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class="lead-story-panel"><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2411/S00035/on-the-hikoi-aftermath.htm"><h1><img src="https://mc-store1.s3.amazonaws.com/media/nn/beta1-scoop-co-nz/scoopFP/frRH6h5C7ccdO954.jpg" width="320" height="175"><i>Gordon Campbell:</i> On The Hikoi Aftermath</h1><p>The euphoria from yesterday’s hikoi may be transitory, but is no less valuable for that. It is pretty rare for the left to feel itself to be in the overwhelming majority, and speaking as the voice of the people. Lest that momentum be lost, the organisers will no doubt be mobilising the contacts they made yesterday, to carry the ongoing fight against this Bill to all parts of the country. (In business speak, the hikoi was a great networking opportunity.) 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