Labour and Greens confirm commitment to restoring democracy – Greenpeace

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Labour MP Megan Woods is promising to return Canterbury’s regional council, ECan, to a democratically elected council.

It follows a mass day-long occupation of the ECan building by local water activists calling for the restoration of democracy and urgent action to save rivers.

In 2010, the Government sacked ECan councilors and instead installed their own commissioners to run the Regional Council.

“The Government took away democracy from the people of Canterbury and in return gave us more big irrigation schemes, more cows, and more polluted rivers,” says Gen Toop from Greenpeace.

At least a hundred protestors crowded inside the foyer to voice their concerns about ECan’s role in dairy intensification in the region.

During the occupation, MP Megan Woods tweeted that Labour’s policy is full restoration of democracy.

“New constituencies are needed that are fair and give equal weight across the region,” she said.

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Green MP Eugenie Sage visited the occupation and also confirmed the Green’s commitment to restore democracy to Canterbury.

Today’s protest included farmers, doctors, scientists, and families.

Bryan Clearwater, a dairy farmer from South Canterbury, joined the occupation and spoke to the crowd about better ways of farming.

Local activist, Shane Herdman, said he just wants his nephews to be able to swim in clean rivers like he did when he was a kid.

The activists set up “The People’s Ecan” inside the lobby.

They presented ECan acting chairperson, Steve Lowndes, a list of action points for the council to implement in order to clean up rivers in the region.

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  1. “The Government took away democracy from the people of Canterbury and in return gave us more big irrigation schemes, more cows, and more polluted rivers,”

    We say the Government have proven themselves are corrupt and have subjerted our whole democracy.

    MP Jian Wang is clearly a chinese spy operative that was sent to NZ to infltrate our Government as his family is actually operating “Wang Enterprises” a digital intellegence company operating a spy network in the USA also as a “digital intellegence contractor” and was found to be falsifying US elections since 2000.

    MP Jian Wang is now holding several NZ Government portfolios that he has access to all our intellegence information now to destabilise our election process.

    The police should arrest this spy who was operating formerly in China as a contract educator for chinese Government spies before he left china to infiltrate our government in our country.

    National Government has allowed our country to be placed in jeopardy by this corrupt Government, and oppoostioon political parties & Greenpeace should now call for this chinese Government spy to be arrested now, as the election may be already hacked by this man and his association with his chinese government.

    Here below are the facts and US federal court testimony given by a senior computer contractor Eugene (Clint) Curtis about the activity of Yang Enterprises election fraud.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7R1_ixtlyc

    Clint Curtis was paid by Wang Enterprises to hack into the US elections process and change the result of the elections under administration by Wang Enterprises.

    Also here are comments about Jian Wang.

    DSpare30
    13 September 2017 at 8:30 pm
    This from Bradbury was interesting (usual condiment recommendations apply):
    I met Jian Yang once in his role as the head of politics at Auckland University when I was applying for post graduate study and I was always surprised in my 20 minute interview with him that he knew more about who I was and my political activism than anyone else on campus. He asked me lots of questions that had bugger all to do with the study I wanted and far more focused on who I knew and what they were doing.
    The allegation that he might be a Chinese spy doesn’t surprise me at all.
    https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2017/09/13/so-nationals-blue-dragons-might-be-red-dragons-how-national-are-utterly-compromised-to-china/

    Subject: My investigative work on Jian Yang. The Standard https://thestandard.org.nz/national-mp-jian-yang-was-investigated-by-sis-for-possible-ties-to-chinese-government/#comment-1384919

    https://thestandard.org.nz/national-mp-jian-yang-was-investigated-by-sis-for-possible-ties-to-chinese-government/#comment-1384919

    I woke up to realise now that this NZ MP Jian Yang may be family of Yang Enterprises in USA who are snarled up in a voting fraud hacking case and is he trying this here now?
    See these clips and the testomony abour ‘Yang Enterprises.
    Fishy stuff may be connected?

    Eugene Curtis – Yang Enterprises election fraud.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7R1_ixtlyc

    NZ MP Jian Yang – is he related to this family Yang Enterprises computer intelligence company carrying out voting fraud in USA?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7R1_ixtlyc

    http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/florida_election_stolen.html

    (2017/05/15 17:15) The Newest Breaking News … for global hacking waveWashington PostPutin Blames … of the young developer Jian-Yang’s octopus …

  2. Don’t expect democracy any time soon from the Nats. They deliberately tipped the playing field in favour of farmers and against the environment. They cannot claim innocence on the state of Canterbury waterways, or the rest of the country for that matter!

  3. This whole thing was an outrage to democracy.
    You know about four years ago I wrote a long e-mail to the self-described watchdogs of democracy freedomhouse.org about how the National government dismissed a democratically elected local government board because this board had the balls to stand up against unsustainable irrigation. I asked them to reconsider their grade 1 mark for democratic rights in NZ accordingly.
    These great bastions of democratic freedom couldn’t even be bothered to acknowledge my email, let alone investigate it.
    National arrogantly tramples over our democratic rights and nobody wants to know.
    Well hopefully we can put this right next Saturday.

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