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[Posters and pamphlets collected by Ron and Carmen Smith, concerning the New Zealand government satellite interception facility at Waihopai. ca 1988, 1994, 2000]
- Date
- 1988 - 1994 - 2000
- By
- Anti-Bases Campaign (Christchurch, N.Z.)
- Reference
- Eph-C-SMITH-Waihopai
- Description
Includes:
Booklet: Intelligence and military support bases in New Zealand; how we are linked to global spying and military operation?
Pamphlet: Waihopai; I want you to shut up and pay for the secret satellite spy base at Waihopai
Two-sided poster: National protest Feb 20-21 against the proposed satellite spy base in the Waihopai Valley [1988]
Poster: Why spy? Waihopai; not for New Zealand (satellite dish containing an eyeball) [1988?] (2 copies)
Poster: Aotearoa Anti-Bases Campaign. The base connection - Tangimoana, Blackbirch, Harewood and the Waihopai proposal are bases that make us in New Zealand part of the superpower network [1988?] (2 copies)
Poster: No spy Waihopai (GCSB rat handing documents to USA rat). National protest May 12 + 13 [1988?] (2 copies)
Flyer: Protest at Waihopai; close down secret spying operations. January 28-30, 1994 (2 copies)
Waihopai Women's Campaign. We are going back! for a two week women's camp at Waihopai Valley [28 November - 12 December [1980s?]
2000: Waihopai Spybase protest, January 21-23 2000. Close the Waihopai spybase now!
Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Screenprints, offset prints and photocopies, sizes varying up to 420 x 297 mm.
Provenance: Donated as part of the estate of Ron and Carmen Smith, Wellington, in 2011.
Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2031, Photographic Archive, Oral History Archive..
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Smith, Ronald Joseph, 1921-1995 : Papers / Smith family (collectors) :[Ephemera and posters relating to peace, nuclear-free movements, womens rights, the environment, and international affairs. 1970-1990s]
- Format
- 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s), 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera, Screen prints, Offset photomechanical prints, Photocopies, Protest posters, Posters, Screenprints, offset prints and photocopies, sizes varying up to 420 x 297 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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[Anti-Bases Campaign (Organisation)] :No spy Waihopai. National protest, May 12 + 13. P...
Date: 1988
From: Smith, Ronald Joseph, 1921-1995 : Papers
Reference: Eph-C-SMITH-Waihopai-1988-01
Description: Poster advising the dates of a protest demonstration against the Waihopai satellite receiver, shows a rat wearing a GCSB shirt and headphones linked to satellite dish, passing on a piece of paper to a rat with USA on his shirt. The suggestion is that New Zealand was supplying secret military information to the United States. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, 297 x 420 mm.