Waihopai Protest 2022
WAIHOPAI SPY BASE PROTEST JANUARY 29
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The protest will start at
10 a.m. at the spy base outer gate, Waihopai Valley Road. There will
be speakers, including Green MP Teanau Tuiono and Sonya Smith from
Rocket Lab Monitor.
This might our last chance
to say good riddance to the domes that have been declared obsolete and
are being dismantled in 2022.
Let's demand that the whole
spy base be declared obsolete and dismantled.
After that, we're going to the
Nativity Church, 76 Alfred Street, in central
Blenheim, from 1-5 p.m.
There will be three guest speakers at that Blenheim meeting
Sonya Smith, from Rocket
Lab Monitor, Mahia, will speak about the
campaign against Rocket Lab
Teanau Tuiono, Green MP, will speak about his Private Member's Bill
to stop the launch of military payloads by Rocket Lab
May Bass will speak about the very beginning of the
Waihopai spy base campaign, including the women's camp in the late
1980s
There are two themes apparent from these speakers
- to show the unbroken continuity of the campaign to close the
Waihopai spy base for more than 30 years; and to build links between
those campaigning against this base and New Zealand's newest US base,
the American-owned, privately-owned, Rocket Lab base in Mahia, with
its HQ in Auckland. Both Waihopai and Rocket Lab work for US
intelligence agencies. Rocket Lab is now NZ's fourth US base (after
Christchurch Airport, Waihopai and Tangimoana).
Between the morning protest and the afternoon
meeting, there will be a
lunch.
For catering purposes, we need to know numbers.
Please let us know if you’re joining us for that lunch. Please
e-mail us at
abc@chch.planet.org.nz in
advance
The lunch and meeting are free but there will be a koha collection
towards costs
Donations to ABC’s Waihopai campaign are
welcome
Payment to
ABC, 389000 0619007 00.
Please include your name and "Waihopai Donation” as references and
please email
abc@chch.planet.org.nz to tell us. Or you
can deposit cash [MH1] into
our account at any Kiwibank branch. Please include your name.
The recent Government announcement that Waihopai's
domes and satellite interception spy dishes will be dismantled in 2022
because they're obsolete makes no difference to ABC. The base will
still be operating, simply using different methods of spying.
The protest and meeting will be held under whatever
Government covid restrictions are in place at the end of January -
i.e. vaccine passes, masks, signing in, social distancing, hand
sanitising. We are aware that this event brings people from around the
country into Marlborough and that we all need to be careful.
CLOSE THE WAIHOPAI SPY BASE NOW!
Secretary/Organiser
Anti-Bases Campaign