Video - Stop the weapons conference

In October 2005, the New Zealand Defence Industry Association held a conference at Te Papa, the national museum of New Zealand. The NZDIA conference was an opportunity for weapons manufacturers to promote and sell their killing machines to the New Zealand army and other militaries. The Aotearoa Revolutionary Clown Army and friends joined together to blockade the conference.

And now, almost two years later, I finally got all the video footage from that day, and so I’ve made a movie about it. It’s the first bit of editing I’ve done, so hopefully it’s not too bad ;)

Low quality version below from YouTube. If you can’t see the embedded film, click here to view. If you’re on broadband, you can download a high quality version (131MB) from EngageMedia by clicking here. The high quality version is obviously much better - you can even read the subtitles ;)

5 Responses to “Video - Stop the weapons conference”

  1. jo Says:

    what were you hiding in abox or something! I’m so surprised the police allowed you to film all of this, nice work, and great music too. Way to go!

  2. Asher Says:

    All the video up until the end of the speech was recorded by me - the arrests were done by someone else. I reckon a camera is generally pretty good protection from the cops, although not always…

  3. kakariki Says:

    shit hot buddy. What’s the first track on the vid?

  4. Asher Says:

    Good Times Roll Pt 1 by RJD2, a fucking wicked artist.

  5. Anna-Claire Says:

    Example of camera not always being protection from cops, care of the police/apartheid state we live next door to:
    http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=101534#101537
    Comment from WA police:
    “Police use appropriate force”
    How very reassuring…

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