GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Tens Of Thousands In Pushback Protest.
I’m somewhere in that amazing crowd of 20,000 plus concerned Kiwis today with my crew Conan and Sam.
It was such a privilege to be filming with Catherine Delahunty, Augusta Macassey-Pickard and their Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki Group today.
I wrote in a recent post about how we needed some pushbacks against some of the exploitative things this right -wing Coalition government is doing, and boy did we see that today!
Tens of thousands of us, from all walks of life throughout New Zealand, marching today to tell the government that:
No! We don’t want a Fast Track Law that will give three Cabinet Ministers unbridled power to do whatever they want without consultation.
No! We don’t want Nature destroyed in the name of greed.
No! We don’t want overseas companies plundering our country anymore.
Really inspirational to see!
Kaha kaha.
Bryan Bruce is one of New Zealand’s most important and respected documentary makers. His work is available on bryanbruce.substack.com
You’d prefer to see NZ remain poor and hungry instead – that’s nice
And you think multinationals plundering our resources is going to reverse that?
Nz is a first world country Yeti with an average salary of $53,040. If we squander our natural resources and destroy our tourism industry we will indeed become a third would country. Lets not throw it all away for short term gain and the wealth of a few…
Love those who can get down so quickly to suck on corporate cock. So impressed Yeti, do you punch down on the poor for shits and giggles?
Selling out resources that should be mined by a government department to foreigners won’t benefit us. Just foreign aliens like Peter Thiel.
There are a lot of African nations who have opened up to multinational mining companies, yet they are poor and hungry. We are going to end up like the Congo, with French, Chinese and American mining companies scraping out the minerals, ruining the environment, and leaving nothing for us.
This government is the most anti envrionment in history.
Yeti, you don’t have to look far to see the consequences of sucking up to foreign mining. New Caledonia, Nauru both spring to mind.
In our own country we have the mess that had to be cleaned up on Mt TeAroha and the wells left by Tamarind off shore.
Then have you seen the heap of tailings hidden in behind Waihi and the waste sitting right beside the sea at Ti Wai Point.
Those foreign companies won’t give a shit once they’ve taken the money and run.
You know that trickle down doesn’t work? The few that gain the most wealth from the trashing of the environment will move somewhere else and leave those who stay having to pay to clean up the mess. If you think that is a sensible way to do things then you are incredibly selfish.
Yeti, I would have thought you would be concerned about your mountain home, it is disappearing due to climate change which has come about by burning fossil fuels.