STOP THE BLACKSHIRTS! NEVER AGAIN!
Saturday, 29 March
* Rally & March: 12.00 noon, Brunswick Town Hall
(corner of Dawson Street & Sydney Road, Brunswick)
* Street Party celebrating diversity: from 2.00 pm, Percy Street, Brunswick
Hearkening back to Mussolini's fascist gangs, the Blackshirts stalk
women who leave often-violent relationships, win custody of the children
or may be in a lesbian relationship. They regularly demonstrate outside
the Family Court to harass women who are fighting custody battles and to
recruit like-minded brethren.
Blackshirts' leader, John Abbott, says he has no problem with fascism.
Fascism sent working people - independent women, queers, people with
disabilities, radicals and all groups that big business targeted as
threats or burdens - to their death.
In September, a public meeting which packed out Brunswick Town Hall
launched Diversity in Safe Communities (DiSC) to defend everyone's right
to decide how they will live and with whom - and to enjoy that right in
safety. The meeting voted to set up a Rapid Response Network and
organise a protest rally.
The March rally will follow on from DiSC's highly successful
counter-demonstration against the Blackshirts outside the Family Court
just before Christmas.
After the rally, DiSC is holding a street party in the neighbourhood of
the Blackshirts' Brunswick organising centre.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
For the rally, contact Debbie: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For the street party, contact Paula: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ENDORSERS: Victorian Trades Hall Council; Denis Evans, Organiser for
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU); Radical Women;
Workers Liberty; Freedom Socialist Party; Australia-Asia Worker Links;
Socialist Alliance; tallpaul, Editor of The Internet Anti-Fascist;
LaTrobe University Women's Department; National Union of Students;
Council of Single Mothers and their Children; Friends of the Earth;
Refugee Action Collective; International Socialist Organisation; Monash
Student Association; Men Against Sexual Assault; Socialist Party;
Brunswick Women's Choir; Moreland Peace Group
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