Activists hold alternative action outside counter-terrorism gabfest

"Today Helen Clark addressed the Pacific Island Roundtable on Counter Terrorism 25 activists were outside with a simple clear message for her. If her government wants to work towards a world free of terrorism, she must stop participating and condoning it" said PAW member John Anderson.

"From our troops in Afghanistan to Iraq, to condoning our neighbour in Indonesia who terrorise the people of Acheh and West Papua – we must begin to act against state terrorism."

The activists played a recording of Raed Jarrar’s Iraqi Road Map for Peace at 5:30 as one counter voice to Clark’s talk today. You can find out more here:

http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/17580/index.php

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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>>