Picket Knitters

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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/east/picket-knitters-create-11m-banner-saying-maccas-still-not-we...

THREE months of knitting squares in protest against Tecoma McDonald’s has produced an 11m long banner – which could end up in a museum.

More than 20 Picket Knitters have kept a vigil at the construction site, knitting a whopping 138 squares made up of 150,000 stitches.

The squares have been made into a banner which reads: “Maccas still not welcome in Tecoma”.

No Macca’s in the Dandenong Ranges spokesman Garry Muratore said it could potentially be displayed at the Museum of Public Democracy in Ballarat, ­before being unpicked and turned into blankets for the homeless.

The group of predominantly knitting nanas has been keeping vigil at the site for the past six months.

But three months ago they decided to knit same-sized squares and combine their efforts to produce something to symbolise their protest.

On January 30, the Picket Knitters stood in front of the construction site to display the banner.

Although the project is completed, they haven’t downed needles, and are back at their post furiously clicking for the cause – still producing squares.

Mr Muratore said the protesters would be attending a public meeting on March 2, at the Tecoma Primary School, to discuss the “next stage of strategy”.

Meanwhile the skeleton of the McDonald’s outlet has already been constructed.

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Just went through Tecoma........one protester there, although not sure he was prostesting, as he was standing on the curb opposite the site waving to everyone that went past.............only posters that live in the hills or around about will know this person probably. The single person was.......

Baba Desi.........dressed all in white.

I know he has been with groups of protestors and is defnitely against McDonalds.........but where were the rest of them?

Also. once McDonalds eventually open, they also have plans for Sassafras, and Monbulk.

Strange that they wanted to build in Healsville, and got knocked back, so not building there now.

[bluecat*dancing]

They might have been near either or both of the entrances in Sandells Rd and Walter[ ?] St. The amount of people vary depending upon work hours, school hours, health issues etc but there is always someone there during daylight hours. Baba Desi always adds a bit of colour wherever he may be.

[purple_haize]

Baba Desi has some colourful outfits, that is for sure.

Yes, no doubt the other protesters were about somewhere, this was at 10.30 that we went through Tecoma.

[jimmy*part4]

Day 3 of no McDonalds! And you know how us Americans just love it!

Lining up by the hundreds!!!