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'hunger strike' in sympathy with baxter detainees - melbourne
by pc
Saturday December 18, 2004 at 05:02 PM
photos from today's action in sympathy with baxter detainees - see postings below for background - http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/84882.php
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I'll leave it to the organisers ( see posting below - http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/84882.php)to report how successful they felt today's sympathy action was; the commercial media apparently didn't feel inclined to accept the invitation to attend, so this is yet another indymedia scoop.... The Mall wasn't as busy as might have been expected on the last Saturday before Christmas, but there quite a few passers-by interested enough to stop and talk, read the placards, sign the petitions etc., although many didn't ... These photos were taken between 2 and 3 pm.
Some of the Melbourne 'hunger-strikers'
by pc
Saturday December 18, 2004 at 05:02 PM
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another one ...
by pc
Saturday December 18, 2004 at 05:02 PM
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hearts ...
by pc
Saturday December 18, 2004 at 05:02 PM
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part of the'sea of hearts' that have featured here before
missing photo
by pc
Saturday December 18, 2004 at 05:07 PM
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Don't know what happened there, but this is the photo that should have appeared with the caption 'some of the hunger-strikers' etc ... sorry
update
by pc
Monday December 20, 2004 at 05:23 PM
I have since had this message from one of the organisers:
[quote]
... We actually got a fair bit of media coverage, though
it was a bit piecemeal! An ABC news camera guy came along at the
very end of the day & filmed us with Arnold Zable...this footage
appeared on Saturday's news with a voiceover about the action (coming
after a piece on the Bakhtiyari family and Senator Bartlett's hunger
strike). The action was also mentioned briefly in Saturday's Age; and
apparently it was mentioned in quite a few radio news broadcasts (&
on RRR). Corinne Grant is also being interviewed tomorrow by ABC
radio in Canberra. And though there wasn't a huge throng of people at
any one time, we had heaps of supportive people come & talk to us at
the stall, give generous donations, sign petitions, and write moving
letters of support to the people in Baxter...
[end quote]
well
by Brenda
Monday December 20, 2004 at 05:28 PM
Looks like a bit of a flop.
Keep it up
by another
Tuesday December 21, 2004 at 09:43 AM
Onyez for keeping the issue in front of the public; Hitlers germans said 'nobody knew', no such excuse possible here now.
'Brenda' is one of spinifex's old names, and the crude putdown stinks of him. Is his creativity so stunted he is recycling names, trying to stay ahead of the opprobrium his craven lies have created?
yes
by bloke
Friday December 24, 2004 at 08:48 AM
a cuppla the girls look like they could do with a bit of a hunger strike. or two.
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