MANA supports Dunedin Occupiers despite eviction notices and invites John Key to meet protesters
MANA has given its support to the occupy Dunedin movement despite the local council issuing an eviction notice
yesterday.
"We would remind the Dunedin City Council and police that this is a peaceful movement that reflects widespread local and
international outrage at the harvesting of wealth by the 1% at the expense of the 99%," says MANA economic justice
spokesperson, John Minto.
"Overseas police brutality against occupation protestors has only seen the movement build and reoccupy. We warn the
Dunedin Police that a heavy-handed response to the occupation will backfire badly.
"The world is watching Dunedin.
" MANA's Te Tai Tonga candidate Clinton Dearlove spent his first week in Dunedin in a tent at the occupation because the
occupations are reflecting in action what MANA has been saying for several months about the need to radically transform
our economy and society.
"After Prime Minister John Key attacked me personally in the first leaders debate, I invited him to come and meet the
protestors to see that they as the 99% have legitimate grievances against people like him, the 1%, who hold all the
wealth - I'm still waiting for a response," Mr Minto says.