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We started inside Tākina politely giving zines to attendees at the escalator, but a zionist attending the conference was offended, so we were ordered to leave and threatened with arrest: a disturbing and surprising response to freedom of information from a group of librarians and archivists.

We were giving out a zine with details the libraries destroyed throughout Gaza - at least 14 completely destroyed in the last 2yrs alone. Genocide requires not only the murder of people, but the erasure of their culture. We were asking attendees to boycott the company's session on Tuesday.

Their headquarters is in the Malha Technology Park in southwestern Jerusalem. The park is built on the ethnically cleansed Palestinian village al-Maliha. The Irgun assaulted al-Maliha on July 15, 1948 emptying the village of 2250 inhabitants.

Because the conference is sponsored by Clarivate, that owns Ex Libris - library software produced on stolen Palestinian land:

Signed,
Everyone in Aotearoa NZ who isn’t a weapons dealer.

PAY OUR
DOCTORS.
NURSES.
MIDWIVES.
FIREFIGHTERS.
TEACHERS.
PEOPLE.

Care for our people.
They sustains us.
Stop buying big war toys.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. - -US President Dwight Eisenhower, 1953

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.

You’ve spent a lot of time in the US lately at places like the Department of War and the CIA. But you obviously didn’t get the memo.

You are spending up to
$50 million for Javelin
anti-tank missiles.

You are buying two Airbus A321XLR aircraft for a $620 million.

You have agreed to buy five helicopters for $400 million each - for a total of $2 billion.

Kia ora Minister,

You said the country was not earning enough to afford more than the 1% per annum pay increase offered by the Government to doctors, nurses and teachers.

See full details of their blood money event here>> aerosociety.nz/2025-raes-nz...

Come as your fav superhero, witch, fairy, clown or whatever incarnation will best help you to cast out the arms dealers. Bring your best noise makers - drums, whistles, bells, horns, instruments, voices. See you there!