27th of June Cancelled
Three months ago hundreds of us marched on our nations capital, Canberra. Given the pass-the-hat budget, and the mainstream media driven publicity we attained to the cause of free speech in Australia, this was a mamoth achievement. Three months ago we also could not foretell what was to come on the day we scheduled our next series of national rallies across the nation.
Two days ago several large unions answered the call of a large push online to demonstrate in all capitals regarding the situation in Iran, as this is an emergent issue and was unexpected, and given the climate that the police in all capitals will be dealing with having so many people demonstrating it has been decided that the 27th protest shall be called off out of respect for those who have died in Iran and those who support the democratic process.
As the dust clears from these rallies we will, of course, regroup and recommence rallying. In the interim ongoing lobbying has been underway at all levels, from the street, to Canberra itself. The pro-censorship lobby have been awfully silent though, but we all know they won’t accept rationalism that easily.
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