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1. Ika Makimaki (pezmico@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 16:05:48 JST Ika Makimaki

   Students at Freyburg High School in Palmerston North perform an impromptu haka protesting politician David Seymour.

   Their school is one of many at risk of losing their free lunch school program, currently 'under review' by Seymour.

   The kids are alright.

   "Pōkokohua."
   #NZPol

   • Ika Makimaki (pezmico@mastodon.nz)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 15:57:36 JST Ika Makimaki

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     Unsurprisingly, the school's principal is taking the bootlicker position and denouncing the students for standing up for themselves and their culture peacefully yet forcefully.

     The students were courageous but restrained.
     The school is cowardly and frankly, teaching them all the wrong lessons.

     Making Māori lives materially worse: acceptable.
     Protesting the person doing that: totally unacceptable.

     The kids are alright, it's the adults who are embarrassing.

     https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511779/freyberg-high-school-says-students-behaviour-during-seymour-s-visit-totally-unacceptable

     #NZPol

   • Ika Makimaki (pezmico@mastodon.nz)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 15:57:37 JST Ika Makimaki

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     Report by stuff (with video from a different angle) here:
     #NZPol
     https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350212968/students-protest-spit-front-david-seymour-during-school-visit

     Aral Balkan repeated this.