The Clash- Clampdown (live in Aotearoa)

Solidarity with the Urewera 18! Free them now!

Strummer/Jones)

1-2-3-4!
Hey, hey!
Ooh!
the kingdom is ransacked
the jewels all taken back
and the chopper descends
they're hidden in the back
with a message on a half-baked tape
with the spool going round
saying im back here in this place
and i could cry
and there's smoke you could click on

What are we gonna do now?
Taking off his turban, they said, is this man a Jew?
’Cos working for the clampdown
They put up a poster saying we earn more than you!
When we're working for the clampdown
We will teach our twisted speech
To the young believers
We will train our blue-eyed men
To be young believers

The judge said five to ten but I say double that again
I'm not working for the clampdown
No man born with a living soul
Can be working for the clampdown
Kick over the wall 'cause government's to fall
How can you refuse it?
Let fury have the hour, anger can be power
D'you know that you can use it?

The voices in your head are calling
Stop wasting your time, there's nothing coming
Only a fool would think someone could save you
The men at the factory are old and cunning
You don't owe nothing, so boy get runnin'
It's the best years of your life they want to steal

But, you grow up and you calm down and
You're working for the clampdown
You start wearing the blue and brown and
You're working for the clampdown
So you got someone to boss around
It makes you feel big now
You drift until you brutalize
You made your first kill now

In these days of evil presidentes
Working for the clampdown
But lately one or two has fully paid their due
For working for the clampdown
Ha! Gitalong! Gitalong!
Working for the clampdown
Ha! Gitalong! Gitalong!
Working for the clampdown

Yeah I’m working hard in Harrisburg
Working hard in Petersburg
Working for the clampdown
Working for the clampdown
Ha! Gitalong! Gitalong
Begging to be melted down
Gitalong, gitalong
Work
Work
And I give away no secrets – ha!
Work
More work
Work
Work

Jane Kelsey speaks out at Waitangi

by Omar Hamed

Law Professor Jane Kelsey speaks out at Waitangi during a protest targeting the attendance of Phillipines President Gloria Arroyo at a Regional Interfaith Forum.

Added: June 01, 2007

King Kapisi - Reverse Resistance

Dedicated to Omar Hamed, with love from our family, made a beautiful banner bro for the tautoko rally apopo. Kia Kaha Bro, Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou Ake Ake Ake !!!!!!

Omar Hamed is my Brother

Omar Hamed
Aged 19 - Student

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00390.htm

Profile By Joseph Barratt

Standing at the dock is a skinny 19-year-old boy, fluffy hair, wearing glasses and an old wool jersey, he gives a smile to his mother and friends.

Like all the defendants Omar Hamed is charged with firearm offences and police are still considering laying terrorist charges against him – he is one of the 17-arrested in the police raids last week.

Half-Palestinian, born in Greece but raised in New Zealand, he has campaigned for social justice from an early age. In the past he has told reporters that he gained his inspiration from seeing his mother struggling to stop National and NZ First attacks on social welfare.

He told them that once he began to get a better understanding of issues he started writing and educating others. He has written several pieces published on Scoop.co.nz in recent months.

An active member in Students for peace and justice in Palestine, Omar is also active in a range of causes in New Zealand, that include the www.Supersizemypay.com campaign aimed at raising the minimum wage, and Radical Youth.

He currently studies History and Sociology at Auckland University.

Maire Leadbeater the head of the New Zealand Indonesian Human Rights Committee and sister of Green MP Keith Locke has worked together a lot with him.

She describes him as someone who is, “very dedicated and committed to human justice.”

“He was one of the key people with an interest in the Superfunds,” she said. “He did a lot of research into the superfund investments.”

The Governments Superfund has come under pressure this year because of revelations of apparent unethical investments, it includes investments in arms manufacturers, nuclear technology, and Total- the French petroleum company that has operations in Burma.

He was “keen for everyone to work together [to raise the Superfund issue]” Leadbeater says, he even attended a meeting with Superfund director in August to discuss the possibility of ending those investments.

A friend and activist that has known him for 3 ½ years says he was an articulate speaker and also very passionate.

He went on to say that that some people come along to protests for the fun of it but he was really committed, he would spend hours researching and writing about the different causes.

“He is someone who cares about the issues, which stems from the fact that he cares about people,” the friend said.

Hamed was also instrumental in organizing the recent protests against the US-NZ Partnership forum and also lives and helps run A Space Inside Social Centre, an Anarchist collective on Symonds Street. It runs as a bike workshop, library, meeting room for discussion of ideas and holds film screenings and shows for anyone interested.

ENDS

PUBLIC ENEMY "Don't Believe The Hype"

Re: name revealed /Love to Bro

Omar has done awesome activism in Opposing the FTA with Amerikkka &
Neo Colonialism in the Pacific (amongst heaps of other solid things)

PACIFIC YOUTH HOLD FAST: WE CAN’T IGNORE COLONISATION

By Omar Hamed

http://www.justfocus.org.nz/articles/2006/08/11/pacific-youth-hold-fast-we-cant-\
ignore-colonisation/

Omar Hamed:A Citizen’s Guide To An Emerging Empire
Thursday, 9 November 2006,

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00170.htm

Selling out our neighbours and serving the empire

A commentary on Winston Peters Foreign Policy “Five Year Plan’
By Omar Hamed

http://snap.enzyme.org.nz/2006/03/selling-out-our-neighbours-and-serving.html

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> Kia ora whanau
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> Omar is a dear friend of our whanau, and gave us awesome tautoko when
> I was picked up after the g20 last year. Tautoko back at ya bro.
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> Ana
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> Another of 17 alleged terrorists rounded up in nationwide police
> swoops last week can now be revealed.
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> He is Omar Hamed, a 19-year-old Auckland man facing three charges of
> illegal possession of a firearm.
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> It is alleged Hamed - a Palestinian, born in Greece, but raised on the
> North Shore - was twice in possession of firearm in Tauranga between
> January 10 and January 14 this year, then was in possession of a
> semi-automatic rifle, in Auckland, between September 13 and
September 16.
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> His lawyer Anthony Rogers last week failed in a District Court bid to
> prevent publication of his name and picture, but appealed Judge
> Josephine Bouchier's ruling to the High Court.
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> However, the deadline for that application past at 4.30pm today.
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> Hamed is currently in custody, awaiting an Auckland District Court
> appearance on November 1.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/feature/story.cfm?c_id=1501470&objectid=10472072
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