May Day report
May. 2nd, 2018 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaI had a pretty great May Day! I started by helping to put up the stage for the speeches and such at the end of the march. Then I took the tram to the starting point, found that they hadn't thought of finding someone to carry the red-and-black front flag, and offered to do it if there really was nobody else who wanted to. Which of course meant I ended up doing it, even though I did it three years ago. It's heavy and there's a harness to help you carry it.
Four nazis tried to attack the march, which was very stupid of them since there were 1400 of us. One of them ended up going to the hospital I think--they attacked the wrong part of the march, the one where the antifa people were. Or was that intentional? We speculated that maybe they do this kind of thing as a hazing ritual for newbies or something.
Anyway. The speeches at the end of the march were fine (I was a fan of the rule that limited speeches to three minutes) and also there was good music. Then we went to another rally, which stood and shouted slogans about the right to strike at the Social Democrats when they marched past (they're suggesting limiting the right to strike). Then went to the Social Democrat rally to give out flyers about same. Wow, they have super-long boring speeches.
And then I went to get something to eat with some of the others, and ended up at the May Day after-party and drank beer and came home at 2 am. I never go to parties! Also I drink very little. Well, I didn't drink much here either, I had like two beers. But I'm glad I went, I had fun.
Four nazis tried to attack the march, which was very stupid of them since there were 1400 of us. One of them ended up going to the hospital I think--they attacked the wrong part of the march, the one where the antifa people were. Or was that intentional? We speculated that maybe they do this kind of thing as a hazing ritual for newbies or something.
Anyway. The speeches at the end of the march were fine (I was a fan of the rule that limited speeches to three minutes) and also there was good music. Then we went to another rally, which stood and shouted slogans about the right to strike at the Social Democrats when they marched past (they're suggesting limiting the right to strike). Then went to the Social Democrat rally to give out flyers about same. Wow, they have super-long boring speeches.
And then I went to get something to eat with some of the others, and ended up at the May Day after-party and drank beer and came home at 2 am. I never go to parties! Also I drink very little. Well, I didn't drink much here either, I had like two beers. But I'm glad I went, I had fun.
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Date: 2018-05-03 01:06 am (UTC)Our local march made the paper: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/act/casual-workers-call-for-job-security-at-union-rally-20180501-p4zcp7.html
(We're the NTEU (National Tertiary Education Union), the one with the purple flags.)
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Date: 2018-05-03 06:32 am (UTC)