Checking with activists – including the very conservative Mr Trotter – over 10 000 people marched in Auckland, so expect the NZ Herald to say 30 people marched. Stuff claimed a couple of thousand – does this look like a couple of thousand?
It was amazing to see so many passionate patriots standing up for their country – over 20 000 marched nationwide. The interesting thing was that this is the largest TPPA protests to date, so the momentum has built, thanks to the amazing Professor Jane Kelsey who has shown us why public academics are so vital for the debate. There was a much younger turn out than before and a real spread of ethnicity and class and age.
If Key tries to ram this erosion of our economic sovereignty through for trans national corporations, he risks real unrest.
Wonderful !!!
Absolutely wonderful !!!
And yes…if Key does try one more punt at serving his USA corporate mates….it’ll be the final gasp from his govt.
It would be like trying to swim Cook Strait with gumboots on for him.
Thanks for the segway WK.
Or being at a Ponytail Convention and trying to keep his hands in his pockets.
Or being on a radio/tv programme and not mentioning giving out a Knighthood to Richie.
What is it about Knighthoods and Damehoods these days anyway? Why are sportspeople getting them instead of people like Sir Bob Jones, Sir Doug Graham , Sir Roger Douglas and Dame Susan Devoy?
Oh dear, asked and answered.
No mention is made of smaller centres, only citys.it would be interesting to know how many gathered right across the board.
Elle, my partner and I joined a smallish(50?) but LOUD group in Kaitaia yesterday. Some excellent and passionate speakers (including Hone Harawira) addressed the crowd, pamphlets were handed out around the stalls at the local market. We then did a small but noisy march around the town centre.
Somehow….information about TPPA MUST be got out to the general population.
Once you explain to those who have not even heard about it…they get our concern….we need to find a way of engaging MSM.
Can’t engage govt controlled MSM. 4th Estate is and has always been a myth.
The ‘Official’ figure is over twenty-five thousand people in total.
MSM is controlled by the Government.
Thank you Professor Jane Kelsey and thank you Martyn.
Time is right to take back our country and our power.
We will not allow the big corporations and the hidden hand behind them rule our lives.
We will stop our descent into poverty and slavery here and now and not follow in the footsteps of our brother and sisters in the U.S.
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/dont_be_fooled_by_the_political_game_the_illusion_of_freedom_in_america_sho
Very proud to be a part of this movement Martyn, now perhaps as well local government agents for the people will also think again before they support TPPA.
Dame Jane Kelsey she should be called, as she has more honest decency in her little finger than the whole lousy NatZ axis in it members.
I note today that they have now wheeled out the Northand failed “Mr Fixit” to talk up the TTPA again on Q+A 16/8/15
Yes…I tend to agree…Dame Jane Kelsey.
Instead we get the jerk Talley getting a knighthood. Says it all about ‘Mr’ key and his govt.
Gisborne TPPA Action held a lively march last Thursday and was featured in the Gisborne Herald.
We have held two in the last three months.
Yes. Dame Jane Kelsey has a nice ring to it.
After initially under-reporting the numbers, (they said “nearly a thousand” in Dunedin, when there were at least twice that number) Stuff’s updated report gave totals that were in excess of 24,000 nationwide. So at least there is a nod to to some sort of balance. But the question still remains; how many were there across our nation?
Add to the 25,000 another 25 from Colville, North Coromandel.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1508/S00175/colville-people-join-nation-wide-protests-against-the-tppa.htm
There were also events in Thames, Whakatane, Whangarei, Otaki, ..in the regions. It was a good day of unified action with a huge diversity of people taking part. How insulting “rent-a-crowd” comments from Key. How they refuse to engage in the debate because they can’t answer the powerful arguments that are exposing the TPPA for what it is – the wolf inside the sheep’s clothing, corporate power taking over democratic societies and attacking the sovereignity of nations.
Well done the 25,000 TPPA protesters throughout the country. All strong, loyal Kiwis 🙂
Bet when questioned about Saturday’s protests, the traitor FJK will say he’s not too concerned and call the protesters a “rent-a-mob!”
Go for it FJK, say what you will, because I’d hardly call 25,000 plus united Kiwis marching, against the TPPA nationwide a “rent-a-mob!”
Funny how msm is not saying much about it!
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