Today, more people than the GCSB could ever perform illegal surveillance on came together for arguably the largest anti-privatision & anti-austerity action we have witnessed to date.
Nearly 10,000 people packed Queen Street & Aotea Square in Auckland Central today, to Stand Up For Kids. Children are the all too frequent victims of poverty in New Zealand and nothing about the current ruling Government’s education policy is improving that.
To the contrary, charter schools are leading us down the same terrible path as elsewhere in the world where their institution has already further devastated struggling communities.
Education should not be for sale. We do not want corporations owning our schools any more than we want them owning our prisons. Some things are too precious to have their integrity teetering on the balance of a profit margin.
Occupy Dunedin also rocked it. A show of force from our Southerner brothers and sisters:
Meanwhile, in the capital; we were sent this utter GEM of a 1 min vid from Occupy Wellington;
Jai Bentley-Payne said it best. “Austerity is a scam!” But these guys aren’t far off. Asset sales are BULLSHIT!
Congratulations NZ for getting off your backsides and making noise. There are more of us doing it by the day and it is extremely heartening to see.
When people’s rights are under attack; stand up, fight back!
