Below are links to three short videos from the US-NZ Partnership Forum protest on Monday September 10th. Links to Hi-Res versions of these clips will be added tomorrow.
I will also be putting out a longer edited video on the protest soon, probably on Sunday, which I’ll post here. Sorry these 3 clips took so long to get online – the first time they were uploaded they didn’t work (there was audio but no video) and this is the first chance I’ve had since then.
If you can’t see the embedded videos, then use the links 
Video 1: A banner held at the entrance to the Hilton (the Forum venue) in the morning.
Video 2: A clip from the march down to the Hilton from Aotea Square, with a flare burning.
Video 3: Two protesters getting arrested near the end of the demonstration. A third was arrested shortly afterwards.
And a feature on the protests I helped write from Aotearoa Indymedia:
Actions in Auckland against NZ-US Partnership Forum
Around 100 people marched down Queen Street to the Hilton Hotel to protest against the NZ-US Partnership Forum. The forum, which brings together representatives of the two governments as well as from major US and NZ corporations to work on tightening the economic and political links between the two nations, was moved in the last minute from the Auckland Museum to the Hilton Hotel.
The protests had begun earlier in the day with a picket at the road corner by approximately 20 people, during the time Prime Minister Helen Clark arrived at the forum. The main march began at Aotea Square at 12 noon, with protesters taking the street, setting off flares and chanting all the way to the Hilton. Upon arrival at the Forum venue, a stand-off began with the police. After a short period, a scuffle erupted when the police attempted to open one lane to allow vehicles to enter and exit the area, an attempt which succeeded despite some resistance from a number of people. Some time later the police made a decision to open the remaining lane and force the protesters onto the footpath behind plastic barriers. In the ensuing altercation, three people were arrested and several injured.
The protests highlighted a number of issues. Our World Is Not For Sale spokesperson Ryan Bodman stated that the results of a free trade agreement between the US and Australia have included “the degradation of environmental protection, particularly in relation to genetic engineering of food, the degredation of quarantine laws, an economic nightmare for small farmers and businesses, a huge increase in australia’s trade defecit with the us, reduced access to affordable Australian pharmaceuticals and threats to australian manufacturing jobs.” The same results and others can be expected if an NZ/US agreement is signed.
Links: Our World Is Not For Sale campaign | Protest Timeline | Our World Is Not For Sale Press Release | Pre-Protest Feature | Pre-Protest police repression | Protest Reports: 1 | 2 | 3
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September 15, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Wait for the announcement of a “Free Trade” agreement with the United States very soon.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10463050
Despite the Labour goverment’s public distancing from and denouncement of the Bush administration, they’ve been working hand in hand in various international political and economic forums with them. I’ve copied reports of ones I do know about, but no doubt there are far more that I haven’t seen.
“The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has been approved after 143 Member States voted in favour, 11 abstained and four – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States – voted against the text.”
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00333.htm
“Joining the United States in the W.T.O. action are Argentina, Canada and Egypt with nine other countries, expressing support as third parties without direct commercial interest. They include Australia, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, NEW ZEALAND, Peru and Uruguay. Many of these countries are in negotiations with the United States for a free trade agreement.”
http://www.biotech-info.net/US_challenges.html
“Industrial nations were deadlocked on Thursday about whether to set stringent 2020 goals for cutting greenhouse gases at a first U.N. session about long-term climate targets, delegates said.
A draft text at the Vienna meeting said rich countries should recognize a need for cuts of between 25 and 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 to avert the worst effects of climate change.
Russia, Japan, Canada, New Zealand and Switzerland objected that such goals would be too demanding after a first period of the U.N. Kyoto Protocol, the main plan for fighting global warming, ends in 2012, delegates said.”
Edit by Asher – Hey BcG, sorry this one got caught in the spam trap too – was just the number of links. If I don’t spot a trapped comment within a day, feel free to let me know and I’ll hunt for it. Cheers
September 15, 2007 at 5:27 pm
No worries Asher. Ok will do.
September 17, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Awesome stuff from you fella’s in Tamaki, Respect & Solidarity
Chur