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The top 20 rating items on Scoop on May Day 2000 were...
1:
Scoop
Link: Nice.com aren't very
nice
Nice.com aren't very, scoop learned today.
2:
On
The Left Keep that red flag
flying.
After a few weeks away, a refreshed author is back again. The new Parliamentary session begins this week, and it’s going to be fun. But first, a song sung to the tune `O Christmas Tree’:
3:
Scoop
Feature: Today Is Mayday2k!
The capacity of the internet to enable networking among political interest groups has emerged over the past 12 months in a spectacular fashion. Scoop's Alastair Thompson backgrounds the Mayday2k protest movement in a feature article first published in ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
A
Week Of It – Rumbles In The
Jungle
The earth has replaced the wind as the major buffeter of the capital in the last fortnight, with recent midnight jolts reminding Wellingtonians they are sitting targets for the next big one.
5:
Scoop
Images: Anticapitalists Gather In Cuba
St.
Scoop will be providing rolling photo reports on action in the Streets of Wellington today. The following is the first set of pics from Scoop’s roving MayDay2k photographer Miles Thompson.
Protestors including Roger Burns proceed to McDonalds Manners Mall…and a handful of McDonalds fans brave the 200+ crowd. Miles Thompson reports in pictures…part 1.
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Scoop
Images: A Misty Ruapehu Film
Set
The following pictures were taken at Whakapapa ski-field on Mt Ruapehu at the weekend. Peter Jackson's film crews have been filming scenes for the Lord of The Rings trilogy of films there recently.
Protestors including Mr Burns proceed to McDonalds Manners Mall…and a handful of McDonalds fans brave the 200+ crowd. Miles Thompson reports in pictures…part 2.
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HARD
NEWS 28/4/00 - Drunks, Puppets and
Monkeys
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... bear with me while I do my therapy. One of the reasons I keep on with Hard News is that it gives me the chance to shout at people who piss me off. It relieves me of the need to bore my friends and family with the details.
10:
MAYDAY2K:
Wellington May Day Protest
Itinerary
MAIN EVENT - MARCH - 3.30pm - Proceed from Manners Mall to Midland Park (Lambton Quay) - free money to be given away to undermine capitalism.
11:
MAYDAY2K:
Four Christchurch Banks Stink
Bombed
Scoop has received another anonymous communique from a group calling itself “People Not Profits” in Christchurch who have been busy making a stink.
12:
MAYDAY2K:
Free Money In Midland Park
Another photo report from the Streets of Wellington. This time the March from Cuba Mall to Midland Park. Photos Miles Thompson.
13:
MAYDAY2K:
Traffic Signals Targetted In Chch
NOTE: Today, May Day 2000, is D-Day for a global carnival against capitalism with demonstrations planned all around the globe. Demonstrations are planned in several NZ cities including Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, Hamilton and Dunedin. ...
14:
Ringswatch:
Early Snow Causes Problems For
PJ
The following report of recent happenings in the Ruapehu area - the site of the latest filming of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy - was sent to Scoop by a recent visitor to the area…
15:
Murderous
May Day Memories
As statists around the Western world commence their annual May Day eulogies, Libertarianz Leader Peter Cresswell suggests they reflect instead on the true legacy of their chosen ideology:
16:
Rt
Hon Jenny Shipley - Dare to be
radical
"We have to become radical conservatives. Don't fall off your seats. You haven't slipped into an ACT conference. I don't mean radical as in extreme."
17:
Scoop
Images: Greenpeace Tests Radioactive
Waste
The following three images show the Greenpeace operation to test waste from Cogema's nuclear reprocessing plant discharge at Raz Blanchard. Greenpeace discovered alarmingly high levels of radioactivity during its tests and has called for an end to discharges ...
18:
Leaked
Information On Cost Of Orion Upgrade
The defence research group JUST DEFENCE has released parts of a confidential briefing made to the Minister of Defence on 9 March 2000 that reveal the price of the next expensive purchase being sought by the Air Force. The information, which was leaked ...
19:
Scoop
Images: Mayday Rain In
Ethiopia
As protestors gather around the Western World in the cause of improving the lot of their fellow disadvantaged citizens of Planet Earth, clouds are gathering over the Horn of Africa promising deliverance of a different kind.
20:
Don't
Force Offer On Bloody-Minded West Coast
DON'T FORCE BLOODY-MINDED WEST COAST MAYORS TO ACCEPT $100M SAYS NATIVE FOREST ACTION
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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