People Against Prisons Aotearoa

Kia ora and a huge thank you to Accompany Collective for this video on our Fuck Pride rally and protest!

“No Pride in Prisons took the actions it did at the 2016 Auckland Pride Parade in order to send a message to the Pride Board and to the queer community more broadly. That message is that there are some of us who will not sit back and allow violent institutions like police and prisons to be represented as beacons of queer rights and queer struggle.

Rather, we will sit down in the middle of your parade and bring it to a grinding halt.

The Pride Board should not be proud to support institutions which always have been and always will be the enemy in the battle for queer liberation.

No Pride in Prisons conveyed this message at the parade by shutting the event down for an hour and a half, and then conducting rolling blockades.

Our message was clear: the Pride Board has chosen to side with the oppressors. It is up to you to decide which side you are on.”