October 26, 2004
protest of the week
Reb and NRT have already blogged the multicultural celebration rally thingamee, and the National Front March. I didn’t hang around for the violent bits, but before that did go down to take a couple of pics of the stand-off preceding the violence, which involved people from both sides yelling at each other. Not all of the “scary fairies” were dickheads. A bunch of them just waved wands around and threw glitter, and shouted a few slogans, like “hey hey, ho ho, racism has got to go.” I didn’t see any of them doing anything violent or stupid during the time I was there. I didn’t see any of the NF do anything violent either, though some of them were yelling things like “fucking faggot” at anyone from the MCA side. I don’t see the point in not posting photos where people are identifyable, because if the NF are going to find someone to pick on they’ll find someone to pick on, regardless of whether photos haven’t been posted. Plus there’s already a bunch of photos on Scoop. They even put names.
Frankly I had much more awesome, terrifying and beautiful things going on all weekend, so don’t feel very motivated to rant about the NF thing.
Posted by Fionnaigh at October 26, 2004 04:01 PM