Back by popular demand: The 'Fly the Māori Flag competition'

Te Ata Tino Toa has announced the 2009 competition for the most creative display of the Tino Rangatiratanga flag.

Judged by an esteemed panel of judges, points are given for:

Appearing where-ever our people are:

Kaimahi Māori in their workplaces

Gang pads

On the streets

Waitangi events - anywhere in the world

Tauiwi can also fly the flag

Style

Size and height

Extra points are given if you can get it on a city council flag Pole.

Previous entries have seen the flag fly in places as far as Antarctica and Occupied Hawai'i. The flag has been flown over, on and under the Auckland Harbour Bridge, off the Unite Building in Auckland.

Support Tino Rangatiratanga by flying the Tino Rangatiratanga Flag on Waitangi day in your area. Approach your local kura, kohanga, businesses, local council etc and let them you want them to share their local flag poles with Maori, about the positives of building the
relationship with tangata whenua.

Think about adopting local flag poles for the tino flag, and other high profile places. Even a sticker on your car will support the kaupapa.

The flag symbolises the struggle for Maori self-determination and embodies the hopes we have for future generations as a thriving indigenous nation. Email before the Monday after Waitangi Day

maoriflag@gmail.com



Fly the Flag 2008
http://www.conscious.maori.nz/conscious_plugins/autogallery.php?show=Fly%20the%20Flag%202008

Fly the Flag 2007
http://www.conscious.maori.nz/news.php?extend.36

For more info see:
http://www.indigenousportal.com/index.php/Politics/Te-Haki-The-M%C4%81ori-flag.htmlComment

Mana Whanau - Put 'em up, hoist 'em up!!!

oh Fly, o, fly to the people!!
fly, o , fly to the nation

fly o, fly as a symbol
o fly o fly flying high!!!!

Oh transit give us a chance!
to represent us,
the true people of this land
show the world that you care
about a nation,
lost in it's own lands

im tellin u to

fly o,

waiata Copyright to mana whanau
video to tinorangatiratangatv1 nguha3

Tau - where’re all your bros now?

http://www.3news.co.nz/tabid/867/Default.aspx

13-Jan 14:30

Tau Henare is a crack up. Sitting pretty in the blue party, our Nga Puhi boy says he has little time for the idea of the Maori flag flying from the bridge this Waitangi Day. He reckons Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples is pushing the idea as a publicity stunt.

I found a speech of Henare's online when he was courting votes for Mauri Pacific. He said:

"The Government doesn't need to help Pakeha culture. It practically is Pakeha culture. But it does need to ensure the survival of Maori as a vibrant, modern culture here in its homeland. Naturally, the Treaty also tells us how to do this, through the protection of rangatiratanga."

The protection of Rangatiratanga? Flying two flags to represent the two peoples who signed the founding document of this land is surely protecting the rangatiratanga of Maori, isn't it?

Oh how time changes opinions, particularly when you're a politician. Tau Henare is now in Government , the one to which he once referred to as "practically pakeha". He's kept company by his tuahine, Georgina Te Heuheu who says she's not sure the flag actually represents Maori.

Has she forgotten the tens of thousands that marched behind and under it in the 2004 Hikoi to Parliament. I was there with my children, my Pakeha mum and the Tino flag flying above our heads, no one was complaining that day. In fact Georgina was one of those MPs welcoming and kissing iwi as they arrived holding their flags.

If it isn't the original or traditional flag it certainly is the one most New Zealanders identify with as being Maori. So with almost every other country's flag having had their moment flying above our Harbour Bridge, will Tangata Whenua get their chance? It'll be a first as will it be the new Prime Minister's first brown challenge when he arrives back from Hawaii this week.

I'll leave you with more from Henare's 1998 speech.

"It is a basic right of every culture to survive and flourish in its homeland. It is necessary to secure that right and put it beyond question, otherwise people will fight for it, as they are doing all round the world at this very moment. In New Zealand that right is enshrined in the concept of bi-culturalism which is inseparable from the Treaty. If bi-culturalism goes, so will the Treaty".

Kia ora bro , oh sorry , I mean Tau! What a lovely sentiment to remind us of Waitangi Day..

Nga mihi o te wa ki a tatou katoa hei tenei rangi whakahirahira e tuu mai nei.

Mauriora

See also:
Maori flag on bridge call a stunt - Henare
New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 11 Jan 2009