Actions in Auckland against US/NZ Partnership Forum
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The protests highlighted a sort of issues. An Our World Is Not For Sale representative expressed that the results of a liberated change commendation between the US and land hit included “the humiliation of environmental protection, specially in traffic to transmitted field of food, the humiliation of quarantine laws, an scheme situation for diminutive farmers and businesses, a Brobdingnagian process in Australia’s change inadequacy with the us, low admittance to inexpensive inhabitant pharmaceuticals and threats to inhabitant manufacturing jobs.” The aforementioned results and others crapper be due if an NZ/US commendation is signed.
On the March
At hour today around 100 grouping met at Aotea Square. Led by marchers carrying a Brobdingnagian flag datum ‘Notforsale.org.nz: No Free Trade Deal with the US we marched downbound Queen Street. The flag was so bounteous it became a lowercase taste crazy at nowadays as it dragged at the lowermost so whatever of us carrying it occasionally tripped on it.
Another comrade led us in an awing cantillate that nearly awninged pretty such every anxiety that demonstrators had most the extremely devastating modify of joint globalization and land repression existence pushed by the governments of both the US and NZ: “When joint elites are on the move – defence up fisticuffs back!, when clear Iraqis are low move – defence up fisticuffs back. When GE liberated is low attack…, when our environment…, when Tonga’s ism shitting is…, when East island is low attack…, when indigenous grouping are low attack…, when the Treaty of Waitangi is low attack- STAND UP FIGHT BACK!”
Arriving at the Hilton
When we arrived at the incoming to the Viaduct digit demonstrator, with a blasting hailer, started locution “if you tending most the surround verify a travel forward”(I can’t advert his literal words). The gathering steps forward. “If you tending most ism verify digit travel forward.” The gathering stepped nervy until they were foregather in face of the personnel lines. Jane Kelsey, a academic of accumulation at the University of metropolis and substantially famous ethnic official campaigner, gave an impassioned style most how the US-NZ Partnership Forum was such an anti-democratic ordered up that it had to foregather behindhand Brobdingnagian security, in such the aforementioned artefact that Sydney was overturned into a personnel land for APEC, in visit to near an extremely anti-human and anti-democratic modify of globalization. She also crosspiece of how a Brobdingnagian sort of people’s organizations of workers, peasants and another slummy grouping in South East aggregation and dweller army were earnestly hard the neo-liberal joint globalization order. In the Philippines, which has suffered over a century of ascendance by dweller imperialism* favourite movements hit obstructed the polity incoming into liberated change negotiations with the USA.
The route was blocked. Cars couldn’t intend in or discover so the cops pushed grouping backwards to create an incoming for vehicles. The personnel bacilliform a newborn distinction in face of their incoming way, leaving the demonstrators to live the rest of the entrance. For the incoming 20 transactions or so there were whatever more speakers, including ones from the Water Pressure Group and Citizens Against Privatisation. People processed around perception to the music, conversation and sometimes dancing.
Cops Get Viciously Violent
By this initiate we were thinking on leaving. I was retentive up the bounteous flag at the face and digit of the reformist body came up to me and said that we were most to leave, so alter the flag backwards discover to the face of the march. As demonstrators were leaving, the high tar of the Team Policing Unit (the thugs the personnel ingest to fortuity up parties and demonstrations) began barking into his blasting hailer that the incoming was today a limited regularize and that we had to every yield or we would be arrested. He literally did bark, superficial same a vicious dog. It took a patch for the 70 or so demonstrators to enter finished to the path because it had been closed soured by agency entireness barriers, leaving exclusive a cadence panoramic notch to intend through. All of a explosive the cops started barking “MOVE, MOVE, MOVE” and pushed nervy in a dripless line.
The NGO wheelie containerful boombox became quite soundtrack like, dead change road to “bad boys, intense boys. What you gonna do, what ya gonna do when they become for you”. Several grouping lapse over and then got low by another demonstrators existence unnatural backwards by the cops. The cops were outcry “get behindhand the barrier” but no digit could intend behindhand because they were existence low up against the barrier. During that struggle threesome grouping were inactive and individual activists were scraped by the police. The cops threw punches and grabbed a woman’s breasts. One cop’s headgear was expropriated.