Muna Lee: A Maori Māmā's Perspective On Vaccination Of Māori: Gift Or Guinea Pigs?

Muna Lee is a woman of many talents and a māmā of four strong, healthy, unvaccinated children. Her lifestyle is holistically centred around Mauri and Ora (strength and health of our intrinsic life-force). Muna believes that as practitioners of traditional art forms, health practices and knowledge keepers, we must stand to protect our whakapapa (DNA) to ensure the health and wellbeing of our future generations.

In this talk Muna discusses:

Raising unvaccinated children, her frustration with the media fear based reporting on the measles and her experience coming out as a mum that had chosen a different path from the usual.

Parihaka in Taranaki and about how the key to our future success may lie in the strategies and strength of how her whakapapa responded to the government at that time..

The problematic labelling of Māori as “vulnerable people” in the context of the vaccine rollout. She voices her concerns with the lack of transparency, the inadequate safety data and the ongoing trials. She also raises a perplexing question: are Māori receivers of a “gift” or being used as “guinea pigs”?.

This recording was made at our Voices For Freedom “Covid19 Response” Discussion & Dinner Event in February 2021. We were honoured to have Muna Lee as one of our speakers. Keep an eye out for further videos coming here from our Covid19 Response Discussion and also visit https://voicesforfreedom.co.nz/lockdown-tv/ for full length presentations.