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Freedom and Uprising, with Fleur Doree

  • Writer: taylorpamela77
    taylorpamela77
  • Sep 30, 2023
  • 2 min read

Fluer Doree was born in the Bay of Plenty New Zealand. She grew up as a Country girl with pet horses, chickens, cats, and dogs. She is a Singer and Song Writer who also plays the guitar. She currently lives on a 10 Acre Property with five horses and drinks fresh well water instead of from the City Water supply. She spends her time gardening and growing as much food as she can. She is a Christian who is concerned about the things that has been happening in New Zealand and around the World over the past three years under the United Nations Agenda 2030.

In her Album Freedom the Uprising, released 04 August 2023, it includes the songs 1. Freedom 2. One Love 3. Where are the hearts of Gold 4. Rise Up 5. I Remember When you were my Best Friend 6. Revolution 7. In Unity we could Save the World and 8. Who will make a Change.


Her song "Who will make a Change" was written after the sleepy townships of Taneatua and Ruatoki were changed on October 15, 2007. The government ordered police to conduct the "Urewera raids". About 300 police, including members of the Armed Offenders Squad and Special Tactics Group, were involved in the raids. The police raids were contrary to law and unreasonable, innocent people had been unnecessarily frightened and intimidated by the Police. The Human Rights Commission received 31 complaints about police actions during the raids, including being stopped at a roadblock at Ruatoki and being photographed without consent, Policemen dressed in black burst on to the school bus, their machine guns were drawn causing the children to scream in fear. Williams was detained at gunpoint on the lawn outside her workplace and told to lie face-down for three to four hours. She was neither arrested nor charged, nor told she was free to leave. Police maintained a strong presence in Ruatoki in the days following the initial raids and continued to question locals. The Police raids were highly controversial, and their legitimacy was debated by politicians, the media and the public. Ten thousand people participated in protests across New Zealand in the weeks following the raids. In March 2012, the cost to the taxpayer of the Police Raids was estimated to be well over NZ$14 million. Fluer Doree took part in the Protest walks in Auckland against the Police raids on innocent people by holding them down and threatening to harm them with machine guns. It was the first time she had ever protested, and it influenced her as her song "Who will make a Change" was written about it.



 
 
 

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