Hīkoi thoughts

Amanda Riddell
Nov 19, 2024
1 min read

Well, I genuinely enjoyed it. I thought that the organisation was really good, and that people seemed to be fairly calm. Dave Roil said that the people running this were professionals, as opposed to all those cookers that camped out on Parliament. To be fair, I was shooting shots rather than 'protesting' -- I love making films.

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Amanda Riddell

Nov 19, 2024

Re: cookers -- said this before, but I suggested to my stoner mates back in the day that people might say 'cooked' instead of 'baked' ... got no traction, and now it looks like it never will. 🤣