lecture 19 - polynesian panthers

Question 1

polynesian panthers overview

Answer 1

polynesians migrated in 1940-50s
16/17 year old activists/revolutionists
first meeting was 16th June 1971

Question 1

polynesian panthers actions

Answer 1

-legal aid pamplet written with David Long (criminal lawyer, future prime minister)
-tenant aid brigade (TAB) now Tenants Tribunal + rent strikes
-police investigation groups (PIG patrol) now Police Conduct Authority
-homework centres
-paremoremo prison visits
-community programmes (xmas parties, food coops, seniors concerts and outings)
-protests (dawn raids, springbok tour 1986, bastion point, maori land march)

Question 2

polynesian panthers collaborations

Answer 2

-black panther party usa
-mayor of auckland (sir dove-meyer-robinson) gave them an office
-politicians: minister of justice
-nga tamatoa
-CARE
-Halt All Racist Tours (HART)

Question 3

Dawn raids
overstayers demographics
time period

Answer 3

30% polynesian
70% US, South africa, UK

but accounted for 80% of arrests and deportations because targeted

1974-1976
Auckland: 200 houses raided, 856 random check on streets, 23 overstayers located

wellington: 141 houses raided, 172 questioned, 16 overstayers

Question 4

apology objectives

Answer 4

polynesian community - monetary compensation, pathways to citizenship

panthers - education of outcomes: Polynesian Panther Party history/dawn raids/ colonisation taught in schools

-apology 50 years later holds government accountable

Question 5

racism definition

Answer 5

any individual action or institutional practice backed by institutional power which subordinates or negatively affects people because of their ethnicity

Question 6

5 points of brown minds matter

Answer 6

-racism as as social determinant and resulting health inequities as pervasive public health crisis

-institutionalised racism perpetuates the school to prison pipeline and is a combination of resource starvation: physical, emotional, and overly punitive disciplinary systems

-the theory of racial inequality and social integration perpetuates SSP and creates a public health emergency for maori and pacific youth

-the polynesian panthers platform - educate to liberate - and evidence based best practices for way forward

-the role of internalised racism on the psychological functioning and risk behaviours in brown youth

Question 7

3 point panther platform

Answer 7

1.) peaceful resistance against racism and eradicate all forms of racism
2.) celebrate your own ethnicity
3.) educate to liberate