29 January, 2004

Media Advisory

Nandor Welcomes Student Protest To Parliament

Green MP Nandor Tanczos will speak at a student protest at parliament tomorrow, Friday January 30.

Students and delegates at the annual New Zealand University Students Association (NZUSA) conference will protest the government's refusal to implement the Emergency Unemployment Benefit by creating a cardboard city at Parliament at 4pm.

Many students are in Wellington to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the NZUSA. Nandor will also be attending this conference.

It is Green policy to reintroduce the emergency unemployment benefit for students over the summer holidays.

Nandor addresses Cardboard City Friday, January 30 at 4pm Parliament front steps

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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>>