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Post by michael on Feb 14, 2003 19:16:29 GMT -5
melbourne rally was huge...police say 150,000..organisers say 200,000. The entire length of Swanston street was filled with people.
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Post by kelly on Feb 14, 2003 23:17:16 GMT -5
was on the front of the paper
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Post by TLCM on Feb 15, 2003 0:45:28 GMT -5
I saw the footage of Melbourne on the news, it was huge. I went to the Newcastle one today and have the sunburn to prove it. There was only 18 000 -20 000 in Newie but considering the size and stuff, thats fucking great, we'de never be able to pull 150 000. They'e hoping to get 250 000 for Sydney tomorrow. Oh and Byron Bay had 2 000 today and Canberra 5 000.
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Post by slushpup on Feb 15, 2003 5:15:11 GMT -5
i went to the perth one today...i think they said figures reached 30 000....which would be BRILLIANT. at least we can say that that number of people (and the electorate) do not support war nor belive that war is the answer. it was a fucking humid day, and im sunburnt as well but it was worth it. kudos to all that went round the country.  |
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Post by everlong on Feb 15, 2003 6:20:01 GMT -5
I'll be going to Sydney tomorrow. I saw Melbourne on the news - unbelievable fits the description well.
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Post by ell on Feb 16, 2003 2:38:45 GMT -5
the melbourne one was HUGE! ;D they said on the news that one in england got 2 million!  |
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Post by captain heinemann on Feb 16, 2003 2:43:51 GMT -5
i went to the melbourne one! un-fucking-believable!!!
really, really, really amazing.
we were up at the sattelibrary and i climbed up on some news van to have a look at the crowd and it was packed all the way down to and past fed square and that was fucking amazing..... it takes like half an hour to walk that far on any normal given day.
i had to cross the street to get someone and show them where we were sititng ebofre the march something that usually takes about 20 seconds (there and back) unless you get hit by a tram and this took me FORTY MINUTES! you just couldn't move at all. it was amazing and i hope evryone wen tot here rallies even with the whole little value thing
i heard howard on the news radio saying that he wasn't going ot do what the asutralian people wanted he was going to do what was good for them
ah the memories of being five and wanting to eat the spider
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Post by captain heinemann on Feb 16, 2003 3:15:06 GMT -5
just a wordlwide note:
in london the estimations were 750,000-2,250,000
their were over a million in madrid, paris and rome and in tokyo
and the netherlands and glasgow were big real big to
and yet tony blair says: that going to war was the real moral thing to do
and whats the bet these stupid bastards will get themselves voted in at their next elections even though no one likes what they're doing?
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Post by agent pondscum on Feb 17, 2003 0:09:50 GMT -5
i couldnt go to mine i had to work!!!
i fed the legions that went though, they all came lookin for drinks and food after.....
one comment on the whole shebang-
its all bout oil despite what they say, and johnny howard is an absolute sheep..following the most drug farked politician in america!
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Post by apple gerl on Feb 18, 2003 7:00:01 GMT -5
the rally was amazing. i'm so glad i went. it actually felt like we'd achieved something. ;D
the best banner i saw said, "fighting for peace is like fucking for chastity". i thought that was brilliant. i'll be making a banner for the next one.
and the next perth rally in on the 8th of march i believe...but if the war breaks out before then, everyone is supposed to meet in forrest chase, on the day, at 5pm.
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Post by slushpup on Feb 18, 2003 7:12:12 GMT -5
yeah that was a great banner....so very true.  i wanted to post these poems by wilfred owen, a first world war poet. it may have been written back at the front of last century, but these words still ring so true, espeacially with the events taking place. "Futility" What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, – The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires. What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. and part 1 of the poem "Insensibility" Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold. Whom no compassion fleers Or makes their feet Sore on the alleys cobbled with their brothers. The front line withers, But they are troops who fade, not flowers, For poets' tearful fooling: Men, gaps for filling: Losses, who might have fought Longer; but no one bothers. |
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Post by michael on Feb 18, 2003 7:41:22 GMT -5
the best banner i saw said, "fighting for peace is like fucking for chastity". i thought that was brilliant. i'll be making a banner for the next one. Yeah, there was one at melbourne which was the same except said 'virginity' instead of 'chastity'. It's actually been graffitied on a building somewhere in melbourne for atleast a year now i believe.
and the next perth rally in on the 8th of march i believe...but if the war breaks out before then, everyone is supposed to meet in forrest chase, on the day, at 5pm. Seems like there's a 'if war breaks out..' thing in a lot of places. Melbourne is 5pm at state library...that information has also been graffitied around the city quite a bit. ...seems like there's a lot of that recently. |
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Post by TLCM on Feb 18, 2003 18:35:36 GMT -5
The Newcastle "if war breaks out" is on at 5pm at Civic Park.
Both the female school captain and vice captain are trying to get the SRC to do something but all I know is that the male captain is for the war. They're looking at letting the students know when rallies and stuff are. It wouldn't exactly be right to give a whole anti-war propaganda thing to sway the students but it wouldn't hurt to let people know the other side of the argument either, so that they can make up their own minds.
5 March - student strike
8 March - womens protest
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Post by Dudley on Feb 18, 2003 20:00:23 GMT -5
yeh 5th of march they're having a 'walk out of school and march' rally at the sydney town hall. Why not turn up even if you're not a student. Pfft, although our school'd probably just give us shit if we walked out. Tell them to blame johnny howard. Lol at the girl handing out leaflets though, she doesn't want to be blamed for half the school walking out at 12.
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Post by TLCM on Feb 18, 2003 20:03:17 GMT -5
I don't go to school on Wednesdays I'll go on the strike anyway.
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