Important context to the #FarmerProtest from Guy Shrubsole. Most farmers won't pay inheritance tax. Note too the blanket coverage of this protest, compared to almost total media silence on #MarchforNature in June, which brought five times as many people to London. #WhoOwnstheLand
Where were you
@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
for the #MarchforNature or the #marchforcleanwater? Many more people were there then farmers today, but wasn’t headline news. These issues affect us all not just some farmers.
@30DaysWild Day 22: Cheering on the thousands of people (including my sister) on today's March for Nature - calling for urgent action to protect our natural world. #marchfornature #30DaysWild
Huh, so the initial 20,000-strong, front-page-news, jubilant, peaceful and multifarious #MarchforNature in Tāmaki Makaurau wasn’t *quite* big enough or loud enough or everywhere enough for this government to really hear it?
Noted.🫡💚
The #MarchForNature saw a blending of messages about protecting nature, defending Te Tiriti and stopping the genocide in Palestine.
In episode two of #GreenpeaceLIVE we discuss why that’s a natural, and powerful, convergence.
Well worth a watch👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pns...
Our next YouTube Live is this Thursday at 7pm
Niamh O’Flynn will talk with Bianca Ranson and Simon Oosterman about the #MarchForNature and what’s next for the movement opposing the Luxon Govt’s War On Nature.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pns...
A larger than life puppet effigy of PM Christopher Luxon, smiling-faced and red-handed, wearing a blue sash that says “GETTING ECOCIDE BACK ON TRACK”
I remain mesmerised by this effigy from the #MarchforNature.
Imagine: only 6 months into being the nominal figurehead, and your coalition is already synonymous with epithets like “ecocide”, “death cult” & “anti-democratic” due to speed-running a slate of unhealthy, extractive, destructive policies.
A poster on a pole on Queen St, showing the PM Luxon grinning, with the top of his head replaced by a planet on fire.
At Britomart/ Waitematā central train station, a sign saying “Kill the Stupid Bill” propped at the base of a pillar.
A poster on a pole on Queen St, reading: “our climate can’t afford private jets”; the tail end of the march passes by.
Signs on poles outside a colourful window display (ironically weather themed - for Blunt umbrellas) at venerable upmarket Smith & Caugheys, which is set to close down in the coming year due to the business model no longer being viable. It’s a poignant juxtaposition… especially as there are 50,000 year round central city residents, plus many thousands of students and office workers, who could surely use a walkable department store aligned to their everyday needs?
Before, during and after the #MarchforNature, people and their signs filtered out across the central city, enjoying all the good stuff a well-focused gathering of human beings and resources can bring.
(Also probably quite beneficial for the urban economy, eh? These things can absolutely cohere!)
“Honour te Tiriti” says one banner. A surfie looking fella carries a surfboard emblazoned with “Stop Seabed Mining.” People walk, stroll and roll, including with bicycles.
A man with a Hundtertwasser flag and a United Tribes shirt, a woman pushing a child in a stroller, others behind walking and wheeling their bikes. Just great vibes.
“Veto rip shit and bust” says a banner; also visible, the classic “I can’t believe I still have to protest this shit”, and a parent with two small children carries a “make love not money” sign
Things are so bad even the saxophonists were there! A jazz band marching amidst signs saying Fight for Nature/ Skip the Fast attack.
A few more pics from yesterday’s #MarchforNature.
My overwhelming impression: the general positivity. It may have been outrage that brought us all out into the streets, but the result was a collective affirmation Aotearoa deserves way better than this shady and shonky approach to legislation.
A fella with a Shane Jones mask on holding a sign saying “CRONY JONES”, marching with the crowd down Queen St.
“Fast track trains not bills” says a sign at the March for Nature. Another says “Hey Shane, I’m here for the blind frogs”
More signs: “2 Fast 2 Spurious”, “Let’s Mine Epsom”, and “Stick it up your mineshaft Shane Jones.”
People with signs marching past the St James site, covered in colourful graffiti art while awaiting resurrection. One sign reads “Fast track trains not bills”. There’s also a giant Luxon figure with red hands and a sash saying “Getting ecocide back on track”
More pics from yesterday’s #MarchforNature in Tāmaki Makaurau. Such a great turnout and good buzz.
Signs at the March for Nature on 8 June. “Stop Fast Track”, my personal favourite “Hear our voices we enTREEt, and “Fast Profit at the cost of tomorrow”
Signs at the March for Nature on 8 June, including “Stop having bad ideas”, “Shame Shane”, and “Watch our oceans, not porn” (there was some civil debate in the crowd about this one… settling on the idea that it’s fine to watch, just don’t do it on the public coin).
Signs at the March for Nature on 8 June: “Go sit on a drill bit, Shane Jones”, and “Fast track the next election”
A small child at the March for Nature on 8 June, holding a sign drawn on corrugated cardboard, which reads: “Kiwi’s sad because this government is bad”alongside a picture of a crying kiwi.
The crowd was huge, the signs were sassy, and the vibes were impeccable! ✊💚
Some pics from yesterday’s #MarchforNature in Tāmaki Makaurau, as an estimated 20,000 people filled the central city to overflowing.
A super positive, highly energised and life-affirming event. Well done, everyone.
Trolley problem diagram, except one track is empty, and the one labelled "the fast track" has many people on it
Anyone done this yet?
#marchfornature
I’m just ❤️ ing all the #marchfornature posts because I couldn’t make it and I’m so happy so many people could.
Corporate Greed Will Destroy Our Planet — Unless We Fight Back ✒️
Fantastic piece up today from Elliot Crossan about the #MarchforNature today
Three people (two with faces showing, smiling) wearing cardboard train costumes with captions "Fast-track train wreck", "Fast-track to the next election" etc.
A considered use of fleece: as reasonably large two-tone green flowers scattered on a non-fleece coat of darker green. We see the back of the coat, and the wearer has a white bob haircut
The back of a cardigan which states "Earth Rocks" and a picture of a hill, with ears a la Mount Manaia or Whangarei Heads. Not shown: the front of a cardy which says "I love fossils"
crowd shot at Aotea Square
Some of the crowd and the great fits at the #marchfornature, Tāmaki Makaurau edition.
March for nature protestors sitting on the road at lower Queen Street.
"Your decisions will be studied by your mokupuna" sign in the crowd at March for nature.
A lot of people feel very strongly about this one. #marchfornature #kikorangi
#marchfornature had 20,000 people show up to say NO to the Fast-Track Bill and war on nature and YES to climate action and caring for te taiao.
Yellow sticker saying "stop luxon's war on nature"
Crowd gathered in Aotea Square for the march on nature
#MarchForNature Tāmaki Makaurau.
Picture showing the march side on as viewed from seating outside a cafe. Folks in costumes & holding banners & flags & a lady on high viz with a megaphone leading the chant.
Wide shot showing a mass of people at the end of Trafalgar Street & stretching up the cathedral steps.
Plenty of colour & carnival in Nelson Whakatu for the march against the fast track bill.
#marchfornature
#nzpol
Forest & Bird tweet - At the bottom of Queen Street and people are still yet to leave Aotea Square - this is huge #stopthewaronnature #marchfornature
Auckland March for Nature
#MarchforNature
#marchfornature pretty huge
Protest sign - Angry piwakawaka saying "Oi spoon! You know we can't eat in your ghost trees"
Protest sign Luxon, Peters and Seymour depicted as various mustelids "Protect our forests from invasive pests"
Protest sign - Shame Jones - frowny face
Protest sign - Picture of Shane Jones - Watch our oceans not porn
Auckland March for Nature #MarchforNature
