We just wanted to talk, to read a poem, and we were beaten up: Let Women Speak

[Whaeanui]

This may have been shared but since these brave wahine didn’t get to speak at the event, I think a thread dedicated to them speaking is the least we could do. The Platform allowed women to call up and speak. I’m only 30 minutes in, the fourth woman is so tearful it’s quite a hard listen. She is clearly traumatised. Please listen, please leave a comment if you can. I’m so heartbroken about it. I know some of these women who were attending. Whanau ( family ) and friends attended. They’re all completely in shock. Angry, broken, feeling completely overwhelmed. They’ve been called far right, Nazis, when a large portion are long time Maori rights activists, Labour supporters, and many are older women. Some have nothing to do with any feminist groups, they just wanted to be heard. Read a poem. Talk about their lives. Their fears.

Trigger warning at 20 minutes a woman is very distressed and traumatised by it.

Thank you. I will listen.

Thanks @EndlessTea I’m having a real bawling session now

I am 25 minutes in. The police ought to be fucking ashamed of themselves. Are any charges going to be brought against those TRAs who were physically violent to the women?

Thank you for this

It’s very powerful. So good to hear from women n NZ who care. It’s making me tearful too to hear the emotion.

I had to take a break because it was so hard to hear what the women who attended went through. I can't imagine how terrifying it must have been for them and it sounds even worse than footage and photos show.

I get that.

Checking in with the thread while listening.

So glad women are getting opportunity to speak.

This is really moving.

Thank you for the link. Very important that these women are heard.

It really is moving isn’t it. I hope someone starts suing the media outlets for defamation.

The fourth caller is so distressed

I’m glad there’s a chance to speak, I’m so sad for everyone

I've managed the first 30 minutes, that poor lady. 'We were set up'. The Police were taking iron bars off people!? I'll listen to the rest later.

Bumpity bump. I first saw this channel when he interviewed KJK while she was in Australia. I've started these and will listen to the rest asap.

Yes. Also listening to Posie on talktv and then looking at video just today of Melbourne, the Nazis were very separate and far from Posie but the way media photos were published it doesn’t show that at all. It feels a lot like a coordinated set up so I can see why that caller was so upset at the thought of it. Police not turning up when they said they would. Media deliberately withholding information to twist the narrative and let people think Nazis were at the event when they were clearly separated. At Auckland the Brian Tamaki protest was also separate, well away from Posies and more police attended that because of past issues.

Also noted that Posie and the group around her were actually being pulled down in order to have them on the ground while the crowd grew in hostility and frenzy around them… they absolutely would of been trampled over or crushed if the crowd had been successful pulling them down.

I'm listening to the first one now

The women having to seek out a fundamentalist church for safety, fearing for their lives.

The left literally chasing women out.

It is all terrifying. Not just the mob and violence.

But politicians or people with money and power organised to set women up and endanger them. Let's really think of this. These women were set up. They know they have been set up. Their lives were not deemed worth protecting because they want single sex spaces.

Who set them up? And who is going to find out and charge those people for attempted murder? Because Kellie-Jay barely made it out alive lets be honest.

I have to stop listening so will return later but I don’t get why the police just sat in their vans

Thank you for sharing.

I'm so glad the women got to share their experiences. It was heartbreaking to listen to and just hearing about it was overwhelming. I can't imagine how they felt at the scene.

I just wanted to make a couple of points. Shocking that the police were there in their vans and not out policing. The organiser (sorry I forgot her name) from Wellington, did she say she recorded the conversation with the police liaison? If she has, I hope it's released on sm.

Brave women.

There’s a lot of work going on gathering all their stories and evidence. They’ve had to wait and compose themselves, find everyone and make sure they’re ok, Kellie is back here and also had to do the same. We will likely be finding out what action they can take in the next few weeks, what evidence they’ve got and if the police will take action ( highly unlikely ). The person who threw the soup on Posie has a front page piece on them on Stuff NZ, one of the main outlets, they want tomato soup to become a symbol of the trans movement. So instead of being arrested, the media are praising them. If Brian Tamaki had thrown soup at Posie, let alone the rest of the violence, he would absolutely be arrested and the country would think him a deplorable human being.

I am listening to it in tears, but those women deserve to be heard so I will finish listening….thank you for sharing.

I just finished now. I feel such connection with all those women. So much bewilderment and fear.