Post game report
Yeah -where's the post-raid?
OH, all right!
The big recruitment effort netted us about 5 actual protesters that were completely new. We had about 20 all up. But the raid was fun and I think the newbies will be back. A few more joined in as we passed the Broadway shopping centre near the AO, about 5 more but they didn't stay for that long.
We tried a new route down Oxford St and Crown St. For non Sydneysiders, these are busy streets close to the CBD. Oxford St is the gay area. We made a few stops at busy intersections for 15-20 min to wave signs at the cars and hand out flyers. The pace was good. No time to get bored and have people wandering off. Public response was good.
Then we spent half an hour at Hercules St warehouse in the back lane. Pretty uneventful. A security guard came and sat in his car for most of the time. A couple of people came along and walked into the org. They would not engage in conversation.
Then the walk down Broadway to the AO. The group was pretty lively. The coffee incident made it a bit livlier. They had a couple Scn security guards at the front door. Every window was closed and blinds shut. They had VERY loud music blaring to drown us out. After about 20 minutes, the cops arrived. They looked really bored and sauntered slowly down the street. A couple of anons went to talk to them, then they went over and had the Scilons turn off the blaring music.
They also took flyers.
Tojo (DSA Syd org) came out when I was speaking, so I went to talk to him for about 45 min. I am spoon feeding him truth. Someone from the dance studio came out and asked us to move across the street so the kids could walk down that side, (narrow footpaths) so we moved over to the demonstrators side, essentially adding one more body to the protest.
Then we all went to the pub, except for Tojo and the security guards. Perhaps they will be joining us sometime down the line.
I took a bit of video. I'll try to get that up tomorrow. Zhent was very busy at Uni so couldn't work his usual magic with the video.
Malcolm, however, is faster off the draw and has his pictures posted.
http://www.zooomr.com/malcolmwolf/statuses/3726526f41
Don't know why he still bothers. No-one cares.
