Downtown Auckland was hit yesterday with a very sucessful, very noisy "Take Back the Night" rally and march.

Children, Witches, other womyn and those who love them gathered in Aotea Square at 7:00 pm, October 28th to Take Back the Night and reclaim the right to free movement for womyn.

There are many reasons to hold a take back the night event in Auckland or anywhere else in Aotearoa/NZ and beyond. Did you know that domestic assults increase by 25% when the all blacks lose a game? Did you know that a womyn in NZ is killed every 5 weeks by her "(ex)partner".

For all these reasons and more womyn gathered in solidarity to resist what is arguably the oldest form of oppression; and drew the links between modern oppression of womyn, murder and torture of "witches" in europe, the united states and the african continent, and halloween.