March in March

[just_me_karen]

Who is marching in March? I will be.

"March in March Australia 2014 will be three days of peaceful assemblies, non-partisan citizens' marches and rallies at Federal Parliament and around Australia to protest against government decisions that are against the common good of our nation"

There's just so much to protest about, but I think the thing that riles me the most is our governments dehumanising cruelty to refugees.

Or maybe the 800 million payment to Murdoch

Or the nepotism.

Or plain incompetency.

Anyway, I need ideas for my placard. Can anyone help?

I'll have to travel hundreds of kilometres to get to my nearest march, so I want to make it worthwhile.

[just_me_karen]

Good on you, Deb. I hope the turnout is big.

The media is very quiet about it. I guess the ABC is too chicken of losing their funding if they report any negative story. They'll probably have something about Sydney and Melbourne tomorrow.

We had media following us today, but only for country news. They took tons of pics with their long nose cameras.

[debra9275]

we left early but it was a good day. I got the feeling the police weren't expecting the crowd to be so huge. I haven't seen any official figures but I thought the numbers were 20.-30 thousand. We were squashed in like sardines outside the state library and the streets also filled up with people the trams and traffic had to be stopped

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[bluecat*dancing]

Fantastic turn out! Reports are saying around 30,000 people. I was there in spirit.

[debra9275]

It was a great crowd too Blue, all ages were there & there was no trouble

[just_me_karen]

Great pics, Deb.

I'm finished marching for this weekend...until next time. The march I went to today was huge? Comparatively. There were thousands and this time I did not see any NLP banners and not a single redneck 😄

I marched near the front with the big banner, so I got a shady spot while we waited for the rest to march in. There were heaps of great signs, but the ones that made me grin were "tony abbott killed my dolphin" and "tony abbot kicked my dog" lmao

Anyway, I lost my car. I mean, I forgot where I parked it because it was quite a walk to where the march began....and then, when the march finished, I realised my car was parked just 50 metres away. How's that for good luck!

we chanted "no more rabbits!"... Well, I think that's what we were chanting. I couldn't really tell because I was marching next to the drummers. Boy, they were loud. Bongo drums, of course.

Yesterday's surreal moments included having a LNP speaker and LNP marchers..and demanding free "speach". There was also a particularly cranky speaker who blamed tony abbot for adding flouride to her water to give her brain damage haha. Sorry lady, too late.

Todays moment was the children dressed up as fairies...and blaming abbott for killing her dolphin lol!

I met heaps of great people. It was wonderful to discuss issues with people who really think...and best of all, nobody raced up and slapped me every second sentence.

Now I have to head home. I'll ask someone to post my pics.

[donnashuggy]

I enjoyed it although I did go because it was an anti-abbott protest but ended up being a  lot of greens and protests about labor too which to me took away from abbott being the focus. Billy was good and doesn't appear to like gina very much. I will post some of my favourite pics