Invercargill Schools Protest To Be Broadcast on Sky

Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt is inviting all communities in New Zealand who are still threatened by school closures to tune into Sky Channel 90 (Southland Television) where a public meeting calling on the Prime Minister to stop school reviews will be broadcast live.

Invercargill’s school principals are unanimous that the Government moratorium on school reviews should be extended to Invercargill.

The Mayor has invited Prime Minister Helen Clark to the meeting to see for herself Invercargill’s feelings about why we should be treated differently to the rest of New Zealand.

When: Monday 1 March Time: 7pm

Where: Ascot Park Hotel, Invercargill

Southland Television will broadcast the meeting LIVE on Sky Channel 90.

Mayor Tim invites you to tune in.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>