Kiwi woman watched by security services for most of her lifeSpy movies are one thing, but state surveillance for this Kiwi activist has been all too real.
The file on Maire Leadbeater was opened by the security services before she was even a teenager. Now, the veteran activist has written about the history of state surveillance in Aotearoa — and on her own family connections — in her new book The Enemy Within.
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The Enemy Within: How the Government spent decades spying on Kiwi activist
Maire Leadbeater, the sister of former Green MP Keith Locke, was one of many social justice advocates spied on by the Government. This extract from her new book, The Enemy Within: The Human Cost of State Surveillance in Aotearoa/New Zealand, outlines how the SIS kept tabs on a prominent campaigner.
Mike Treen was radicalised during the Vietnam War years. His activism started when he was a pupil at an Auckland Catholic high school, Marcellin College. He was a key mover behind the Secondary School Students’ Association and in a group called High School Students against the War, as he worked tirelessly to build student involvement in the large 1971 anti-war mobilisation. That soon led to him joining the Trotskyist Socialist Action League (SAL).
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