I saw the news this morning and heard that some maori from up north are doing a Hikoi (walk) from Northland to Wellington to protest the foreshore/seabed legislation. Well actually it is more of a drive than a walk but they do get out of their cars to create traffic chaos in Auckland; ie walking over the harbour bridge. Shouldn't they be walking around the foreshore rather than walking over a structure built by the Europeans?
When Ally from Breakfast asked the organiser why they were driving instead of walking, he told her that he didn't want to get into the semantics of it. If they could have got a jet and flown to Wellington they would have done that.
*shakes head*
Hikoi = walk
They should stop calling their protest a Hikoi if that's not what they're doing. Maybe they don't have a maori word for drive/walk. |