Tapatahi – end of one chapter and start of another
A group of us started this He Kōrero Tapatahi blog in early 2023 as a voice for Tapatahi: Coalition for a Peoples Aotearoa. The Coalition brought together various national campaigns into a platform of progressive demands to challenge politicians in Aotearoa’s 2023 general election.
A lot has happened in the nearly three years since then.
Our bid to create a solid coalition was soon overtaken by the need to respond to immediate attacks on many fronts at once after the National/ACT/NZ First coalition took office and began its whirlwind of libertarian reform.
As the wrecking ball coalition swung into its agenda, our group dispersed to undertake more urgent resistance – against the Fast Tracking of new coal mines, the Treaty Principles and Regulatory Standards bills, the increasing militarisation of NZ’s foreign policy and more.
There’s been an upside to this ferment however as many more people start joining the dots. Many people now see more clearly how defending Te Tiriti helps keep big oil out of Aotearoa. And that keeping health and education services in public ownership is how we protect them and that taxing the rich is how we fund them - and this is how we protect Papatūānuku too.
Three years of witnessing the Gaza genocide and Trump’s increasingly undemocratic regime have led more people to a deeper understanding of how global oligarchic colonising capitalism works and what we are up against.
The need for a strong united progressive movement is even clearer now, and more people are debating how we can achieve it.
A new substack - Kia Tapatahi! Coming Together
It’s time now for us to acknowledge the end of Tapatahi as a coalition project. It brought together climate and Tiriti activists with civil disobedience experience, socialists and unionists with broad organising knowledge and de-growthers building networks of community survival in a productive alliance of mahi and learning.
Now the IT wizard who set up He Kōrero Tapatahi Substack, needs to withdraw from it. Substack accounts are allocated to individuals, not groups, and can’t be transferred. They can also be attached to the setup person’s credit cards, so that’s a problem.
So we are making He Kōrero Tapatahi inactive. The posts on the HKT Substack website will remain accessible, but no new subscriptions or comments will be available. Substack will eventually delete the site.
Torfrida Orme has set up a new Substack, Kia Tapatahi! Coming Together. The posts that Torfrida wrote for HKT will be transferred to the archive at the new site. The About section of the new substack gives the history of the Tapatahi project and the Pathway to Survival project that preceded it.
Please subscribe!
We invite He Kōrero Tapatahi subscribers to subscribe to Kia Tpatahi! Coming Together. Like HKT, this is intended to be a place for exploring how we can build a broad unified progressive movement in Aotearoa. A place to look at the benefits and tensions that emerge as we work to create alliances among different but aligned campaigns.
Have a look at the most recent post: “The climate movement has failed” Long live the revolution!
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