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10:16 am, May 7th, 2017 - 13 comments
Categories: activism, water -
Tags: protest, shit, water, water quality
Protestors float poo shaped inflatables in Waikato River
Inflatable poos have been floated on the Waikato River in protest of the Government’s new freshwater standards.
Campaign group Action Station hastily organised the stunt to capture a visual message in advance of a meeting of environmentally conscious National Party members.
A team of seven scattered 50 poo emojis on Lake Ohakuri to demonstrate their views on the Government’s adjustment to freshwater standards. …
Photo: Fairfax / T Manch
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Great Photo! Well done.
i swam in ohakuri 15 years ago approx and it was a fetid bath then ,i only point this out so it’s current state isn’t all blamed on the recent dairy explosion up river.
Why was it a fetid bath 15 years ago?
don’t know but it was a warm green soup. might be due to being shallow and slow flowing .
Love it. Well done and taking the piss in a very very public way. Apparently some poo’s are for sale on trademe. On going potential here.
Rock on Action Station, will show your emoji poo work to my girls, they will love it, they are very vocal re water pollution. Excellent idea and on point. More power to you đ
If they scatter things on the lake are they technologically responsive ie can they decide to call them in and bring them to shore with a radio-controlled device?
I think this is very clever Action Station, and effective visually!
Worth giving them a koha from all of us who couldn’t be involved.
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What a great visual! So many floaters…
Somewhat related article that turned up in my inbox
http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=F855D50F-A8DE-F7EE-91AA-7A48CB46C658
It’s a great protest, but protests against a National/ACT/Maori Party/United Future government these days must incorporate an acceptance that they will not listen to citizens therefore are no longer relevant and no longer worthy to govern. This needs to be the message that is conveyed.
Reading the international media on my cell this morning, it is surprising how far this protest was reported.
I first read about it on BBC.
As an observation, reading the NZ Herald and Stuff on my cell is almost a waste of time. They prioritise trivialities over their interesting articles. I seem to be able to get the NZ Herald articles with value by scanning ads on the New York Times app. What is it with that?
I really appreciate the sentiment, but was protesting with huge plastic whatevers the way to go? Plastic is one of the major environmental issues of our age.
Brave, Rae. That was exactly my first thought. But we are living in the age of grand gestures that grab the attention of the media…..
Merely presenting the evidence to the wider public is not enough these days…you’ve just gotta have a gimmick.
Where can I get an inflatable poo emoji?