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Occupy Brisbane, or not…. Part 1
People would be familiar with the Occupy movement which started on Wall St and spread via social networking to a city near you. Including, to my fair city, Brisbane, Australia.
It just so happens, that I walk past this spot on my way to work most mornings, so I took a few pictures to show you what it really looks like, on an average day (without the promise of a news crew and time to assemble a rent-a-crowd.) Those who believe in genuine demonstrations or who have weak tickers, look away now.
View from the Adelaide St footbridge
With so much traffic in the general vicinity, anyone with a bit of chutzpah would be able to do something with a good cause….
So, what's the cause, again? And why is there no-one around to give information at peak rush-hour?
To be fair, read the helpful sign. This cause is about the 99% of us who are apparently represented by this group, except that all of us are on our way to work, except them.
Wow. That's lots of people. (Not).
Occupy Brisbane, Part 3. In honour of the Queen’s visit.
Possibly in honour of the crowds drawn into the city today, on occasion of Her Majesty’s visit, Brisbane’s Occupiers found some friends and pitched a few more tents. They probably, very nearly reached the overly generous estimate of 40 tents, which I published yesterday. They also kindly put out some new signs for me to photograph today and most generously did not display the offensive anti-American anti-Jewish sign of last week. So, everyone’s happy. More or less.
Great juxtaposition.
The Occupiers' camp-craft could do with some up-skilling. They wouldn't survive in the wild.
Art lessons for those who hate cats.
Why are animals going extinct? (Why is literacy dead?)
Nice, for cannibals.
Now I get it. The signs were written by science students. (Where are the arts students? CHOGM?)