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# 2022 Was Not an Easy Year. Will 2023 See Change?
- URL: https://goodoil.news/2022-was-not-an-easy-year-will-2023-see-change/
- Published: 2022-12-31T03:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-26T04:37:28.000Z
- Author: Lady Wellington
- Tags: Video, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:34

> This time last year people were being told they could not attend their Christmas parties, families were debating whether to allow their **unvaccinated members** to join them for dinner, restaurants were denying people and New Years’ Eve loomed gloomily for hundreds of thousands of Kiwis.  
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> What a difference a year makes.  
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> Now, the day after Christmas, there’s **hope in the air.** Families who excluded others have changed their tune, friends are reuniting, and the media is beginning to look at the harm that this **divisive Government** has caused.  
>  
> On a personal note, I started 2022 still employed in investing and at a crossroads between heading back into the office after the holiday break or **pursuing educating people** about what was going on here in New Zealand. Thankfully, I chose the latter as less than four weeks later, the **Wellington Protest** began (and you all know what happened there!)  
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> Fast forward to August when Jacob, Phil and I **launched Operation People** out to the world. Now we are working this week on developing OP for 2023 including editing the backlog of videos we have filmed over the last 6 months with a focus on free speech. New Zealand needs to understand how close we are to an authoritarianism and we believe media is the key to **creating change.**  
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> So that is 2022 in a nutshell.  
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> All-in-all, leaving a corporate environment for a life that involves slander in the media, daily digital harassment and unknown finances has been the **best decision** I’ve ever made.  
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> All I have left to say, is thank you and have a fantastic New Years.  
>  
> Chantelle  
>  
> Operation People

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