Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

Today we have back on Emmy for a second appearance and Kate who are involved in an indigenous

struggle in New Zealand at the moment.

Emmy and Kate, would you like to introduce yourselves?

Maybe say a bit about yourselves for people who don't know you?

And then maybe talk about how you got involved in this current struggle that we're going

to be covering today?

Hello again everyone.

My name is Emilia Rakiti.

I'm a Māori woman from New Zealand.

My ancestors actually aren't from the area that we're going to be talking about but because

it's happening in the city that I live in, the largest Polynesian city in the world Auckland.

I've been trying to get involved in this struggle as well and I'm a Māori caucus coordinator

for a social group here called Organised Aotearoa.

Kia ora everybody.

My name is Kate and I'm a also a member of Organised Aotearoa.

My ancestors came to Aotearoa from Cornwall, Scotland, Ireland, Sweden and parts of England

and I got involved in the campaign to protect the Humata a few months ago when I moved myself

up from Wellington and went to live at a place that we call Kaitiaki village which was a station

on this, there's these 33 hectares of land that we're trying to protect.

I pretty much only intended to stay awake but then I realised that I couldn't live.

I actually did go home for a couple of weeks and then I came back basically.

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