Protest

Today we have been about protesting I learnt about Parihaka, Women Suffrage, Black Life Mater, The Long Hikoi and Springbok Tour and more it was a lot of fun to learn about different protest and how it changed NZ hope you like my work.    

suffrage: women were not aloud to vote so they did something about it and they did then they got there right to vote.

union: it is when workers join together and fight to get a better payment  

watersider: A person who works on a wharf, a wharf is a place for ships to load and unload.

1. What is the name of the law that ensures we have a right to protest in NZ? The name of the right to protest in NZ is The Human Right Act. The Human Right Act is to ensure that everyone in NZ is treated fairly.

2. When did soldiers invaded Parihaka? On the 5 of November 1881 Maori dident fight back they did a peaceful protest.

3. How many women signed the Women's Suffrage petition? There is over 500 pages long and singed over 25.000 women.

4. What is New Zealand's most famous hikoi?  It is called The Maori Land March it started on September 1975.

Choose one of the protests from the article and summarise it in your own words. Answer who, what, when, where, and how? 

I'm going to do Parihaka, Parihaka was led by Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi. They wanted to make a peaceful protest so they did'int fight or yell they used words, they gave food to to the soldiers and sent kids to greet them to stop them from taking there land. They started on the 5 of November 1881 and it was set at the western Taranaki settlement. 

1. When you read this article, what does it remind you of? How New Zelanders changed the country and the world.

2. Have you ever seen or been involved in a protest? I have seen a protest but not been in one the protest I saw was black lives mater.