Tiny Stitches
Presented by: Renee Paku
Big Kaupapa, Tiny Stitches allows us to use knitting as a form of decolonisation and protest in which we
explore the history of wūru in Aotearoa, how Māori contributed to the industry and also how we can
explore culture through the artform and change the narrative through pattern development and sharing
of mātauranga in a mana enhancing way.
Māra From One Tired Indigenous Māmā
Presented by: Tessa Williams
An exhibition of recent works by Tessa Williams created to give voice to the intertwined experiences of
indigenous mothers and indigenous knowledge from Atua to present day. It demonstrates the value of
our ways of knowing, doing, and moving, as indigenous people.
Māra Imagining Through Drawing and Collage: A Creative Workshop
Presented by: Siân TorringtonNovember 12th: Day Two
8.50am Welcome
Wharenui
LT 1
In Person
Hopin
9.00am Keynote: Unionism Today
Wharenui Featuring: Tali Williams and Nadia Abu-Shanab
LT 1
In Person The vital role of working people is clear through all the smoke and space of 2020. When the majority of
Hopin work stopped, our economic system went into freefall.
Millions of people are still working (and dying) on the frontline of a global pandemic and this
“essential” working class is dominated by women and people of colour. We survive because of them.
Despite symbolic gestures many of these workers continue to face poverty wages and brutal conditions.
Together, we have the ability to confront our compounding challenges - climate, economic, gender and
racial violence. Unions are one avenue to reset the balance of power.
This keynote will explore some of the fightback taking place, introduce you to some of the workers
leading it and lay the challenge of the mahi to come.
10.00am Morning Tea
10.30am - 11.20am Parallel Sessions One
Wharenui Building Renters’ Power
LT 1 Presented by: Hannan Patterson (Renters United Pōneke co-convenor), Robert Whitaker (Renters United
In Person founding member), Ben Schmidt (Manawatū Tenants’ Union coordinator).
Hopin
With Aotearoa’s renting population approaching 50 percent, it is time to discuss how we might build
effective renters unions and campaigns to organise and mobilise renters. Our panellists will reflect on
their experiences in growing of renters’ movements in the last 5 years before facilitating a discussion
with the audience on where next.
We’ll take a look at recent campaigning progress by Renters United and other organisations, before
considering how this foundational work could grow into more substantial and long-lasting renters’
organisations.
How do we address some of the barriers to organising including atomisation, precarity and a lack of
collective identity?
How can we balance addressing individual issues with collective action?
How can organising around housing connect with and amplify action responding to climate change,
decolonisation and inequality?
Awa Exploring Transnational Solidarity
MZ05 Presented by: Max Harris, Phoebe Carr, David Adler, Reverend Mua Strickson-Pua, India Logan-Riley,
In Person Ben Peterson, Connor Cooke and Erin Carr
Hopin
This hybrid wānanga will bring minds together from across Papatūānuku to explore how this moment
can be used to build a different kind of internationalism, which resists neoliberal globalisation. The two
hours will be spent facilitating discussion between international speakers and conference participants in
an exploration of the history of transnational solidarities, the challenges involved with organising across
borders, and what is possible right now.
In the first hour of the conversation we’ll ask some select speakers questions about transnational
solidarity. The second hour will involve conference participants reacting to the first hour’s discussion and
reflecting on their own experiences in a facilitated discussion.
*Note: This session will continue into Parallel Sessions Two*Kōhanga Reo Woke Not Broke
MZ06 Presented by: Mārama Pipepe
In Person
Money can be hard to understand, hard to deal with and hard to talk about. Inequalities in our
communities are undeniable, and often the people working the hardest to improve the lives of others do
so at significant cost. The intent of this workshop is to bring conversations about money and wealth in
social justice communities into the light so that collective wisdom and healing can be found. Where there
is space, collective knowledge and practical tools for improving our relationship with money will be
shared. Space will be held for you to share your beliefs and talk through cultural differences relating to
wealth. There is no “wrong”. Feel free to bring your own questions to the workshop.
Ātea The Joys & Challenges of Building New Groups from Scratch
MZ03 Presented by: Sue Bradford
In Person
This is a participatory workshop aimed at sharing ideas and experiences of building new organisations
from scratch in ways that will sustain them into the future. In this age of uncertainty and crisis it is more
important than ever that we on the radical left are able to set up and maintain our own autonomous
organisations - political and economic, campaigning and educational. Sue Bradford from Kotare
Research and Education for Social Change in Aotearoa will share some of the lessons she’s gained from
many years of this work, but the focus will be on learning from each other, & looking to the future.
Te Kāuta F*ck the University
MZ01 Presented by: Shannon Walsh, Steve Matthewman, Campbell Jones, Nathalie Jaques
In Person
Hopin It is true; the university is fucked… but the point is to go beyond that. This panel develops the narrative
of our 2018 book ‘Everything’s fucked: but the point is to go beyond that’ and applies it to the present
situation of universities in Aotearoa and beyond. Even before COVID-19 hit the university was in a dire
state. Seemingly unable to shake off its colonial and imperialist origins, universities here became sites
of white supremacist organising. Operating on increasingly exploitative and underpaid precarious
academic labour, universities have largely cut off career pathways for emerging academics. What is left
in the university to salvage and reclaim? What are universities for, and who, exactly, is the university?
What pockets of solidarity and support exist for militants, radicals, dissenters and those dissatisfied with
its failures? The university is a site of potential and change, but not by its own design and governance.
Fuck the university – join us in thinking about how to go beyond that.
Whare Kai PSA Ngā Kaupapa: Advancing Māori workers in the public service.
MZ02 Presented by: Georgie Dansey (Ngāti Tūwharetoa) Policy Advisor, and Georgina Kerr, PSA kuia
In Person
Hopin The Public Service Association (PSA) is Aotearoa’s largest trade union and represents 75,000 workers
across Aotearoa. Our 12,000 Māori members form Te Rūnanga o Ngā Toa Āwhina and are working
in the Public Service, the wider State services, District Health Boards, Local Government and contracted
Community Public Services.
This workshop will explore what our members believe it means to be a Māori worker in the public
service and the values that underpin our commitment to a better working life for Māori. We will consider
the vital role good quality public services that are designed by those receiving them play in ensuring
a fair and just society, as well as the work the PSA is doing to progress the lives of not just our Māori
members, but all New Zealanders accessing public services.
11.30am - 12.20pm Parallel Sessions Two
Wharenui Re-imagining the University in Aotearoa in Times of Crisis
LT 1 Presented by: Leon Salter, Sandra Grey, Isabella Lenihan-Ikin, and Raewyn Connell
In Person
Hopin COVID-19 instigated substantial disruptions to the working conditions of University workers. Already
demoralised from decades of league table-based performance management and cutbacks, they were
expected to manage the huge workloads involved with transitions to online learning. Now those on
casual or fixed-term contracts (as well as some permanent) face increasing uncertainty around their
futures, as highly paid senior managers indicate their eagerness to institute austerity, as the Labour
government refuses to allocate more funding.
At the same time, decisions to “digitise the learning experience” have been taken with minimal student
consultation, who are being left to shoulder extortionate rents, high fees, and mounting debt.
This panel, followed by a workshop, is conceived as an opportunity for both university workers and
students to take stock and consider together how me might respond to these changes, and think about
what do we do now, and what better model can we propose?Kōhanga Reo Dismantling Settler Colonialism – Creative Resistance
MZ06 Presented by: Veronica MH Tawhai, John James Carberry
In Person
Hopin As argues Moana Jackson, “If you accept that our people have been colonised, that we have been
dispossessed, that our humanity has been diminished, then it seems to me incumbent upon people who
know that, who accept that, to try and do something about it” (in Tawhai, 2020, p. 139). In our efforts
to ‘do something about it’, a deeper understanding of the specifics of ‘settler colonialism’ can assist by
providing critical insights into the nature of political power, oppression and liberation here in Aotearoa.
Examining key concepts and the multiple forms of resistance by our people, this workshop provides
participants with the opportunity to reflect upon our struggles for survival and design our own creative
interventions into the future.
Ātea ‘Ten Chairs’ - a Teaching Tool to Approach Classism and Colonialism
MZ03 Presented by: Tim Howard and Kotare
In Person
In this session, Tim and Kotare will introduce our adaptation of a teaching tool to raise awareness of rich
/ poor disparity and its impact, based on the processes of colonialism. The tool is essentially a
simulation exercise, matched with a narrative and dialogue, that can be used to supplement Tiriti o
Waitangi and social justice teaching. It has proved helpful both to strengthen understandings of class
and colonialism and to raise awareness amongst open-minded participants, but has also been useful in
sowing seeds of doubt amongst resistant participants.
Within this short session, the simulation exercise will be briefly demonstrated, engaging people
physically present, and a framework for its use will be presented, including hints for the matching
narrative and resulting dialogue. It is being introduced in this conference in the hope that facilitators and
tutors will find it useful in their own contexts.
Te Kāuta Papers: “Importing Ideologies (careful now)”
MZ01
Social Movements and the Application of Research: Extinction Rebellion’s Theory of Change
In Person
Presented by: Kyle R. Matthews
Hopin
Two pieces of knowledge inform Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) theory of change: that social movements
should engage in disruptive protest, instigating a cycle of state repression and escalating protest that
forces change; and the work of Chenoweth and Stephan, who argue from data that once 3.5% of a
country’s population is mobilised a campaign will always be successful. These understandings have led
XR to pursue large scale protests with a focus on mass arrests.
However this knowledge originates from data relating to the overthrow of autocratic regimes in countries
such as the Philippines, Serbia, and former Soviet republics. XR largely seeks change in a Western
liberal democratic context where it is unclear if this evidence applies. I therefore argue that social
movements such as XR need to wary of simplistic answers to the problem of creating social change and
draw upon wider evidence as to how change happens in society.
Pākehā Democracy and Tino Rangatiratanga in the Union Movement
Presented by: Hugo Robinson
Unions are crucial structures that help workers to harness their collective power to change their lives and
society as a whole. However, as models of resistance developed in Europe, they are underpinned by
Pākehā values and ideas. In particular, they are organised around a Pākehā idea of democracy which
reflects the interests of the majority. In a racist, colonised society, that is the interests of racist Pākehā
irrespective of class. For this reason there is a tension between Pākehā notions of democracy and tino
rangatiratanga in the union movement.
Oriented by Matike Mai Aotearoa, my kōrero will explore that tension and ask questions about what
constitutional transformation means for working class Pākehā and how unions can play a role in that
process. Ultimately, I do not have any answers but am hoping to hear reflections and suggestions, and
build relationships with those interested in this space.
Whare Kai Building Together - A Creative Session
MZ02 Presented by: Sian Quennell Torrington
In Person
There are too many buildings and not enough homes. They make it seem so complicated, when really it
should be simple. It is part of our nature to build homes, to create structures from what we have. In this
creative workshop we will make our own fast structures, and see how we can build them together.Looking for connection, strength and beauty from lots of materials. They can be strong, they can be
soft, and they can be easy too. This is a creative workshop where everything is provided, and all are
welcome. Absolutely no art making experience needed.
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm - 2.20pm Parallel Sessions Three
Wharenui Mana Moana - On Being Ocean-People
LT 1 Presented by: Mana Moana Artist Collective
In Person
Hopin In such critical times of considering, questions of identity, belonging, and relationships between people
and place, the Mana Moana Digital Ocean Project has brought together over 20 Maori and Pacific
artists to speak to our whakapapa as sovereign, sacred solutions to the challenges before us. Art has
always provided us with the means to speak across boundaries of language and culture, and now
technology also allows us to also transcend barriers of distance and location to give voice to our
reflections as Tangata Moana, as Tangata Whenua, and as Tangata Tiriti.
This interactive wananga will bring attendees along on an multidimensional and introspective journey - it
will feature key components of the Digital Ocean project, as well as reflections from the curators and
artists.
Awa The People’s Inquiry into the Impacts of Toxic Chemicals and Poisons
MZ05
Presented by: Asha Andersen, Hana Blackmore, Hira Hunapo-O’Callaghan, Stephanie McKee,
Streaming In
Stephen Torrington, Dr Ursula Edgington
Person
Hopin
The People’s Inquiry 2020 is a citizen led Inquiry into the impacts and effects of toxic chemicals and
poisons on our people, wildlife and environment. We aim to create a safe space for people to share
their experiences and have them heard, while also raising awareness around the issues and non-toxic
solutions.
We will be unpacking the complex topic of harms caused by toxic chemicals and poisons in Aotearoa.
Including, historical cases of harm, the movements to address them, the science around various toxic
substances and their effects, institutional and media bias, failures of the legal and regulatory systems, the
impacts on human right’s and in particular Maori in the context of Te Tiriti O Waitangi, the trend towards
‘green nature jobs’ and the urgent need for a poison free vision.
Join us for this timely discussion that seeks to address our nation’s legacy of toxic harm. We believe open
and honest discussion will help move Aotearoa towards a more just and sustainable future.
Kōhanga Reo Roles and Responsibilities in the Revolution, BIPOC Aotearoa Edition
MZ06 Attendance by Invite Only
Invite Only Presented by: TātouTātou
Inspired by Deepa Iyer’s Building Movement Project - Mapping our Roles in a Social Change
Ecosystem (2020), TātouTātou are facilitating an invite-only project huddle to produce a resource
that speaks to the specific roles that BIPOC people in Aotearoa can and do play in our revolutions. It
is about helping ourselves and others in Aotearoa to understand the many and specific roles that are
required for resistance and revolution.
Our goal is to do a ruku hōhonu (deep dive) into the roles Iyer outlines and discuss them within an
Aotearoa context. We believe this will help others to apply Iyer’s mahi here in Aotearoa in a way that is
mana-enhancing for tangata whenua and other BIPOC in Aotearoa.
With the huddle’s agreement, the resource will be available on the https://www.tatoutatou.org website
following the conference.
*Note: This session will continue into Parallel Sessions Four*
Ātea “The Wave” a Tool to Analyse Change, Know Your Enemy and Shift Power
MZ03 Presented by: Catherine Delahunty
In Person
The Wave session is a participatory process using a tool that shows where communities stand in relation
to a social change issue and how we can move people to a more radical position. It is both an
analysis of power issues and a way to reach out to people once we understand why they stand where
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