Recap: Te Hui Oranga 2024

After 40 years since its first iteration, Te Kuaka organisers revived Te Hui Oranga o te Moana nui a Kiwa, bringing ten representatives from across the Pacific to Aotearoa to discuss issues affecting our shared ocean.

It was an energetic week of workshopping, listening to stories of organising, building power and collective resistance, from activists all over Te Moana Nui a Kiwa. Before the weekend programme, we welcomed manuhiri with a tour around the region, including with a visit to Ihumātao, and a trip to learn about the whakapapa of the land struggles in Whāingaroa.

Thank you to everyone who made this event, two years in the making, a huge success!

The Declaration of Whāingaroa

Our manuhiri also produced and presented the Whāingaroa Declaration (which you can read here), calling for renewed solidarity from Aotearoa towards decolonisation, demilitarisation and ecological justice. Watch the presentation of it below (big thanks to Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara for filming and editing this video).  

Read more about the weekend in this write-up by Te Aniwaniwa Paterson, and check out this article featuring one of our guests from Kanaky, Reverend Billy Wetewea.