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Which clip would you like to embed? Last weekend, he was there again for the 40th anniversary of the eviction. Mere could be very intimidating, but that day she was bubbling with goodwill and excitement.
It was actually a challenge to the authorities. He said the garden, and perhaps by implication, the whole protest, was too late. Denis wept. Perhaps he saw a sign that Rongo, god of peace and agriculture, blessed the occupation. My first visit to Bastion Point was at Easter that year. A group of friends and flatmates drove up from Wellington in my old van.
At the gate, we were stopped and asked if we could take the van to collect some carpet for the new meeting house, Arohanui. I was directed to a school, which had some old carpet stored underneath the buildings. We took it back to Bastion Point, rolled it out, then laid out our sleeping bags.
I was not a fluent speaker then, so I could be quite wrong about this. It sounded archaic, a link to a distant past, to the mana o te whenua. She was a pool of calm amid all the activity, and the kids listened quietly to her story of the persecution, crucifixion, and resurrection of a social justice activist. We organised meetings, hosted speakers, stuck up posters and handed out pamphlets.
During winter the camp was wet, windy and freezing cold — and the ground became a bog. The physical and emotional demands of staying on the land saw numbers dwindle to just a few people each night.
But, whenever the government prepared to pounce, supporters rallied and hundreds returned to the camp. Five-year-old Joannee Hawke died in a fire at the camp one night. I thought about the emotional burden on the leaders, and wondered how the occupation could continue. It suddenly seemed like a life and death struggle. But they proved that they were deadly serious. Spring came, a year had passed, and the occupation remained strong. Then autumn heralded another winter.
Could we last another year? This was it! I was sure the eviction would happen in the early hours of the following Monday morning. In Wellington, I went to a party on Saturday night, committed to going to Bastion Point if I could persuade one other person to join me.
I set off hitchhiking on Sunday morning. By 3pm I was only in Levin. He offered me a bed for the night, but I really wanted to get to Auckland before the arrests.
No cellphones then. That meant I could decline a ride that might leave me stranded in Cambridge. Go to the site map page Go to the search page Go to the contact us page To to the Government Portal www.
Maori leadership and equality Urban Maori Maori land rights. Bastion Point. Reproduced courtesy of Hawke Whanau Trust. If they were going to take us off, make their job hard by going limp.
After the protesters were removed and were arrested, an army bulldozer and demolition teams knocked down the meeting house and other structures. Hawke said she, her grandparents, brothers and many others were charged with wilful trespass, but court action was formally stayed against nearly all of them.
But no sooner had the protesters been removed than they vowed to return, which they did. Historical amnesia about what had gone before us was blown away. The Government accepted the tribunal's findings. Joe Hawke, who served two terms as a Labour MP, is now 78 and lives just m from the site of the occupation's meeting house, says the protest was the right thing to do. We're rebuilding our economic power through land, through being owners of land.
By: Martin Johnston. Police encircle protesters ahead of the mass arrests to end the occupation of the disputed land at Bastion Point on May 25, Sharon Hawke was 15 when she joined the Bastion Point protest, led by her father Joe, who is now The death of Joannee Manumea Cooper-Hawke, 5, in an accidental fire at the Bastion Point occupation nearly ended the protest aciton.
Sharon Hawke at the memorial of her cousin Joannee Cooper-Hawke who died aged 5 near the same spot in in an accidental fire at the Bastion Point occupation. Scant details were available at the time and she was 5, not 9 as reported. Protesters at Bastion Point, May
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