Well, according to the incredibly limited media coverage (more interested in the fear and loathing of what might happen) there were only 1500 people at the march yesterday. I beg to differ (the video clip below doesn’t seem to show up in Bloglines so you’ll have to visit this post to see it)…
Was a good way to spend a Friday afternoon, with a great bunch of people, here’s hoping there’s no trouble this weekend.
Good stuff! The kind of mainstream TV and newspaper coverage we get is generally quite sensationalist, and not particualrly interested in showing the good work done by many Australians to counter racism.
[...] Today, my blogpal, James Farmer was obviously happy that the anti-racism march in Melbourne had gone well. James was less than impressed with earlier race riots in Sydney. [...]
Good on you James. It is important to stand up to racists each and every time we come across them. We feel pretty smug in Canada about our ‘multicultural’ culture but you don’t have to scratch very deep to come across lots of racism here too.
Thanks for the comments & ping, I agree, it’s important to stand up and keep on standing up because it isn’t going to go away.
Apparently Sydney is now verging on police state now too… which is equally concerning in some ways.
LMS schön und gut, aber wo bleiben die Lernenden?
Kritische Töne zu Learning Management Systemen sind in letzter Zeit öfter zu lesen, so z.B. von George Siemens, der Lernende in den Untergrund gehen sieht, wenn sie zu einengenden Techniksystemen ausgesetzt sind.