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The National Day of Action started at noon from UTS and when I arrived it was already on its way. Boxloads of pretty bad candy was being handed out to passersby. From UTS the protest rally moved toward Town Hall then settled down at Hyde Park. The passion was there, and since I was in the city looking to join a protest, in I went.
Meeting up with a few people from UWS I grabbed an NUS flag and chanted along. A cameraman trying to capture the moment was nearly crushed under the tide of anger against the budget tomorrow. With horses tailing us for even just a few blocks it was a protest that meant something. A rally is nothing without mounted police. A chaplain was focussed on during the rally and whenever some word like "Bullshit" featured in the rant, he would pause. Noticed a sheet with "Chants to remember." At Hyde Park there were faux-hazmat suited people dumping what looked like milkshakes all over the ground. The police were pretty well-behaved, for the most part anyway.
Shortly after the thing wrapped a little after one a cop car was slowly approaching a traffic jam, and like those with the abuse of power, switched on the sirens and got a clearway. For some reason people think that walking about with a placard means you're a protestor and know all there is to encite a civil disobedience ruffle.
Some old kodger tried to hammer incorrectly about the "illegal refugees." Illegal by default it seems. Try and spot some asian all in white holding a flag and sporting one-half of a fringe.
Tuesday, 14 May 2002 - 08:55
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