Re: AUT: Negri and Charleton Heston?

[David McInerney <borderlands@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe it was 1996, when the Howard government put in its first
budget.
I was there in the gift shop - maybe you were next to me!
Perhaps we should ASIO for the photos.
ASIO, if you are reading this, please send the photos to us as jpegs ;)
As I remember it though, it was the CFMEU who broke the doors in, the
same people who were supporting Howard at the last election because
Latham did not support their bosses' plans to send the whole Tasmanian
rainforest to the chipper to make dunny rolls and ballot papers and
whatnot.
I don't remember the Class War people, maybe you were standing in a
different area to me.  I remember that one of the ISO (Cliffite)
leaders (in stereotypical brown corduroy) cut his finger and was filmed
by television crews being patched up by the ambos, effectively
trivialising the police violence.  I also remember the television
footage of Howard walking through the 'rubble' of the gift shop, and
the way it was shot to evoke the wartime footage of Churchill walking
in the rubble during the Blitz.  As I remember it, the gift shop looked
a lot more orderly when I was in it.  I think the feds knocked the
crappy gumnut statues on the floor and tread on them for insurance and
propaganda purposes.  The media made out that it was 'looted' -fat
chance!  The shop was full of crap.  Just goes to show the lengths that
the media here will go to.
Were you a student at ANU?
David

On 28/11/2004, at 9:24 PM, Thiago Oppermann wrote:
>
> Btw. I have in my possession a blood-stained concrete-filled beercan
> with a
> (Australian) Class War sticker which reads "Fuck Howard Before He Fucks
> You!". The can was thrown at the pigs back in a riot at Federal
> Parliament
> 1995 (we tried to break in!), possibly one of the most significant
> rallies
> in Australia since the Franklin Dam movement; second only to S11 or
> maybe
> Woomera. I really admire the rage of the person who threw that; the
> message
> and the can were dead on. Yet I would not last five minutes in a room
> with
> the class war people. They'd probably throw a can on my head,
> over-educated
> snob that I am.
>
>



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