Jun 6, 2020
Black Lives Matter protest in Sydney, June 6
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Black Lives Matter protest in Sydney, June 6
In case anyone in Australia thought that our cops were even remotely ok. They aren’t. Police Kettled a bunch of peaceful protestors in Sydney central station and then pepper-sprayed them. We aren’t guiltless and this isn’t ok. Black lives matter everywhere. I know it’s easy on Tumblr especially to focus on what’s going on in countries like the US and the UK - it’s easy to get swept up in the noise and the outrage at how people in other countries are struggling and sympathy for them, but remember that we also have our own battles to fight. We aren’t guiltless. Keep an eye on the news, and on social media, listen to other people’s points of view, try to get all the information and then make up your own mind. I’ll be making a few more posts like this - and trying to post more Australia - centric news. Idk if there are any Aussies that follow me, but I think it’s important that this is talked about here, since I haven’t seen anything about this so far. It may just be the people I follow.
Why are so many people fighting in Sydney? Is there police brutality?
Isaac Herzog is visiting from Israel, which has sparked protests amid the "unauthorised protest" ban. The police response has been excessive. Plenty of footage of them bashing people already apprehended and not resisting. Shoving the elderly in order to move them on. Grabbing people who are praying and dragging them along the sidewalk. Completely unnecessary, and I hope they get sued out of their eyeballs.
Thanks protesters
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NICOLE AND I JUST WENT PROTESTING WITH OUR UNI AND OTHER UNIS. WHAT'S HAPPENING
Street violence is the negation of multiculturalism, not its unacceptable face. Multiculturalism is about freedom of speech, of religion, of culture, of participation. It is not simply a description of our ethnic diversity as the Premier may have suggested (''Horrified by protest'', September 16).
If we have children in the streets calling for beheadings, the fault is not of multiculturalism, but of those - all of us - who have not taught, in enough depth, the democratic values of multiculturalism. There is no unacceptable or acceptable version of it. Either it is or it is not.
We are sleeping at the wheel if these aberrations are being taught to children in our midst - aberrations such as fanaticism from all sources.
Paolo Totaro Foundation chairman, NSW Ethnic Affairs Commission, Lovett Bay
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/letters/ignorance-is-the-enemy-that-dwells-within-20120916-260cf.html#ixzz26hbPWFq1