Reclaim the streets – Auckland

4 Mar 2007 K road rocked to the sound of cli­mate change pro­test­ers yes­ter­day as cops blocked off the road for a reclaim he streets style par­ty. Around 200 peo­ple par­tic­i­pat­ed in snow fights, stalls and a people’s assem­bly with many onlook­ers inter­est­ed. Bands played sam­ba and world style music along with a punk band, … Con­tin­ue read­ing “Reclaim the streets – Auck­land”

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4 Mar 2007
K road rocked to the sound of cli­mate change pro­test­ers yes­ter­day as cops blocked off the road for a reclaim he streets style par­ty. Around 200 peo­ple par­tic­i­pat­ed in snow fights, stalls and a people’s assem­bly with many onlook­ers inter­est­ed. Bands played sam­ba and world style music along with a punk band, and peo­ple danced across a street nor­mal­ly filled with cars. A people’s assem­bly and speak­ers spoke about the dis­as­trous effects of cli­mate change if we do not act now. The par­tic­i­pants vot­ed for free and fre­quent pub­lic trans­port and then vot­ed in favour of a peace­ful non vio­lent rev­o­lu­tion (they didn’t even give us a chance to vote against this one) The Save Hap­py Val­ley Auck­land Coali­tion talked about the impor­tance of stop­ping coal min­ing in Aotearoa and a group of pub­lic sup­port­ers wore “save malcolm’s snails” T – shirts, refer­ring to one of the most active cam­paign­ers for SHV in Auck­land. After the peo­ples assem­bly a car was sym­bol­i­cal­ly smashed up, spray-paint­ed and plants were put inside. Over­all the day was mod­er­ate­ly suc­cess­ful inform­ing passers by and pro­vid­ing a fun out­ing for cli­mate activists but the turn out was fair­ly small.

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