Category Archives: Perseverence
Keith! Party At The Empress
Filed under :), Adversity, Art, Awesomeness, Bittersweetness, Music, People, Perseverence, Photos
Occupy Saturday / General Assembly #64
This one actually happened (previously), despite being relocated to Fed Square due to inclement weather. And it was good.
Filed under :), Occupy, Perseverence, Photos
“Occupy Saturday” #1
Filed under Awesome Trees, Failure, Occupy, Perseverence, Photos
Overnight Occupy Tuesday #1
Filed under Autonomous Action, Chalk, Not Dead, Occupy, OO Tuesday, Perseverence, Photos
Three Day Occupation
Monday 7th – Thursday 10th May.
And it was great.
Day 1:
Day 2:
Day 3:
Morning after night 3:
Filed under :), Are You Hungry, Autonomous Action, Chalk, Milkcrates, Occupy, People, Perseverence, Photos
Occupy Friday #18
Filed under :), Boogie Fever, Chalk, Current Affairs, Liable For Nothing, Life Is Okay, Music, Occupy, Occupy Friday, People, Perseverence, Photos, Video, YouTube
May Day
Filed under :), Awesomeness, Chalk, Chaos, Occupy, Perseverence, Photos, w0ot
Final Pre-May Day Haymarket Collective Meeting At Saxton’s House
Filed under :), Being A Cunt To Schmobos, Occupy, Perseverence, Photos
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:
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):
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:
Filed under Adversity, Being A Cunt To Schmobos, Bittersweetness, Chalk, Chaos, Confority Is The Antitheis Of Freedom, Delirium, Desperation, Destruction, Discombobulation, Dreams, Drugs, Drunkenness, Evil, Exhaustion, Goodbyes, Hate, Mentalism, Night Time, Occupy, People, Perseverence, Photos, Sadness, The Liberator Who Destroyed My Property Has Realigned My Perceptions, Utopia, Fantasy & Reality In Radical Politics, Whack
OM Fed Court Hearing, Day 1
Filed under Occupy, Perseverence, Photos
Filed under Chalk, Damage Control, Occupy, People, Perseverence, Photos
Melbourne Free Uni @ City Square (Redux)
“Utopia, Fantasy & Reality In Radical Politics”.
Overnight Occupier’s Guidelines drafted by me in consultation with the OOWG at around this time.