3 'stop vsu' snap actions in one day

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so, first we occupied the liberal party sydney headquarters for an hour at 10am [14 of us inititally but one got dragged off and we weren't able to stop them :(]

us watching the 'big shots' leaving to call the cops

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bina fixing her bra :P

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cops starting to come in

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cops getting agro when we wouldnt leave

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after they finally booted us, waiting for the lift

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laughing afterwards in the lobby at some stupid stupid things the cops said

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cop getting angry cos we wouldnt leave the building [even tho we'd left the offices]

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filming stuff in case we needed footage later for the media

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second action! this time a picket in front of the pm's office

gotta dash, will post more photos soon

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eurgh, got busted by boss for using the internet at work :( anywhos..

quickly done posters

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holding up banners

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lotsa chalksing

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struggling with more banners!

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media

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cops look like theyre having fun..

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us having a discussion after the lunchtime picket after we heard that senators had done dirty deals and were gonna push vsu through in the next 3 hours

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cops trying to listen to our discussion before we moved away :P

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third [and best!] action

i can't get enough of chalk... :(

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they made me wash off the 'fuck' afterwards - threatened to arrest me even. until i told them that there was precedent in australia that 'fuck' isn't actually a curse word :)

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banners and signs, people actually stopped to talk to us!

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did i mention we also bandaged ourselves up?

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more

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..

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thats the intersection we took over for a short period of time :)

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paintin'

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product of teh paintin'

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it's a die-in!

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and they just keep dropping dead

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when will they stop?

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not any time soon, it seems!

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grrr i wanted to get pics of the smelly pigs trying to break the blockade but this dude shoved his video camera in my hands and asked me if i could film it all [in case we needed it later] and then ran away to try and pull the cops off our mates. why meeeee though, when i clearly had a camera in my hand?? why not any of the other 10 people around me??

anyways enough whingin'

us getting moved along

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all fun n stuff

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yayy

a lot of these photos were taken after we found out theyd put the legislation through.. at first i was really upset and angry, then i just got angry and inspired that everyone was talking about continuing doing actions to try and get individual unis to not implement vsu

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even so, people still looked worried :( look at the number of hands to mouths/chests :P

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hehe

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;)

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he tried to paint my whole face red :P


anywhos, i took about 140 photos and 15 movie clips, but obviously couldnt upload them all.

enjoy!