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Days of Action in October

List of Events

Sunday, 15 October 2006
  • 12noon-5pm Clowning, legal and blockading training at 128 Abel Smith Street. Please come along, learn and share your experience. Afternoon tea provided.
Tuesday, 17 October 2006
  • 8:30am - Te Papa forecourt – meet and greet delegates as they go into the conference.
  • 10:00am - Clowning dress up at 128 Abel Smith Street for demo
  • 12 noon – Pigeon Park (corner of Manners and Taranaki Streets) – March! Rally! Blockade! - March leaves at noon going to Te Papa to catch the delegates lunch break.
Wednesday, 18 October 2006
  • 8:00am – Museum Hotel entrance – delegate wake up call
  • 10am (approximately) – Rakon shareholder demos (location to be advised) – email stoprakon(at)gmail.com for more info.
  • 6:15pm – Duxton Hotel – Crash their party! Defence Industry Awards dinner and drinks. Meet at the grassy knoll across the street from the entrance to the hotel. Bring noisemakers!
Things to bring/remember:
Wear good sturdy clothing and shoes (we will be clowning up and padding up, please join us!), sunblock (we hope:))

**Bring food, water, cameras, placards and friends**

Resources

Posters

Leaflets

Lodge a complaint!
Tell Te Papa what you think about the hosting of a weapons conference at 'Our Place'
  • Te Papa Complaint Form - Page 1
  • Te Papa Complaint Form - Page 2

    • Links

    No WARP! - Part of Peace Movement Aotearoa's work No Warp stands for Weapons and Related Production. It has excellent resources on NZ companies and multinational links to the weapons industry. The campaign also hosts the annual DICK (Destructive Industry Connected to Killing) NZ Awards and the 'Guided Missiles and Misguided Men' Awards for Government Politicians.
    http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/nowarp.htm

    War profiteers: war and disaster profiteers. Corp watch website. Excellent resources including the an alternative annual report on Halliburton titled: "Hurricane Halliburton: Conflict, Climate Change and Catastrophe" and Afghanistan, Inc.: A CorpWatch Investigative Report (May 2nd, 2006)

    Top ten war profiteers of 2004

    Stop the merchants of death – War resisters' league campaign page

    Center for Defence Information – is a US based progressive think tank with excellent articles on US arms exports and spending