Today DPB advocates shredded WINZ documents in a protest in Wellington Central.

"This is an outrageous insult to those passers-by who work in downtown Wellington to support these people," says Lindsay Mitchell, Petitioner for a Parliamentary review of the DPB.

"The protesters are saying, ' We will not have our eligibility for the DPB questioned and we won't sign work plans.' Yet workers are constantly having to sign contracts and prove their eligibility for their jobs. What for? The privilege of keeping beneficiaries ?"

"It delights me to see these people showing their true colours. They may as well have taken to the streets chanting 'My rights, your responsibility', because that is what their actions amount to."

Lindsay Mitchell Petitioner for a Parliamentary review of the DPB

ph/fx 04 562 7944

e-mail dandl.mitchell@clear.net.nz

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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>>