Day of action Wellington report
About 100 people gathered outside of 128 Abel Smith Street for the start of the Global Day of Action to Drop the Charges against the 20 accused in the state terror raids of October 15th 2007. Don Franks of the Workers’ Party sang his brilliant tune, ‘Safer Communities Together’ penned in the immediate aftermath of the raids and commented that he was, ‘likely to be the only parliamentary candidate here to express his solidarity with the arrestees and victims of the raids.’
A lively march through town stopped at the police station for a shaming history of their violence, and a pass-by of Labour Party candidate Grant Robertson’s office nearly resulted in a very large broken window. Verbal abuse of the Labour Party was hurled at staff inside the office, calling the government ‘racists scum’.
The march finished at cobblestone park for speakers and music. Duncan Allan from Unite compared the struggles of working people around the world to the raids and expressed the solidarity of the union. Arrestee Valerie Morse spoke about the on-going nature of the so-called ‘war on terrorism’ equating it with the class war and race war, and calling for sustained struggle. Emily Bailey read the submission of Tame Iti to the Waitangi Tribunal calling for the thief who stole Tuhoe land to return it now, and issued a final warning.
The demo closed with a beautifully scribed piece by local musician Imon Starr who called on everyone to keep fighting and keep loving.
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Yay alla you!
So wish I don't have 'flu...
Someone please put up some pix?
Kia kaha katoa, i te haere au Taamaki Makaurau, me nga wiiki i te Kooti.
xxx AKT
Some pics from Auckland from Socialist Aotearoa
http://socialistaotearoa.blogspot.com/2008/08/drop-charges-pictures-from...
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"Don Franks of the Workers’ Party sang his brilliant tune, ‘Safer Communities Together’ penned in the immediate aftermath of the raids and commented that he was, ‘likely to be the only parliamentary candidate here to express his solidarity with the arrestees and victims of the raids.’"
Keith Locke at the Auckland demo today expressed solidarity with the people arrested in the raids. Hone Harawira from the Maori Party has also been very staunch in supporting those victimised by the police witch hunt (Operation 8)
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What the hell does a rich whitey like Morse know about race and class? Wait till she has a go at your activism, from her white middle-class position of priviledge to discover how she lives the struggle, she has no respect for anyone except those she judges for herself to be righteous, hypocrite...
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Ken Vicious got up at Cobblestone park too and and said one of his poems in relation to the raids and arrests, great stuff
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Nah Valerie is all good and is a good helper of all sorts of oppressed people. She is my comrade.
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Urewary
(An Act of Conspiracy)
Commissioner White woke sweaty in the night
Reds under the bed, terrorists in his head
“We’ve spent a load of dough with nothing to show -
In Zaoui’s case we lost a lot of face -
This time we won’t be done, we’ve found a smoking gun.”
Commissioner Broad colluded in the fraud
Told Helen Clark he’d heard a fart in the dark:
“Sign the warrant please, you can trust the Polize.”
She said “Mr Plod, call in the Terror Squad,
Make the crims confess, justify the SIS -
They had napalm and clearly meant harm.”
Annette King refused to do a thing
“Cops are autonomous, their agents anonymous.”
Cullen passed the buck, didn’t trust his luck
With an election near, he had reason to fear
The Solicitor General, vegetable and mineral
Showed his redneck face, prejudiced the case,
Said the TSA’s no good, but he wished he could
Hit them with the book, they were definitely crooks.
Commissioner Fraud should fall on his sword
Resign for good, like he said he would
Instead he’ll temporise, manufacture more lies
Delay the case for years, trade on public fears
As their memory fades of the nationwide raids
Operation Eight, coercive arm of the State
Confiscation line used to define
The power of the crown, in putting rebels down
Cop ninjas Nintendo, trial by innuendo,
Taxpayer rort, Kremlin kangaroo court
Suppressed evidence, kiwi sitting on the fence:
Just remember this: it all amounts to piss-
All, a trumped-up rap, a total crock of crap.
Ken Vicious
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"righteous, hypocrite... "
lol you cops are a crack-up
your understanding of class is that you will always defend the ruling class for money, even if they are led by Adolf or Stalin.
photos
Some photos from the march today in Wellington.
For more info see www.october15thsolidarity.info
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Awesome pix!
E taaku tamahine, ka pai to mahi i tena koorero. Arohanui.
Great performance talent from Don, Ken & Imon Starr - e tu, kia kaha, arohanui kei koutou katoa!
Best 'flu remedy, seeing this go off. xxxx AKT
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What's the point of a rebuttal "anonymous" if you remove the original post?? So much for free speech. Of course anyone who criticises your gang MUST be a cop, losers..
Ever heard of COINTELPRO?? It's thought police like you lot who make sure real social change never happens.
If protesting could change anything it would be illegal.. call yourself anarchists
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cop or someone with a cop inside their head