Maori activist hopes to meet Gadaffi
NZPA Auckland The Maori independence activist, Syd Jackson, says he expects to meet the Libyan leader, Colonel Gadaffi, when he goes to Libya in two weeks. The Libyan Government will pay for Mr Jackson and another Maori nationalist campaigner, Deidre Nehua, to visit Libya for 10 days. Mr Jackson said they would tell of New Zea-
land’s colonial oppression of Maoris and find if there was any possibility of loans or aid from Arab countries to Maori organisations.
He said he believed he would be able to meet Colonel Gadaffi.
Mr Jackson expected a backlash of “blind prejudice” against his trip. The Opposition member of Parliament for Hobson, Mr Ross Meurant, called the trip “tantamount to
treason.” Mr Jackson said if was | a predictable response. ■ Mr Jackson, who is secretary of the Northern Clerical Workers’ Union, said he | would tell his union executive of his trip at its meeting on March 15.
“I anf taking annual leave for the trip and I expect members will accept that any worker taking leave is entitled to go where he wants.”
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