{"id":2738,"date":"2011-10-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/rogan-boyle-and-simon-oosterman-on-occupywallst-and-occupy-auckland\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:17:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:17:49","slug":"rogan-boyle-and-simon-oosterman-on-occupywallst-and-occupy-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/rogan-boyle-and-simon-oosterman-on-occupywallst-and-occupy-auckland\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogan Boyle and Simon Oosterman on #OccupyWallSt and Occupy Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two very articulate occupiers share what is playing out within the Occupy Auckland encampment and what their aspirations are.<\/p>\n<p>From:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are occupiers unifying around?<\/li>\n<li>What is the greatest challenge?<\/li>\n<li>Where they get their support from?<\/li>\n<li>What do they want to see happen?<\/li>\n<li>Bringing in food, sharing ...<\/li>\n<li>How NZ can play its part in the transformation of the old paradigm into a conscious caring cohesive, synergistic, society?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another big question: When their time is up at Aotea Square, are they going to decamp in agreement and peacefully or are the authorities going to have to push the issue?<\/p>\n<p>New Zealanders are very complacent and have had it exceptionally easy in the global scheme of things, with good Government safety nets, welfare, no food shortages, no war etc.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, with $300 million weekly in overseas loans keeping us docile, we are now passing the 18 billion dollar threshold in just over 2 and a half years of loans and from unknown entities overseas, so the NZ Government is certainly leaving the younger generation a huge amount of debt how should New Zealanders react to this?<\/p>\n<p>Especially as debt is one of the greatest issues.<\/p>\n<p>There are many things thing effecting the hearts and minds of everyone these days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.occupyauckland.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.occupyauckland.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogan, who has just resigned his job to be at Aotea Square full-time, having been part of the Occupy Auckland organizing team from the start and Simon, an activist at heart has also just taken extended leave from his job at a union to help out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3557,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions\/3557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}