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11th October 2011, 20:05 | #1 | |
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Occupy Queen Street
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I see the usual left-wing rent-a-mob has decided that it would be a good idea to disrupt the city of Auckland with an "Occupy Wall Street" copycat "occupation" commencing the day before the All Blacks vs. Wallabies RWC semifinal. Genious. All the alcohol in downtown Auckland, hundreds of thousands of rugby fans full of beer and testosterone, an All Blacks-Wallabies knockout match, and a left-wing protest march in the middle. |
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11th October 2011, 21:09 | #2 |
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isnt the AB game on sunday the 16th?
edit- not to say they arent a pack of fucking assholes, kinda smells like those awful cycling "brigades" who seem to keep getting mown down in youtube videos, i forget what they are called. basically, people who want to get a message across and think that annoying the fuck out of the people they want to support them is a valid way of doing it. Last edited by leadinjector : 11th October 2011 at 21:11. |
11th October 2011, 21:15 | #3 |
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lead - yeah, it's the day before, but if you were familiar with the occupy protest movement you'd know that their intention is to occupy queen street for much longer than 24 hours.
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11th October 2011, 21:25 | #4 |
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The organisers are calling on people to bring tents and sleeping bags to maintain the protest for as long as possible.
All it will take is for 20 or 30 pissed rugby nuts to miss a bus because of the protest, and the protestors will be stomped so hard that the only thing left will be a stain. |
11th October 2011, 21:31 | #5 |
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Sadly, I don't think it was "the usual left-wing rent-a-mob" that decided to locate these protests on the 15th. Apparently this protest is happening globally in over 1000 different cities, Auckland being one of them.
http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/201...al-change-o15/ |
11th October 2011, 21:34 | #6 |
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Aotea Square is not the best place to camp out. It's also a place where essentially nobody will notice that they are there.
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11th October 2011, 21:53 | #7 |
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the same fucktarded knobs alright.
Fuckfaces I expect to be there: people from UNITE union, Socialist Aotearoa, John Minto. |
12th October 2011, 00:02 | #8 |
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This is so insane I can only assume that this was dreamed up by the National Party and implanted in the brains of the organisers by means of some secret mind-control ray.
Seriously, Rugby World Cup finals week? With NZ hosting? And the All Blacks playing Australia in a knockout match that weekend, in that city? A COUPLE OF WEEKS OUT FROM AN ELECTION? Picture everyone's mate John Key on television, rhetorically asking with a disbelieving look on his face, "Why do they hate New Zealand? Why don't they support the All Blacks? I just don't understand. Why can't the the Left stand with our team like the rest of the country?" Then they'll cut to Richie McCaw with his hand on his heart crying during the singing of the national anthem. For the hearing impaired there will be subtitles: "JOHN KEY UPSET THAT NEW ZEALAND'S LEFT HATES THE ALL BLACKS" The entire left wing of NZ's political spectrum will be about as popular as cancer. Just before the election the National Party will be asked what it stands for, and Bill English, wearing a silver fern lapel pin, will hold up pictures of dreadlocked students fighting capitalism with their arms linked across Queen Street, and tearful rugby fans wearing All Blacks jerseys and beanies stuck on traffic-jammed public transport, distraught that they've missed the game. And English will reply "NOT THIS." And National will win in a landslide - well, I mean that's going to happen anyway, but the landslide will be so huge there'll be no Left any more. An "Occupy Queen Street" protest in Auckland on October 15 is a right-wing spin doctor's wet dream. Repeat: INSANE. |
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Imo the only party that really has the potential to be negatively affected by this is the Green Party. (ie, smearing back on some of that dirty hippie grime that seems have been washed off somewhat since the departure of Bradford)
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12th October 2011, 09:17 | #14 |
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I'm not above standing there is solidarity with whom ever else turns up. I'd take my "Vote labour" sign and I promise to stay at least as long as the first batch of TV media.
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12th October 2011, 10:49 | #15 | |
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*not me though, I voted for Kodos. |
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1st November 2011, 03:04 | #17 | |
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Meanwhile, the London branch of Occupy Wall Street, camping outside St. Paul's Cathedral, stirred up a storm in... The Church of England (!!!)
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28th January 2012, 20:41 | #19 |
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Saw these guys doing there thing today:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/nation...s-aotea-square They seemed pretty passionate about what they were about, I was impressed they could get 70 of them together like that. It'll be interesting what the cops and the council decide to do about it, they seem up for a scrap.
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28th January 2012, 21:16 | #20 |
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great use of police time.
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29th January 2012, 09:45 | #21 |
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So what is it these street dwellers are doing?
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29th January 2012, 09:49 | #22 |
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Something to do with anti capitalism. Should ask Endymion he is a regular at Occupy Christchurch.
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29th January 2012, 09:50 | #23 |
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Oh I see. I'm not sure that approach is going to have much effect...
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29th January 2012, 09:55 | #24 |
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Better then sitting on the couch on the benefit though I guess.
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29th January 2012, 09:57 | #25 |
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Yeah, at least they're getting some exercise while receiving the benefit.
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29th January 2012, 10:24 | #26 |
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The protesters in Auckland consist of the homeless and white uni students from the North Shore
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29th January 2012, 10:45 | #27 |
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xor hates the North Shore. Just cos.
Should start an occupy movement, brah.
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