Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 03:20:21 +1100
Subject: Re: AUT: demos in Australia
From: Thiago Oppermann <thiago_oppermann-AT-bigpond.com>


Photo of the marshals' tactics:

http://www.moz.net.nz/photos/2003-03-war-start-protest/war-start-protest-55-
moz.html

Thiago


On 20/3/2003 10:56 PM, "Steve Wright" <pmargin-AT-froggy.com.au> wrote:

> Were they union marshals, Thiago?
> 
> In Melbourne at least, I'm not sure the Labor party has any sort of apparatus
> to
> deploy in that fashion, outside union cadre. But I didn't make tonight's
> march, so
> maybe similar things happened there (although I gather people made it to the
> US
> consulate at least, for what that's worth).
> 
>> The overwhelming mood was one of
>> sadness. It was like a funeral. There is a high chance this is my
>> idiosyncratic
>> and distorted impression, though - I got very depressed today.
> 
> I've already fessed up to my own 'idiosyncratic and distorted impressions' of
> last
> month's weekend of anti-war demos - I'm still trying to grapple with the much
> more
> skeptical interpretations others offered of them (or at least of
> forces/currents
> within them).
> 
> Any reactions on the streets or elsewhere that other list members care to
> report?
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
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