G20 Actions, Friday Morning
by datakid Friday November 17, 2006 at 12:40 PM

Two mornign actions disrupted business as usual for war profiteers and mongers

On Friday morning the Mutiny Collective and other assorted bodies did two short direct action disruptions to business in Melbourne Town.

First target was Tenix Corporation who are involved in Defense projects and production.

Their office was infiltrated and disrupted for 5 minutes, during which discussion were held with the staff about the nature of their work, the nature of the G20 and the MPH campaign.

They were largey amused and appreciated the break from monotony (as spoken to myself by one of the guys in a "training session").

Surreptiously, glitter was sprinkled on the floor and little war figurines were superglued to less obvious surfaces.

The second action was directed at the Army Recruitment office where we were met with force (lol) by some beefcake plainclothes workers who were quite proactive and agressive in attempting to eject us.

More glitter was seen floating through the air, "Dunno Mate, I just work here" and rifle stickers were put up, and general chaos was created by bodies going left and right and Bear Hugs beinfg offered by the workers. (they are employed to Love, after all). The Police were called immediately.

People disappeared into the warren and a lot more people were forcibly ejected into the lift foyer by the workers. When all were accounted for, we discovered that despite holding elevators open, they had been shut down by the building security.

14 stories worth of Fire Escape stairs beckoned. About 8 floors down the Fire Alarm went off (no idea who set it off, either protester or security).

Quickly the Fire Escape filled with workers and we floated out with the rest and made our escape.

Business As Usual had been briefly disrupted, and the War Mongers were made aware that we had our eyes on them, despite their not being directly involved with global diplomatic forums like the G20.

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