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Karlo Mila

@karlomila.bsky.social

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Angry at Facebook. Poet. PhD. Creator / Founder / Director / Facilitator of Mana Moana - an indigenous knowledge / decol leadership programme for Pacific peoples. Activist. Artist. Māmā. Former academic. Currently writing three books.

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · May 26

Good morning BlueSky a poem to break your heart and make you cry. Trigger warning: Suicide, Racism nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/05/26/p...

Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: ‘Evil Intensified’ by Karlo Mila

Trigger warning: suicide, racism This poem is offered in the spirit of fierce love, justice, historical accuracy and statistical clarity. It is offered at a time when: The latest UNICEF Innocenti R…

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Apr 28

That’s HUGE! Congrats. It sounds so sensible. All the best with the new Green Party start x

Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 31

Elite Brownies Fundraiser… 2mo $10 brownies, art, signed books and treats auction, April 1st, 4.30-7.30pm St Andrew’s on the Terrace church hall… Raising funds for 4 sexualised violence support services, Moana women MPs of the opposition and women harmed by racism. Come sugar-rush for good causes!

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 29

This is a great project!!!

Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 22

e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-... Super important that we can understand the discursive techniques so that we can catch them - and if in an interview with him - can challenge him when he’s talking! It takes some training but rhetoric devices can be spotted and challenged in the moment. It’s powerful.

Understanding political ventriloquism | E-Tangata

“David Seymour creates a shadowy force controlling our society, when in reality being tangata Tiriti or tangata whenua is a simple recognition of historical fact — not a set of restrictions.” — Brian ...

e-tangata.co.nz

Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 21

I’m so looking forward to this conversation 💜💜💜

Whiti Hereaka @whitihereaka.co.nz · Mar 20

Next Wednesday (26 March) I’ll be talking to @karlomila.bsky.social about “You Are Here” at Unity Books, Wellington. Please come along if you’re free at lunchtime!

www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...

Join us in the shop to hear from Whiti Hereaka talk about her recent book, You Are Here with artwork by Peata Larkin, published by Massey University Press. Whiti will be chatting with poet Karlo Mila about the creation of this book and the process of weaving of words and art.

www.unitybooks.co.nz

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 18

Concur

Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 11

Inclusion, respect, equality. Such terribly wide awake brains consider these. Nana naps… going back to sleep, numbing, dumbing, lobotomy material. It’s the revenge of the privileged feeling like they are not good enough even without their obvious advantages…

Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · Mar 10

Just asking for one reporter to challenge these fuckers on their use of this childish language and to ask them why they think respect and inclusion within a multicultural society are bad things.

PM joins NZ First's 'anti-woke crusade'

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has joined New Zealand First's anti-woke crusade and says he's open to adopting some of his coalition partner's ideas.

New Zealand First last week proposed new legislation which it said would end "woke left-wing social engineering and diversity targets" in the public sector.

Christopher Luxon told reporters the government has plans to overhaul the Public Service Act to ensure it is a "meritocracy".

He said he would look at New Zealand First's bill to see whether it could be incorporated.

When we took the keys to the place, it was pretty woke, and it's entirely appropriate that we actually look at, what else we can do to make sure the public service delivers."

Luxon said Public Service Minister Judith Collins was "definitely not woke".

Speaking to media later, Collins agreed with Luxon's assessment, declaring herself to be "the least woke person" around.

"People work really hard, in my experience, and they really do need to be looked at as humans, not just as putting labels on people," she said.

"People want respect. They don't want labels."

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 11

Omg I cannot concur more.

Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 11

Gaslit!!!

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 10

Hahahaha!

Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 9

Grateful for a functioning judiciary

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 9

Avoid

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 8

Topped with imaginary marmite

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Sarah Pallett @sarah4ilam.bsky.social · Mar 4

Advice for our allegedly Christian PM.
When Jesus said
“Suffer the little children...”
he really didn’t mean
“Make the little children suffer”

Just saying.

#nzpol

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 4

“All these fools, however, find other fools who will vote them in.” 😂😂😂

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 3

He has no idea of how much families are struggling under his watch. “Let them eat cake.” This man only knows privilege and doesn’t even know his own privilege.

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 3

Whoa. Thank you Tory ❤️

Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · Mar 2

This report shows Wellington Water has had poor procurement processes, potential for fraud, & a lack of value for money. I'm deeply disturbed by these findings. It is unacceptable ratepayers have potentially been ripped off by WWL & its contractors. 🧵1/4

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605... #nzpol

Reports reveal Wellington Water paying three times more than necessary for pipe work

Ministers, mayors, briefed on inflated costs and weak financial oversight after blistering report lays bare how Wellington ratepayers have been stung.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 2

Palau and Marshall Islands vote with the U.S. :( This is why Tino Rangatiratanga in Moana-Nui is so important.

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 2

“Nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.”James Baldwin

Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 1

Lolz!

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Mar 1

#rubio

Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 1

I feel like the media can become quite subversive by their photo choice and the photo choice - in light of what’s happening in the world is 😂 and 👎 which is not a good sign for him.

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 1

🇵🇸 :(

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 1

Aargh. Whakamaa Aotearoa.

CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · Feb 28

NZ fishing industry mouthpiece (sorry, I meant govt) refused to give @greenpeace.org.nz the coords of where a bottom trawler dredged up corals (a sign it was fishing on seamounts) on the Lord Howe Rise in the Tasman.
... so the Australians gave it to them 😂 #nzpol
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

Greenpeace obtains coordinates of coral destruction NZ Government refused to reveal - Greenpeace Aotearoa

The New Zealand government is refusing to release details of the location a New Zealand bottom trawler hauled up deep sea coral late last year, despite Greenpeace offering to go and survey the site.

www.greenpeace.org

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · Mar 1

😂😂😂

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