Posts Tagged ‘Alastair’s real-life revolutionary activity’
On selling revolutionary papers in Dunedin
Dunedin is a good place to do paper sales. This has always struck me as being quite interesting, considering the relatively low level of political activism and class struggle here compared to other centres. Whenever I hit the streets in my Karl Marx t-shirt (with the words “I’d rather have a revolution than a Labour government” written on it) and a stack of Sparks, I end up selling quite a few and getting a lot of positive responses.
I did a paper sale today with a comrade from Christchurch called Phil, who’s in town for a week or so. After a few initial probems (I always get messed up on Saturday thanks to the bus timetables being different to during the week… I have no excuses, I’m just bad with stuff like that!), we met up in the wee alleyway between George St and the New World shopping centre to sell our papers, hand out leaflets with the Workers Party election manifesto on them and generally preach the good news to people walking by.
Cops off Campus video
Video of the Cops off Campus protest earlier today. Sadly I only appear in passing and you don’t get to see or hear my brilliant chant leading, but hey, at least you get to see the protest. That counts for something.
Dunedin – Cops off Campus protest
(I’ll have pictures of the protest up here soon, and hopefully video footage of it too. Watch this space…)
Today at 2pm, about 100 people assembled on a cold, grey and drizzly day to protest against the presence of plainclothes police on Otago University campus, the arrests of NORML activists by the previously mentioned undercover police, and the increasingly frequent use of Campus Watch, Campus Cops and the police to crack down on political activism, dissent and civil disobedience.
