Ecoaction

On Tuesday May 1, 2001 Victoria University's Ecoaction will be demonstrating against the proposal of Hutt City Council, Wellington City Council and Wellington Regional Council to transfer the management of our water services to a trust. The main focus of this demonstration will be the auction of the Cuba Mall bucket fountain at 2pm. Ecoaction is opposed to the formation of a trust as the trust will lack transparency and the trustees will be appointed, not elected. Although the councils say that privatisation is not an issue at present this will change, particularly if the NZ government signs to the World Trade Organisations General Agreement on Trade and Services.

Contact: Jo Spratt ph 385 3135 or 021 122 4995

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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>>