Sunday 23 October 2011

Conflicted thoughts: on Occupy Melbourne

How do you describe your own conflict at witnessing a movement whose goals are sound enough to be reflected in populist actions globally, yet whose local expression and ‘methods’ for achieving them are so farcically flawed that you cringe to align yourself with their ideological braying? Even parochially?
Like just such an ass, Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle (backed by Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu) outdid the stupidity of even the dumbest, least-informed Occupy Melbourne protestor by sending in a TRG police unit and mounted police to evict peaceful protestors from City Square early last Friday, 21/10/2011.
For righteous ranting specifically designed to entertain, you’re better off heading to Geoff Lemon’s Heathen Scripture blog entry, where Doyle gets the serve he certainly deserves, with the customary vitriolic verbal pyrotechnics. Subtle Geoff is not; entertaining, he is. /Yodacadence
I’ll get onto my thoughts about the City’s response in a bit, but first I want to look at the limitations of the Occupy movement in the Australian context and ask, like several others did, here and here: do we need to express the Occupy ideals in this country at all? (for the purposes of this discussion taking Wall Street as the prototypical case, even if Spain’s protest has been running longer).
Are we really the 99%..?
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(Thanx Chris!)

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