They are planning another rally on Oct 19. Various locations have already announced counter rallies.
It is very important you turn up and bring along friends. If you can’t make it, then make sure that other people do. Not just social media posts either.
These Nazi-run rallies are particularly dangerous because the capitalise on a real, valid anger towards our government. If we allow them to grow unchallenged, bigots will continue to be embolded. There were many reports of people being opportunisticly harassed after last rally, so if we don’t outnumber them, they’ll do that again. If you don’t help your community to squash this, it will grow. We’re at a great moment where we can still stop this peacefully. Seize this moment while we have it.
Don’t just show up, bring along friends. And if you see me handing out fliers for the counter rally, tell me you’re bringing along friends! We can all use a smile :)
Yes but I wasn’t talking about that. I was referring to the many smaller cases of individuals or small groups opportunistically harassing people on public transport, in parks, etc., which can easily be prevented just by having more people around to remove that opportunity. Simply attending the counter rally helps.
If we’re aiming to prevent an premeditated gang of dozens from going out of their way to terrorise a peaceful camp, we’ll need an organised force with fighting experience, or an even larger group able to mobilise rapidly. That’s absolutely possible, we saw that Melbourne has the roots for building such a force, but it’s a tougher challenge which involves more than just the regular public showing up.
It’s like Reclaim Australia and all the other attempts of fascists to try and host nationalist anti-immigration rallies. We gave them an inch. Now they’ll try and make these happen every month.
They are planning another rally on Oct 19. Various locations have already announced counter rallies.
I heard on the grapevine that PAG have agreed to join the Sydney counterrally this time instead of holding their Palestine march separately. Last time was a letdown when they split the counterprotest.
A couple of coworkers were talking at the pub about the nazis at the March for Australia so I’ll try and convince them to come along this time.
A couple of coworkers were talking at the pub about the nazis at the March for Australia so I’ll try and convince them to come along this time.
Good luck! We need everyone we can get. And with a bit of luck, the social media effect grows exponentially as friends tell friends to tell friends, just like with the March for Humanity.
They are planning another rally on Oct 19. Various locations have already announced counter rallies.
It is very important you turn up and bring along friends. If you can’t make it, then make sure that other people do. Not just social media posts either.
These Nazi-run rallies are particularly dangerous because the capitalise on a real, valid anger towards our government. If we allow them to grow unchallenged, bigots will continue to be embolded. There were many reports of people being opportunisticly harassed after last rally, so if we don’t outnumber them, they’ll do that again. If you don’t help your community to squash this, it will grow. We’re at a great moment where we can still stop this peacefully. Seize this moment while we have it.
Don’t just show up, bring along friends. And if you see me handing out fliers for the counter rally, tell me you’re bringing along friends! We can all use a smile :)
I would daresay what happened at Camp Sovereignty was a bit more than mere harassment.
Yes but I wasn’t talking about that. I was referring to the many smaller cases of individuals or small groups opportunistically harassing people on public transport, in parks, etc., which can easily be prevented just by having more people around to remove that opportunity. Simply attending the counter rally helps.
If we’re aiming to prevent an premeditated gang of dozens from going out of their way to terrorise a peaceful camp, we’ll need an organised force with fighting experience, or an even larger group able to mobilise rapidly. That’s absolutely possible, we saw that Melbourne has the roots for building such a force, but it’s a tougher challenge which involves more than just the regular public showing up.
It’s like Reclaim Australia and all the other attempts of fascists to try and host nationalist anti-immigration rallies. We gave them an inch. Now they’ll try and make these happen every month.
I heard on the grapevine that PAG have agreed to join the Sydney counterrally this time instead of holding their Palestine march separately. Last time was a letdown when they split the counterprotest.
A couple of coworkers were talking at the pub about the nazis at the March for Australia so I’ll try and convince them to come along this time.
Good luck! We need everyone we can get. And with a bit of luck, the social media effect grows exponentially as friends tell friends to tell friends, just like with the March for Humanity.
Amusingly, and this might be partly because on my screen “fascists” lined up just below it, at first I read this as "Racists Australia’.