Posts Tagged ‘Wellington’

Where to Begin, At the Beginning I Guess

07/07/2023

By Randall Richards
As I’ve written before, all my posted content mysteriously vanished, not only from this Telegram channel the day I left the Parliament protest grounds, but alsomy phone died, and was not able to take a charge, plus all the images were somehow encrypted. The only way to retrieve the data and videos (from many hours of recording interviews and capturing images) of the protest was, to turn the phone back on, which didn’t work. I say the NZ Government did this because, it happened to quite a few other people’s phones who witnessed and recorded uncomfortable truths, both in Wellington, and Melbourne. Also, there was a motive. And it makes reasonable sense that “remote data wiping” is a thing. Not to mention, the government’s intelligence office was right around the corner from the protest grounds. I eventually did get my data, images and vids back, thanks to a whizkid at Fix-it Wanaka. So if you’re ever in the same situation, go see Chris.
Anyway, let’s get back on horse and get this content back up where it belongs, on my outlets.

I’m just going through the early content again, which has been censored. And of course, seeing Alistair Harding’s documentary, We Came Here for Freedom, brings up emotions from being locked out. Maybe re-posting my content is a journey, so that we don’t forget the trauma we faced as a community of un-vaxxed, and a reminder that this can, and most certainly could, happen again.

We often say, “Thank you Covid” for bringing us together. I once heard a great description: When the vaccine came along, the community members, both locally and worldwide were like stalks of corn in a field. The vaccinated seemed to wither in some ways, and not stand as tall. Moreover, those of us who took a stand, seemed to stand taller, straighter, and then we looked around and said, “Oh, there you are!” and a community of awakened came into being, of all walks of life from all over the world.

Here are few shots of the early days, before the NZ convoy that took us New Zealand’s capital for the protest against mandates. I’ve got a story to tell, so pull up a chair for a front row seat. They’ll be plenty of videos and images to come.

A sign preventing entry for the “unwashed” at the local library
Singing my song, “Voices”, inspired by not only Voices for Freedom but the events of our rough-shod group being locked out of our reserved venue for very first VFF meeting. The restaurant is called Urban Grind (sorry no hyperlink) in Wanaka, and I haven’t been back since. Jared Stephan is with me on guitar. See the video of this song in a later post.
Looking back, the ridiculousness of situation, of actually being prevented from entering our own Wanaka town library is both comedic and tragic. Looking at this image, I still can’t believe it happened. We protested more than once at the entrance. See more on this in a later post.

Want a haircut? Sorry, You’ll have to figure yourself out. What? Here, Gerry Pyves, who was later the coordinator for Wanaka Voices for Freedom, is seen here, getting a haircut at one of our first Freedom Markets at Leanne Harding’s Camphill Coffee. Funny enough, as if future-proofing the community, Lone Wolf Hair just joined the compound at Leeane’s with his little barbershop trailer.

Stay tuned for tons more content, and I hope you enjoy the journey.

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You went to the protest and all I got was…

14/05/2022

By Randall Richards
Mountain Spirit Media
“You went to the Wellington protest against mandates and medical tyranny, and all I got was this T-shirt.” Hey yeah, I want one!
My friend Meagan, just posted this image of her on FB. Yes they lifted the mandates, but lots of nice and peaceful protestors got pushed and banged up by police. All they wanted was for someone to come see them and address their concerns.
Anyway, here’s a cool t-shirt!

Our friend Meagan sports a new T born from the trials of Wellington’s Protest

As Meagan wrote on her post,
“Thanks for the beautiful Camp Freedom T-shirt Janine!! This version depicts one of my favourite days there, Valentine’s Day, where the government was emailed a letter stating why we were camped on the lawn outside parliament, and telling them what we wanted to talk about. The day was filled with so much love and hope and unity On this beautiful day, we had no idea that the government would continue to ignore us and eventually send in the police to riot on the people.”
Meagan found herself thrown into reporting doing livestreams for Chantelle Baker’s Facebook page during the Wellington protests, and a damn good job she did too.
You can find these T’s on her FB page or her website

Editor’s Note:
You can find out more about Randall Richards, & Mountain Spirit Media at www.mtnspirit.nz/msm
Mountain Spirit Institute is a US 501-c-3 non-profit in the US
Mountain Spirit NZ is an off-grid retreat centre based near Wanaka, NZ