The Dead Roo

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“Whatever happened to the revolution?    We all got stoned and it drifted away”    So sang Skyhooks in the 1970’s about the demise of the anti Vietnam war movement.
The 70’s revolution may seem to have disappeared in a puff of strange smelling smoke but it […]

 Whoops! - the picket was previously advertised as “next Wednesday” which is incorrect.  The date 29/8 is correct. - sorry.
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There will be a picket on Wednesday, the 29 August 2007 at 9.00 am. outside the Brisbane Magistrate’s Court, 240 Roma St. Brisbane to demand reform of […]

Just over a month ago I wrote:
Gardening, it’s a political act. What bigger rebellion against the “golden straightjacket” could there be, to instead of buying food, grow your own and eat it?
Here’s the long awaited update.
The rain has made turning the soil over somewhat easier. The far side, with stakes to prevent it becoming a […]

Hot on the heels of his plan to reduce South East Asian rain forest destruction in response to electoral concerns about climate change, hundreds of placard-waving pulp mill protesters have called on Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull to reject Gunns Limited’s plans for a pulp mill at Bell Bay in northern Tasmania.
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The Herald Sun is reporting that the Victorian government has reached a deal worth $700 000 with forty seven people suing Victoria police over injuries recieved at the 2000 S11 protests.
The Herald Sun naturally see’s it as it’s patriotic duty to defame the victims:
The protesters sued authorities after wild riots outside the World Economic Forum […]

The right wing loonies have only just started to pick up on the fact that the left wing loonies have been arguing about the G20 protests for some months now.
The International Socialist Organization (statement) disses the Socialist Alternative (statement, now since removed from website), who diss the autonomists at arterial bloc (statement), who are dissed […]

The Eighth and Nineth of September will see APEC “economic leaders”* meet in Sydney, where they’ll wear funny suites and plot world domination. Disgusted at the decadent funny suite wearing ways of APEC, Stop the War Coalition Sydney is organizing massive protests to coincide with the meeting.
Super secret minutes of the meeting demonstrate just how […]

Melbourne Indymedia is carrying a front page report about a “rally” in Federation square. I’ve been involved in some piss-ant, try hard, poorly organized, sad excuses for “rallies” in my time, but this one really takes the prize:

That’s a rally attended by eight people, if you include the kids and the person behind the camera. […]

“God Hates Fags” is a website run by the so-called Westboro Baptist Church in the US. This group is well known for picketing the funerals of aid’s victems. A post on digg has suggested some minor net activism, try to make their rubbish too expensive to host by chewing bandwidth.
This is a link to the […]

There has been a disturbing press release going around the NUS lists over the last few days from Jess Moore, the president of the Wollongong Undergraduate Students’ Association. Moore, a member of Socialist Alternative, claims to have been contacted by police warning her of a potential police investigation for violating the new anti-terror laws.
The claimed […]

The Albert Einstein Institution has published an interested pamphlet on non-violent resistance to coups. Entitled The Anti Coup this publication takes a brief look at coups, what they need to succeed, where coups have been defeated by popular action, and thus (in a fair bit more detail) what citizens can do in order to defeat […]

The extreme left socialist group, Socialist Alternative, has issued a statement condemning the supposedly anarchist group responsible for initiating violence at last weeks G20 protests.
To outsiders this may seem odd, Socialist Alternative is committed to destroying the capitalist system through revolutionary action. What their statement demonstrates is that Socialist Alternative recognize that “revolution” is a […]

THUGS hiding behind bandannas hurled flares, horse manure, fake blood and urine-filled balloons.
- Is that the truth or did you read it in the Herald Sun?
Condoms full of urine is a recurring lie in Herald Sun coverage of so-called anti-globalization protests.
It just doesn’t happen.
Have you ever actually tried to fill a condom […]

The usual suspects gathered at the State Library, and then dutifully trudged to the state library. When I left the rally at about 1:30 (after it had reached the police barricade before the Grant Hyatt) the crowd was already starting to disperse.

Issues
At all protests an amazing hodge podge of issues float around for the political […]

Some more radical left action did happen on Friday, Indymedia report here, and the Guerrilla Gardening happened on Thursday, photos and report from Indymedia.
Here’s hoping I don’t miss much whilst writing this report. But quite frankly, I’m hot, exhausted, and in desperate need of a break!
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