Occupy Queen Street

[Ab]

15 October 2011 is the international day of action for the Occupy movement and United for Global Change events. We are the 99% and it's time for Auckland to join this growing movement. (More info about OccupyAuckland here.)

OccupyAuckland will start with a march from Britomart (get directions) at 3pm on 15 October 2011.

We'll be marching up to Aotea Square (get directions)where our occupation will begin. We'll hold our first general assembly at the occupation to start getting organised.

http://occupyauckland.org/

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.

[leadinjector]

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.

[Nothing]

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.

[Ab]

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.

[Nothing]

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/

[Golden Teapot]

Aotea Square is not the best place to camp out. It's also a place where essentially nobody will notice that they are there.

[MrTTTT]

the same fucktarded knobs alright.
Fuckfaces I expect to be there: people from UNITE union, Socialist Aotearoa, John Minto.

[Ab]

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.

[Ab]

Originally Posted by Golden Teapot

Aotea Square is not the best place to camp out. It's also a place where essentially nobody will notice that they are there.

Yeah, but isn't it the most obvious place for a protest? I mean fuck, when it comes to driving a stake through the evil black heart of Southern Hemisphere capitalism, Aotea Square is really the place to start. It's totally just like Wall Street.

[MrTTTT]

Originally Posted by Ab

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.

This is genius. I may steal it for alternative purposes.

[MrTTTT]

Originally Posted by Ab

Yeah, but isn't it the most obvious place for a protest? I mean fuck, when it comes to driving a stake through the evil black heart of Southern Hemisphere capitalism, Aotea Square is really the place to start. It's totally just like Wall Street.

This is what I don't fucking understand about the whole thing. It's kind of a 'jump the occupy wall street' bandwagon scenario but in reality NZ has fuckall in the top 1%. All the power is with the financeers and NZ is far away from the action. People in NZ don't have the power to steer global capitalism whereas those working on Wall Street do. That's why the Wall street protest makes a shit load more sense than this lame nz one

[Ab]

Originally Posted by MrTTTT

This is genius. I may steal it for alternative purposes.

Don't feel guilty. I gift it to the world. That's the kind of guy I am.

To the extent possible under law, Simon Garlick has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to
http://www.nzgames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1890593.

[fixed_truth]

Originally Posted by Ab

The entire left wing of NZ's political spectrum will be about as popular as cancer.

I think that you might be partaking in some 'right-wing spin doctoring' yourself :P

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)

[Golden Teapot]

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.

[Saladin]

Originally Posted by MrTTTT

This is what I don't fucking understand about the whole thing. It's kind of a 'jump the occupy wall street' bandwagon scenario but in reality NZ has fuckall in the top 1%. All the power is with the financeers and NZ is far away from the action. People in NZ don't have the power to steer global capitalism whereas those working on Wall Street do. That's why the Wall street protest makes a shit load more sense than this lame nz one

You forget we* elected a wall street banker as PM :P

*not me though, I voted for Kodos.

[Spink]

[doppelgänger of someone]

Meanwhile, the London branch of Occupy Wall Street, camping outside St. Paul's Cathedral, stirred up a storm in... The Church of England (!!!)

Originally Posted by NY Times

One of the cathedral’s top officials, Canon Giles Fraser, had already resigned, saying he could not accept a forcible dismantling of the camp

[...]

it goes to the core of a theological dilemma the church has faced for centuries: whether, and when, as the country’s “established” church, with the monarch as its head, it should follow the social radicalism that Jesus demonstrated when he overturned the money lenders’ tables in the temple, or act, in effect, as a handmaiden of the prevailing social and political order.

New York Times report
Guardian columnist pov <3 Marina Hyde

[crocos]

Originally Posted by doppelgänger of someone

<3 Marina Hyde

Yes, she is quite cute

[Lightspeed]

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.

[leadinjector]

great use of police time.

[Pimp-X]

So what is it these street dwellers are doing?

[diviner]

Something to do with anti capitalism. Should ask Endymion he is a regular at Occupy Christchurch.

[Pimp-X]

Oh I see. I'm not sure that approach is going to have much effect...

[diviner]

Better then sitting on the couch on the benefit though I guess.

[Pimp-X]

Yeah, at least they're getting some exercise while receiving the benefit.

[xor]

The protesters in Auckland consist of the homeless and white uni students from the North Shore

[CCS]

xor hates the North Shore. Just cos.


Should start an occupy movement, brah.