scotish solidarity action with woomera2002
fwd: shady customer | 26.03.2002 23:34
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A very small, symbolic action in solidarity with
everyone heading out to Woomera took place in
Edinburgh earlier this morning. I would have waited a few days but I thought a pre-emptive strike was called for, and, well, I've got holiday plans. So, a highly organised underground cell of one took to the streets in the wee small hours and visited the Australian consulate. Unfortunately, the Aus consulate in Edinburgh is a bit shit, it's just a door. But quite a big expensive looking wooden door, so it got sprayed with "Woomera", "no borders", a circled A, and an, admittedly pretty poor, attempt at the aboriginal flag. An Australian travel agent also got a new window display, posters were affixed to the windows encouraging prospective tourists to:
"VISIT WOOMERA!
Experience a warm Aussie welcome at the Woomera
detention centre, so good you might end up staying...
http://www.woomera2002.com"
So, not much I know but the thought was there. The following letter has been sent to the Australian consulate by way of an explanation:
"The small symbolic act of property damage against
your premises was part of a global opposition to the abhorrent practices of the Australian government in the Woomera region.
The action was in solidarity with aboriginal peoples still fighting dispossession and in opposition to a society founded on genocide and sustained by violence.
In its latest incarnation this violence takes the
form of a concentration camp, built in the desert in the hope that nobody would notice its depravity.
People around the world HAVE noticed and this week we act in solidarity with all those trying to tear down the fence- whether from the inside or the outside.
The action was in solidarity with all those who oppose militarism and with all the victims, past,present and future, of military technologies developed in Woomera.
A testing ground for weapons frequently turned
against the world's poor and a concentration camp
built to imprison those fleeing violence and poverty sit side by side- a perverse joke at the expense of humanity. And all this against a background of violence against the planet, of proposed toxic dumping and uranium mining.
Finally, it must be made clear that if for one week people all over the world focus on the crimes of the Australian government, this in no way excuses other governments. I recognise fully, and oppose vigorously, the similar practices of the British
state.
For an end to all environmental destruction,
For an end to all militarism,
For a world without borders!"
Anyway, love, solidarity and the very best of luck to everyone heading out to Woomera,
Yours for the glorification of (very) petty crime,
:: woomera2002 ::
www.woomera2002.com
A very small, symbolic action in solidarity with
everyone heading out to Woomera took place in
Edinburgh earlier this morning. I would have waited a few days but I thought a pre-emptive strike was called for, and, well, I've got holiday plans. So, a highly organised underground cell of one took to the streets in the wee small hours and visited the Australian consulate. Unfortunately, the Aus consulate in Edinburgh is a bit shit, it's just a door. But quite a big expensive looking wooden door, so it got sprayed with "Woomera", "no borders", a circled A, and an, admittedly pretty poor, attempt at the aboriginal flag. An Australian travel agent also got a new window display, posters were affixed to the windows encouraging prospective tourists to:
"VISIT WOOMERA!
Experience a warm Aussie welcome at the Woomera
detention centre, so good you might end up staying...
http://www.woomera2002.com" So, not much I know but the thought was there. The following letter has been sent to the Australian consulate by way of an explanation:
"The small symbolic act of property damage against
your premises was part of a global opposition to the abhorrent practices of the Australian government in the Woomera region.
The action was in solidarity with aboriginal peoples still fighting dispossession and in opposition to a society founded on genocide and sustained by violence.
In its latest incarnation this violence takes the
form of a concentration camp, built in the desert in the hope that nobody would notice its depravity.
People around the world HAVE noticed and this week we act in solidarity with all those trying to tear down the fence- whether from the inside or the outside.
The action was in solidarity with all those who oppose militarism and with all the victims, past,present and future, of military technologies developed in Woomera.
A testing ground for weapons frequently turned
against the world's poor and a concentration camp
built to imprison those fleeing violence and poverty sit side by side- a perverse joke at the expense of humanity. And all this against a background of violence against the planet, of proposed toxic dumping and uranium mining.
Finally, it must be made clear that if for one week people all over the world focus on the crimes of the Australian government, this in no way excuses other governments. I recognise fully, and oppose vigorously, the similar practices of the British
state.
For an end to all environmental destruction,
For an end to all militarism,
For a world without borders!"
Anyway, love, solidarity and the very best of luck to everyone heading out to Woomera,
Yours for the glorification of (very) petty crime,
:: woomera2002 ::
www.woomera2002.com
fwd: shady customer
Homepage:
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A world without borders??
26.03.2002 23:52
Jack
jawohl mein fuhrer!
27.03.2002 15:16
Anyone read Animal Farm? "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.."
However they twist around to hide it, Jack and his BNP pals can't quite cover up the hatred and racism behind their ideas. They have nothing to offer but hate and war.
internationalist
Homepage:
http://www.anl.org.uk
Animal Farm was about Commies
27.03.2002 22:19
The thins you spout about "all animals being equal except some are more equal than others" is nothing like the truth. I'm saying people aren't the same, which anyone knows, and if they aren't the same they can't have the same things.
Meanwhile you're too busy with the ANaL ranting, comparing the BNP to the Nazis in Germany is an insult to the millions who died in WWII.
But the ANaL love comparing apples and pears, because it suits them electorally. They rely on people's natural disgust for the Nazis in Germany and try and pin that label on a sane nationalist party which is just out to protect British interests.
Don't ever forget though, that more people have died under communist regimes than under the Nazis (including the Holocaust). Yet, do we hear anything about this? Hardly ever. The ANaL is merely a front for the Socialist Workers Party which wants legalised paedophilia (no age of consent), and regularly burn the Union Jack at their meetings showing their true contempt for Britain and the British people!
Who would *you* rather, a bunch of misfits who sympathise with child sex abusers, who dispise and hate the country that's given them so much and the people who live here, and want to flood us with 3rd world poverty despite the fact it's against our national interest.. Or ordinary British people who genuinely want to make a difference in this country for the better (yet are accused all the time of being Nazis in order to scare away the electorate, because our policies are supported by the vast majority of them).
Jack
Animal Farm was about Commies
27.03.2002 22:20
The thins you spout about "all animals being equal except some are more equal than others" is nothing like the truth. I'm saying people aren't the same, which anyone knows, and if they aren't the same they can't have the same things.
Meanwhile you're too busy with the ANaL ranting, comparing the BNP to the Nazis in Germany is an insult to the millions who died in WWII.
But the ANaL love comparing apples and pears, because it suits them electorally. They rely on people's natural disgust for the Nazis in Germany and try and pin that label on a sane nationalist party which is just out to protect British interests.
Don't ever forget though, that more people have died under communist regimes than under the Nazis (including the Holocaust). Yet, do we hear anything about this? Hardly ever. The ANaL is merely a front for the Socialist Workers Party which wants legalised paedophilia (no age of consent), and regularly burn the Union Jack at their meetings showing their true contempt for Britain and the British people!
Who would *you* rather, a bunch of misfits who sympathise with child sex abusers, who dispise and hate the country that's given them so much and the people who live here, and want to flood us with 3rd world poverty despite the fact it's against our national interest.. Or ordinary British people who genuinely want to make a difference in this country for the better (yet are accused all the time of being Nazis in order to scare away the electorate, because our policies are supported by the vast majority of them).
Jack
Fess Up Jack!!
28.03.2002 07:49
THE ONLY GOOD NAZI IS ONE THATS DEAD!!
BASH THE FASH!!
NaziKiller