New Zealand protests in Auckland Wellington and Christchurch
today kicked off 24 hours of action around the world against
the designs for war on Iraq. In Wellington around 80-100
protestors set out from the waterfront at noon and headed
for Parliament and then the US Embassy.
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.