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Report back from the 15/2/2012 Occupy Sydney: Solidarity with Greece Demo
At approximately 12.30pm, while the city streets were full of tourists, shoppers and many office workers on lunch, a black bloc carrying an “Occupy Sydney” banner marched from the Martin Place Occupy camp down Castlereagh Street to the Greek Consulate chanting “A FATE WORSE THEN DEATH FUCK THE IMF". The comrades made speeches declaring solidarity with the popular revolt across Greece then left two objects in the doorway of the consulate and quickly dispersed. One object was a large fake Molotov made out of an empty petrol tin with red cellophane coming out the top, the other was an empty, black foam box labelled “PANDORA’S BOX: DO NOT OPEN” with the titles of various financial institutions: “IMF, European Central Bank” etc, labelled along the sides. 10 minutes later a large police contingent made of uniformed and plain clothed police raided the Occupy Sydney camp and corralled, assaulted and arrested 6 comrades outside a Westpack Bank and confiscated a number of cameras. According to the police report: Within minutes of the arrests, anarchists called for a Solidarity Noise Demo, and a crowd soon gathered outside the City Central Police Station where the 6 comrades were being held hostage. Banners were immediately tied to trees and poles directly opposite the front door of the Police Station, and visible to all traffic from the busy Day Street. Throughout the long demo, police made repeated attempts to disperse the crowd and stop the drumming, officers occasionally came out of the police station shoving and abusing comrades, but the crowd remained, continued drumming and defended the banners over a period of 9 hours. One enraged policeman even told the crowd that the drumming was intimidating police, and witnesses inside the station had been too overwhelmed by the noise to give statements, as if that would encourage us to stop. At about 11pm police suddenly and very quickly mobilised a line of officers in front of the crowd and made an announcement that the demonstration was illegal and everyone must disperse immediately or face arrest, at this time a line of police had moved around the block and formed a line behind the demonstrators. The front line of police immediately moved on two comrades carrying the “NO JUSTICE NO PEACE FUCK THE POLICE” banner. Both comrades ran with the banner, evading the police cordon by running through the traffic on Day St. The comrades then reopened the banner on the other side of the road but where forced to continue to flee as a number of police then pursed them across the street. The comrades abandoned the banner and ran into an underground car park where one comrade was cornered and arrested, while the other temporarily evaded the pigs, before being arrested 15 minutes later while attempting to flee through a fire escape. Inside the cells, all comrades maintained an antagonistic and honourable attitude, banging on the cell doors and repeatedly chanting anti-police slogans alongside some teenagers accused of shoplifting. One comrade was also repeatedly slammed into a wall while handcuffed, receiving minor but bleeding wounds on both their forehead and shoulder. Drumming and celebrations continued across the road until all 9 comrades had been released to loud cheers, hugs, anti-police chants and beers, the last comrade was released at 1.30 am, after being held for 12 hours. In all only 2 comrades were charged with “false representation resulting in a police investigation”. Others were threatened with various charges, one comrade with as many as 6 that supposedly “may be laid pending further investigations”. At around 2am all comrades walked away in a celebratory mood, still drumming and chanting anti police slogans, with the “A.C.A.B” banner left hanging on the footbridge. Unfortunately all cameras and memory cards holding photographs and video of the black bloc march and demonstration outside the consulate were confiscated by police and are being held as evidence. In the 24 hours since the comrades were released, police have raided the Occupy Sydney site on 3 separate occasions, confiscating all furniture, sleeping bags, food, tables and propaganda, leaving nothing behind. Occupiers are currently rebuilding the site. SOLIDARITY WITH THE GREEK REBELS AND ALL WHO STRUGGLE |
PollThis summer will be called "The Summer of..."
A hundred general strikes
13%
Occupy harder, faster, better
12%
Effective organzing & praxis
12%
Four more years
30%
Total Anarchist Triumph!
33%
Total votes: 527
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this sounds sik
this sounds sik
wtf is "false representation
wtf is "false representation resulting in a police investigation"? is the state saying "well you faked us out pretty good, we can't charge you for anything but pranking us"?
lmao
lmao
This is fucking awesome. I
This is fucking awesome. I can't wait to get back to Sydney.
Awesome compared to what, you
Awesome compared to what, you will deconstruct the capitalist system in its blatant and most powerful form by inhabiting a place void of market value, in other words, public lands. But lets first define the nature of your country's unusual alliance with the British colonial subservience to even its moral standards, lol, Public lands become exploitable upper-class accessibilities by way of favor, the land-lord will have to suffer his,,,,
Gunter
Awesome compared to both
Awesome compared to both capitalist normality and the quality of actions generally carried out by self-conscious anarchists in Australia.
As to the rest of your post, I have no idea what you're saying. Could you clarify?