Yay! Nice work.
Scary photo of the crowd though, I wonder what they're all thinking.
Hope you didn't have to sit through the national anthem too.
In solidarity.
Wellington.

yea but as it was going over a sea sprite helicopter flew overhead at low altitude and high speed. Was pretty nerve racking.

wow ,good on yas!! brave to

Great stuff. Especially heartening the comment by the Afghanistan veteran. I thought all along that negative comments about the protest would come from members of the public whose closest experience of war was playing Counter-Strike, rather than from actual war veterans.

Undoubtedly ANZAC day here (as in Australia) is used by militarists to bolster support for the armed forces and their current deployments as part of occupying forces in Afghanistan, Solomon Islands, Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, & Timor-Leste.

However at the same time there is a spontaneous anti-militarism that manifests itself amoungst some veterans, youth and workers.

It would be a mistake to think that just because people show up on ANZAC day they are automatically rabid supporters of NZ military adventures. (there is no reason for that photo to be "scary" in the abstract. Plenty of people not altogether happy in these consumerist times also look for something meaningful to hang their hat on. The undoubted sacrifices that (misguided) working class folk made in these previous conflicts has an attraction for them for this reason too.

The argument against war in general and the NZ involvement as forces of occupation is still highly contestable in the general population and (probably) amoungst a reasonable number who attend dawn services.

If the left doesn't take the argument to these people the forces of reaction will win by default - especially as those who fought in wars and reject militarism become less and less of a voice.

But again how would anyone opposed to war know that there was going to be anti-war actions at these events to participate in them? Unless people know they are on, how are they ever going to become more than a handful of people participating?

Advertising people, it's not always capitalist conspiracy!!

IWD

Sometimes you have to weigh up the whether to go ahead and do a small covert protest that you could pull off or try to advertise and get days of arguments then end up being stopped by the police before the protest can even happen.

People should be organising themselves too.

And of course we know that there are a lot of people at ANZAC ceremonies who are against war. That is part of the reason we protest. For them. For the soldiers who died needlessly for our so-called 'freedom'.

I do not think securing trade deals with Britain brings me or any of us freedom. It ties us into environmentally disastrous dairy farming and the whimsy of global markets. That is what ANZAC was about as far as I understand.

Sometimes you have to weigh up the whether to go ahead and do a small covert protest that you could pull off or try to advertise and get days of arguments then end up being stopped by the police before the protest can even happen.

People should be organising themselves too.

And of course we know that there are a lot of people at ANZAC ceremonies who are against war. That is part of the reason we protest. For them. For the soldiers who died needlessly for our so-called 'freedom'.

I do not think securing trade deals with Britain brings me or any of us freedom. It ties us into environmentally disastrous dairy farming and the whimsy of global markets. That is what ANZAC was about as far as I understand.

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