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In today’s increasingly interconnected world where environmental degradation, war profiteering, misogyny, police brutality and white privilege can no longer be denied, I see our being recognised as according also with progressive activism over the last decade – from Occupy Wall Street and Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter, Me Too, and protests against that miserable good-for-nothing skirt-chaser in the White House.– Dean Hapeta, on Upper Hutt Posse being inducted into The NZ Music Hall of Fame, 18 November 2018, Vodafone NZ Music Awards press release
That is my life — radicalism, the fight against oppression, that’s me, that’s all I want to do. People who know me know that’s all I want to talk about, or talk about music. Those are my topics: politics, struggle and music. I’m happy, I’ve found what I want to do...– Dean Hapeta, on being a musical activist, Te Ao Māori News, November 2018
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