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Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern

Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern
""WE ARE THE ONES WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR": Mariameno Kapa-Kingi's Full Declaration, the Implosion of Te Pāti Māori, and Why the North Is Rewriting Māori Politics From the Ground Up" - 12 May 2026

""WE ARE THE ONES WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR": Mariameno Kapa-Kingi's Full Declaration, the Implosion of Te Pāti Māori, and Why the North Is Rewriting Māori Politics From the Ground Up" - 12 May 2026

One man's ego fractured a movement. One woman's courage is rebuilding it. And this white supremacist government is praying you don't notice.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 12 May 2026
"THE NUMBERS ARE A LOADED GUN — AND IT'S POINTED AT YOUR WHĀNAU" - 12 May 2026

"THE NUMBERS ARE A LOADED GUN — AND IT'S POINTED AT YOUR WHĀNAU" - 12 May 2026

How the NZ Herald's Poll of Polls Manufactures Coalition Inevitability While Māori Representation Bleeds Out on the Floor

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 12 May 2026
"THE ARSONIST CALLS THE FIRE A MYTH: HOW CHRISTOPHER LUXON TORCHED 305,000 FUTURES AND LIED ABOUT THE SMOKE" - 11 May 2026

"THE ARSONIST CALLS THE FIRE A MYTH: HOW CHRISTOPHER LUXON TORCHED 305,000 FUTURES AND LIED ABOUT THE SMOKE" - 11 May 2026

He held the briefing that proved it worked. He killed it anyway. Then he looked Māori rangatahi in the eye and called their opportunity a failure. This is not incompetence — this is colonial violence with a PowerPoint.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 11 May 2026
"THE GHOST PASSENGER: How Simeon Brown's Corpse of a Health System Left a Hantavirus Time Bomb Walking Free Among Our Whānau" - 11 May 2026

"THE GHOST PASSENGER: How Simeon Brown's Corpse of a Health System Left a Hantavirus Time Bomb Walking Free Among Our Whānau" - 11 May 2026

They found hazmat suits for the passengers on the ship. They found military planes for the Americans. They found a quarantine protocol — eventually — for the Kiwi still aboard. They have said nothing about the one who has been home for sixteen days.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 11 May 2026
"THEY BUILT HER A STAGE AND CALLED IT PROGRESS: How the National-Led Government Destroyed the First Wahine Māori Political Editor — and the Right-Wing Operative Who Pulled the Trigger" - 10 May 2026

"THEY BUILT HER A STAGE AND CALLED IT PROGRESS: How the National-Led Government Destroyed the First Wahine Māori Political Editor — and the Right-Wing Operative Who Pulled the Trigger" - 10 May 2026

They couldn't muzzle her mahi, so they lit the kindling themselves — waited nine months for a former National Party operative to strike the match — and whānau lost the only Māori taiaha in the press gallery, three weeks before Budget Day.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 10 May 2026
"THE POLISHED BOOT ON PAPATŪĀNUKU'S NECK" - 10 May 2026

"THE POLISHED BOOT ON PAPATŪĀNUKU'S NECK" - 10 May 2026

How Rocket Lab's $2.8 Billion Sugar Hit Is Built on Māori Land, Trump's War Machine, and Your Government's Submission

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 10 May 2026
"The Taniwha Who Wears the Crown's Feathers: Tania Tapsell and the Twelve Ways She Serves the Machine That Devours Her Own People" - 10 May 2026

"The Taniwha Who Wears the Crown's Feathers: Tania Tapsell and the Twelve Ways She Serves the Machine That Devours Her Own People" - 10 May 2026

A National Party operative sits in the mayor's chair of the most Māori city in Aotearoa — dismantling Māori structural power, one council vote at a time, and calling it leadership.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 10 May 2026
THE LADDER THIEVES: How Nicola Willis and Winston Peters Burned the Bridge to Tomorrow and Called the Smoke "Fiscal Responsibility" - 10 May 2026

THE LADDER THIEVES: How Nicola Willis and Winston Peters Burned the Bridge to Tomorrow and Called the Smoke "Fiscal Responsibility" - 10 May 2026

They ripped the ladder from under tauira Māori, handed the timber to their donors, and told the children falling that gravity was their own fault.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 10 May 2026
"THE WAITING ROOM IS A GRAVE: How a White Supremacist Neoliberal Government Starved Primary Care, Sold the Body to Corporates, and Called It Health Reform" - 7 May 2026

"THE WAITING ROOM IS A GRAVE: How a White Supremacist Neoliberal Government Starved Primary Care, Sold the Body to Corporates, and Called It Health Reform" - 7 May 2026

They defunded your doctor, handed your hospital to three private companies, installed a commissioner who "cooked the books," dismantled the Māori Health Authority — and Māori whānau are paying with their lives.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 07 May 2026
"The Watchdog They Shot: How Paul Goldsmith Handed Sean Plunket a Licence to Hate" - 7 May 2026

"The Watchdog They Shot: How Paul Goldsmith Handed Sean Plunket a Licence to Hate" - 7 May 2026

While Māori radio news goes silent and mātauranga Māori is left unguarded, a white supremacist neoliberal government gifts its loudest bigot a free pass — and calls it freedom. One independent voice remains standing.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 07 May 2026
"The Curriculum Coup: Stanford's Three-Act Colonial Performance — and the Lie That Ties Them All Together" - 6 May 2026

"The Curriculum Coup: Stanford's Three-Act Colonial Performance — and the Lie That Ties Them All Together" - 6 May 2026

A Florida-trained, Atlas Network-funded, NDA-gagged recolonisation programme wearing the costume of "achievement" — and a minister who called every kaiako in Aotearoa a "vocal minority" when they noticed.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 06 May 2026
THE MURU IN PLAIN SIGHT: How a White Supremacist Neoliberal Government Is Bulldozing Māori Democracy Into the Drain — and Calling It Efficiency - 5 May 2026

THE MURU IN PLAIN SIGHT: How a White Supremacist Neoliberal Government Is Bulldozing Māori Democracy Into the Drain — and Calling It Efficiency - 5 May 2026

They didn't take your seat at the table. They took the table, replaced it with a board of mayors who were never elected to speak for you, gave them three months to rubber-stamp their own extinction, and told the press it was about ratepayer value.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 05 May 2026
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