The Urewera police raids

This is the first time that any of the people arrested in the 2007 Urewera police raids have been able to put their side of the story.

What emerges is that these are two young people concerned with the environment and social and racial justice.

Their protests would have been accepted in the recent past, but with the post-2001 move to fascism these normal acts of dissidence and protest are now deemed by the corporate state to be terrorism; the aim of the raids was to put fear into the protest movement and to discourage dissent.

NZ terror raids: Interview with Urs Signer and Emily Bailey

Urs Signer and Emily Bailey are two of the four people convicted on firearms charges following 12-month police surveillance of `military-style' training camps in the Urewera bush and the controversial 2007 police raids. Urs and Emily were sentenced to nine months home detention. That sentence was suspended last week while they appeal their convictions.