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Anti-Bases Campaign (ABC) Steffan Browning congratulated on his election as one of the new members of the Green Party. Steffan through the last decade has been the key contact ABC in Blenheim throughout the marathon campaign for the Waihopai spybase blocked. He has forever signified local greens of Blenheim and regular protests at the base.

Now we are pleased that we speak in our Waihopai spybase remonstration on 21 January in his new position as Deputy Green. This continues a long tradition of active support of the Greens for our campaign, which goes back to when the late Rod Donald began as a member of the Alliance in the 1990s. Rod spoke infallibly Waihopai protest for the rest of his life and recently retired, Keith Locke, never lost his speech to a good, more recently, in January 2011. The last co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons and present, Russel Norman in the Waihopai protests spoken. It is particularly appropriate that Steffan, Blenheim, as one person at a 21st January protest speaks.

Waihopai is New Zealand's major donation to all U.S. wars, whether in Afghanistan, Iraq or elsewhere (eg Iran). This is a U.S. spybase operating New Zealand region, an important position of the American Empire. The battle in Afghanistan, the U.S. is the second longest since the World War II, and in the United States says he'll be there until 2014. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, NATO and other countries including New Zealand, fight and keep the land occupied. More visible military presence is the New Zealand Special Air Service, in addition to the regular forces is not officially for "reconstruction" for several years. Nicky Hager's 2011 book "War of the others," discovered the realism of what the soldiers from New Zealand to Afghanistan and its subsidiary task active in the American war.