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Rise Up! Take to the streets!
Press Release:
Protesting the GCSB + TICS Bills on the 27th July NationwideOn the 27th of July, 2013 there will be a nation wide protest taking place in regards to the GCSB and TICS bills. All those taking part feel these bills are a huge injustice and violation of our basic human rights. Groups in at least 7 centres are gearing up to march in protest of this scandalous erosion of privacy granted us in the NZ Bill of Rights Act. The protest is being organised by the Stop The GCSB Bill community and its over 12'500 supporters and counting and the vast majority of kiwis that understand the bill goes too far and we need to seriously re-examine the role, power and scope of our espionage agencies.
This government refuses to accept the advice of the NZ Law Society, the Human Rights Commission and such notable figures such as Dame Anne Salmond. On Saturday, July 27th, the New Zealand Public add their voices to those experts in telling this government that this legislation does not represent the New Zealand Spirit.
In 1984, a pertinent year to this legislation, the New Zealand government stood up against Nuclear proliferation and opposed irrational fear. Today we need to do the same and let cooler heads rule, and hold on to our privacy against the irrational fear of terrorism that this government keeps citing. We are busy in our lives, looking after the kids, getting the groceries in and earning a living.
We shouldn't have to put anything on hold to say no, because the people we elect should be acting in our interests to begin with. This is a spontaneous movement for every New Zealander and all are
encouraged and welcome to make a stand.We will represent the nation, but the public can also represent themselves. Bring your banners, your placards, yourselves and your friends and family. This is a family friendly, peaceful protest.
Auckland - Aotea Square - 2pm-4pm
Hamilton - Garden Place - 2pm-4pm
Napier - Memorial Square - 2pm-4pm
Wellington - Cuba St Bucket Fountain (2pm) then march to The Beehive
(3pm) for speakers - 2pm-4pm
Nelson - iSite, Halifax St - 2pm-4pm
Christchurch - Bridge of Remembrance - 2pm-4pm
Dunedin - The Octagon - 2pm-4pm -
Hard News: A GCSB Roundup, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Ohariu gonna live with yourself...
Dunne just couldn’t resist selling out...
The Honourable, yeah Right, Peter Dunne-us-down...
...and Key will claim his dodgy 'nation's-mandate' again, one vote over the line, sigh...
There'll be no getting that genie back in the bottle...
Ears rock?
The Age had a good article on Pine Gap (the Alice Springs Five Eyes listening base) at the weekend... -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Hebe,
mantle peace... ?
Wellington Quakelive
Wow, Cook Strait is Grand Central Station for converging fault -lines!
Which side is going over which again?
Does the east coast subduct under the west coast
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Hebe,
Nice tea-time light.
Ya just can't hold a candle to tea-light...
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Love in a cold climate...
No one ever declared the Winter of Love, did they?
what about that bleedin' loved-up Shakespeare geezer then?
"Now is the winter of our disco tent..."
But 'e did 'ave 3 'e's and some 'p' innim, dinnee?
Dance? could 'e dance, what! -
no(wo)menclature?
...kids with just the one surname sometimes seem to lack adornment.
wanting some kind of 'Mum-bling' perhaps?
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remembrance of things paste…
and from the ‘up against the wall’ dept
- 3 posters I’m selling this week: -
not stainless...
Gary Steel really is writing some good stuff on Audioculture. His Chris Knox entry sets a standard.
I still haven't forgiven Gary for his crap review of a Toy Love gig in wellington - Mate, if ya don't like crowds - don't go to gigs!
He never seems to mention his In Touch magazine either... -
Hard News: A GCSB Roundup, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
This should be Tshirt and greeting cards I.D.
feel free to share this one I prepared earlier
- well it has an ear in it!
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ears looking at you kid…’
Waihopai rates a mention in this Age article.The US Australian Joint Defence Facility at Pine Gap near Alice Springs and three Australian Signals Directorate facilities: the Shoal Bay Receiving Station near Darwin, the Australian Defence Satellite Communications Facility at Geraldton and the naval communications station HMAS Harman outside Canberra are among contributors to the NSA’s collection program codenamed X-Keyscore.
The New Zealand Government Security Communications Bureau facility at Waihopai near Blenheim also contributes to the program.
X-Keyscore reportedly processes all signals before they are shunted off to various “production lines” that deal with specific issues and the exploitation of different data types for analysis – variously code-named Nucleon (voice), Pinwale (video), Mainway (call records) and Marina (internet records). US intelligence expert William Arkin describes X-Keyscore as a “national Intelligence collection mission system”.We have no idea what ‘intel’ we are gathering – bottom-dragging, drift-netting bagging it up and sending it on to the Company Store…
No better than ‘scientific whaling’ really…
and this sounds like John Key’s GCSB…Mr Snowden said that the other partners in the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance of the US, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand “sometimes go even further than the [National Security Agency] people themselves.”
as to “Human Intel’ – word seeems to have come down from ‘on high’ that there’ll be no reason brought to bear, no trying to understand other cultures – why else, at this point in time, would courses like Islamic studies be cut back or discontinued at universities like Canterbury…
