Great stuff. Loved the "magic moment" on the TV clip where Rexie babe pulled off the demonstrator's mask with poor wifie looking dismayed in the background- no doubt thinking "A nice shiny new road (to lead to our our nice new shiny motel, gym complex in Cuba St) and still they aren't happy".

A rather disturbing aspect was that the rotary club members collected $1 for the privilege of walking on a public road. The 'Birch Report' in Auckland a few years ago stated (with some regret) that there was no practical way to charge pedestrians and cyclists for road usage - maybe Wellington is leading the way here?

Fuck you Kerry and fuck you Rex and all you fuckhead greedy capitalist fascists.
We will never stop fighting scum like you!

Wellington City's roads are dangerous for pedestrians. She stated on TV that people shouldn't cross the roads. The whole city is a road itself, with nothing else.
You need someone like Hubbard to build community friendly projects instead of a desert! She is probably a shareholder in those developers....

I absolutely objected to being asked for a donation by Rotary/Karori Wildlife Sanctuary (do they not know the meaning of the word 'donation') so I refused to cough up. After being asked for about one the 4th time I proceeded to have a fairly lengthy row with two elderly gentlemen who did not seem to understand that the thought of paying to walk this monstrosity was at all objectionable. The Sanctuary should be damn well ashamed to be association themselves with it. I was informed that the road closed, thus private, and that they had a 'special licence' to collect money. I said I wasn't paying & that I wasn't leaving, so what are you going to do about it? Nothing, they said, but you should chose to leave. They then muttered something about police. After I stormed off I asked a police woman if I was breaking any laws by not paying, but she was very hostile & intimated that if I didn't leave her alone I would be sorry. What a bunch of fuckers that crew are. Kerryn.

Re: Anoynomous annoyances

Hello indy-administrators.

Indys 'new' policy on automating log-in identifications scores a big fat zero.

Practically every contribution on indy appears to be from an un-logged-in source.
So, now instead of people being asked to identify themselves in some way and giving continuity to the discussions (even with if it is with a psuedonym) we get extended discussions between numerous "anonymous" contributors.

anonymous / anonymous / anonymous / anonymous etc...

This is ridiculous people, lets go back to the old system, where you are expressly asked for an id for each contribution, whether or not you are logged in. Ths at least prompted writers to think about ownership of their contributions, and assits the reader in keeping up with who has what point of view.

ALSO while on the subject, this anti-spam number thing gives me the shits.

How many times have people (like me) spent 1/2 an hour writing something then forgot to enter the anti-spam number and the whole contribution dissapears into the void.

Can't it be formatted so that if you forget to enter the anti-spam number, your you get an alert that the anti-spam number must also be completed, but that leaves your comments in the 'comment' box until you do?

In solidarity, and rsi,

IWD

hey IWD,

a few things:
1. The upgrade to the newest version of dada (which desperately had to do!) came with the log-in thing. I agree that was better before - but a whole heap of things are better now. Uhm, we don't have enough people in the tech collective; and we do not know how to get rid of that feature. sorry. if you, or anybody else, want(s) to get involved with tech work email the tech list (imc-aotearoa-tech (at) lists.indymedia.org).

2. The spam filter saves us editors hours and hours and hours. Just before the upgrade we had to close the site regularly as we were spammed like mad by automated spam (a few thousand spam posts over night or so and deleting them is a waste of time!).

If you forget to enter the spam code and click submit you should be able to go back one page and your text should still be there! (I tried that just then and it worked!

Or you could get a log-in (indymedia.org.nz/mod/accounts/index.php)! Solidarity
smush - imc aotearoa ed collective

speaking of nz imc getting an upgrade, can we have maybe an auckland meeting regarding some more upgrades of NZ's IMC, it's continually becoming a medium for political parties to spread their propaganda (really, what does alliance say about me having a shit? will it bring out the champagne for that occassion?) and reading on other IMC's they seem to get alot better coverage and layout etc, but it all comes down to organisation etc, and something which I've noticed that NZ's activist community doesn't have enough of (not trying to bag IMC and activists though)
Cheers, nopassword

Re: Auckland Indymedia
you could join the email list for Auckland for starters... lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-auckland

Kia ora koutou ko IWD

The software that Aotearoa IMC uses is called DadaIMC and is written by one core developer who makes all the decisions about how it will work. To make major changes to the software (like getting rid of the 'anonymous' thing) requires a tech volunteer with advanced knowledge of PHP and risks things breaking with future upgrades because our code is different from what the upgrade system expects.

This situation isn't ideal for a number of reasons and we have talked about changing to different software, eg Drupal, which a number of other IMCs have recently started to adapt for IMC use. This has been slowed down by a shortage of tech volunteers as mentioned by Smush. This is something which will probably be talked about at the Indymedia Convergence in Orkland in Feb (2-4).

If people intend to post regularly on the site it would be great if they sign up for a login and password as Smush suggests. Unfortunately this doesn't get rid of the captcha (anti-spam numbers) but since this is a plug-in module we might be able to get this fixed. Or they could just sign their handle at the end of their comment like they would on an email or a letter, like this:

RnB
Strypey

Haha - Redneck Rex was probably so frustrated after being heckled for half an hour that he went home and beat his dog to a pulp with a baseball bat.

At least need to have the USERNAME field added back in for guest logins, not that that means a dam thing

Helen Clark

30% of most cities are roads. what are cities for? take back public space! I don't want a city to be just a road from mall to work to home.

dreams of a world without fences.

nice one kerryn. good to hear you're one of many still taking a stand.
yeah! kia kaha e hoa.
i agree, shame on the sanctuary.
em

I was able to yell out to Hobbs and King that the only good politician was a dead one. Well worth my gold coin donation.

what a bunch of horrible looking people.

they can have their fucking bypass. i suggest you leave them to it.!

you got it

What rubbish IWD. Indymedia fadministrators spend all their time tracing IP Addresses to identify the authors of posters, then they target their political comments on them.

I'm not paranoid oi.

Tracing IPs to their ISP became irrelevent when dynamic IPs took the stage. Unless you live in the US where they still give out static IPs for cable type connections

wish i was there signed,tonyprotester

Breaks me up somewhat to think that you are protesting against signage. Havent been back since 1996 but used to live at 290 Willis and fought hard against the bypass. Thats always been the biggest, stupidest, craziest, least understandable of any roading policy.

Fuck the bypass, not that it is actually a bypass but i guess i will call it wat they do, i think $40 million waste is a better summary but what do i know? Kia Kaha keep up the fight, one more road is to many! but we can hopefully stop the next ......

Just an aside on the gold coin thing - the fundamental idea of a 'donation' is that it is voluntary; so excluding people unless they give a donation is a contradiction in terms. But then that's the whole bloody bypass for you ;-).

I am just pleased and proud that they did not get away with being triumphalist about the whole thing.

In 1981, southern Te Aro was one of the most densely populated parts of New Zealand. It was a dynamic and spontaneous example of the inner-city living Wellington City now promotes. Then came Victoria St and the "Bypass" - and with them car yards and asphalt.

To all of us who have opposed the bypass over the years, kia kaha.

ka kite ano me te aroha
Roland

People should check out the letter written by failed Johnsonville council wannabe Ian hutchings, Dompost today, Dec 29th. That will give you something to write back about.

done! letter writing for the revolution
;)

Hutchings was too cretinous even to be a city councillor. Being a mate of Kerry Prenderfart did him no good at all and he was soundly dumped at the last council election.

get a job

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