As part of the Global Day of Action, around 100 people gathered today in Palmerston North. There were a number of speakers including long-time unionist and activist Dion Martin and also Te Anau, an activist and musician whose Palmerston North house was raided last week. He said he had just returned from a conference in Australia about Aboriginal rights and hip hop music. He said his house was searched and he was extensively questioned. He was not arrested.

He was asked if he knew Tama Iti. "I've seen him on the TV" he said, and "Police kept asking me - are you Tuhoe? Are you Tuhoe? Do you have links to Tuhoe?" to which he replied: "Dudes - I'm an ex-street kid from Manurewa."

The protest lasted one and a half hours and ended with waiata.