{"id":41479,"date":"2017-06-25T18:58:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T08:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=41479"},"modified":"2017-06-26T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T06:43:09","slug":"australian-pride-flagwit-rally-june-25-2017-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=41479","title":{"rendered":"Australian Pride \/\/\/ Flagwit Rally, June 25, 2017 : Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAbove<\/strong> : A choice poster from the Carlton Gardens.<\/p>\n

The Melton-based grouplet True Blue Crew (TBC) organised an ‘Australian Pride’ rally<\/a> in Melbourne today; the Campaign Against Racism & Fascism in conjunction with No Room For Racism organised a counter-rally to oppose it.<\/p>\n

In brief:<\/p>\n

About 100 or so fascists (possibly fewer, and mostly familiar faces), assembled in Carlton Gardens at approximately 11am, near the corner of Victoria & Rathdowne streets, as did a larger counter-protest nearby (and closer to the intersection). Several hundred police were also present, separating the two groups and otherwise maintaining a presence in the Gardens. After half-an hour or so of milling about and shouting, the fascists made their way to the Gardens near the corner of Victoria & Nicholson streets. With several hundred police reinforcements, they then marched up Nicholson onto Spring street before assembling in front of the Parliament — the counter-rally tried to follow but was blocked by police and forced to approach Parliament up Bourke street, before again being blocked by a police line at the corner of Bourke & Spring streets.<\/p>\n

For maybe 30 minutes or so the fascists chanted, sang an awful rendition of the STRAYAN anthem (stopping after the first verse — lol), while also being treated to some speechifying by United Patriots Front (UPF) fuehrer Blair ‘A picture of Adolf Hitler in every Australian classroom!’<\/a> Cottrell and his sidekick, Li’l Tommy Sewell. (On a brighter note, the patriotik dregs were also treated to ‘77%’ by The Herd, which was blasting from the counter-rally.) The fascists were then marched by police back the way they came, up Nicholson street and to the Gardens, at which point they dispersed. The counter-rally was blocked by police from returning to the Gardens and at some point police used pepper spray (near the corner of Russell & Lonsdale streets), which affected maybe 10 or more individuals.<\/p>\n

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Unbelievable protests in the city. Anti-racism left marching & running through city streets crippling traffic. @9NewsMelb<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/vqTBXhSWFN<\/a><\/p>\n

— Laura Spurway (@laura_spurway) June 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n