Sydney Independent Media Centre South Sydney Council Lobbied for Embassy Support by andrew connor 8:18am Wed Aug 16 '00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sydney Community Members protest silently at Council chambers. Sydney Community members turned out for a closed South Sydney Council Meeting tonight (August 16, 2000) in order to lodge a silent protest in support of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy that has resided in Victoria Park for the past month. Embassy supporters entered the Council Chambers, standing and sitting in silence, holding up pro-Embassy placards, and then left the meeting after approximately thirty minutes, relocating to the front steps of the Council hall in order to chant in support of the Embassy. Tomorrow morning the Council will seek an injunction in the New South Wales Land and Environment Court in an effort to evict the embassy from the Park. They have stated that they will employ police to remove forcibly the 40-tent camp if its members fail to comply with the pending eviction. Embassy members say that they do not plan to leave willingly. "The purpose of the demonstration was to show the Mayor that there are people in this community who do support the Embassy in Victoria Park" said Sydney University Indigenous Student Officer and Embassy resident, Laura-Lee Stuart. "He's not going to go through with this without a fight...People in this community support this cause". -- ********************************** 'Click' to protect the rainforest: Make the Rainforest Site your homepage! http://www.therainforestsite.com/ ********************************** ------------------------------------------------------ RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/
