Jamie Mackay: The Country host on Climate Liberation Aotearoa teaching students how to protest

Protestors who are not fans of being pepper-sprayed, handcuffed or locked up in a police cell were taught how to avoid these unsavoury events at a training event.

The Protest Skills Night event, organised by Climate Liberation Aotearoa was held in Otago and aimed to show protesters how to demonstrate their points using "non-violent direct action techniques".

The Country's Jamie Mackay had some strong opinions on this event.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right now though. At sixteen pass six, Jamie McKay Hosts
of the Countries with Melo.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Jamie, Hello, hither, I'm perplexed to find out what advice
you're going to give the not perplexed. I'm eagerly awaiting
what advice you're going to give the Fontier a PR department?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Do you give them?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Oh? Would just say stick to your guns? I mean,
what what do people expect? Do they expect silver firmed
farms to drop the price of meat domestically in the supermarkets?
You know? I just think I just think the whole
thing's a bit of a beat up. What about zespre
Do they have to drop the price of keyw fruit
because they're more expensive because they're doing well on the

(00:38):
global stage? The cost of button benefits us more than
a penallysis is in the supermarket?

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Can I just say this? This is a complete people
have lost their minds. How much better do you eat
in a week?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Jamie bugger all reckon?

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I reckon if we went through a block in two
I reckon two weeks we'd go through a block. So
are we literally having this conversation about what's costing me
five dollars a week? Like get a.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Grip music, Heather, And honestly, if people want to get
up in arms about these sort of things, forget about
the price of butter, go and have a winge and
a bitch at your insurance company or your local body
who are ripping you off big time, or the banks
are with your overdraft rates. They're costing you far more
than the butter, which is just a bit of a
lightning ride at the moment.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Totally thank you. I feel much better getting that out
of my system anyway. Now, tell me about what's going
on with this group called Climate Liberation outs here or
were they up to?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, this is I know you've been dying to get
this one out hither. I was hoping to talk about
the Federated Farmer's Banking Survey, but never mind, I'll do
as I'm told. Look, this is a humorous story. I
was found in the Otago Daily Times last weekend. So
protesters who are not fans of being pepper sprayed, handcuffed
or locked up in a police spell spent two hours
last week learning how to protest properly. Now, this protest

(01:59):
skills night was put on by Climate Liberation ARA and
it was aimed at showing protests how to demonstrate their
points using nonviolent direct action techniques. So event coordinator Carra
Scott said, we're trying to upscal these students and how
to protest in anticipation of a nationwide action they're going
to take very shortly against the a n Z Bank

(02:22):
And this has all got to do with the Bathist
mining resource on the Denniston Plateau. Shane Jones is going
to dig up, dig a hole and take out twenty
million tons of coal. Miss Scott went on to say,
we'll be showing them how to stay calm at protests
and not respond emotionally to high stress situations. It's a
pretty versatile skill set in my opinion, and I'm thinking,

(02:45):
why are we subsidizing a university I'm standing like a
grinch here and a grumpy old boomer, but why are
we subsidizing university education to learn this set?

Speaker 1 (02:53):
No, No, it's no, that's absolutely fair enough. And so
basically they're learning how to do breathing exercises by the
sounds of things. Lord, kids learning that at KINDI I mean,
I could have just sorted them out for that out
for them. Okay, Jamie, thank you appreciate it, Jamie McKay,
you could talk about the survey later. Jamie McKay hosts
of the Country. Right. I mean that is a fair
point about the price of butter, isn't it. Like think

(03:13):
just you know, if you will hit up, if you're
sitting there going oh, just just be honest with yourself
about how much butter you're eating every week. Like, if
you're eating one block, it's ten dollars, Yeah, ten dollars. Yeah,
fair enough, could be five, but now it's ten. But like, really,
we're doing all of this about that.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
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