{"id":25302,"date":"2011-05-16T01:20:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T15:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=25302"},"modified":"2011-05-18T21:07:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T11:07:03","slug":"australian-defence-league-anti-muslim-rally-interrupted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=25302","title":{"rendered":"Australian Defence League Anti-Muslim Rally : Interrupted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that was the rally that <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=25203\">was<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=25020\">wasn&#8217;t<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UZrwSYJyF3k?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In brief, on Sunday approximately 20 or 30 members and supporters of the &#8216;Australian Defence League&#8217; (ADL) gathered at midday at Federation Square. Gathering in opposition were perhaps 1 or 200 or so anti-racists. For about an hour the anti-racists&#8211;gathered under the umbrella of &#8216;The Rally Against Racism and Fascism&#8217;&#8211;listened to a number of speeches, a man singing about how we are all brothers, and the screams and shouts of the ADL.<\/p>\n<p>Vision of both sides can be found elsewhere on the web, but the featured speaker for the ADL was not, surprisingly, the Londoner Martin Brennan (parachuted in, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lrkbQzUID_A\">EDL leader<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopenothate.org.uk\/features\/article\/26\/the-bnp-past-of-the-edl-leader\">Stephen Yaxley-Lennon<\/a>&#8216;s blessing, to take charge of the incompetent Australians) but some other bloke. I dunno what he was on about&#8211;quite a lot judging by the array of placards he&#8217;d placed in front of his impromptu platform.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after an hour so, it was decided that it was probably time for the Englishman to lead the defensive Australians in a retreat from the Square. And so, after some five or so minutes of pushing, the ADL was evicted.<\/p>\n<p>And that was pretty much it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lrkbQzUID_A?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not an auspicious beginning to Martin&#8217;s plan to whip the convicts into shape, but certainly an improvement upon the (other) ADL&#8217;s attempt to stand about the steps of Flinders Street Station in April last year. Nobody was arrested and nobody was injured (that I know of) although one older woman&#8211;I think there to protest the ADL&#8211;was jostled and quite upset when she was finally able to make her way out from the brief melee. Presumably, if he doesn&#8217;t piss off back to London, Martin will rally his followers again at some point, and the cycle will be repeated.<\/p>\n<p>Props to all those who took a public stand against the ADL&#8217;s bigotry, ignorance and rampant paranoia; the <em>Herald Sun<\/em> has a report&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/protesters-clash-at-anti-muslim-rally-in-melbourne\/story-e6frf7jo-1226056365048\">Protesters clash at anti-Muslim rally in Melbourne<\/a>, John Masanauskas, May 16, 2011&#8211;and presumably there&#8217;ll be others in the days ahead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indymedia.org.au\/2011\/05\/16\/counter-demonstration-against-fascist-rally-federation-square-15-may-2011\">Counter-demonstration against Fascist rally &#8211; Federation Square<\/a>, peter, Indymedia Australia, May 16, 2011 | <a href=\"https:\/\/melbourneprotests.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/brennan.jpg\">Photo of Martin Brennan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_XLxL5xIl-m8\/TAhB0C6SmcI\/AAAAAAAADOQ\/E2WbG2wF90Y\/s320\/heilengland.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also: Derryn Hinch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that was the rally that was. Or wasn&#8217;t. In brief, on Sunday approximately 20 or 30 members and supporters of the &#8216;Australian Defence League&#8217; (ADL) gathered at midday at Federation Square. Gathering in opposition were perhaps 1 or 200 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=25302\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1218,651,1217],"class_list":["post-25302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-fascism","tag-adl-rally-may-15","tag-australian-defence-league","tag-martin-brennan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-6A6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25302"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25379,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25302\/revisions\/25379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}