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Greetings From Tallarook

So I didn’t get the backlog killed before I left. Not even close. But hey, I’ve made ground! (*eyeroll*)

And now I’m out here, I realise the whole thing probably doesn’t matter as much as I thought it did. There are, I guess, conceivably worse things than confronting the mythical apocalypse with a chaotic media archive and a delinquent blog.

First view of CG Fest proper

CG Fest was good, although I spent most of it sloughing off accumulated stress and sleep deprivation.

Ox Montalvo + The Truck + contraband gas stove

Maybe it’s just the delirium, but I’m quite unreasonably thrilled by the fact that my home for the next week and a half is this hut, whose previous occupant over the weekend was none other than Ella Hooper:

My hut at Commonground

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Wikileaks US Consulate Sit-In IV

Monday, 26th November.

Best. (Previously, previouser, previest.)

FB photo album. Compilation of my videos (and one of Moo’s):

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Blog, You’re Fucking Torturing Me

This #$% backlog is proving so. fucking. hard. to make myself clear.

Hate. #AvoidanceDeadlockHell #RidiculousSelfCreatedProblems

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Wikileaks US Consulate Sit-In III

Friday, 26th October.

(Previously; previouslyer.)

It’s always about upping the ante – but due to unforseen circumstances, this one wound up being an unexpectedly massive clusterfuck.

WACA press release. Herald Sun coverage.

Bedlam’s vid of the main action:

Compilation of videos I shot in the Consulate lobby (my phone ran out of space just before we got dragged out):

FB post alluding to what happened after that:

And to close with some comic relief, here’s a video of Brother Lutz getting threatened with arrest out the front of the building for being an enemy of the state dropping a cigarette butt:

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MCN Redux + Edinburgh Gardens With Ben, Sara, Kylee, Etc

Friday 19th + Saturday 20th October.

MCN (Redux): Kum Den

MCN (Redux): Sara, Kylee, Carina, Kenji

MCN (Redux): Ben, Kenji, Amy, Sara

Ediburgh Gdns w/ Ben, Sara, Kylee etc

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Wikileaks US Consulate Sit-In (Redux)

Enemies of the state, apparently.

My video tweets. FB photo album.

Sean’s video:

Lutz’s video (feat. special guest star Noam Chomsky):

Kenji’s video (the attention of concerned friends and/or state-violence-porn afficianados is particularly directed to about the nine minute mark):

(Previously.)

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I Wrote A Poem Of Sorts

I was wondering
If I could get some kind of receipt
For all of the time and energy I have invested
In seeking to address and resolve
The bizarre interrelational dysfunctions of my family
And send it in to the universe for a refund.

Imagine what I could do
With all of that time and energy.

I could no doubt singlehandedly overthrow the 1%
And still have enough left over
To build a sizeable self-sustaining base on the moon
With my bare hands.

Oh, the things I could do.

And yet we must pursue the projects
Which are important and meaningful to us
Must we not.

*eye twitch*

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Bradley Manning Actions At The US Consulate

Thursday 5th & Friday 6th September.

There’s nothing like being literally dragged out of a building by cops in the name of justice to take your mind off things.

#FREEBRAD!

Brief videos I shot of Thursday’s occupation out the front:

And of Sam and Sara getting dragged out on Friday (when nine of us actually got inside, thanks to the genius strategy of not discussing plans in advance on F#$book):

Bedlam’s take on the whole thing:

UPDATE – And Kenji’s:

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Sparkle Party

Saturday 21st – Sunday 22nd July.

FB Photo album / photo archive.

Sparkle Party: Self

Sparkle Party: Kel

Sparkle Party: Sara

UPDATE (11th Sept 2015): I found these two pieces of audio, captured on the road to Sparkle Party in Sara’s truck at 6:15pm and 7:40pm respectively:

Sparkle Party

Sparkle Party: We survived

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Overnight Occupy Tuesday #9

OO Tuesday #9: Chalkage by Yikes

OO Tuesday #9

Cardboard cutout of Napoleon sighted on the balcony of Robert Doyle‘s office at Town Hall in the early hours of the morning:

OO Tuesday #9: Napoleon

Mindblowingly idiotic three-part council raid:

Breakfast at the Salvos on Bourke St:

OO Tuesday #9: Breakfast at the Salvos

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Overnight Occupy Tuesday #7

OO Tuesday #7: These Jokes Just Write Themselves

OO Tuesday #7: OM Reflects

OO Tuesday #7: Milkcrate

OO Tuesday #7: Troy, Warren & Carina

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The Occuparty

Saturday, 31st March / Sunday, 1st April.

This long-awaited and much-anticipated function at James Muldoon’s house to celebrate the scheduled end of OM’s as-it-turned-out-not-actually-finished-yet Federal Court litigation against Melbourne City Council was – perhaps predictably – a clusterfuck. But perfectly so.

I was late and missed most of it except the disastrous conclusion and surreal, prolonged aftermath. Not much media was captured, or at least not by me.

(UPDATE (11th Sept 2015): I found two pieces of audio. This one, captured at 2:15am on my way to Muldoon’s, and the one at the foot of this post, captured at 5:33am at Golden Towers in the city:)

All I have is notes:

Occuparty notes

I’m particularly sad I didn’t manage, despite trying, to record Cobina’s unforgettable trashed mic check after everyone was chucked out of Muldoon’s house at around 3am (“DOES THE COLLECTIVE / WISH TO PRIORITIZE / FOOD, OR ALCOHOL? / WE SHOULD MAKE A DECISION / AND PROCEED ON THAT BASIS. / YOU ARE ALL FUCKED. / YOU ARE ALL. FUCKED.”) – leaving a horde of feral occupiers running amok on the streets of Brunswick unable to reach consensus, and ultimately sitting stubbornly for hours and hours by the side of Sydney Rd throughout the night for no particular reason except that, y’know, that’s what occupiers do.

Here’s a photo I took during said sit-in at around 5am (the sign at the top, which you can’t read due to overexposure, said “WHELAN: THE WRECKER”. This seemed profoundly meaningful or at least funny at the time):

WHELAN: THE WRECKER

And here’s a photo of chalkage done by Kenji at City Square, where the two of us ultimately wound up, compass-like, at 7am:

CONFORITY IS THE ANTITHEIS OF FREEDOM

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OM General Assembly #39

Barack Obama has killed more children with drones than all other Nobel Peace Prize winners combined

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Tentmonster Rally

Saturday, 10th December.

56 Days (to infinity and beyond)

Footage of (failed) police raid the same night here (207 MB).

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OM @ Treasury Gardens, Continued

Thursday, 17th November.

OM @ Treasury Gardens, 17th Nov 2011: I am here because the world is in crisis, and no government will take responsibility.

EVERYTHING IS OKAY

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