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The Weapons Expo isn’t an arms fair? Pull the other one

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This year’s Weapon Expo is being held in Palmerston North amid an insistence from organisers that it’s not an arms fair. Valerie Morse of Auckland Peace Action explains why they’re not buying that line and will be protesting regardless Next week hundreds of weapons company delegates, military brass and government officials will descend on Palmerston … Read more

The Urewera Raids: a prison diary

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Wellington activist Valerie Morse was among the Urewera 16 arrested and jailed 10 years ago. We present an excerpt from her prison diary, Can’t Hear Me Scream. As follows, four pages reproduced from a kind of journal written inside Arohata Womens Prison by Valerie Morse — one of the Urewera 16 –  “of life in prison, the bureacracy and arbitrary … Read more