Happening today at Waitākere – the 50 year anniversary of the Polynesian Panthers, which was was a revolutionary social justice movement formed by young people to target racial inequalities carried out against Māori and Pacific Islanders in Tāmaki Makaurau.
“They were searching for something positive—the life their families moved to New Zealand to create, as opposed to the oppressive policies and poverty keeping their cultures and communities downtrodden.”
