Hello fellow activists, unionistws, students performers and friends. Just thought I'd let you know about some radical street theatre some people organised from the Peace Office a bit over a week a ago. We dressed up as fairies and military oppressors, got lots of condoms, lollies, magic wands etc and jumped on a tram. We ripped down the sexist corporate advertising in the tram and stuck up peace concert flyers. We started persecuting each other for not having a ticket, then the persecutee would espouse the values of free public transport. We had a 'goddess of pleasure', 'goddess oif pain' theme. Obviously the godess of pleasure would tell everyone they didn't need to buy a ticket, and the goddess of pain would do the reverse. We got to centerrelink, threw around condoms and lollies and handed out breach immunity cards and forms entitling people to 12mths obligation free benefits. In reality these were flyers explaining people's rights. The goddess of pleasure told everyone they had value as human beings, and would no longer have to wait in boring lines and bow down to Centrelink. The staff turned the alarm on, then turned on elevator music at mega volume, which provided more inspiration for comedy "Oh no, anything but that boring elevator music, please anything but that torture. The staff soon kicked us out but we stood out the fron handing out flyers and lollies and condoms. Many 'customers' were smiling, in fact, everyone who came out of the centrelink came out smiling.
Look forward to more of the same soon. I'll let you all know. The video night at the peace office proved an excellent recruiting ground for this action so thanks heaps to everyone who organised that, and to everyone who helped support the peace office! By the way, the Peace Vigil at the 8 hour monument looks like it may fold soon due to Jim from the socialist party {he almost went AWOL, in fact he has gone AWOL from his party who don't support the Peace Vigil, he just hasn't renounced his socialist party, trotskyist, leninist ways yet but who cares? actions speak louder than ideologies I say.} going to England to try and start a peace vigil there, may mother earth take care of him. So I guess Leigh Hubbard won't have to look down on those messy tents for too much longer. Everyone should know he called us 'silly' to the Herald Sun when we were at the state library for not negotiating with the library and not moving to the 8 hour monument. Anyway, here's hoping activists can get their shit together, stop fighting each other anbuild on the fun, inclusive, positive supportive movements, networks, actions that we already have going. so we can try to save humanity, the earth and all the species on it. Yours in solidarity, Caspar Cumming Victorian Tafe Students and Apprentices Network President Office: 2nd Floor, New Building, Trades Hall {rear} 54 Victoria St, Carlton South, 3053. Postal Address: Box 49, Trades Hall, 54 Victoria St, Carlton South, 3053 Ph: {03} 96396442 Fax: {03} 96396448 Mobile: 0401839340 . -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink