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Kaupapa Māori motif brandingEach course carries a motif and colour that reflects its whakaaro — niho taniwha for teeth at the threshold, unaunahi for scales of mutual aid, kōwhaiwhai for painted rafters of shared meaning, koru for unfurling growth, tākarangi for the double spiral, and pā tūwatawata for the fortified home course.

AI Warrior — The Kiwi Dialectic FREE SUBSCRIBER

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Niho taniwha — teeth at the threshold. The parent course of the six-thinkers series.

To claim this pou tohu you must (1) be a Kiwi Dialectic subscriber, (2) read all lessons, (3) post your completion reflection in the course chat thread. Robert awards the badge by reply with your name added below the SVG.

Gramsci for Aotearoa FREE SUBSCRIBER

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Niho taniwha — teeth at the threshold of hegemony.

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Kropotkin & Mutual Aid FREE SUBSCRIBER

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Unaunahi — overlapping scales, collective armour. Cooperation as survival.

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Graeber: Debt, Bullshit Jobs & Direct Democracy FREE SUBSCRIBER

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Kōwhaiwhai — ture, whakapapa, tikanga. Debt as the first 5,000 years.

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He Ako mo ngā Umanga Mahi Ngātahi — How to Start a Cooperative in Aotearoa FREE SUBSCRIBER

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Koru — new life, unfurling. How to start a cooperative in Aotearoa.

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Pedagogy of the Algorithm — Freire mō Aotearoa FREE SUBSCRIBER

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Kōwhaiwhai — the first law of the classroom. The banking model, refused.

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Gilles Deleuze for Educators, Artists, and Organisers FREE SUBSCRIBER

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Tākarangi — spirals of past and future. Rhizomes, assemblages, lines of flight.

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Tangi o te Tāheke — Bakunin mō Aotearoa FREE SUBSCRIBER

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Niho taniwha — the teeth of refusal. Te tāheke tears down what dams the awa.

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AI Literacy for Families — a 6-week household course FREE SUBSCRIBER

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Koru — the household unfurling. If AI Warrior trains the organiser, this trains the household.

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Te Pā Tūwatawata — AI, tikanga & data sovereignty FREE SUBSCRIBER

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Pā tūwatawata — the fortified palisade. Organised sovereignty. The namesake motif.

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Twelve Leverage Points — Meadows for Aotearoa FREE SUBSCRIBER

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Takarangi — the double spiral of te ao Māori. Meadows tier 1 (transcend paradigms) meets Aotearoa's kōrero on systems and mana motuhake.

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