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Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:38 am, March 12th, 2010 - 13 comments
Who would have thought that a Facebook group advocating to keep Radio NZ funded and commercial-free would overtake Prime Minister John Key’s fan group for number of members?
Well, yesterday at 9.30, just over three weeks since it was founded, the Save Radio New Zealand group reached 18,973 members, passing Key’s 18,972.
That gives a taste of …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 5:41 pm, March 4th, 2010 - 27 comments
Now this is pretty damn funny and just adds to todays absurdities over the waste of money on rugby world cup TV in 2011. Veteran Springbok Tour protester John Minto has found himself at the centre of a new Eden Park storm, with a controversial plan to name a nearby $3 million road after him.
Will the supercity transition authority now want to stop community boards from naming streets?
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 3:02 pm, February 24th, 2010 - 15 comments
The Save Radio New Zealand group on Facebook now has 13,600 members and today (the 25th) there will be an event at Parliament between 1 and 2. It won’t be your typical rowdy protest, instead the idea is to bring along your radio and something to eat and drink, and have a mass picnic on the lawn.
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 11:55 am, February 22nd, 2010 - 2 comments
A group called PublicZone have just released an iPhone app aimed at staying in contact with (UK) MPs a little easier.
The app uses the GPS, email and web capabilites of the iPhone to allow constituents to track, contact and discuss issues with their local MP.
Click the thumbnails below for larger images.
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 9:09 am, February 16th, 2010 - 4 comments
There’s a demo at Parliament today to protest against the Government’s ACC bill, which raises levies, cuts Kiwis’ entitlements and paves the way for privatisation. If you’re in the CBD make sure you head down in your lunch break.
MARCH AND RALLY FOR ACC
TODAY 16TH February
12.30pm – Parliament
Written By: the sprout - Date published: 7:00 am, February 16th, 2010 - 58 comments
Tabloid trash mag Woman’s Day has being paying someone to follow Alison Mau and her family to take pictures to fuel their prurient interest in her personal life, according to a statement by Mau on TVNZ’s Breakfast.
In her statement Mau pleaded for Woman’s Day Editor Sarah Henry to “call off the dogs” and the “creepy guy in a …
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 10:41 am, February 13th, 2010 - 13 comments
Protests are taking place around the country today against the National Government’s miserable 25 cent increase to the minimum wage.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 1:42 pm, January 21st, 2010 - 19 comments
No Right Turn has a post about the weirdness of the police forces in Britain at present. Elements of our own police force have been acting just as weirdly about ‘terrorism’ over the past years bringing a new era of police stupidity and police doing actions that are subsequently found to be illegal1.
Joking about terrorism …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 3:17 pm, January 17th, 2010 - 28 comments
Deborah Coddington, former ACT MP and author of the filthy racist article “Asian Angst: Is it time to send some back?” that killed North & South’s reputation, waffles on about ’snitches’ in her Herald on Sunday article.
Coddington says snitching – informing the public or the authorities when someone is doing something bad or illegal in secret - is …
Written By: rocky - Date published: 10:16 pm, January 12th, 2010 - 96 comments
UPDATE 14/01 – my Summary of Facts
My only charge is still obstructs police – seemingly because I refused to comply with an unlawful request. Note the fact that they haven’t charged me with disorderly behaviour must mean they realise my use of a megaphone was not unlawful. I have no doubt at all that I …
Written By: rocky - Date published: 10:20 pm, January 8th, 2010 - 98 comments
As lprent has already posted: I was arrested today for chanting on a megaphone. This is the third time I have been arrested for the same thing.
As I mentioned yesterday, there was the broiler conference protests in 2005 which led to a precedent being set in the High Court that it is valid to use …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 3:57 pm, January 8th, 2010 - 42 comments
Granny reports that there have been more arrests.
Damn, we’re due to head off to Young Labours summer school in Otaki shortly.
Be interesting to see if she will accept the restricted bail conditions preventing her from going within 500 metres of the tennis court. Especially as I’m not sure if that would cover the area where …
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:04 am, January 8th, 2010 - 131 comments
On Wednesday, Japanese whalers tried to murder five New Zealanders. There is no other way to put it. They ran down a ship many times smaller than theirs in the high seas. It is only luck that the ramming did not sink the Ady Gil. The lives of the crew of the Ady Gil were …
Written By: rocky - Date published: 10:52 pm, January 7th, 2010 - 122 comments
John Darroch called today to inform me that the police were starting to round up and arrest protesters, and that they had three paddywagons ready. I turned up at the protest 10 minutes later and it was pretty much all over. John D, John Minto, and three others had been arrested, and everyone else seemed …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 7:52 am, January 7th, 2010 - 79 comments
Idiot Savant at No Right Turn points out that the police (once again1) are violating the law surrounding protest and dissent. The post is reproduced with permission.
Two years ago, we saw a significant victory for the right to protest in New Zealand, with the Supreme Court ruling in Brooker v. Police. The court reinterpreted …
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 4:28 pm, December 30th, 2009 - 15 comments
With so much attention on climate change, and such a lack of concern, urgency and commitment to action from the current Tory government you would think it would be something labour would be working hard on, and be busy drafting detailed policy and vocally demanding action be taken. The Copenhagen climate summit was a cop …
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 6:09 pm, December 21st, 2009 - 25 comments
Two protests today successfully highlighted the role of New Zealand’s agricutural industry and business community in contributing to climate change.
The first protest involved a blockade of the NZ Stock Exchange entrance and resulted in nine arrests.
In the second action two activists scaled the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade for four hours …
Written By: rocky - Date published: 9:21 am, December 21st, 2009 - 89 comments
Text from John Darroch a couple of minutes ago:
hey just hanging ten stories up the mfat building in welly protesting against fonterror regarding climate change
Nice one John – according to NZPA you’re only four stories up. Hope you get your point across and make it down safely!
Great to see some action following on …
Written By: r0b - Date published: 7:47 am, December 21st, 2009 - 30 comments
I’m trying not to get too depressed about the lack of an outcome at Copenhagen. As one analyst put it – “Leaders came to Copenhagen to rewrite history and left having made a few notes in the margin”. Not good enough. However, with or without a formal agreement, it was always going …
Written By: r0b - Date published: 7:39 am, December 18th, 2009 - 67 comments
Photograph: Christian Charisius/Reuters
Earlier in the year there was a lot of media attention on the police tactics at the G20 Summit in London. How depressing to see the same heavy handed approach being deployed in Copenhagen. A reported 100,000 protesters marched in a mostly peaceful event last Saturday, and further marches and …
Written By: rocky - Date published: 8:31 pm, December 12th, 2009 - 156 comments
This is a guest post by Jasmine because I couldn’t be bothered writing it myself
Today Rochelle and I were hanging out in Levin, as you do on a Saturday afternoon, and decided to go check out the local layer hen slaughterhouse.
There was no one around so we decided to climb the fence and …
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 11:34 am, December 5th, 2009 - Comments Off
Alister Barry’s other classic documentary on the effects of the Right’s neoliberal revolution on every day New Zealanders, In a Land of Plenty, is also now online thanks to NZ On Screen. Check it out below:
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 11:55 am, December 4th, 2009 - 21 comments
[Post reproduced with permission from No Right Turn]
This is a picture of the north-western part of Mount Aspiring National Park, which the government wants to dig up. There’s a full album here. As can be seen, it is a rather distinctive area, flowing from lowland forest like that pictured to the barren subalpine …
Written By: r0b - Date published: 6:08 am, December 4th, 2009 - 15 comments
Tomorrow Saturday it’s the Planet A Concert and March (the concert to be webcast live):
In Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, you’ll be able to march, dance, listen to speakers, sing, and jump on bouncy castles in support of a good outcome in Copenhagen. From a massive free public concert in Auckland featuring top NZ bands and …
Written By: r0b - Date published: 7:02 am, November 30th, 2009 - 73 comments
Mark your calendar, and turn out next Saturday for the Planet A Concert and March (the concert to be webcast live):
In Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, you’ll be able to march, dance, listen to speakers, sing, and jump on bouncy castles in support of a good outcome in Copenhagen. From a massive free public concert in Auckland featuring …
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 10:30 am, November 27th, 2009 - 1 comment
Just a reminder, thousands of hospital support staff, school support staff and other low-paid public sector workers are rallying in 27 centres nationwide today to tell the government to lift the freeze on low pay.
The rallies are taking place from 12.30-1.30. If you can, head on down in your lunch break and show your support. …
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:04 am, November 25th, 2009 - 13 comments
I was watching that vid by the Greens on ACC and bikoi. What caught my attention was the bikers’ chant: “who’s next, who’s next?”
The Right loves to atomise us – make us think of ourselves only as individuals or narrow interest groups. Our reaction to the bikers getting hammered with these unecessary ACC hikes is …
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 7:14 am, November 24th, 2009 - 7 comments
Spotted on Stuff.
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 2:25 pm, November 21st, 2009 - 57 comments
The pro-child assault lobby spent $500,000 trying to manufacture the biggest march in New Zealand history up Queen St today.
The reports say fewer than 5,000 took part. Oh dear.
What does that work out at? More than $100 per marcher?
Gee, if you’d offered me that much I would have walked back down Queen St too.
Update: a couple of pics. Looks like the spike went …
Written By: rocky - Date published: 3:00 pm, November 20th, 2009 - 15 comments
Lance Corporal Joe Glenton is facing prison after speaking out at an anti-war rally.
A British soldier was arrested on Monday for speaking out at an anti-war rally and refusing to return to fight in Afghanistan. Lance Corporal Joe Glenton has been charged not just with desertion, but with new charges under the Armed Forces Act …
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