Monday, June 19, 2006
CARTOON HAULERS OFFERED CAREER ADVICE
Australian Indymedia covers a powerful demonstration:
Thanks to Melbourne cartoonist Michael Leunig, the guileless figure of My Curly, seated in a barbed-wire boat, led marchers through Fitzroy to mark World refugee Day ...

At right, a spectator searches frantically for cyanide capsules. The report continues:
Along the route people’s responses were generally very positive, with applause and shouts of encouragement, the only exception two men who emerged from a laneway of Gertude Street to shout “Get a job” and “Send ‘em all back”.
This happened in Fitzroy, a Melbourne suburb so left-soaked that Berkeley appears almost Rovian by comparison. The infiltration continues.
(Via Dan L.)