Arms Traders in Balaclavas: Weapons conference resistance continues
8th October Tonight we descended on the weapons conference delegates as they were entering the duxton hotel on wakefield street, wellington for the ‘Minister of Defence awards for excellence’ and gala dinner (one presumes, covered in a nice bloody sauce). Their composure was disrupted with shouts, screams, drums and general noise. Food not bombs served up a tasty soup, delicious dumpstered bananas and bread to keep us going for 2 hours.
The duxton hotel has been surrounded by poolice and provision security scum for two days. They have gone to extreme lengths to keep the conference secret and to keep disruption to a minimum. The police were inside and outside the hotel, filming people from cars and on foot. Provision security were also using film and video cameras to record events. One suit-wearing scumbag quickly donned a balaclava in order to avoid being filmed by us, while another was forced out of the lift as he tried to hide from people. [More]
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Spy Unmasked
Re: Arms Traders in Balaclavas: Weapons conference resistance co
I've been involved in protests and direct actions for a couple of years and have been questioning the way we do things for a while, thinking that maybe yelling at these people isn't the best way to heal the sickness that is greed and destruction.
I think it just puts up barriers between them and us and shuts off their minds to the actuality of what they're doing.
In other words, aren't 'we' just as bad as 'them' when we yell and get violent?
I know it makes us angry and upset but I think yelling is more a way to release our rage rather than begin a constructive healing process. For me peaceful acceptance is key to all conflicts in life.
I don't mean passive acceptance - take a stand for sure, work hard because changing the current way of mainstream life WILL take a lot of work.
But the businessmen, capitalists, warmongers and non-thinkers are the people we need to befriend and they need heaps of love and acceptance to gain the courage to rethink their perspectives on life.
I could go on but I wont.
AROHANUI
Re: Arms Traders in Balaclavas: Weapons conference resistance co
Gonna do a protest outside the homes of those who support the arms trade such as Valerie or Tame?
Re: Arms Traders in Balaclavas: Weapons conference resistance co
Go for it. Dont forget to have fun too while youre at it.