Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
I have a random brain fart, that in trying to measure just how curmudgeonly it is: going to the hikoi today was great, but I seem to have trouble accepting protests having live performance and other ‘party atmosphere’ elements.
Presumably the party elements attract hangers on and waters down the focus (but I’m a grumpy old bastard that doesn’t enjoy fun, for perspective)
Yeah I’ve often had this thought about protests too. As a student, the student’s association would organise protests with a free BBQ to get the students to come.
In this specific case, I think the entertainment was at Waitangi Park? So it’s an event for protestors, but in my mind the protest itself was the walking from Cape Reinga/Bluff and gathering at parliament.
Good point, the travel disruption and congregation on parliament grounds was the protest