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Speaker 1: Telco One New Zealand has cut its contract with an

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Speaker 1: actor in its most recent campaign over the protests outside

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Speaker 1: Winston Peter's house. Now the actor is Acacia O'Connor, who

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Speaker 1: shared Winston Peter's address online and who stood next to

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Speaker 1: Chloe Swarbrick of the Greens at a press conference yesterday.

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Speaker 1: One of the windows on the Foreign Minister's property was

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Speaker 1: smashed last night. So let's talk to Akesha O'Connor high,

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Speaker 1: Acacia tan arquare heav do you know the person who

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Speaker 1: broke Winston's window?

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Speaker 2: No, no, I've seen a photo and none of our

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Speaker 2: group seems to know who he is.

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Speaker 1: So not connected to your your gaza protest, not connected

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Speaker 1: at all. Okay, do you think, given what has now happened,

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Speaker 1: but just you know the fact of protesting outside his house,

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Speaker 1: that you were wrong to protest outside his house and

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Speaker 1: share his address? H you know?

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Speaker 2: I actually no, I don't think so. So it is

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Speaker 2: New Zealander's legal right to protest. And yeah, there was

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Speaker 2: a bill that was went through yesterday to try to

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Speaker 2: change that, of course, to be out of protest in

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Speaker 2: residential areas. But at this point when we when we

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Speaker 2: were there on the day that our friends were illegally

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Speaker 2: kidnapped by Israel. It was that was perfectly legal. The

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Speaker 2: cops were there and they were very actually quite supportive

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Speaker 2: of us and I sharing we were on. Yeah, oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: I was just into that. Yes, I was just saying, yes,

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Speaker 2: I shared the street that we were on to come

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Speaker 2: and join us for a peaceful protest.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, taking you guys at your word, what has

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Speaker 1: happened is you've you've shared his address out there and

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Speaker 1: and we now have somebody who's crowbarred his window, right,

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Speaker 1: So was that a wise idea?

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Speaker 2: I was really I was really sorry to hear about that.

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Speaker 2: I was really sorry to hear about that, for sure.

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Speaker 1: How many times have you been outside his house protesting?

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Speaker 2: That was the first time I've been down there.

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Speaker 1: Actually, what about other guard protesters?

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Speaker 2: There's been other protests outside Winston's house over the last

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Speaker 2: few years at various things. When Ruffia was first invaded,

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Speaker 2: there was a protest outside his house as well as

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Speaker 2: other kind of significant dates that people were worth saying,

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Speaker 2: is this how.

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Speaker 1: Many times do you?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, Actually I couldn't. I couldn't give you

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Speaker 2: a number.

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Speaker 1: What's the late have any of them been after dark.

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Speaker 2: Probably, I would say so I in winter, I would imagine, So.

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Speaker 1: What's the latest?

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Speaker 2: So we were there from six thirty ish till ten?

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Speaker 1: Do you think that's appropriate mine?

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Speaker 2: Well, as we said to the cops, and they agreed

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Speaker 2: with us that it's the We were aware of school

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Speaker 2: holidays because we have children, and we had some children

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Speaker 2: with us as well, and we were singing and we

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Speaker 2: were chanting and the noise control. When the noise control

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Speaker 2: asked us to quiet down, we quiet and down and

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Speaker 2: we left it ten, which they said was a reasonable

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Speaker 2: time for you.

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Speaker 1: That there will be some occasions, And I know for

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Speaker 1: a fact there have been some occasions where you guys,

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Speaker 1: not just you obviously, but the group have been outside

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Speaker 1: his house and the only person inside his house is

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Speaker 1: his partner, who is a woman by herself. Can you

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Speaker 1: imagine how intimidating that is?

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Speaker 2: I really can, and I I am just hoping that

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Speaker 2: he can also.

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Speaker 1: This is our last resort.

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Speaker 3: Do you know?

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Speaker 2: We have tried to email and call and do the

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Speaker 2: protests in public spaces and tell.

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Speaker 1: Me, tell me you're thinking here, Acacia, you've got a

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Speaker 1: woman in her what I don't know, late sixties early

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Speaker 1: mid seventies. Who is by herself in the house, Who's

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Speaker 1: going to do what? Call her partner and be like, oh, listen,

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Speaker 1: these guys want you to, you know, take a diplomamatic

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Speaker 1: standard like that's illogical. You're just scaring a woman.

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Speaker 2: I don't see it that way. We were not being

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Speaker 2: threatening and.

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Speaker 1: You don't think so. You don't think there have been

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Speaker 1: occasions where paint has been poured on their patio. You

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Speaker 1: don't think that that's scary.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm actually have been more involved with the global

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Speaker 2: movement to Gaza, which has been a newer and newer

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Speaker 2: I've been a newer joining of all of this, so

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Speaker 2: I actually haven't I don't know about about these occasions.

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Speaker 1: But what about like what about the other kids at school,

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Speaker 1: holidays or not? Kids go to bed, you know yourself,

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Speaker 1: if they are under the age of flip, I mean nine,

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Speaker 1: they're going to bed at seven at night. So for

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Speaker 1: three hours, you're disrupting neighborhood kids.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. We, as I said before, we were singing, and

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Speaker 3: we did keep the noise to a to a level

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Speaker 3: that we was deemed appropriate by the cops and had

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Speaker 3: loud hailers control and at the very beginning we had

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Speaker 3: loud Hale's while the sun was still up, as you

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Speaker 3: said before, and then we changed it to to singing

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Speaker 3: and to to we even the mood was full of

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Speaker 3: love and my love. Love.

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Speaker 1: Love is clearly bloody subjective in this case. I don't

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Speaker 1: think the jan on the inside is going to feel

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Speaker 1: like these love coming tell me that this is the

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Speaker 1: last time it's going to happen.

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Speaker 2: Acacia, Well, I don't. I am not an authority on that,

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Speaker 2: but the Global Movement to Gaza we are a peaceful,

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Speaker 2: a peaceful group and we.

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Speaker 1: Well, just so that you understand what it looks like

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Speaker 1: from the other side, you do not look peaceful. You

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Speaker 1: look like you're trying to scare people. Yeah, and where

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Speaker 1: maybe you guys.

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Speaker 2: Need to go and taking for peace. We are fighting

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Speaker 2: for Winston Peter's house. I'm so sorry to hear that

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Speaker 2: it had a stone go through it, But we're here

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Speaker 2: trying to ask him to extend the right of a

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Speaker 2: safe home to Palestinians whose homes are being bombed every

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Speaker 2: day indiscriminately not appropriate.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't make it appropriate, man, Just because there is

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Speaker 1: some crime going on on the other side of the world,

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Speaker 1: which absolutely is upsetting so many of us who are mums.

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Speaker 1: Does not make it appropriate for you to start harassing

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Speaker 1: people in this country now. So I'm taking it from

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Speaker 1: what you've said. It's not going to be the last time?

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Speaker 1: Is that right?

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Speaker 2: I imagine? I imagine not. But I, like I said, I

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Speaker 2: don't have anything to do with you.

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Speaker 1: You realize that you are going to force the opposition

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Speaker 1: in Parliament to vote for that piece of legislation that

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Speaker 1: you don't want, because they're going to have to vote

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Speaker 1: for it, now.

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Speaker 2: Cletely well, I feel I can see that they are

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Speaker 2: trying to take the rights of protesters away.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think I'm okay with that in this case.

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Speaker 1: Do you not think most people will be okay with that?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know about most people, but

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Speaker 2: I'm at the point where I'd be willing to beg

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Speaker 2: to sit at Winston Peter's feet and beg for him

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Speaker 2: to take a stand for Palestine occasion.

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Speaker 1: Nobody all the other Acacia, Nobody is gonna, Nobody is

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Speaker 1: gonna is going to criticize you for your position on Gaza.

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Speaker 1: We most of us feel like that it's the way

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Speaker 1: that you're doing it listen very quickly.

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Speaker 2: Have you had to hear that most of you feel

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Speaker 2: that way?

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Speaker 1: You just pull your head in on this action, man,

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Speaker 1: it's inappropriate. Quick quickly tell me have you heard from

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Speaker 1: One New Zealand about cutting you out of the ads?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 2: I have, Yes, I have?

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Speaker 1: And what do they cut the contract? Have they?

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Speaker 2: Yes? The contract has been cut. Yeah, as they are

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Speaker 2: choosing profit other people.

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Speaker 1: All right, Akasha, thanks very much, really appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: Acacia O'Connor, Gaza activist and protester who shared Winston Peter's

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