from today's demo.

from today's demo.

Maximum respect to Joe, Naing and all the crew who helped pull this off. Where oh where was the Labour Party?

Auckland Protest Video download FROM HERE

Watch the Auckland Protest Video OVER HERE

Video is 33mb 19 minutes long. Full 52 minute CD of raw data may be available by request

Great Day,
Pete

Great snaps Cam

Why does Helen Clarke want to negotiate a free trade deal with this Fascist regime? Why is Fonterra allowed trade with them? Why is the SuperFund investing in oil firm Total, one of the major exploiters of Burma's reserves?

Last rhetoric from the Labour Party and more action.

STUFF : NATIONAL NEWS
www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3254928a11,00.html

Goff sets out NZ's position on Myanmar 20 April 2005

New Zealand will not impose economic sanctions on Myanmar but
will continue to be a strong critic of the military regime's human rights abuses and suppression of democracy, Foreign Minister Phil Goff said today.

"New Zealand will continue to work with others to apply pressure for change in Myanmar, although so far neither direct punitive action through sanctions nor positive inducements to change have had any effect on the behaviour of the military rulers," he said in a statement after meeting exiled political leaders who are visiting Auckland.

"New Zealand, in common with most other countries including the European Union and the United Nations itself, has not agreed to impose economic sanctions on Myanmar."

Mr Goff said he had listened to the exiles' views and had outlined the actions New Zealand had taken.

These actions included direct statements opposing abuses of human rights and the democratic process, including the detention of pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

Mr Goff said when he expressed these views at last year's Asean (Association of South East Asian Nations) Forum, Myanmar's foreign minister walked out in protest.

"Our trade with Myanmar is overwhelmingly exports of dairy products," he said.

"At a time when New Zealand is working with other countries to alleviate malnutrition in Myanmar, withholding products needed by families for basic nutrition makes absolutely no sense."

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April 19, Mizzima News

New Zealand trade unions urge govt. for sanction on Burma - Mungpi

Trade Unions of New Zealand have urged the government and the people to support the international sanction on Burma's military dictatorship for alleged atrocities on the country's people.

The call was given after a meeting between the visiting delegation of Burmese democracy campaigners and the Council of Trade Unions in Wellington yesterday.

President Ross Wilson of Council of Trade Unions called upon the New Zealand government to stop dealing with the Burmese junta and join an international campaign against the regime.

"Burma is the forgotten country and the atrocities committed there daily by the military dictatorship are often ignored internationally," said Ross Wilson in a press statement.

The Burmese advocacy team, which includes two MPs, elected in the 1990 election, will directly appeal to the New Zealand government to stop exports to Burma and support the international sanction on the Burmese Junta. The team is led by U Hla Oo, President of the National Council of the Union of Burma (NCUB) and an elected Member of Parliament.

New Zealand started export to Burma in June 2004. Milk powder, worth 4.5 million dollars, constitutes the major share of the total export, valued at 5.9 Million dollars.
The visiting Burmese team also urged New Zealand to support the swelling international pressure against Burma taking the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) next year, unless changes take place in the country in favour of democracy.
Burma, which was granted Asean membership in 1997, is set to take over from Malaysia as the Chairman country next year on the basis of an alphabetical rotation.

Earlier this month, the exiled Burmese democracy campaigners, while visiting the Philippines capital of Manila for a conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), sought a blockade on Burma's prospective chairmanship.

The United States and the European Union, both imposing sanctions on the Burmese military junta, have threatened to boycott the Asean meetings to be hosted by Burma, for its appalling human rights records and lack of democracy.

Burma, with a population of 50 million people, is being ruled by the Military since 1962. In 1990, the junta held an election but nullified the results when the National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Nobel peace Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, had a landslide victory.

Burma's democracy icon, Suu Kyi, has been under her third house arrest since 1990. She has spent most of her days in Burma under detention or house arrest.

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