"Raise your voice before you lose your soul" - protests across Aotearoa

Sorry, that's no direct links please to the above videos, thank you...

Can someone other than Jose (or Robyn)
explain just what this is??

ISLAMIC FUNDING HOUSE OF (NZ) LIMITED

ICU - WTF??

RESISTANCE IS NOT TERRORISM
A report on world wide repression
from Bologna to New Zealand

On Saturday 13 October at around 04:00 am, in Piazza Verdi, Bologna,
Italy, a girl was sleeping. Police officers awoke her and told her to
leave. The Police judged her attitude to be "abnormal" when she refused,
and called a team of Psychiatric nurses who, facilitated by the police,
tried to force her into an ambulance for Obligatory Sanitary Treatment, or
in other words, to be committed to a psychiatric prison.
5 by standing individuals tried to obstruct the nurses and police in
solidarity with the girl who was not consenting to being put into the
vehicle. She had committed no crime and therefore legally had the right to
refuse to be taken.

More police arrived and responded with violence beating 2 of the 5 and
also drawing a gun on them. After a struggle, the other 3 individuals
managed to escape onto via S. Vitale where police found them, beat them
badly, handcuffed and arrested them. The noises woke up some residents who
tried to stop the police violence and almost got arrested themselves.

A witness contacted Blackout Radio (Torino) in order to tell the facts
directly: he confirmed the violence from the police to the 5 and that
during the scuffle one police officer lost his hand cuffs and concluded
with out reason that one of the individuals had stolen them.

The accusations against the five are heavy:
Theft of police property (handcuffs),
property damage (of the vehicle into which a girl was been forced)
and resisting arrest.
3 are in detention and have been moved to the jail of the Dozza.
And 2 have been put into house arrest.

On the following night at around 1:00am 6 people were arrested in the
Bologna University district suspected of graffiti and detained for 36
hours.
One of the girls was released after 12 hours or so as she was under 18
years old. The other Woman was held in solitary confinement for 28 hours
in a tiny cell aprox. 3 by 2 meters with blood and shit smeared all over
the walls... the others were denied food, water and toilet for more than
12 hours straight...

They were brought to court Tues 16th, and over 12 more hours of detention
and process, charged under Terrorism acts with: destroying a Bank-o-mat
ATM machine, damaging an ancient stone, smashing a butcher window and a
whole mismatching assortment of graffiti in diverse locations and with
diverse materials including things which happened after their official
time of arrest.
(The judge was the same who some months before tried to charge a group of
people under Terrorism acts for squatting a house! The defendants won that
case though.)

Enragingly, 2 of the 5 were sentenced to 10 months in prison because
they had past records in Italy for "political crimes". The other 3 were
let free under the conditions that they stay out of Bologna for 4
months,
The police, lawyers and judge were not interested in proving who did what,
or if any one of these individuals did any of these crimes. It was stated
clearly in the court in so many words: Than these individuals need to be
punished for the ideas and beliefs they supposedly have against the state
and for anarchy, and because of their supposed connection to other
recently arrested "Anarchist Terrorists" in Bologna (referring to the 5
from the Piazza Verdi incident).
The only reason the 3 released were not sent to prison, it would seem, is
because there wasn't enough proof in past records that they believed in
insurrection.

Twice in the hours the group were detained, a manifestation of 40 or so
people passed the police detention center in solidarity with all prisoners
shouting: TUTTI LIBERE!! (Free them all!!)

Out side the court there were lines of anti-riot police blocking the
entrance and 20 or so people were waiting in solidarity, some of them had
been there for over 12 hours....
Once the 2 sentenced to prison had been driven away the manifestation
moved to the prison to continue an all night vigil of solidarity, throwing
fireworks against the prison walls and shouting for the companer@s inside
to hear.

Another individual in Switzerland was arrested this week accused of
painting a message on an Italian embassy in solidarity with the situation
in Bologna, but has been released.

The Italian news coverage has been shallow and sensational. Only
reinforcing the lies and opinions of the court and police. Fascist
journalists seem to be the only ones there are, or the only ones
interested in this story. And to top it all off, the Left political party
of Italy has extended its official solidarity to the Bologna Police
department, having been attacked by anarchist terrorists.

In these same days in New Zealand many activists from indigenous rights
and environmental campaigns around NZ have been arrested under new
Terrorism and Weapons acts. The police raided social centers and homes all
over the country.
The arrested are being detained waiting for trials to begin, denied bail
and under name suppression. There is an international day of solidarity
declared for Saturday 27th of Oct. Many demos of solidarity have been
taking place all over NZ and also in Australia, Germany and Greece.
for more info visit:
www.indymedia.org.nz
www.scoop.co.nz

or to express yourself to the prime minister of NZ :
Helen Clark
> Telefono: +64 4 471 9998
> Fax: +64 4 473 3579
> Email: pm@ministers.govt.nz

The names of those in prison in Bologna are:
Juan Antonio Sorruche Fernandez (Juan)
Miroslav Bogunovic(Bogu)
Andrea Tessarin (Texino)
Cristian Facchinetti (Faco)
Federico Razzoli (Fede)

Letters of support can be sent to:
C.C. La Dozza
Via del Gomito, 2
40127, Bologna, Italia

We know well which are the real crimes of our friends and companions:
To have chosen with courage to stand up against this system of legal
violence, repression and exploitation.
Being conscious that fighting is necessary in order to not be silent
accomplices in the injustices of our societies.
Resistance is not Terrorism. Terrorism in its original conception is a
political tactic for a government to use to control its people.
We will not be frightened by the terrorism of the state... we have an
international community based on solidarity that extends beyond the logic
of capital and forges connections in a web unfathomably diverse and
beautiful....
To the arrested goes solidarity and affection from all around the world.
No one is free while anyone is behind bars!!!

This is a long way from the original purpose of the commonwealth of nations. It seems full of the U.S. Empire itch, which just can"t wait to wage war on terror by initiating it from the state. Long way from liberation, such as Canada's First Div. fought so hard for. Just another string oppressive moves designed to implement the programmes of the extreme rich to make sure that the organic movenent is ended and the programme of the super power number one implemented which is motivated by coal, gas, oil and atomic energy to the detriment of the planets livability. Goodbye green ecological power of electricity by wind, tidal, and solar power. All must fall to Bushco and his world war for more pollution profits. Viva social liberation. End pollution war, not Bushco's endless wars for more pollution. Organic Communes not Prisons (formally called Roman slavholders pens to end the matriarchy). Prisons are a war machine, and the first cdn div. says to end war you must end the machinery of war. Censored from global history by empire builders. Free the arrestees.

Does anybody know where the new SIS headquaters are?

Yeah that's fine for the videos mirror..just how can it be done...

Anyway, the full DVD, speeches and all is now available... Email me for a copy if you want, it's free

support@gihtrust.co.nz

""This guy's an anarchist,a peace activist and a musician AND HE'S ONE OF US!"

A peace activist who likes AK47's and violence. Awesome.

the cops want you to think they like AK47s real scary eh? I wonder why they want you thinking like that? fear makes you easier to control and less likely to ask questions when there's troops in the streets.

So one of the 17 has been released on bail "because of insufficient evidence". It's likely the rest will be released soon for similar reasons.
Maybe this development will shut up all those rednecks, cops, cop-lovers and conspiracy fantasists who have been telling us the Police know what they are doing and that these people are guilty, even before they have been charged.

Tame Iti should be locked up he's a disgrace to NZ and his people. Clearly he and the others are not terrorists, but that doesn't excuse armed idiocy. The police were right to react but maybe they were heavy handed.

Vegans hate people; they want to end the suffering of animals.
Many Vegans believe that people are like goats on and Island, they over populate and eat themselves out of existence and soon destroy everything.
Vegans have no problem with the notion of culling back the human population; they are the most extreme when it comes to anything to do with animal rights. Vegans have no problems with violence, and it is a surprise to me that people think that there love of animals stretches to a love of people; it in fact works the other way. They are social misfits, mostly due to their hatred of people, who they see as the cause of animal suffering-
The fact vegans are involved in this, is of concern- they are with out doubt nutters

vegans aren't nutters. I wouldn't eat an animal any more or less than I would eat a human. freedom for all animals doesn't equate to hatred of humans.

Latest update from Scoop...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00386.htm
Four "Terror" Accused Appear In Rotorua Today
Thursday, 25 October 2007, 3:08 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

Urewera 17: 4 "Terror" Accused Appear In Rotorua Today

By Alastair Thompson
The Urewera 17 saga is continuing to make headlines in New Zealand and around the world today.

Four of the Urewera 17 defendants are appearing in Rotorua District Court today opposing transfer to Auckland District Court. A large demonstration is underway outside the court in Rotorua.

Meanwhile Scoop has finally located all the "terror" case accused arrested on Monday 15th October - adding two more Rotorua names to our list of the taken.

About 50 people protested outside the NZ consulate in Sydney. photos
Speakers from the local indigenous mob, a Maori activist and Sunil who was arrested in the post-G20 terror raids and a couple of socialists. Since I'm really bad at names and didn't write any of them down I'll have to leave it to someone else to fill in the details sorry. Moz

Duh, vegans are unstable, they obsess about the human impact on animals, worms, snails etc- humans, count for nothing in their wild machinations. "I have no doubt you would prefer using products tested on young children over those tested on animals"
The ones that are diagnosed, don't take there medication, because of the animal testing regimes etc All of them suffer anxiety, which spirals out of control and is exuberated by the effects of their b12 deficiency.
.As a result you have group of chemically imbalance”(paranoid schizophrenic, bi-polar”, or generally mentally deficient people running around causing havoc -and in this case with frikken unregistered firearms.
It was fortunate that the self medicating laziness, that typifies people like Lockett Iti means that they rarely do anything right- thus they seem to have attracted every spook in town to their not so secret gay bash, bush retreat. Err maybe that can be thier defense, they are not terrorists, but were running gay fantasy weekends for feebies in the bush- like it was a bit of lads weekend thing wasn’t it, one step away from joining a rugby club

Omar Hamed - this is a real kiwi name init, seems like the same people who turned their own countries into shit holes want to make NZ just like home.

It's about time these people had their citizenship revoked, this includes lockett.
I think the term is Persona non Grata

There sure are some f'wits around, though it's clear here that none of them are activists.

"...and is exuberated by the effects..."

roflol!

signed,

an assuredly exuberant vegan, who just marched.

It was very low key. Too quiet. Lawful protest sure is unsatisfying. Guess I must be some kind of 'terrorist' then, eh?

TINO RANGATIRATANGA!