Emergency Protest Over Rena Oil Spill

Join us today (Thursday, October 13) in expressing our frustration and anger at the current incompetence of the state in dealing with the oil disaster in Tauranga.

We (a group of concerned citizens) will be calling for:

- the immediate deployment of equipment around the ship, the trailing oil spill at sea and along coastlines to CONTAIN and RECOVER oil at sea (not just beach cleanups or toxic dispersants) - an immediate moratorium on offshore oil drilling.

We will be meeting at 12 noon at the braille sculpture on the corner of Grey St and Lambton Quay and heading to a currently undecided location (probably National Party office or Maritime NZ as parliament is on holiday).

All groups and individuals welcome, particularly affected iwi and communities. Please distribute this event widely. See the facebook event page.

-- Stop the current mass expansion of oil & gas exploration in Aotearoa! http://climatejusticetaranaki.wordpress.com/ http://NoDrilling.org.nz

"If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time." - Noam Chomsky

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