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OPERATION 8: Deep in the Forest - Feature Documentary
On October 15, 2007, activists around New Zealand woke to guns in their faces. Black-clad police smashed down doors, dragging families out onto roads. In the rural village of Rūātoki, helicopters hovered while locals were stopped at roadblocks. Operation 8 involved 18 months of invasive surveillance of Māori sovereignty and peace activists accused of attending armed training camps in the Urewera ranges - homeland of the Tūhoe people. Operation 8 asks how and why the raids took place. How did the War on Terror become a global witch-hunt of political dissenters reaching even to the South Pacific?
Dur: 110mins
Year: 2011
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Відео

KINLEITH '80 (1981, 38mins)
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In 1980, workers at the Kinleith Pulp & Paper Mill in Kawerau formulated their claim for a 21% pay rise. They calculated this was required to maintain their traditional parity with workers at nearby Kawerau. Their employer, New Zealand Forest Products, was the largest company in the country and highly profitable. When it balked at the claim, a strike resulted. Led by rank-and-file delegates and...
THE HATRED CAMPAIGN - 1985 36mins
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THE HATRED CAMPAIGN 36mins, 1985 On March 17 1984, a bomb exploded in Wellington Trades Hall. The ground floor was demolished. Caretaker, Ernie Abbott, was killed instantly. The hit-person has never been found. For The Union Movement, the bombing was not simply an act of a deranged individual. It was the consequence of sustained hostility deliberately fostered and directed against workers and t...
ISLANDS OF THE EMPIRE
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ISLANDS OF THE EMPIRE (1985, 16mm, 63 min) Islands of the Empire was produced at the height of the anti-nuclear movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. The documentary traces the history of NZ’s military alliance with the US, from World War II, with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, through to the Vietnam War and beyond. It examines US military installations in NZ and the often successful campaigns ag...
THE 5TH EYE
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THE 5TH EYE: Feature documentary, 112 minutes, 2016. A farmer, teacher and priest undertake a daring mission to breach security and deflate a giant radome at the GCSB-run Waihopai spy base in Blenheim, in an act of protest against New Zealand’s involvement in the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. An internet millionaire’s mansion is raided sparking an investigation exposing illegal domestic ...
WILDCAT. The struggle for democracy in the New Zealand Timberworkers’ Union.
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WILDCAT. The struggle for democracy in the New Zealand Timber-workers’ Union. 1981, 74 mins Discontent amongst timberworks over the running of their union had been simmering for years. Members accused the national executive of exerting dictatorial control and of making deals with management, which left timber-workers with some of the lowest wages and worst conditions in the country. In 1977 thi...
A Civilised Society
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A Civilised Society The war between teachers and the New Right over public education in New Zealand. 2006, 99mins This documentary looks at the new right ideology that transformed public education in the 80s and 90s and the schism it caused with teachers. Interviews with parents, teachers and unionists are cut together with archive footage of treasury officials and politicians advocating that s...
The Hollow Men
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THE HOLLOW MEN The inside story of a National Party election campaign (NZ, 2008, 98mins) Don Brash stepped down as leader of the National Party in November 2006, the day before the release of the investigative journalist, Nicky Hagar's book The Hollow Men. Award-winning documentary maker Alister Barry brings this expose of behind-the-scenes politics to life in an all-too-real political thriller...
SOMEONE ELSE'S COUNTRY - The story of the New Right revolution in New Zealand
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SOMEONE ELSE'S COUNTRY The story of the New Right revolution in New Zealand 1996, 107mins During the early 1980's, a group of rightwing economists quietly came to dominate policy development in the New Zealand Treasury. With the election of the Labour Party in 1984 and the appointment of Roger Douglas as minister of finance, their plans were realised with the introduction of some of the most dr...
In a Land Of Plenty - The story of unemployment in New Zealand
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In a Land Of Plenty The story of unemployment in New Zealand 2002, 104mins From the Great Depression of the 1930s to 1984, the first objective of economic policy was full employment. But with the election of the Labour government in 1984 unemployment was made an instrument of economic management, to be manipulated in pursuit of other objectives. This feature documentary tells the story of how t...
A Century of Struggle
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A Century of Struggle (1981, 40mins) A Century of Struggle chronicles the hundred-year history of the NZ Seamen's Union from its formation in 1879. Using original film and archive footage, it examines the working lives of seamen and the battles fought by their union from the sailing ships of colonial days to the modern turbine-powered container vessels. Because the Seamen’s Union was frequently...

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @diBundy
    @diBundy 3 дні тому

    this still makes me bloody FURIOUS, ka whawhai tonu matou AKE AKE AKE

  • @AmonAnon-vw3hr
    @AmonAnon-vw3hr 11 днів тому

    Lesson of the story: Don't laarp as ethno-nationlist terrorists.

  • @slapnut892
    @slapnut892 26 днів тому

    Despite the history and problems of NZ, there are still very few countries like it that have the quality of life like we do and I'm grateful for that. God bless NZ.

  • @Natural_S3l3ction
    @Natural_S3l3ction Місяць тому

    Stay strapped! They have NO AUTHORITY OVER YOU! NONE! IT's always been the ppl against those corrupt corporations!

  • @LoekRuiterman
    @LoekRuiterman Місяць тому

    What a bunch of govt wank

  • @TheBeaker59
    @TheBeaker59 Місяць тому

    Typical Labour I haven't voted for them since, but typical too of the two faced Greens they knew about the raid before hand and did NOTHING, they even did their best to keep Helen in power. The Maori party handled themselves well and gained great Mana over this and Helens since reformed seabed and foreshore act, unfortunately Mana since destroyed by the current Te Parti Maori who are a bunch of Aholes making the same stupid inciteful retoric that lead to these raids in the first place.

  • @TekapereNewton
    @TekapereNewton Місяць тому

    THIS WAS WHITE MAN PROPAHANDA LIES.

  • @GrantWine-pc3dl
    @GrantWine-pc3dl Місяць тому

    Fucking bastards and no one lost their job over this 😢

  • @StephanParry
    @StephanParry 2 місяці тому

    Great and enlightening doc. Knew NZ was corrupt on returning in 2015 as had lived in corrupt countries for many years and same pattern emerging. They were planning to do this stitch up again in relation to the covid jabs and those who resisted. Possibly set up Chch just before too - as then they could say 'probable cause' and use the T word and at the same time paint old mate as caring 'aroha', the one source of truth. All the media being on board too. All makes sense.. They just never expected the numbers that resisted and that broke the back of their plans.

  • @geoffthompson6217
    @geoffthompson6217 2 місяці тому

    Remember tailing out and stacking timber off the band saws on frosty mornings in the seventies..excellent meals at the tokoroa mens hostel.was more interested in working and making money than striking.

  • @adammcd9424
    @adammcd9424 3 місяці тому

    What a fucking joke. Shame on you NZ police. Get your facts straight before doing this type of shit.

  • @Te_PaeaRH
    @Te_PaeaRH 3 місяці тому

    he is my teacher

  • @HintonCrowley-Wilson
    @HintonCrowley-Wilson 3 місяці тому

    19:54 is that the NZ flag they’re shooting

  • @stanleyedwardrangitauira3190
    @stanleyedwardrangitauira3190 3 місяці тому

    Kia kaha tuhoe na tamariki o te kohu tuhoe ☀️ sun of the the rising sun 🌞❤❤

  • @johngraham5948
    @johngraham5948 4 місяці тому

    Disgraceful shameful disgusting atrocious pathetic inhumane merciless

  • @patrickvanovermeeren4513
    @patrickvanovermeeren4513 4 місяці тому

    What a Friggin disgrace !!!!!

  • @gutterslug276
    @gutterslug276 4 місяці тому

    all cops are bastards

  • @Shadookie
    @Shadookie 4 місяці тому

    shout to all the level headed activist who were there to help aswel

  • @kaitiakiheke9174
    @kaitiakiheke9174 4 місяці тому

    So why the feck dont they charge people in the vacinty of a child murder when no one owns up!!!!! Ffs

  • @STEVOSTHEBOSS
    @STEVOSTHEBOSS 5 місяців тому

    Very interesting watch thanks

  • @rekoawa5732
    @rekoawa5732 5 місяців тому

    The cops are liars, Helen Clarke is a liar. The pigs found nothing. The government at time was purely racist & still is.

  • @sebastianharker4892
    @sebastianharker4892 5 місяців тому

    The good ol days when New Zealand was amazing beyond words. I miss Mr Muldoon so much.

    • @jackblair5957
      @jackblair5957 4 місяці тому

      Nice try troll Noone biting your hook? Womp womp

  • @booth2710
    @booth2710 5 місяців тому

    I remember being at Mangakino High School during this strike and the school announced that if parents did not have the money during the strike to buy school uniforms then students could come to school in their normal clothes ... the stirke had far reaching affects right across the South Waikato region ..

  • @citizenkane0014
    @citizenkane0014 6 місяців тому

    When did Tokoroa (Kinleith) move to Kawerau? 2nd year of my apprenticeship when this went down, Tasman (Kawerau) had a long protracted strike as well.

    • @makhnovite
      @makhnovite 6 місяців тому

      Were u involved in any industrial action during this time?

    • @citizenkane0014
      @citizenkane0014 6 місяців тому

      @@makhnovite As an Apprentice we weren't allowed to strike and still had to attend work, we did not do anything though because Management feared a further strike from the use of non-union labour. We spent most days playing cards.

  • @darrenstockman9268
    @darrenstockman9268 6 місяців тому

    Human rights in Aotearoanz Non existent

  • @edwardapirana9807
    @edwardapirana9807 6 місяців тому

    Never forget, simply pakeha govt were after power, to show other tribes that tribes who didn't sign don't dictate there own homeland...they had nothing, training young with guns is a way off life up home...all these other people were, under terrorism were pawns in da main purpose, I feel I would have been killed or arrested ... Tuhoe Maaro Ruatahuna Aotearoa Maoritanga Tangata Whenua 😛💯

  • @trinityparore4721
    @trinityparore4721 7 місяців тому

    they are armed offenders squad, not armed defenders, the key word is offenders, did you know they don't need to pass the same firearms checks and balances the rest of us do, i think this legislation needs to be changed, its ok for the army, but not for a civilian force, a force of fuckwits who think the law shines out of their ass, a force with lack of oversight, a force of undercover gangsters hiding behind the legitimacy of a blue uniform and legislation that allows them to jack people up, to create criminals where none existed, just to make out they are doing society a favor, making it up as they go, it seems to me, the police are a force designed to create an underclass so anyone just trying to feed themselves and their families are labeled as a criminal underclass and the basic right to work in better paying jobs, is taken away and replaced with low paying slave labour, because criminals don't deserve to eat, this documentary strikes at the heart freedom and liberty, and the right to be happy. instead we as maori are being marginalized by thought crime, made up crimes, crimes from the imaginations of people who want to steal more resources and the dirty little uniformed slaves who serve their masters to the detriment of true justice. who are the real terrorists, people who own guns for hunting purposes? the unarmed majority with sharp rhetoric, or the fuckwits who use guns to threaten

  • @karamiaropiha8349
    @karamiaropiha8349 7 місяців тому

    Quantonamo😂 what the?

  • @doublebanana-de3dt
    @doublebanana-de3dt 7 місяців тому

    What an excellent insightful documentary! Solidarity forever! 🌹✊

  • @garethhoward6689
    @garethhoward6689 7 місяців тому

    It's not a conspiracy this is the truth. The police still not held accountable. Typical false advertising. Even today our police don't have bodycam so they do what they want.

  • @blackflagqwerty
    @blackflagqwerty 8 місяців тому

    Sounds like some fucking pig probably watched Crooked Earth got ideas in his head and got scared.

  • @MatthewSands-e3g
    @MatthewSands-e3g 9 місяців тому

    Shameful act police Again!!!!

  • @simon-ds1vp
    @simon-ds1vp 9 місяців тому

    activists don't do military exercises

  • @michaelahthomas3273
    @michaelahthomas3273 9 місяців тому

    Much peace and blessings to the whānau that went through this. Tī hei, Mauri ora

  • @Hup-x1y
    @Hup-x1y 10 місяців тому

    Longest cease fire in NZ history, , by government fraudsters

  • @nzmeateater
    @nzmeateater 11 місяців тому

    So running around in the bush with semi autos, training in military style behaviour and having a hate for the govt is not justification for thinking that they may be plotting to try and overthrow the govt?,,,, yes,,,, They got caught out , Tama iti and his mates were spewing a lot of hate against white people and the govt at the time, and this was the result. Cut the crap,,,,say it how it is.

    • @churtanzputahi2770
      @churtanzputahi2770 10 місяців тому

      Military style behaviour 😂

    • @churtanzputahi2770
      @churtanzputahi2770 10 місяців тому

      Your as nuttier than the people who came up with those outrageous assumptions 🤦‍♀️

    • @nzmeateater
      @nzmeateater 10 місяців тому

      @@churtanzputahi2770 When we look at the racist rants from Tama Iti, and then what they were doing with rifles in the bush,,,,yea, pretty clear what he was up to.,Thats why they got raided,, put the blame where it belongs, with Tama and his mates. They caused it.

  • @michaelduffin2961
    @michaelduffin2961 11 місяців тому

    kia kaha Tuhoe

  • @upsidedownwoodworks
    @upsidedownwoodworks 11 місяців тому

    It's cause the government don't want you my family to live the ways you want they want you in the system.

  • @scottanderson-m9y
    @scottanderson-m9y 11 місяців тому

    such a one sided propaganda story.. The wire taps are available on linear wiki leaks. it is very clear what was happening. The surveillance of the camps was also very clear and what they were doing.. good on the police great job.

  • @deanostevenson9238
    @deanostevenson9238 11 місяців тому

    What am imbarrisment

  • @GlenOsborne-ks9jn
    @GlenOsborne-ks9jn 11 місяців тому

    Government is a straight-line vector for psychopaths bullies races, and thefts. Intellectually arrogant evil dross. The real enemies in NZ are the willfully ignorant masses with their heads stuck firmly up their ASSES that support and condone violence. Police order following COWARDS, every single one of them.

  • @DrunkJester
    @DrunkJester 11 місяців тому

    It seems a bit odd 2 me, i was born in NZ mostly grew up in OZ i don't recall hearing about this here. With all the surveillance and resources they put into Operation 8 how did the NZ powers at be drop the ball in Christchurch 2019. We were told the NZ intelligence, security and the fuzz that over looks at potential terrorism had no resources for years to adequately monitor threats.But like the powers here and proably in NZ they proably thought 'Nah mate he's just one those white nationalist all good he's not a bloody muso". And i belive the inquiry has only just started this year after 4 years, had to look that up as the media proably doesn't want to offend and portray the white colonial majority. Any way very sad affairs. ❤&peace to all on this little blue ball.

    • @perana73
      @perana73 2 місяці тому

      because it was allowed to happen....to further the regulation of firearm ownership in NZ....and to further surveillance law loosening in favour of govt.

    • @DrunkJester
      @DrunkJester 2 місяці тому

      @perana73 NZ has a policing problem, no one joining, and the experience is getting recruited from Oz & Uk, and the surveillance dudes got no funding. Doesn't make sense to relax gun laws cause the only ones to benefit are the bikies and gangs, and they've taken over whole towns. Well, i don't know but it all sucks.

  • @1080sucks
    @1080sucks 11 місяців тому

    If you read the transcript from the people training, there it paints a FAR different story > People actually hardly able to wait to kill white people. This is pretty much a disinformation/propaganda piece. Get your hands if you can of the transcripts from the surveillance.

  • @loucypher3832
    @loucypher3832 11 місяців тому

    Yet another display of how the freedom of New Zealanders has been surreptitiously erroded by government, by scaremongering an uninformed public, convinced by the mantra that "If your not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear" to relinquish the basic human rights that we as New Zealanders once cherished... The blatant lies told to the public by the Police & Members of Parliament go unchallenged as they rely on protections bestowed on them by law mean they do not have to abide by the very laws that we the citizens must follow... The corruption & conspiratorial cover ups of thier misdeeds, vastly eclipse the "for the greater good" tactics is disgustingly vile on so many levels.. Protesting, being the only avenue left to citizens who disagree with government & thier militant arm, the police, has been now labeled terrorism. Allowing citizens who dissent to be stripped of their rights ... Its disgusting, frightening & undemocratic & we the people need to wake up to what's happening before it's too late... Before it's your children And family members that are affected, shaking you awake, opening your eyes to the fact it's too late to fight Back as IT HAS BEEN MADE ILLEGAL TO VOICE YOUR OPPOSITION TO ANYTHING... FOR THE GREATER GOOD, OF COARSE... SWEET DREAMS SHEEPLE.🐑🐑🐑🚫

  • @googlekitten
    @googlekitten 11 місяців тому

    This and scamvid and dawn raids person and sounds murder and Arthur Allan Thomas NZ cops are as crooked as our ozzie cousins. Lowlife cowardly scum doing that to families and kids shameful behaviour! Serve and Protect NOT!

  • @wupet
    @wupet 11 місяців тому

    sadly police tactics haven't changed and they still intimidate ordinary kiwis Maori especially so. It makes me sad that it seems no lessons the been leaned by the wider public, they still seem to believe what they see on TV even when presented with evidence to the contrary.

    • @AmonAnon-vw3hr
      @AmonAnon-vw3hr 11 днів тому

      Nope, lol. Maori are coddled by NZ police. Just look how the police bend the knee to gangs at every turn.

  • @CMP-st5wh
    @CMP-st5wh 11 місяців тому

    I used to watch them train with SKS rifles, practicing shooting from cars and patrolling like soldiers. The raids were a mild repercussion.

  • @Sharon-yk7xm
    @Sharon-yk7xm 11 місяців тому

    This happens to anyone not just maori

    • @DouglasFir90
      @DouglasFir90 11 місяців тому

      Exactly. They are professional victims though

    • @karamiaropiha8349
      @karamiaropiha8349 7 місяців тому

      ​@@DouglasFir90it's a documentary it could be about whoever the Jews, the American Indians, aborigines, it's just documenting what happened, why not?

  • @eyewishwalrus
    @eyewishwalrus 11 місяців тому

    notice its labour doing the fascist shit a couple of times but yet they are the party of kindness somehow

  • @Freetalkfm
    @Freetalkfm 11 місяців тому

    When the laws are imoral its your duty to resist.