Monthly Archives: August 2020

The beautiful pealing of cathedral bells is a pleasure I don’t experience on Waiheke, and has particular meaning for me: on Thursday and Friday before I started my hunger strike I stood out in the early morning commuter foot traffic, … Continue reading →

Despite the chilly conditions we had a steady stream of people past, with many discussions.I was scanning the news as we have a late start weekends, and became rather incensed reading a couple of references to travel so wrote this: … Continue reading →

A quieter day thank goodness, opportunities to talk to people.The arrival of ‘Fridays4Future’ folk in the middle the day was a welcome injection of energy and with a smaller group more meaningful conversations with e.g. Sophie from Vic Uni’s ‘Roots … Continue reading →

David and Tim marked the 75th Anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing by holding a vigil at 0815, the time the A bomb was dropped.Caz encircled the tree with white cloth and signs to mark the day; the possibility that Climate … Continue reading →

Day at King Dick’s statue – with various interactions ranging from supportive and joyful to very negative and insulting from 1080 protester. Rick showed up mid morning and stated his intention to hunger strike also! Wonderful to have his support … Continue reading →

Straight to work before 8 this morning, the 3 of us (David, Tim and Robin) taken by Caz to join Molly, Sue and others to picket the ‘Downstream 2020’ Electricity industry’s conference at TSB/Shed 6. Many of the older delegates … Continue reading →

I was a member of Ecology Action in my first year at Vic Uni, and after reading ‘The population bomb’ (which the Erlichs would have preferred to be named ‘Population, Resources, and Environment‘) I had my mind set on a … Continue reading →

Apologies to followers for my delay in communicating; technology is definitely not my strong suite, especially when fasting… my capacity to take in new material and even interact with people is noticeably reduced. David tells me this will improve as … Continue reading →

We face an overwhelming problem of human caused eco-crisis and mass extinction. This crisis is primarily caused by fossil fuel, but has further complex causes in pollution and exploitation of people and the Earth’s “resources”. Responding to the eco-crisis,  I … Continue reading →

Handing over the hunger strike baton This week was my third week of hunger striking and had been very disappointing for a lack of any media coverage until a 5 minute phone call with RNZ on Friday. You’ll see the … Continue reading →