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Across the world, people demand freedom for political prisoners!
Auckland saw around 1000 people take to the streets of the central city, then march to the Remand Prison in Newmarket where many of the prisoners are being held. The protest was addresses by Rongomai Bailey, recently released on bail, amongst others. [ Report + Photos ] [ Photos + Video ]
Palmerston North saw around 100 people gather, with a speech from a local activist who was questioned by police. [ Report ] [ Report + Photos ]
In Wellington 450 people marched from Midland Park, past the Central Police Station where they were entertained by street theatre. The march ended in Civic Square for a rally with speakers, musicians, and Food Not Bombs. [ Report ] [ Report + Photos + Audio ]
Christchurch had 300 people marching, with street theatre and haka performed by local Tuhoe. The protest finished with a picnic. [ Report + Photos ]
If you attended a demonstration (especially one without a report), please write up a report (and post any photos/video you may have) here at Aotearoa Indymedia.
The global day of action is not the end. Keep showing your support for the prisoners, their whanau and friends! For more events, check out the Civil Rights Defence events calendar.
- Everywhere: Any letters emailed to lettersforprisoners[at]riseup[dot]net will printed out and distributed to arrestees. Obviously don't write anything that could negatively impact on you or anyone else! If you can help with processing these letters, please email the crew on the same address. For more information, see http://www.civilrightsdefence.org.nz.
- Auckland: "Waha Nui" fundraiser for whanau of prisoners, Sunday 28 Oct at 6pm @ Te Karanga Gallery, 208 Karangahape Rd; films, music, korero, koha entry.
- Wellington: Prisoners support and campaign organising meetings every Tuesday, 6pm, at 128 Abel Smith St. A range of solidarity events are coming up. [ Upcoming events ].
- Christchurch: A benefit gig has been organised for Thursday 1st November at the Wunder Bar in Lyttelton. [ Poster ] [ Upcoming Events ]
- Dunedin: Picnic on Sunday Oct 28th to discuss the Terrorism Supression Act, Tuhoe history and Parihaka. 12 noon - 2:30pm, Otago Museum Reserve. [ Press releases 1 | 2 ]
Updates
Saturday - A 32 year old woman was granted bail in the Auckland District Court yesterday. The woman, a dancer, has name supression. Another of the accused, Aotearoa Indymedia activist Omar Hamed, is scheduled for a bail hearing on Monday 29th, but it is understood this may be postponed.
Sunday - A new Te Kotahi o Tuhoe website has been published to replace two previous Tuhoe websites shut down by the police when they removed the server hosting them, as well as Tino Rangatiratanga forum site AoCafe. This attack on Maori freedom of speech and association has been remarkably absent from mainstream media coverage of the dawn raids of Monday 15 Oct.
About 80 people attended a picnic in Dunedin to hand in their incendiary avocados in protest against the erosion of basic freedoms, such as freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.
Monday One of the arrestees, Marama Mayrick, has been granted bail! She has also had name suppression lifted.
5:06pm - Police have applied to the Solicitor-General to lay charges under the Terrorism Supression Act.
There will be a protest in Auckland this Saturday at the Labour Party Conference, at the Bruce Mason Theatre on the North Shore. More details to follow!
6:22pm - The Wellington High Court has transferred the bail applications of the four Wellington prisoners (who are now all in Auckland prisons) to the Auckland High Court [ Press release from Michael Bott, lawyer for a Wellington prisoner ]. Tame Iti will have a bail application heard on November 7th in the Rotorua High Court.
Two of the Wellington prisoners are due to appear in the Wellington District Court on Tuesday for a depositions hearing on an unrelated charge. It is unclear as to whether this will go ahead.
Tuesday, 11:38am - The two Wellington prisoners were not returned from Auckland for their hearing on unrelated charges this morning - one of the two charges they (and others) were facing was dropped, and they will be back in court to set a date for the remaining charge on November 19th at 10am.
A solidarity demonstration was held in Mexicali, Mexico. A group of anarchists flew a Tino Rangatiratanga flag and handed out flyers. [ Report + Photo ]
Wednesday - All 17 will be appearing in court in Auckland over the next two days.
12:30pm - Ira Bailey was granted bail to a round of applause from the gallery! Additionally, Marama Mayrick, who was granted bail on Monday, has been excused from her next court hearing providing her lawyer attends in her stead.
1:15pm - Name surpression has been extended for two others and all those who have appeared before court will have bail hearings continued.2:00pm - Two more people have been granted bail, but have continued name suppression.
Friday November 2nd-
3:12pm- Omar Hamed Denied Bail. Valerie Morse and Emily Bailey have not applied for bail at this time.
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Re: Across the world, people demand freedom for political prisoners!
Re: Across the world, people demand freedom for political prisoners!
Toda la solidaridad desde el Sindicato de Servicios Públicos de Sevilla de CNT-AIT y de la F.L. de Sevilla de CNT-AIT, en estos momentos de represión de los movimientos sociales, anarquistas, libertarios y alternativos en Nueva Zelanda.
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Protestors march on Mt Eden prison over police raids
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infonews.co.nz
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I find that the measure of someone morality is defined by the consistency that they apply their values.
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And what 'similar activities' are you referring to? Do you actually know the specifics of what they've been charged with? If not, I think you should wait until the suppression orders are lifted and the cops present their version of the evidence. The national front have been engaging in the activity I assume that you're thinking of, for a while and there are public photos on this site showing them in the bush and with their guns.
That evidence is undeniable and we know the context because the NF have told us themselves what they've been doing.
The difference in this case is that we have no context, all we know is some people were seen and photographed with guns, we don't know much more than that and the spin that the media and cops have put on it. Shit they could have been shooting possums, and some cops on a fishing expedition snapped a shot, that proves nothing.
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I think it was the intercepted phone conversations, the txts and the threatening of the hunters with fire arms" i.e. get off our fucking land or else"- sort of tipped the balance, as a society we can not have these types of people running loose. Why you guys support them is beyond me, they are loose units and for many of you it's going to be the end of the road by wrote merely associating with them
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Which is exactly what we have kept saying - the whole purpose of this raids is to intimidate all radical activists.
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My guess is that you'll probably keep oon avoiding the question with claims of police repression and intimdation to hide the real issue here.
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You have very little actual reasoned argument underlying your fear and name-calling? And you have no real interest in why many Polynesians may be obese. As well as making time-wasting posts like this one, try educating yourself about world history. Start with Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond.
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Really? What happened when the Hells Angels pad based in the middle of an extremely wealthy suburban street in the middle of Mt Eden got raided?
Oh thats right the AOS those masked and commando equipped cops did it and even used 'distraction devices' when raiding it.
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Colin Espiner in On The House | 1:31 pm 29 October 2007
It’s been a considerable while since I’ve last been able to say this, but Winston Peters is absolutely right.
The New Zealand First leader used his platform at last weekend’s annual conference to lash out at the Maori Party for inciting racial hatred over the police raids on Maori (but mostly non-Maori) activists a couple of weeks ago.
“New Zealanders are sick and tired of being called racists by those who are clearly the most militant racists in the country,” Peters said.
“New Zealanders wonder why a political party based solely on race is held up as the moral compass for the country. In South Africa, we called that apartheid.”
OK, there’s a little hyperbole in here. But Peters’ central point is that anyone who either says or does anything that impacts on the tangata whenua must, according to the Maori Party, be motivated by racism - rather than, say, dislike of their actions or, in the case of the police, a belief that they broke the law.
So, says the Maori Party, the police must be racist. I haven’t heard anyone accuse the cops of being anti-Pakeha, however. Anti-activist, yes. Authoritarian, heavy-handed, and even stupid. But criticism from Pakeha upset at the way the police raids were conducted has mostly centred on the actions of those involved, rather than ascribing some racial motive.
That, as Peters correctly points out, is racism - and it makes a mockery of Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples’ claim that Peters is “playing the race card”. Sharples has been playing that one for all it’s worth for weeks, even claiming that the raids “set back race relations by 100 years”.
Sharples followed this up at the weekend with the preposterous claim that somehow the Government was behind the arrest of Tame Iti. “There is no way the Government is going to let Tame Iti free … they’re getting back at him now,” he said.
Of course. This entire police operation was orchestrated by the Government so that it could extract revenge for Iti shooting a New Zealand flag two years ago. This is the kind of delusional paranoia indulged in by conspiracy theorists who think the New York terrorism attacks were staged by the US Government. They do Sharples, the thinking man’s radical, no honour at all.
Sharples and the party’s other MPs seem to believe that it is impossible anyone who is Maori could be guilty of terrorism because of their ethnicity. This, too, is racist. It’s arguing that one race is superior to another. I haven’t heard Sharples defending any other ethnicity involved in the raids.
Has the Maori Party gone too far? It depends. Some of its core constituency - those that harbour a grudge towards non-Maori and still believe colonisation to be on a par with the Holocaust - will doubtless applaud the sentiments. But more conservative Maori, who don’t necessarily want their children growing up hating the police and anyone who isn’t brown, may be alarmed.
Criticising the impact the raids had on ordinary Tuhoe people was one thing. Questioning whether they could have been conducted in a more civilised manner was equally fair enough. But some of the invective spat in Parliament by Hone Harawira and Te Ururoa Flavell has been downright dangerous. If a non-Maori MP accused the police of racism for arresting a white supremacist they would be rightly pilloried. Again, however, it seems different standards apply to Maori.
Veteran activist John Minto reckons Peters’ invective was “spittle-flecked dog whistling”. It’s a nice turn of phrase and Minto is probably right, to an extent. Peters had one eye firmly fixed on his party’s abysmal poll ratings when he made his speech. He is hoping to tap into a vein of middle-class anger at the way the Maori Party has hijacked this debate.
It could well be a fertile source. Peters is voicing the feelings of both Labour and National, but neither big party can afford to get caught up in such a debate. The question is how well he can manage it. Peters has a bit of form as a stirrer of racial tensions himself.
He must be careful not to end up looking as if he is Maori-bashing himself, and inadvertently whistling up the sort of mongrels that may reflect poorly on his status as an elder statesman of Parliament and Foreign Minister. Properly handled, however, Peters could yet sink his teeth into some of the softer Maori Party vote and pick up some lost ground in the centre as well."
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I think Mr Espiner is being disingenuous if he thinks that the police would ever be arresting any white supremacists just for being white supremacists anytime soon. Why would the police do that? While white supremacists seek to maintain and escalate the status quo of power relations in this country to an extreme, Maori seeking to reassert Tino rangatiratanga are rebelling against the status quo. I suggest that Mr Espiner should know the difference between racism and ordinary old racial prejudice. While everyone has prejudices about everyone else, not everyone has the poltical or economic or military / state power (ie the police) to uphold, perpetuate those prejudices. Neither Maori individuals nor organisations have the power to exercise and institutionalise their prejudices against people of other/different ethnicities in this society. Mr Espiner talks about more conservative Maori and want they may or not want in the light of the Maori Party "going too far." It's not about different standards - it's about different experiences and visions. Maori anger about the police didn't just evolve from nowhere - the police, as a racist institution, represent and enforce law and order for a racist society. Even in the South Island, law-abiding maori and pacific islanders who are going about ordinary life get constantly stopped in their vehicles for 'routine checks.' Contrast this with the many Pakeha people who are gob-smacked when told of this - as this has never, ever happened to them - and isn't likely to. So what different standards are being applied here?
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And yea ... you can bet your bottom dollar that the police are monitoring this site, probably checking out your IP no., your address, your physical address. Then they will be tapping into your email, intercepting your messaging, tapping your landlines, tapping into your texts ... after all they've already admitted to doing so with the 17 arresstees ... for over 18 months. So what about all of us?
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An example is demonstrated by the case of Mallard. The truth is if he was brown, he would have been investigated, isolated, and charged with assault.
I am with Winston Peters on this one....
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as far as i'm aware their is no relationship anymore between kyle and the national front.
i'm not even sure it exists anymore.
colin espiner and his brother guyon are mainstream media pawns, so that review bears little credibility
i would like to see the maori party, tuhoe, and all maori rights activists - emphasize that these raids and the terror laws are affecting all new zealanders,
its always a bit disappointing when the bigger picture overlooked.
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Link to the previous article and comments on why the sites are down:
indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/73887/index.php
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Saludos al mundo: el Tiempo para ser oído, este abuso y la opresión de la Libertad de la expresión y el derecho a la libertad civil es una declaración Política y powerplay para ganar favourism político al opresor político del mundo.Usted es el futuro de sus culturas y sus generaciones para ser. No deje este ser llevado de usted...Este es su mundo y usted tiene el derecho a su Independance de opción y libertad.Este es sobre todas las culturas.Esté orgulloso de a quién usted es y se levanta y ser oído, haga una diferencia para usted y las generaciones de usted.
Este es su Mundo; muchas gracias Kia kaha
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.My friend,all post on this site are being monitored and watched by(spys)
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www.stuff.co.nz/4254735a11.html
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Re: sites going down and servers being confiscated.
If this site goes down also, there are several sites going up but take a lot of time to set up and keep updated. Email lists such as the TR list groups.yahoo.com/group/tino-rangatiratanga/
may be faster and simpler for more people to contribute to. If that site goes down, hopefully a moderator there has the email addresses and it can continue that way.
Re: Message of solidarity from Redfern Community Meeting
Our motion of solidarity, passed by hundreds of people last night in Redfern:
That this community meeting, 'Getting our voice back: a new era in Aboriginal affairs', held on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation at the Redfern Community Centre on Monday October 29th 2007, expresses its support for and solidarity with the Urewera 17: the Maori, environmentalist and peace activists whose homes were aggressively raided, and were detained and charged.
We condemn the use of the Suppression Of Terrorism Act and further threats to use "terrorist" legislation by the New Zealand government and police.
We support the ongoing resistance and struggle of Maori peoples for justice and sovereignty across Aotearoa.
wmvvirhe
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This site has been having database problems in the last 2 weeks, I assume due to a lot of people viewing and posting to the site, especially when photos from demos are being uploaded.
Rest assured Indymedia has strategies in place to be able to restore the site if we are taken down. For one thing, we are hosted outside Aotearoa, so that the cops can't just take the server as they did with AoCafe. Also we have back-ups we could restore from, even if they somehow hacked us. If all else failed, the global Indymedia network would help up set up a replacement site in hours. We aren't going anywhere.
If anyone knows of back-ups that AoCafe could be restored from, we could probably organise hosting to put it back up. Please contact me: strypey (at) indymedia.org. Ma te waa, ki te whanaunga o AoCafe, nau mai, haere mai ki Indymedia.
Strypey
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Thanks Strypey, that's exactly what I've been wondering since the site went down. But I have a bad feeling the police have the backups also. :-\
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i got a coupla pics, a video and a report i wanna post from over here in the land of canada...we been in solidarity on sat 27th in da giant mountains and today for bail hearings(but ALL the time really, the past 2 weeks, in spirit aye)and i aint got round to gettin any of it on here yet...
so....help!?!
i never done this b4...i can see the links where it says 'post an article' and 'upload media' etc but what if i want to add it onto the existing 'global day of action' article, y'know so its together with the other worldwide solidarity***
????????????? thanks for help
stoked to hear sum whanau been released back home to their family and crew, wicked :)
the reaction i keep getting here over this is SHOCK***
and questions like, how is that legal? are any international governments standing up and condemning this?(does anyone know the answer to this by the way??)disbelief and the like...
PEACE
xxooxxoo
arohanui katoa
love u all
katrin
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and now i see we can reply to individual comments too, aint that flash!?!
kia ora/thanks again
peace
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and questions like, how is that legal? are any international governments standing up and condemning this?(does anyone know the answer to this by the way??)disbelief and the like.."
How is what legal?
The Police in this country are allowed to arrest people committing criminal offenses and Judges are allowed to remand people in custody found to be committing serious offenses and if they are satisfied as to the strength of the Police evidence.
What exactly would you expect other international governments to express outrage about? This isn't Burma, its overblown hysteria by activists so deprived of anything decent to protest against that they scratch for anything. I guess its a move up from trying to save the snails though.
FOREIGN STATE TERROR averted
I think it was a very smart and beneficial thing.
A bloodbath was averted.
A bloodbath like Bologna 1980...
www.google.com/search
Or Madrid, Bali, London 7/7 ...
My (crazy) theory is that our wonderfully foresightful intelligence service arrested the patsies and stopped the US-Israeli-private-banker-mafia atrocity that was to shock the world:
"Even in peaceful New Zealand you can't be safe!
Lefty arab-lovers just snapped and fire-bombed a bus."
Weird? Check out the KNOWN FACTS:
Since it was neither police nor armed offender squad but
a) SPECIAL OPERATIONS ("licensed to kill, wet job ninja") who did the "operation" in the urewera
b) prevented a FUTURE atrocity
c) the govnmt knows what we DO NOT KNOW
put a+b+c together!
Some (***western) secret service was preparing these "impressionable greenies" and "whacko Maori Sov phantasists" as patsies for a "flase flag" "strategy of tension" OUTRAGE in order to instill fear into the WORLD (western) population
"even in peaceful New Zealand you cannot feel safe. Seemingly harmless greenies turn their anti-establishment hatred into violence and bloodshed, we need more gov-control and lots of money for private security and gadgets"
Of course our NZ spooks prevented the whole shabang by arresting the patsies and taking the blame.
In court we will hear of some strange dark figures... Shane Wenzel is just a minor go-between? Was there a swiss national like Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieure were swiss?
Of course the murderous *** people are UNMENTIONABLE (like CIA MOSSAD) and even if our government had SOLID PROOF of their involvement they could not go public for fear of
trade-sanctions. Remember how long it took to name the french in the Rainbow Warrior murder.
Of course you will dismiss this posting.
Just remember.. if your theory (right-wingers try to turn NZ into a police state) seems ridiculous and not based on facts, nor fitting the known facts....
my theory does.
Re: FOREIGN STATE TERROR averted
In comparrison the remiander of the Madrid bombers blew themselves up when police closed in on them.
To make any comparisons between the two groups seems farcical.
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Our kids here are in danger, too. They met some strange people from CIA-MOSSAD-AMAN-DIA
bizzare?
Try this story:
a billionaire, 1st victim of 9-11, israeli elite black-operations man
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_M._Lewin
Re: FOREIGN STATE TERROR averted
What are the Questions Helen clark not answering??
As Shane and his team ask lots of Questions but no answers?
Are Shane and the team Holding stings in courts?
Is the court holding a true court record?
Are JUDGES altering court records ?
Can the NZ
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What are the Questions Helen clark not answering??
As Shane and his team ask lots of Questions but no answers?
Are Shane and the team Holding stings in courts?
Is the court holding a true court record?
Are JUDGES altering court records ?
Can the NZ get justice?
Who is the queen in right of nz?
www.ics-biz.biz
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