Pictures from Auckland's free speech march

Momentum is building. Yesterday, five thousand of us took to the streets in Auckland to protest the Clark/Peters/Fitzsimons/Dunne Electoral Finance Bill: protesting the speech rationing, democracy rationing and electoral corruption that this Bill entails: protesting now while it's still legal...



Keep sending me pictures.

UPDATE: More pictures and story at Infonews, No Minister, and at Whale Oil's - who was out with his video camera, so keep checking back at his site for more.

TV3 report here. "Strong message sent to Government" says TVNZ.

UPDATE 2: John Boscawen thanks supporters.

UPDATE 3: More pics and commentary at MikeE's, including this pic above and the accompanying potent observation:

The above photo shows that freedom of speech and the EFB is no longer a beltway issue. Today we had conservatives and liberals, left and right, maori and pakeha, anarchists and statists marching side by side in disgust at the EFB. Some might claim that this is a National and ACT thing. It wasn't, I spotted: National, Act, Labour, [Libertarianz,] Socialist Workers, Free Palestine, Maori Sovereignty movement, Tuhoe Anti-Terror Bill protestors, war veterans, mothers, accountants, lawyers, students, anarchists, businessmen and women all marching against this disgusting piece of legislation. They will not stop, this bill will will be the end of those politically who support it.

He's dead right, and more mongrel MPs should be listening. As a few free-speech-supporting green friends have said to me, a few of whom marched yesterday, "We didn't vote Green for this!"

UPDATE 4: More pics here of Saturday's march for democracy and free speech, including a surveillance photo of the plotting beginning at the aftermatch...