Protest Music Festival at IhumÄtao this saturday!

I've been invited to play - with my bandÂ The Triptonites - at this interesting event on the weekend - a democratic takeover of what's technically a Fletcher owned title. Parliament now needs to step in and purchase it from FBU is my call. Official site:Â www.protectihumatao.comÂ If you have not, please Sign The Petition

IhumÄtao Reclamation Festival

Saturday 2 March 2019

11am - 8pm

Kaitiaki Village, Auckland, kicks off with a pÅwhiri at 11.00am

Featuring: The Triptonites, Rise Era, Tom Scott, The IhumÄtao Band, DLT, Kaupapa Driven, Upper Hutt Posse, Carlos Hendrix, Ladi 6, Unity Pacific, Che Fu, King Kapisi, Eno x Dirty, NRG, Him, Raiza Biza, Midnight Poetry band, The Fuzzies, New Telepathics, Kiko, Imagine This, Labretta Suede & The Motel 6

The under the radar event page has great info, as does their facebook event page.

Essentially this land was stolen from the natives at the start of the land wars, Leonie Hayden puts it well in her article on the matter:

IhumÄtao, a west-facing peninsula on the shore of Aucklandâ€™s Manukau Harbour, is the cityâ€™s oldest settlement. In 1863, the land was illegally confiscated from MÄori. Sacred hills were quarried, 800-year-old burial sites were demolished, archaeological remains were destroyed, a sewage-treatment plant was built over traditional fishing grounds, and a dye spill killed the local creek. Now IhumÄtao has been designated a Special Housing Area, without public consultation, and a development of nearly 500 houses is in progress. But for some tangata whenua, enough is enough.

1971 pic thanks to aotearoarocks.blogspot.com