Deep sea oil protesters crowd iconic beach

• On November 23, over 1000 people turned up at Auckland’s famous west beaches. They turned up to stop Deep Sea Oil drilling in New Zealand's waters

• Some of the people came to the beach with their homemade signs and banners. Some of them were saying ‘Stop Deep Sea Oil Drilling’ another said ‘Anadarko go home.’

• At the beach in Piha some of them performed a haka and they joined hands to create a human chain from the land to the sea.

• There were about 400 people who went to Muriwai and protested, there were 500 who turned up at Bethells Beach, also there were 750 that were at Raglan.

• Also some people were saying “If John Key can’t see that were trying to stop this from happening then he’s just got his head stuck in the sand.” Also NZ women's surfing champion Micha Davis and Labour MP Phil Twyford spoke at Piha.

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