Occupy Australia takes off -- thousands in Melbourne and around the country

[Ichingcarpenter]

Saturday, October 15, 2011
By Timothy Lawson, Melbourne

Occupy Melbourne assembly, City Square, at the start of the protest. Photo from OccupyMelbourne.org
At 11.30am on October 15, about 750 people converged on City Square in Swanston Street in Melboune’s CBD as part of the global Occupy Together movement. It is a movement inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement that has initiated similar movements in hundreds of cities worldwide.





By the time protesters who had been at a separate demonstration in solidarity with Palestine joined the assembly, numbers had grown to more than 2000 people.

Tents and stalls have been set up for the indefinite occupation. Stalls have been set up by groups including: refugee support and campaign groups; equal marriage campaign groups; an Indigenous tent and a media tent for independent media groups.

Occupy Melbourne activist Phil Stallard addressed the assembly, explaining the significance of the movement: “We, the people, rallying in Occupy Together protests around the world are battling first and foremost for the right to life, in the face of elitist governments and corporations doing their best to depopulate this globe through machinations hardly known to the public.



http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/49093

[Earth_First]

1. It's gonna be a good day! n/t

[Politicalboi]

2. See what a

Series of tubes can do. LOL!

[seacaves]

3. Congratulations to Australia. Keep up the good work. Persistance

and staying power is vital to the Occupy Movement.

[malaise]

4. I'm lovin' it

:D

[Skittles]

5. AUSSIES ARE AWESOME

:thumbsup: