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Monday 30 August · 19:00 - 21:00
St. Josephs Church, Basin Reserve (just off Brougham St, Mt Vic)

Come to a public meeting to hear both supporters and opponents of the Bill.

Speakers:

Michael Bott, NZ Council for Civil Liberties
Chester Burrows, National MP, Justice and Electoral Select Committee chair

Plus a spokesperson from the stop the Search and Surveillance Bill Campaign spokesperson.

An interim report on the Search and Surveillance Bill was issued by the Justice and Electoral Select Committee last week. The report is an admission that the bill will confer enormous new powers onto 70+ government agencies.

The report confirms that police will get a load of new powers: video surveillance where police trespass on private property will be legal; the circumstances in which audio bugging will be legal will dramatically increased from what it is at present. The threshold for warrantless searches is being lowered, as are the circumstances for setting up roadblocks.

Cannabis law reform magazine Norml News, which both Police and Internal Affairs recently tried to ban, has just released its Winter/Spring 2010 issue, including revelations about how and why the magazine nearly got permanently suppressed.

“Immediately prior to the Operation Lime raids in April, police went to the Dept of Internal Affairs and discussed the magazine,” Editor Chris Fowlie said today. “Soon after, Internal Affairs requested a ban on Norml News, but that request was refused and we’re still here.”

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The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill, which allows for large fines and six month Internet suspensions, has already passed its first reading in the New Zealand Parliament. However, according to copyright advocates, it doesn’t go far enough. Instead of simply disconnecting repeat infringers, they are calling for a heavier punishment that would take people’s right to Internet access away.

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Message From Penny Bright, Media Spokesperson
Water Pressure Group
8 July 2010

FREE VINCE SIEMER!
WE DEMAND A FULL INQUIRY INTO THE JAILING OF VINCE SIEMER!

PROTEST!
OUTSIDE THE ELECTORATE OFFICE OF NATIONAL MP
AND SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE - LOCKWOOD SMITH.

39A Florence Avenue
Orewa

10am - 1pm

What sort of 'justice system allows Vince Siemer to be jailed THREE times - when he has never broken any law?

What sort of 'justice system' allows someone to be jailed, bankrupted and denied their 'day in Court' to defend underpinning defamation allegations?

What sort of 'justice system' makes it unlawful to tell the truth?

What sort of 'justice system' denies a 'fair hearing', by DEBARRING a defendant from defending themself?

BONFIRES were lit on East Coast beaches yesterday as iwi groups protested against future oil exploration in the Raukumara Basin.

More than 200 people gathered at Wharekahika (Hicks Bay), Te Araroa, Rangitukia, Reporua Beach, Waihau, Tolaga and Tokomaru Bays and on Gisborne’s Kaiti Beach to declare their opposition to the exploratory drilling permit issued to oil giant Petrobras by Crown Minerals last month.

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U.S. govt. poisoned its own citizens during Prohibition
(NaturalNews) In a dark but little-known chapter of U.S. history, the federal government ordered the poisoning of alcohol supplies to deter and punish those who sought to flout Prohibition-era bans.

NZ cops poison pot puffers
(NORML NZ) The New Zealand Police's "Cannabis Eradication Program" has reached a sickening new low with the news that pot poisoned with a deadly blue spray is being sold in Auckland.

Message from Penny Bright, spokesperson for the Water Pressure Group.

17 June 2010

Hi folks!

A couple of suggestions you may find helpful & developments on the 'stopper' petition.
(ITEM 4)

Petition 2008/60, presented by Su’a William Sio, on 9 December 2009:

“Requesting that the House of Representatives do not implement any legislative changes to the Local Government Act 2002 which would make it easier to privatise water services via changes to 'contracting out', and 'Public Private Partnership' (PPP) provisions, until a full and thorough independent investigation of the pricing practices of private water company United Water's seven contracts in New Zealand has been undertaken.”

In the interests of animal welfare and New Zealand's export market, the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has deemed that stunning an animal before slaughter be compulsory, thus effectively out-lawing kosher slaughters. Under Jewish law an animal to be killed for food must not be stunned as it is having it's throat slit open.

"A disgrace to the office of a Minister, and an affront to our democracy, born of ignorance and unbelievable arrogance!" This is how Mark Atkin of Fluoride Action Network NZ (FANNZ) describes Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne's media release on the Far North District Councils decision to honour its resolution to not begin fluoridation if the public voted against it.

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When: 22 June 2010
Venue: Anti-ETS Protest Held At Parliament
Location: New Zealand
Contact: Organised by Brian Anselmi
Phone: 07 8778358
Website: www.climaterealists.org.nz for further details

Everybody is strongly urged to attend and show their opposition to an ETS which will cost our economy $527 million while being of no measurable benefit to the climate.

Farmers bring your 4x4s, utes and farm vehicles.

Organised by Brian Anselmi, ph. 07 8778358
or check the home page at www.climaterealists.org.nz for further details as they come to hand.

If you are willing and able to help hand out flyers at the Mystery Creek Fieldays please contact Brian by phone 07 8778358
or email Neil and Esther Henderson at info@climaterealists.org.nz