New Zealand's police were introduced by force, with a legitimacy forged through the violence of colonisation. This video, tracing from the dawn of the police to the present day, outlines how the police continue to represent the interests of our…
New Zealand's police were introduced by force, with a legitimacy forged through the violence of colonisation. This video, tracing from the dawn of the police to the present day, outlines how the police continue to represent the interests of our oppressors.
Organise Aotearoa For liberation and socialism
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SOURCE: Barnaby Watts
https://youtu.be/uAUaXfejTF0
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@chrismckellar9350
I am curious what you mean by the 'ruling class' in NZ and who are the oppressors?
@BarnabyWatts
The ruling class refers to those who hold the power in Aotearoa. They are also the oppressors, as the dominance of capitalism takes away self-determination and democracy from the working classes. In this video I mostly talk about state oppression of Māori, which has taken on various forms throughout our history. The state is here the primary oppressor, and the racism which comes out of this further stratifies the working class. Capitalism was introduced by force to this (and every) country, and so has a clear connection to the violence Māori suffer at the hands of police/justice/corrections.
@chrismckellar9350
@BarnabyWatts - You still need to clarify if the ruling class has the financial or political power.
Your video comment is more suited to the USA where wall street investors and capitalists heavy influences the US government not the voters. Here in NZ, the voters whether it is Maori, Pasfika, Asian, European NZers, etc elected the government which is the 'State'. So using your term - the 'State' is the oppressor, you are implying those Maori voters, politician's and who are in the police and corrections are repressing and are racialist to their own people?
@annabellethorpe2542
@chrismckellar9350 state in NZ is still the same state that came and brutalised the Maori iwi. And although there’s a change in optics there’s been no major reform to a power structure that only exists because of imperial white supremacy.
Voters Get to vote but Maori and Pacifica voters weren’t able to choose to not be brutally oppressed when the British invaders landed. They can vote now but only within a system created to oppress them.
The video is stating that the NZ government and police structures are inextricably tied to the brutality of their invention. And that even if they were majority tangata whenua they’d still be systems designed to oppress
@chrismckellar9350
@annabellethorpe2542 - I am not interested in Maori activism and propaganda, when Maoridom prior to arrival of European settles where killing, eating, enslaving their own and committing genocide on peaceful Moriori.
Even now, Maoridom and lessor Pasifika are not standing up to the making, distribution and selling of drug to their own.by Maori and Pasifika criminal gangs.
Maoridom still has not formally apologised to the descendants of Moriori for the genocide committed by Ngati Mutunga and Ngati Tama iwi in the 1830's.
