Ok, so there are probably a few thousand of us, maybe hundreds of thousands that clinically depressed over the new 'terrorist' laws, IR reforms, and to a lesser extent VSU ( that is just another tactic to place a stop on left wing political activity). What can we do ? Lostpunk you talk about 'needing an option for abortion midterm' but there is one - the GG can sack the current government at any time, although this is nearly impossible, if there was enough revolt against what was happening, then a possibility may exist to utilise this. But the fact you mentioned this is kinda sad in its own way because you are cutting dead at the lines of the red tape when looking for options to a solution, or an alternative to the current government.
In Venezuela just recently a workers revolution has erupted with workers defying their boses, creating their own legitimate unions and refusing to work until pay and conditions are improved. They currently run under a similar system to what we would be changing to. The point is that the workers gained control of what was theirs
through people power.
We deserve the changes and the IR refroms, because we refuse to make a stand and do anythign about it. I went to a protest in Sydney against the Forbes conference, which was headed by Steve Forbes who is the owner of Forbes magazine and huge supporter of empowering employers, and it was quite obvious that he was in Australia to give advice on the reforms, yet there was more police than protesters.
The same can be said about turning Australia into a police state. There is no unified voice showing protest against the attack and theft of our civil liberties made in the name of a war that we never wanted, and was not even recognised internationaly as legal.
We complain as we sit on our lazy, full, comfortable arses behind our computer screens and slowly watch our country be warped and manipulated into an authoritarians dream state. Yes sir, no sir! We are far more powerful than what we give ourselves credit for, and instead of attempting to create something more powerful and meaningful, and actually stand up for rights that we worked so long to gain, we sit and sigh and moan and watch them be taken by people we hate.
It repulses me. The state of this country repulses you. Why are you sitting there then and allowing it turn this way ? Talk of running away, killing ourselves, killing others ? Do you not care for the generations that will precede us, your children, and if not, what about yourselves?
Seriously we are fucked. And the more time we spend talking about, the less we are doing about it.
DON'T BE SILENCED! DEFEND CIVIL RIGHTS, MUSLIMS, BRING THE TROOPS HOME- 12 noon NOVEMBER 5 @ BELMORE PARK, SYDNEY, opp. Central station
http://www.stopwarcoalition.org/
http://www.30a.org/
http://au.geocities.com/stop_vsu/
Get involved. Write letters. Stage Protest. Burn things. Promote Anarchy.