Horowhenua-Palmy Local Protest Action

[kevie]

Is it able to be maybe done here,similar to other regions whereby we have a couple of bikes of different styles,i.e tourer,sports scotter etc.Have a heap of flyers to hand out,and posters on bikes showing accident stats relevant to the cause.Ideal place is square and maybe by info centre,say from 11.00-2.00pm.Bikes obviously need to be rego and wof,maybe also get a farm bike from bike shop as well,to show that road ridden bikes are regoed,while farm bikes are not,thereby not paying acc levy,but still are included in bike accidents statistics.

I am keen to do this.

A tandem with a quad, farmbike and motocross bike would be good and signage to say thats what the public are being motor-vehicle levied for

[XP@]

A tandem with a quad, farmbike and motocross bike would be good and signage to say thats what the public are being motor-vehicle levied for

I thought this was already covered:

• Off road bikes we cannot prove they are not included in the stats.
• Farm Bikes are supposedly covered under the work account.

If you really want to get public sympathy then ask if they would intentionally give ACC their holiday pay or give up their well paid job in favour of working 30hours a week at minimum wage.

If the levy has to increase to maintain this type of cover then so be it. BUT it should be done fairly and with respect to the Woodhouse report and the five principles of ACC. The amendment bill currently in progress is failing these big time. Oh and the "final" levies announced last week are still subject to the bill being passed in it's current form, this is still not a certainty.

[chanceyy]

Hey ya James

the flyers will be changed by next weekend, fingers crossed, dropping the money part & the focus will be ensuring joe public will see this affects them in one way or another ..

[bogan]

will have something done on tues, will focus on the woodhouse principals, and what the violation of these will lead to, keep with the whos next theme, maybe somthing about maintaining traction from the bikeoi protest which sent a message to the government, and got the bike levy increase reduced, and the worker levy was also reduced to a quarter of what was proposed....

sound good? any other thoughts?

[chanceyy]

will have something done on tues, will focus on the woodhouse principals, and what the violation of these will lead to, keep with the whos next theme, maybe somthing about maintaining traction from the bikeoi protest which sent a message to the government, and got the bike levy increase reduced, and the worker levy was also reduced to a quarter of what was proposed....

sound good? any other thoughts?

increase in car rego, employee/employer increase,

along with others we discussed .. others may have more info, also PM Mstrs he will have some good info as well

[road king]

soooo......

this Saturday at what time???????

and do we just park up were ever or do we meet somewhere first??????

[bogan]

soooo......

this Saturday at what time???????

and do we just park up were ever or do we meet somewhere first??????

meet in the by square 8:30am to get an idea of numbers, then decide which streets to park up on, as there are a number of different streets we can choose between depending on the number of bikes, will be working on the new flyers tonight

[Headbanger]

meet in the by square 8:30am

Hmmmm,........that would mean leaving Wanganui by 8am.

I shall set the alarm.

[bogan]

put together a flyer (pdf attached)for sats protest (and any other action people want to use it for) may have missed bits or have gramatical errors... so let me know what you guys think

[ItsTheHamma]

hmm.... The Manawatu Standard must have written something about bikes being parked up all over town in the last full week for Christmas Shopping or some such. All the non-bikers from my work (everyone) thinks this is just going to really piss people off and get no sympathy for our cause. I tend to agree. Really bad timing, some people were surprisingly angry at us about considering doing this

[bogan]

hmm.... The Manawatu Standard must have written something about bikes being parked up all over town in the last full week for Christmas Shopping or some such. All the non-bikers from my work (everyone) thinks this is just going to really piss people off and get no sympathy for our cause. I tend to agree. Really bad timing, some people were surprisingly angry at us about considering doing this

you able to get a link to the article? Its wont be all over town, it wont be for long, and its designed to get exposure, not to inconvenience people, we tried being Mr nice bikers, still got unfairly levier, time to step it up a notch.

[ItsTheHamma]

Yep exposure good I agree. I haven't found the article myself, could be one of the community newspapers, however most of my co-workers were quite supportive of the Bikeoi, but they hate this idea

[Meanie]

Yep exposure good I agree. I haven't found the article myself, could be one of the community newspapers, however most of my co-workers were quite supportive of the Bikeoi, but they hate this idea

Tell them to shop another day
We arnt there to piss anyone off just make a point any way we can, bound to upset a few

[Owl]

Yep exposure good I agree. I haven't found the article myself, could be one of the community newspapers, however most of my co-workers were quite supportive of the Bikeoi, but they hate this idea

A maximum of 158 strategic carparks for 2 hours is hardly going to cause a major inconvenience in the grand scheme of things. It will however cause one hell of a visual impact and perhaps open a few eyes!

[ItsTheHamma]

which 158 strategic carparks? Maybe I am a pussy but the whole idea is to get the public on our side, and I don't think this is doing us any favours at all. Anything that inconveniences the cage drivers at this time of year will
sure be noticed but not in our favour