Re: AUT: parliament house

[nik <fragments@xxxxxxxxx>]

>I think that that action was very important. Between that and the wharfies,
>industrial resistance was crushed, but I'd put the weight of history more on
>the earlier event because there people tried to go on the offensive.


I'm not sure how much difference it makes, but I was in the part of
the march that swung past the doors of parliament when the whole gig
started. The cops tried to snatch some people from the indigenous
block in front of us (I can't remember how large the group was). The
group responded by basically fighting them off. The cops panicked and
fell back inside parliament house (so dumb...). Then it was all
in....   Just to say that the bulk of the mob that went in / kicked
it off were indigenous, followed by the unions and students. And it
was quite small (300 or so as I recall). For the longest time there
was a theory running around that it was a deliberate provocation that
back-fired (why else would you try to nab people from the part of the
march that was most likely to resist then fall back inside the
parliament?).

nik

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