Thu, 16 Sep 2004

Greens host Auckland Transport Forum

The Green Party has signalled a renewed focus on Auckland's Transport issues, with the announcement of a Green Forum on Auckland's Transport crisis, and the employment of an Auckland Transport Campaigner.

The Green Party agrees with Aucklanders who recently voted transport as the number one issue facing the city. Next Monday (20th September) it is hosting a forum on options and solutions to the city's congestion and transport crisis.

Speakers include:
. Green Transport Spokesperson, Jeanette Fitzsimons
. North Shore City Councillor, Joel Cayford
. Christine Caughey (candidate for the newly formed "Action Hobson" party).

Time: 7pm Monday 20th September.
Place: Green Party Auckland office, 308 Great North Road.

Auckland Green MP Keith Locke says: "A forum offers an opportunity for dialogue, rather than being just a top-down presentation by experts, so we hope people will come along and take part."

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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>>