Media Release: Peace Action successfully shuts down weapons
conference
Date: 18 October
From: Peace Action
Wellington
Peace activists from all over the country
converged outside Te Papa ‘Our Place’ to reclaim it from
the annual weapons conference meeting happening there.
The
march of approximately 200 people met at Pigeon Park and
marched to the Te Papa forecourt where six blockades of
entrances were set up.
The Police, hired security guards
and delegates attacked people as they participated in a
non-violent sit-in, punching one woman in the face and
hitting another person with a car.
The NZ Defence Industry
Assocation Conference is a trade meeting of some 200 weapons
manufacturers from all over the world. Despite this, the
Labour Minister of Disarmament, Phil Goff thought it
appropriate to speak at the conference and encourage these
war profiteers.
For more information about the conference
and further resistance activities today, please check out www.peacewellington.tk
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