I’m having an interesting time trawling virtual and dusty papers from that fun period of 2002 - 2006 when immigration detention activism was all the rage. Do any readers know of/have any critiques from that time (within loosely ‘anti-detention’ activism/debates) regarding the work of groups like ChilOut and the Circles of Friends?
I received the email below today which is funny for all sorts of reasons, not least that I had intended to go here today to protest the Mexican Government’s recent attacks on Zapatista territory; this also being the day that these protests were held.
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:49:52 -0600
From: Australian_Embassy_Mexico_City@dfat.gov.au
To: Undisclosed Recipients
Reply-to: embaustmex@yahoo.com.mx
Subject: AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL ELECTION - 24 NOVEMBER 2007 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] (more…)
The strike is on today, and the streets are nervy-quiet. A good time and space to read a non right-wing analysis of what is going on politically in Bolivia at the moment. You should do it too if you’re interested, and especially if you’re reading news of Bolivia and getting the impression that Evo Morales’ government is a Murderous Dictatorship and The People are rising up against him. Because of course … things are more invested, more complicated, than that.
As you can see from this image of police and protester interaction at the G20 protests in 2006, having some notion of how one might minimise the negative effects of this interaction would NEVER be part of any protester’s preparations for APEC.
PS. OMG! Rayte my fenz!!1!1!
*Of course, by TMK I mean Those Meddling Kids, as last seen here - not Trupat e Mbrojtjes së Kosovës.
** Mujeres Creando, protesting the pimp state.
How strangely wonderful to see, in the SMH, some actual analysis of the policing of protest in Sydney. So close to APEC, and all.
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