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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 2 months ago

@llnz
> the UK equivalent (creatively named National Grid) is a private company, so it could be worse

Oh believe me the Ruthenasiacs would have hocked ours off too if they thought they could get away with it. As with the roads and water infrastructure, and the surviving bits of the public education and health systems, there were dedicated and militant anti-corporatisation campaigns to stop them.

But as long as it's a corporation, that risk is still there, and with this government ...

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 2 months ago

#HatTip to the Water Pressure Group in Tamaki Makaurau, as a notable example of the grassroots anti-corporatisation campaigns of the nineties and noughties. They engaged in a bunch of nonviolent direct action to resist the commercialisation of public water supplies, and networked with other "water warriors" around in the word. I vividly remember the retired fire engines they bought to protests;