Ahh, The good old days

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National Front of New Zealand (Political party)

White Nationalist political party in New Zealand. Formed in 1968 out of the New Zealand branch of the League of Empire Loyalists. Kyle Chapman was its leader 1997-2005.

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Date: 2007-2015

By: Morse, Valerie, 1971-

Reference: Eph-B-POLITICS-Morse-2007/2015

Description: Includes: Calendar Gals 2008 (Calendar) Remember the police terror raids? It’s not over! Sat 30 August … www.october15thSolidarity.info (2 copies) State terrorists kidnapped my friends. Feminazis. Flyer (2 copies) October 15th Solidarity Public Meeting. Dawn raids 9 months on. A wider look at the raids of 15 october 2007. Flyer (2 copies)www.october15thSolidarity.info. Remember the state terror raids on our communities. Rally! March! Resist! Global day of action … Sat 30 August … www.october15thSolidarity.info (2 copies) www.october15thSolidarity.info. Special event Dr Jeff Sluka discusses state terror in the Ruatoki Valley and the anti-terroism raids. Tuesday December 2nd, St Johns Church Hall (cnr Willis & Dixon Sts) (2 copies) Soul Fire with Yardwise, Misteek, Spin Zero, Sistah Jhan and friends. Vintage Bar, 1 August. In support of people affected by the 2007 police terror raids. www.october15thSolidarity.info. Peace Action Wellington. Football for Peace! Celebrate the 1914 Christmas truce. Boxing Day football game. Parliament forecourt [2014?] Peace Action Wellington. How else could New Zealand use the money spent on weapons? A4 flyer (2 copies) Peace Action Wellington. Stop the 2015 Wellington Weapons Conference. Tuesday 17 Nov [2015]. Flyer (1 A4, 1 smaller) Peace Action Wellington. What you need to know about the 2015 Weapons Conference. Folded pamphlet Peace Action Wellington. open arms not firearms. Public meeting, 21 October, St John’s in the City Willis Street [2015] Rally and picnic in opposition to the National Front. No room for racism. Small flyer (2 copies) Toys for tots: charity or propaganda? Small flyer Save Happy Valley! Why would the labour Governmment want to turn this into this? Postcard (2 copies) Oil Free Wellington. Change everything. 12-13 December 2015, Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Folded pamphlet Hands off Afghanistan. SAS out now! Hang shoes in opposition to war! (2 copies) Hands off Afghanisan. Put your shoes where your mouth is and take action against the war Muntadar al-Zaide (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 300 mm. Provenance: Donated by Valerie Morse, Wellington, in 2015.

Date: 2007-2015

By: Morse, Valerie, 1971-

Reference: Eph-C-POLITICS-Morse-2007/2015

Description: Includes: Oil Free Wellington Fundraising exhibition. “Rising tide”; a community exhibition exploring climate change and climate justice narratives. Thistle Hall, 17-22 November [2015] Te Mana Motuhake o Tuhoe www.october15thSolidarity.info. Remember the state terror raids on Te Urewera. www.october15thSolidarity.info. Special event Dr Jeff Sluka discusses state terror in the Ruatoki Valley and the anti-terroism raids. Tuesday December 2nd, St Johns Church Hall (cnr Willis & Dixon Sts). [2008] A3 poster (2 copies) Soul Fire with Yardwise, Misteek, Spin Zero, Sistah Jhan and friends. Vintage Bar, 1 August. In support of people affected by the 2007 police terror raids. www.october15thSolidarity.info. Coloured A3 poster (2 copies) Help support operation 8 arresties. fundraiser gig at Happy, Fr 2nd of May. Upper Hutt Posse, The Feminazis, the Mr Sterile Assembly, Palace This!, Paroxysm [2008] (2 copies) Public meeting: police raids, terrorism and the Labour Party Conference. Tuesday 8 April. Arlington Community Centre, 312 Taranaki St. www.october15thSolidarity.info A3 poster (2 copies) Support Operation 8 arrestees. The Klezmer Rebs, Emma Paki, Plum Green. The Adelaide, Saturday 5 April [2008 or 2014]. A3 poster (2 copies) [Wellington Prisoners]. Stop the terrorist government! Crash the Labour Party’s party; disrupt the labour Party conference. meet at te Aro Park, Saturday 12 April midday [2008 or 2014]. A3 poster (2 copies) “Patu!” produced by Merata Mita. Special screening Friday 30th Nov. Paramount Cinema [2007] (2 copies) Peace Action Wellington; Lest we remember.org. NZ troops out of Iraq! march against the war. Sat, 16 May 2pm at Midland Park [2015]. Peace Action Wellington. Stop the 2015 Wellington Weapons Conference. Tuesday 17 Nov [2015]. A3 poster Hands off Afghanisan. Put your shoes where your mouth is and take action against the war Muntadar al-Zaide. A3 poster Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated by Valerie Morse, Wellington, in 2015.

Manuscript

National Front/Conservative Front

Date: c 1978 – 1991

From: Spoonley, Paul 1954- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-4442-28

Description: Contains copies of ‘Front Line’ (National Front/Conservative Front newsletter) and other leaflets and publications of the National Front/Conservative Front including a booklet entitled ‘Debunking the Witch-Hunters’ which deals with anti-Satanist ‘hysteria’ and several South African National Front pamphlets. Also includes newspaper clippings and articles on the National Front/Conservative Front and people involved with them including Kerry Bolton and David Stormer. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2005

By: Campus Left (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-POLITICS-2005-01

Description: Poster warning of acceptance of prejudiced politicians. Shows photographs of three political figures of varying importance: Kyle Chapman the leader of the National Front; Brian Tamaki of Destiny Church; American President George W Bush. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on poster 297 x 420 mm.

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National Front of New Zealand :[Ephemera, pamphlets and fliers. 1978-2000s].

Date: 1978 – 2004

By: National Front of New Zealand (Political party)

Reference: Eph-B-RACIAL-National-Front

Description: Includes material from 1978 and 2004. Includes warnings against Chinese immigration, attacks on the Parliamentarians for Global Action Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and fliers sizes varying up to 297 x 210 mm.

"Well, I don't think race relations in New Zealand are getting worse..." 27 October, 2004
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“Well, I don’t think race relations in New Zealand are getting worse…” 27 October, 2004

Date: 2004

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0008230

Description: “Jitterati” cartoon strip. Shows Jaimee and Tony debating race relations in New Zealand. Jaimee thinks that it is not getting worse and points out that the National Front don’t dominate Wellington. Tony however thinks that the National Front does express what a lot of people think privately and that racism isn’t as fashionable as sexual bigotry. Debbie appears behind them and asks whether gays are the new asians. Jaimee tells her to drop it as fashion week is over. Refers to the National Front a white nationalist political party and the racism and sexual bigotry displayed by such organisations. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Brockie, Robert Ellison 1932- :Facism. Le Pen. National Business Review. 26 April, 2002.
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Brockie, Robert Ellison 1932- :Facism. Le Pen. National Business Review. 26 April, 2002.

Date: 2002

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DX-003-057

Description: Shows Right-wing French politician Jean-marie Le Pen pushing open the top of his crypt (facism). Refers to his high polling in the first round of the French 2002 Elections. Quantity: 1 digital image(s). 

Photographs of National Front and anti-racism demonstrations, Wellington
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Photographs of National Front and anti-racism demonstrations, Wellington

Date: 23 October 2004

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000074

Description: Photographs of the National Front and anti-racism demonstrations at Parliament Grounds, Wellington, taken 23 October 2004 by Dylan Owen. Quantity: 56 megabyte(s) (115 digital photographs).

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"So! so, so, So!" "Please keep in mind that you've promised NOT to talk about the election." "The police broke a fairy's wrist for throwing bagels at fascists." "Is that a cryptic crossword clue?" "No, it happened to a friend of mine on Saturday." "Okay! Let's talk about the election!" 29 October, 2008.
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“So! so, so, So!” “Please keep in mind that you’ve promised NOT to talk about the elect…

Date: 2008

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0008549

Description: Jaimee is desperate to talk about the elections but her friend Tony is resisting. She uses the ploy of whetting his curiosity by telling him that a policeman broke a fairy’s wrist for throwing bagels at fascists. Refers to an incident when people protested at a demonstration by members of the New Zealand National Front. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

 

Photographs of National Front New Zealand Flag Day, Wellington, October 2009
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Photographs of National Front New Zealand Flag Day, Wellington, October 2009

Date: October 2009

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000516

Description: Photographs relating to National Front’s Flag Day at Parliament grounds, Wellington in October 2009 Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the Library in a folder called “National Front Flag Day Wellington October 2009” Quantity: 39 digital photograph(s).

Photographs of National Front and anti-racism demonstrations, Wellington
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Photographs of National Front and anti-racism demonstrations, Wellington

Date: October 2006

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000163

Description: Photographs of the National Front and anti-racism demonstrations, Wellington, taken October 2006 by Dylan Owen. The photographs show protestors and members of the National Front at the Railway Station and assembled at the Cenotaph and in Parliament Grounds. Quantity: 100 digital photograph(s).

Anti National Front protest, Wellington, October 2008
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Anti National Front protest, Wellington, October 2008

Date: 24 October 2008

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000820

Description: Comprises photographs taken 24 october 2008 by Dylan Owen of a demonstration against the National Front. Shows protestors (some with scarves)

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How to win the argument that Maori ceded sovereignty

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ɴᴢ ᴍᴇᴅɪᴀ ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ
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How to win the argument that Maori ceded sovereignty Q1. Was the main purpose of Te Tiriti o Waitangi for Maori to cede sovereignty to Queen Victoria? A1: Yes. It is clearly stated in the Maori, English and translated versions of the Treaty such as: Article 1 The chiefs of the Confederation of the United Tribes and the other chiefs who have not joined the confederation, cede to the Queen of England for ever the entire Sovereignty of their country. Article 3 In return for the cession of the Sovereignty to the Queen, the people of New Zealand shall be protected by the Queen of England and the rights and privileges of British subjects will be granted to them. Copies of the Treaty can be viewed here: nzmediawatch.com/Treaty_of_Wait Q2: Did the Maori chiefs understand the meaning of sovereignty? A2: Yes. Documented and verified historical evidence shows that Maori understood the meaning of sovereignty in the Treaty. For example, at the signing of the Treaty on February 5th, 1840 missionary William Colenso made detailed notes of the meeting. Endorsement of Colenso’s authenticity is the fact that the Māori Council in 1987 used his record of the speeches to validate their claims. Here’s some quotes affirming that Maori understood the meaning of sovereignty: Hoani Heke – chief of the Matarahurahu Tribe: “Yes, it is not for us, but for you, our fathers – you missionaries – it is for you to say, to decide, what it shall be.” Tamati Waka Nene – chief of the Ngatihao Tribe: “I, Tamati Waka say to thee, sit. Do not thou go away from us: remain for us – a father, a judge, a peacemaker” Later, in 1858, Hōne Heke’s tribe (Ngāpuhi) re-erected the flagpole at Russell, that he was famous for cutting down, and said: “We have a Queen, Queen Victoria. Which is what we agreed to in the Treaty”. At the 1860 Kohimarama conference in Auckland these Maori validated that they ceded sovereignty by stating: Wikiriwhi Matehonoa of Ngati Porou: “We are all under the sovereignty of the Queen” Horomona Toremi of Ngati Raukawa in Otaki: “You over there (the Pakehas) are the only chiefs… Let there be one word for all this land”. Tamati Waka Nene, one of the leaders who signed at Waitangi, said: “I know no sovereign but the Queen, and I never shall know any other. I am walking by the side of the Pakeha”. More info here: bassettbrashandhide.com/post/dr-lawrie Q3: There were over 80,000 Maori and only around 2,000 settlers. Why would Maori cede sovereignty? A3: There are many reasons such as: 1. Northern Maori were afraid that the Southern tribes would come and slaughter them for Utu – because the Northern tribes had previously slaughtered the Southern tribes. 2. Maori were afraid of the French: “We have heard that the tribe of Marian [the French] is at hand, coming to take away our land”. 3. With the advent of whalers, traders, sailors and settlers disease was decimating Maori at around 4,000 deaths a year. There was a strong possibility that Maori could become extinct if something wasn’t done. New Zealand had no law and had become very dangerous. Maori wanted the English to bring their technology and governance to fix it. View our video about it here: x.com/nz_media_watch Finally, though some might say that the 2014 Waitangi Tribunal findings that “in February 1840 the rangatira who signed te Tiriti did not cede their sovereignty”, that is just opinion and not based on verifiable historic evidence. Only the Maori version of the Treaty should be used to determine its meaning because Captain Hobson, as requested by Queen Victoria, stated that the Maori Tiriti o Waitangi was the true agreement and that all other copies “… and all signatures that are subsequently obtained are merely testimonials of adherence to the terms of that original document” which is Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Reference: McQueen, Ewen (2020). One Sun in the Sky: The untold story of sovereignty and the Treaty of Waitangi. First Edition. New Zealand: Benefitz Ltd.

The Musket Wars: A History of Inter-Iwi Conflict 1806 – 1845 Part 2

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“In contrast to the pre-(European) contact days, when casualties might be measured in dozens and there were always survivors among the vanquished, now those same casualties might number hundreds, or, in a few dramatic instances, thousands.” In a nutshell, the introduction of muskets by Europeans led to an imbalance of power in 19th Century New Zealand: the Maori’s hand-held weapons were no match for the gun’s ability to kill quickly, from a long distance and at inflicting a far higher number of killed and wounded. Iwi (tribes) in Te Tai Tokerau (Northland) were the first to get their hands on the new weapons and conduct wide-sweeping taua (raids), which eventually led to iwi across the nation desperately trading flax and other resources in order to upgrade their ammunition. The resulting warfare claimed tens of thousands of lives, estimates vary between 20–60,000, killing, wounding or displacing up to half the Maori population as refugees; it exceeded the casualty figures of the later New Zealand Wars; it disrupted mana, land ownership and resources. The Musket Wars also had far-reaching consequences: desirable tracts of land that had been vacated because of the wars became the first locations to be purchased by the New Zealand Company and occupied by the early British settlers. The Musket Wars took place between 1807-1845 resulting in the most turbulent period of war in New Zealand’s history. These weapons were introduced by whalers and sealers, missionaries and timber traders and traders in flax. The first iwi to acquire muskets were those in Northland, predominately the Ngapuhi. Between 1818 and 1825 they and their cohorts swept aside the top half of the North Island. Much of the surface mythology soon gets swiftly dispatched and moves on to chronicle the stories of slaughter and slavery from the many warring tribes. Tales of women and children being tied to the back of waka (large scale war canoes) until drowned, as well as stories of children being murdered then eaten in front of their parents, none of this makes for easy reading. The sheer extent of savagery, torture and cruelty that Maori of one tribe inflicted on another, along with the sadism of occasional grave and corpse desecration to take the humiliation of vanquished enemies to the maximum is a full-on exposé of the fact that Maori never were an innocent race. No race ever has been. During the Musket Wars they continued to make slaves of the conquered in the tens of thousands. Identity political Marxist Maori today, the par-Maori descendants of these islands first Polynesian colonisers, base their never-ending grievance politics on the premise it is Critical Social Justice to hold alleged race-based hate crimes of the civilising British 200 years ago against the white New Zealanders of today, who include, but are not exclusively the descendants of the British. Given this is their standard viewpoint, it is reasonable that the par-Maori of today should also be held accountable for their ancestors’ many crimes against humanity, including slavery. It was part of Maori culture, no less despicable than most other cultures. And of course the reasonable moral standard to hold historical figures to is the best moral standard available to them in their time. Not contemporary standards. The details of the many atrocities that occurred during the Musket wars is very confronting stuff and reveals that the fiercely tribal Maori of pre first European contact times were a warlike people most definitely far more relentlessly violent, inhumane and unforgiving to each other, their feudalistic vendetta based justice and bloodthirsty cannibal feasts was far more brutal than anything the British newcomers of the 1800s ever inflicted on them. But the true significance of the Musket Wars goes well beyond the terrible inhumanities, death and destruction they caused. By the time the treaty was signed in 1840, Maori society had been turned on its head; […]

The Musket Wars: A History of Inter-Iwi Conflict 1806 – 1845

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The Musket Wars: A History of Inter-Iwi Conflict 1806 – 1845  Ron Crosby First published by Reed in 1999, with an introduction by Michael King, The Musket Wars established Ron Crosby’s reputation as a daring, original chronicler of New Zealand history. This best-selling history provides the first comprehensive account of the wars that ravaged the country in the early 1800s, when iwi with newly acquired muskets unleashed terrible utu (revenge) on foes, helped by other introductions like potatoes that fuelled long-range taua (war parties). Ron Crosby weaves the strands of this conflict into an immensely readable narrative, guiding the reader through its complexities with lists of protagonists, a chronology, indexes and above all, superb maps and illustrations. New Zealand history writing in recent years has been obsessed with the Treaty of Waitangi and the Maori grievances that followed. It has been dominated by Europeans offloading their guilt about the real or alleged wrongs of colonialism. The tenor of the writings has been:  (1) Maori society was peaceful and unified until the arrival of British sovereignty; (2) Maori were hoodwinked into signing the treaty; and  (3) everything that happened after the treaty was to the detriment of Maoridom. The pre-treaty period has barely rated a mention, especially the period from 1806 when muskets first fell into Maori hands and became the currency of tribal power. James Belich’s wide-ranging book, Making Peoples, mentions the musket wars in passing in an otherwise revisionist look at New Zealand history. Most historians haven’t bothered. It has been up to Ron Crosby, an Auckland-born lawyer practising in Marlbor-ough, to put this great historiographic oversight right and he has done so in splendid style. The Musket Wars is not simply an account of the bloodiest period of New Zealand inter-tribal warfare but an historical indulgence well written and superbly illustrated – a book on par with The New Zealand Wars: A History of Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period, James Cowan’s two-volume classic published in the 1920s (dealing with the European-Maori wars). The introduction of the musket changed Maori society forever. Warfare, a traditional feature of Maori life, was transformed literally at the barrel of the musket. Those tribes fortunate enough to trade with Europeans and acquire guns achieved a military advantage well beyond anything traditional weapons could offer. Not only could the musket take lives at a distance and more quickly than in the past but the cost was many times higher. No one knows exactly how many Maori were victims of the Musket Wars but as many as 60,000 are thought to have been killed, enslaved or become refugees forced to migrate. The Maori population of New Zealand in 1810 has been estimated at between 100,000 and 150,000 so the impact of the wars in terms of straight casualties, depopulation and iwi cleansing was far worse than the fate suffered by Kosovar Albanians at the hands of Serbia. Torture, brutality, slavery and cannibalism were features of Maori warfare before the arrival of the musket; the white men’s guns simply lifted the scale and ferocity several notches. It is legitimate to talk about genocide and the Musket Wars in the same breath because the new weapons created a military imbalance that had never before been a part of Polynesian warfare. The North Taranaki invasion of the Chatham Islands in 1835 and the destruction of the peaceful Moriori inhabitants is but one of numerous examples of musket-led genocide. Historian Michael King, an expert on the Chathams, notes in The Musket Wars’ introduction: “The disproportionately lethal effect [of muskets] on opponents who lacked them upset the balance of pre-European tribal life and took a terrible toll. […]