A number of Maori forums seem to be unreachable. Is this because there are so many people trying to access them or something more sinister? Is there anything activist techies can do to help?
Maori websites that seem to be unreachable at present:
manamotuhake.tuhoe.org/
www.aocafe.com/
aotearoalive.com/ (seems the domain has expired - maybe defunct?)
In fact the only Maori media site I can seem to get to at the moment is Maori Television which doesn't seem to have any coverage of the raids on Tuhoe:
www.maoritelevision.com/
Update:
OK, after a bit more checking I have found Te Karere Ipurangi which has a series of links to stories about the raids on other sites, mainly meanstream media:
maorinews.com/karere/
NZ City has a Maori news page but only one story about Tame Iti and that has bugger all about the raids themselves:
home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.asp
The NZ Herald has a number of a stories about the raids including these classic quotes:
"Police Association president Greg O'Connor said today the operation was a "reality check" for New Zealanders who dismissed the threat of home-grown terrorism."
"A roadblock stopped people from going to work, mirrors were used to search beneath cars and police examined under bonnets. People were stopped and had to stand in front of their car and hold a number while police photographed them."
www.nzherald.co.nz/feature/story.cfm
Indeed Greg, armed paramilitaries invading communities and homes around the country certainly sounds like home-grown terrorism to me.
If anyone knows anything about the downed sites or has links to Maori reporting on the Urewera 17 raids, please add them as comments. Maori have been disproportionately targeted in this operation, as in many cases in the sad history of the New Zealand colonization. It would be good to hear their story in their own voices.
Martin Crowe
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If the police have the server, site backups and database I doubt we'll see it online again. A great loss.
The related AoChat is also gone. It was the only secure online Maori chat room.
Certainly a deliberate (and racist) attack on the freedom of expression.
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indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/73887/index.php
Aocafe's been up for almost five years, and had thousands of threads. It was originally a more general forum, then turned more political after the Foreshore and Seabed theft. But there were many many topics there, mostly by Maori, some by other Indigenous people and supporters. If the police have the server and/or the site and database I doubt we'll see it again. A great loss.
The related Aochat - the only secure online Maori chatroom - is also offline.
Certainly an attack (and a racist one) on freedom of expression.
mpdntgmt
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WHAT NEXT?
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MM and AoCafe should grab setup sites on offshore servers, like Hong Kong, which serve a few "deemed illegal" sites. Its a few bucks more but the stormtroopers can't touch ya freedom of speech.
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Our site MIO went down in the week of the raids, it was hacked, coincidence? Are we next to get the plug pulled? The stories coming out of Tuhoe are BEING SUPPRESSED! Only so much is being told to the wider public - WHY? If all Maori Informative sites/forums go down, what the hell are we going to do about it? HIKOI TO PARLIAMENT - LET IT BE KNOWN INTERNATIONALLY - JUSTICE IS NOT BEING SERVED, "STOLE OUR LANDS, STEAL OUR RIGHTS, SUFFOCATE OUR VOICE NO MORE!" - THATS WHAT!
KIA KAHA
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should read : ...'like entering a site and turned to garble (I will paste)
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www.tangatawhenua.com
Kia ora!
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