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Global Day of Action - Drop the Charges!

On a cold and miserable day, the cries of "No More Police State!" echoed through Central Auckland's Queen Street as over 200 Maori, trade unionists and left wingers joined a rally to defend the Urewewa 20, and remember the State Terror Raids of October 15th last year. There were banners and contingents from Tuhoe, Unite, Socialist Aotearoa, the Workers Party, and Auckland's Anarcha-Feminist collective, with individuals from the NDU, Green Party and Maoridom. Keith Locke spoke about how angry he was that Tame Iti was being treated by the Labour Party as a terrorist and not as a leader of the Tuhoe people. People left in high spirits, with the movement that began last October 15th re-ignited and ready to fight. [ Report | 1 | 2 ]

Palmerston North whanau came out to tautoko the Global Day of Action to support activists who were arrested during the 'terror raids'. Images and Sounds were projected against the Court House of palmy oppression in support of the Global Day Action. International indigenous support was present with First Nations manuhiri from Turtle Island (Americas). The Palmy Panthers showed up in full force (with their kids) - no avocados were present. Korero focussed on supporting Tino Rangatiratanga and Te Mana Motuhake o Tuhoe and the opposition to the Terrorist Suppression Act. [ Report and and ]

150 people went on a lively march through Wellington and 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’. Duncan Allan from Unite compared the struggles of working people around the world to the raids and expressed the solidarity of the union. The demo closed with a beautifully scribed piece by local musician Imon Starr who called on everyone to keep fighting and keep loving. [ Report | 1 | 2 ]

Banners were hung and fliers were handed out in several countries in support of the call to drop the charges: Hamburg | Basel | Lausanne | Freiburg | Berlin | Congo

In Melbourne workers and activists rallied against the raids and against repression of the Mexican people's movements. [ Video ]

Solidarity messages from around the world

Hamburg/Congo

Participants at the recent anti-racist and climate camp in Hamburg, Germany posted a solidarity greeting to the political activists arrested in the October 15 police terror raids last year, on Aotearoa Indymedia. They also added:

Victor Nzuzi, a member of the farmers movement Via Campesina from Congo is one of the guests in the camp and ran a number of workshops around land rights and european corporations who, by means of privatisation, steal land and water of the Congolese people. He stands in solidarity with Maori around the foreshore and seabed struggle. In the Congo, fresh water is owned by Coca Cola. And in his words: "We can see power lines in the sky like birds - but we don't have any electricity in our homes. International Solidarity! Globalise our struggles!"

Philipines - Progressive Igorots for Social action

"Warm Greetings with peace and solidarity! On behalf of the Progressive Igorots for Social action we would like to extend our tight supoort and sign the solidarity statement and condemn state terrorism in your community and all the communities around the globe which are suffering from this kind of violence against our fellow advocates for tino rangatiratanga.Our solid participation in activities like this will further bring us to victory against Imperialism and to attain our so longed long for self determination!!! Viva Tino Rangatiratanga!!!!!"

Solidarity Statement

The solidarity statement was signed by many groups and individuals from around the world. The following groups from outside of Aotearoa have expressed their support:

Upcoming Events

  • 31st August: Melbourne: Tuhoe - A History of Resistance, Glitch Bar and Cinema, 8.30pm
  • 1 September: Solidarity Demo outside Court – 1st September 9.15 – 10.30am, Cnr Kingston & Albert St
  • 1 September: Deposition Hearing starts in the Auckland District Court at 10am
  • 1 September: GPJA Forum: What the anti-terror raids mean for dissent in NZ. 7.30pm, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland.
  • 2 September: 'anti-capitalism and anti-colonial struggles in australia and the pacific', 6pm, Clubspace, above the Auckland University Quad, corner Princes and Alfred Streets.
  • 3 September: Auckland Film Screening - 3 Black Panthers & The Last Slave Plantation at Trades Hall, 5.30pm
Check out the October 15th Solidarity calendar!