#melbourne protests

Now that the CFMEU has cleared up that it is definitely NOT anti-vax right wing conspiracy nuts, well everything has changed.

This morning, on live TV for hours, we watched a crowd of people walk around and around the Melbourne CBD. Now we were supposed to think they were angry Unionists from the CFMEU. That was doubtful, because, while there was high-vis vests, jackets and shirts by the hundreds, and there were CFMEU hoodies, they didn't all look like tradies. And then there was the list of demands... well the last item on the list of demands about distribution of Vitamins, and Ivermectin that really gave the game away.

Melbourne is really doing it hard right now, and no one can see a clear end, because case numbers, and hospital cases are not declining, and likely won't until vaccinations reach about 70%. Some are angry at Dan Andrews, and some are supporting him.

Meanwhile, today, on Twitter, because of the... protest (??) #FakeTradie has been trending. On Saturday, because of the much rowdier and more violent protests, #AustraliaHasFallen was trending attached to pictures of cute pets, desserts, and fluffy toys, drowning out references to the lockdown.

This is absolute bullshit. They put on a incredible and peaceful event in which no one was arrested (not that if they were it would have been deserved). Yet they are getting dished out a $1600 fine each. 

Sydney made there protest legal so theres no excuse for how Melbourne’s protest was dealt with. The government failed us by punishing the people responsible for organizing the event brining light to a social justice movement decades in the making. 

And by what i am sure is no coincident all of the people getting these fines and POC, specifically Aboriginal people. Who if you are unaware are the indigenous people of Australia, and who are the focus of this BLM movement due to the alarming number of them who die at the hands of our countries police brutality.

This is yet again another act of racial injustice. 

interesting move saying the protests were motivated by ‘hate’. i guess yea, they hate that you’re holding an expo for the industries profiting off the merciless bombing of innocent people. like any fucking decent person should.