Re: AUT: parliament house

[Thiago Oppermann <difference_3ngine@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, I personally know two ANU students, one then an undergrad, another a PhD
philosophy student, who were arrested inside the building. I had a great
talk with the philosophy guy who gave me a full Heideggerian breakdown of
action.

I wasn't hurt except for a bit of an eye-gauge (generally, ACT cops are very
highly trained and not very brutalised), but two comrades were pretty
seriously shook up and ended up in hospital. When the police reasserted
themselves there was a fair bit of blood. That's when I got the can. I also
got a giant silver cardboard cut-out of a hand giving the birdie with "Die!"
written on it, but that's been lost, unfortunatley. It was quite the looker.

Thiago


On 28/11/2004 11:47 PM, "David McInerney" <borderlands@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> There is a paper on the August 19 events at Parliament House at the
> following site:
> http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/interventions/riot.htm
> It mentions the cans with the stickers.
> From my memory, the students (myself included) didn't cause any damage,
> we were mainly spectators and in many cases joined in the pushing
> against the riot shields from three rows back or so.  I also didn't
> hear of students being arrested, despite the fact that many left
> wearing "I've been to the Parliament House gift shop" stickers handed
> out to those who ventured into the shop.  I suspect that those arrested
> were Aboriginal activists and CFMEU and MUA members.  It was the union
> people who actually broke the doors and hit police.  I vividly remember
> one union guy with a bloody face holding up a riot shield he had taken
> from the cops, in a scene reminiscent of the one of the Predator
> holding up the skull and spine of the Jamaican drug lord in Predator 2
> ... quite silly really but it gives some idea of the anger of the union
> guys.  I also remember the terrible performances made by the ALP and
> Democrat people on the official demo stage.  the other really vivid
> memory is the huge cops without their numbers on their shirts (so that
> they couldn't be reported) itching for a fight, except one female cop
> who pleaded with us in a very agitated matter to disperse as she didn't
> want to be "forced" to hurt us.  The male cops seemed not to suffer
> from such anxieties.
> DM
>
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