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Margaret Jones and her 80 year old placard

Margaret Jones, 91, the great-grandmother of Auckland activism, wearing an 80-year-old placard to a public meeting about Ports of Auckland workers. Margaret designed the placard when she was 11 for a Palmerston North rally of thousands of women and children protesting the forced labour of their unemployed husbands and fathers hours away in Rotorua. "It's an oldie but a goodie," she said.

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Uploaded on January 19, 2012
Taken on January 19, 2012