Re: AUT: parliament house

[David McInerney <borderlands@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nik

When I arrived things were already heating up, there seemed to be at
least 1000 people there.
So I must have missed some of the initial action that you saw.

The other big thing was the confrontation between police and indigenous
activists at Old Parliament House near the tent embassy the following
day.

David


On 29/11/2004, at 9:49 AM, nik wrote:

>> 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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