[Imc-aotearoa-video] Bastion Point doco on Maori TV

[Danyl Strype]

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FIY:

Emily wrote:
For those who enjoy documentaries detailing New Zealand's past, Maori
Television will be featuring the occupation of Bastion Point in their
archival slot, He Raranga Korero (Wednesdays at 9.30pm).

Accomplished film and television producer Tainui Stephens (Te Rarawa)
fronts the show's fourth series which includes studio-based interviews
with contemporary commentators at the end of each episode. Upcoming
highlights of He Raranga Korero include:

Bastion Point: The Untold Story ? Wednesday November 15 at 9.30pm:
This 1999 documentary looks at events before and after a dramatic
chapter in New Zealand's race relations history, the year-and-a-half
long occupation by Auckland tribe Ngati Whatua at Bastion Point. In
the studio, Stephens interviews former Justice Minister Sir Douglas
Graham and Ngati Whatua tribal elder Joe Hawke.
The Flagstaff, shown in this image, represents the occupation of
Orakei. (Bastion Point) in the struggle for Maori land rights. Filmed
by the only crew permitted in the occupied area, Bastion Point ? Day
507 concentrates on the 507th day of the occupation, when protesters
were forcibly removed by the police and military forces.Bastion Point:
Day 507 ? Wednesday November 22 at 9.30pm: The only film crew, led by
Merata Mita, permitted in the occupied area of Auckland's Bastion
Point by Ngati Whatua of Orakei documents the 507th day when the
protestors were forcibly removed by the police and military forces.
Stephens interviews iwi members Joe and Taiaha Hawke in the studio.

Joe Hawke (pictured here on the left) led the occupation of Bastion
Point. If you are interested we have come across two excellent sound
recordings which chronicle the occupation of Bastion Point,
Takaparawha, which for 507 days and ended in 1978 with a paramilitary
exercise which evicted many of Joe Hawke's supporters. This programme
backgrounds (28mins) some of the circumstances in which the people of
Tamakimakaurau, Ngati Whatua, lost their lands since the time that
settlers arrived from Great Britain. Joe Hawke talks about his
ancestors, their settlement in the Auckland area, and how successive
governments have had a hand in the de-settlement of his people.

The second programme (5mins) introduces coverage of the eviction of
protesters from Bastion Point, Auckland, where Maori land rights
activists have been occupying land they claim to be theirs. Protesters
perform haka, the Assistant Commissioner of Police Bill Overton and
Commissioner of Crown Lands George McMillan addresses the crowd from
an open Land Rover, the protest leader Joe Hawke says they will
rebuild the marae, and David Steemson reports from the Auckland
Central Police Station where protesters are being charged.

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