It’s been going for a whole week now, and the police are getting frustrated because they can’t find a leader to talk to ‘negotiate’ with. This is somewhat disingenous of them as they have developed a habit of arresting leaders to nobble any protest.
There no real leaders (at least no visible ones) and it’s run by a consortium of groups who want broadly the same thing -end the mandates and restrictions.
An attempt to dislodge them last week failed mostly because they couldn’t get the protesters to get violent, which meant they ended up looking like the bad guys when the police themselves used excessive violence. In this day & age of phones & camera’s, it wasn’t a good look.
(A large segment of the crowd are from a Christian church not known for violence)
The protest has grown since then to about 5000. To put that in perspective, New Zealand only has about 2600 frontline police officers.
The Government has the media in their pocket and the official narrative is that they are neo’nazi’s, white supremiscist’s etc. all of these narratives instantly fall apart if you actually look at a photo of the crowd.
The protesters themselves are in good spirits thou and it’s become a bit of a music festival.
We have have routinely supporting them from afar in another city with pop up protests
The reaction from the passing traffic is typically 30% approval, 65% neutral, and 5% against, which tells me, we have a lot of support.
There are always rumours afoot thou, of whats likely to happen next.
In that regard we are fortunate that NZ trails behind other countries and we simply need to look at Canada or Victoria in Australia to see what happened there.
Thats it for now, I’m going down there next week to help out.
Cheers
Uncoffined 
It’s disgusting how politicians and their media lapdogs choose to lie about those protesting. The political class is doing that the world over. Pure evil.
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Thank you for your kind comment.
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