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/ Issue 5 - August & September 2004 Free To All A Pakeha Perspective The Taming of Tino Rangatiratanga Also in this issue... Shut the Fuck Up! (or How to Act Better in Meetings) An Introduction to Anarcho-primitivism Lots of updates from around Aotearoa Radical Changes at Karamea School and more! A magazine for anarchists and freedom-loving leftists in Aotearoa Kia Ora! imminent rebellion Welcome! August & September 2004 KIA ORA everyone and welcome to an even bigger issue of imminent rebellion. Issue 5 This issue brings about a couple of changes. Firstly, we’ve expanded to 16 pages from the previous 12. We did this as oppose to going to a monthly version as we had previously proposed What we’re about... for reasons of workload and cost. This issue is also the fi rst to be printed using an offset printer, as We passionately seek to live our oppose to using laser printing as we were previously doing. lives on our own terms. We seek the Secondly, and most importantly, this issue sees the focus of imminent rebellion broadened be- dissolution of all relationships and yond those who explicitly call themselves anarchists, to all those on the left who are anti-authori- systems of power, be they colonial- tarian like anti-colonialists, revolutionary feminists or radical environmental and animal liberation ism, capitalism, patriarchy, the state movements. We really want to see imminent rebellion acting as a meeting point for these move- or the domination and exploitation of ments to communicate and work together. the environment and other life. We We’re eager beavers for more submissions in the form of project updates, articles and images seek a new way of living, one with- so please send us stuff to publish! We hope you enjoy this issue... out power, based on freedom, coop- Kia kaha! eration, equality and mutual aid. We recognise that we cannot use power - Editorial Collective to destroy power, and instead turn to grassroots, decentralised and non- Aotearoa Contacts hierarchical forms of organisation to resist. We have created this maga- Auckland Christchurch zine as a space for like-minded peo- Aotearoa Black Press Anarchist Round Table ple to communicate, organise and P.O. Box 78-104 P.O. Box 22-076 start taking back their lives! Grey Lynn Christchurch Auckland [email protected] [email protected] http://art.anarchism.org.nz Submissions... imminent rebellion exists to publish Animal Liberation Auckland Christchurch Animal Action your news, articles, images and let- P.O. Box 7213 P.O. Box 2250 ters. We’ll publish anything well writ- Wellesley St Christchurch ten and sympathetic to our aims. Auckland [email protected] [email protected] The next deadline for submis- Earth First! Otautahi sions is September 15th. Class War Information Service P.O. Box 1913 P.O. 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[email protected] imminent rebellion PO Box 1913 Christchurch/Otautahi We are united by dissatisfaction, rebellion, the desire to do something, by non-conformity. History Aotearoa written by Power taught us that we had lost, that cynicism and profi t were virtues, that honesty and sacrifi ce were stupid, that individualism was the new god... We did not take in the lesson. We were [email protected] bad pupils. We did not believe what Power taught us. We skipped class when they taught conform- www.i-r.anarchism.org.nz ity and idiocy. We failed modernity. Classmates in rebellion, we discovered and found ourselves brothers. Health to you, and don’t forget that fl owers, like hope, are harvested. ISSN 1176-5267 - Subcommandante Marcos, Zapatista “imminent rebellion - Issue 5 - Page 2 ” News in Brief Police Harrass Animal Rights Activists GRASSROOTS Animal Rights Activists in it for a week, and then re- Auckland have been subjected to an unusually turned it covered in finger- high level of harassment by Police over the last print powder and missing year. Several houses have been raided and ac- all its important contents, tivists have been charged with offences which including a megaphone, are clearly intended to disrupt their lives and banner, diary, and even protest activity rather than to convict them. three empty drink bottles! On October the 2nd last year a group of Police charged him with being unlawfully Two other activists had arrest warrants and animal rights activists entered the Tegel Head in a building, intentional damage and burglary search warrants issued for them and their hous- Office in Newmarket, Auckland, and spread – all for delivering a letter about straw. The bur- es, but were advised by police to “turn them- straw over the ground and desks. The protest glary charge was exploiting a law change which selves in” so that they wouldn’t have police lasted less than 60 seconds. Jesse Duffield, the went through parliament only the day before, turn up at their house. They went in and were spokesperson for the group, had the sole job of which redefines burglary as “entering a build- arrested and charged with everyone else. handing a letter to the receptionist explaining ing with the intent to commit a crime”. They Six activists now face charges from a range that chickens need straw to carry out their basic opposed bail, but a good lawyer had it granted of intimidation, disorderly behaviour and theft instincts. It was a peaceful, symbolic protest, with heavy conditions: Jesse had to adhere to a (of an A4 sign falsely claiming “No Animal and care was taken to ensure that the dry straw 9PM-6AM curfew and report to the Henderson Furs in This Store”, valued at $10). The matter wasn’t put near computers or thrown at people. Police Station every Saturday. These conditions is due to reach a status hearing on July 28th. After the protests undercover police arrived were dropped by Judges at subsequent court Police recently dropped all charges against at the scene, followed protesters back to their hearings. Jesse for the Tegel Protest. They kept his per- cars and took down Jesse’s number plate. They This is just one of a series of raids. In April sonal belongings, and burglary charges active, later towed his car back to the police station, so and May fur protests were held outside Belucci, for nine months, during which time he was fac- Jesse thought it had been stolen and reported it a shop which sells fur from animals which are ing up to a maximum of 10 years in prison for so. factory farmed in extremely inhumane condi- the burglary charge alone. His lawyer is inves- The next day police turned up at Jesse’s tions in Asia. The owner of the store, Manwa tigating the possibility of suing police for dam- house with a search warrant for “hay, straw, Wong, lied to police in statements about two ages. He expects to receive his belongings back sacks or anything to do with animal rights.” protests, and as a result police obtained arrest in the next week or two. With this they took his laptop, cellphone, vid- warrants and search warrants for six activ- This heavy-handedness of police presents a ists and their houses. Four problem for all grassroots activists. Police are houses were raided, with a now using their powers of arrest, search and search warrant that includ- seizure to disrupt (and effectively punish) ac- ed information pertaining tivist groups outside of the court system. to animal rights activists. It is hard to believe that police really ex- With these they took hoards pected to convict someone of burglary for de- of personal items, including livering a letter about straw, but they knew how computers, cameras and disruptive the house raid and excessive charges personal diaries. would be. Police currently have almost every In the case of one activ- computer, banner, megaphone, leaflet, video ist, three computers, dozens camera, digital camera and related storage me- of computer parts, a video dia that the grassroots animal rights activists in camera, miscellaneous Auckland own. papers and her personal Police are attempting to shut down a group diaries dating back to when of peaceful protesters outside of the court sys- she was about ten years tem. If the public are not made aware, and ap- old were taken. The activ- propriate action is not taken to ensure police eos, over 100 floppy disks, posters off the wall, ist was in the last month of her Diploma in IT don’t continue these tactics, several other pro- school keys, a GE T-shirt and many other un- Programming, and she needed the computers to test groups could go through the same level of related items.