The Daily Telegraph Tent embassy to stay during Games 24aug00 AN ABORIGINAL tent embassy at Sydney's Victoria Park is likely to remain for the Olympic Games after South Sydney council brokered a peace deal with the protesters. Protest leader Isabelle Coe signed a deal with the council late yesterday, which enables her to stay at the inner-city site during the Games. Under the deal, the tent embassy protesters will be required to not allow any vehicles in Victoria Park, Chippendale, and to use portable toilets. As well, they must supervise the "sacred fire" at all times and accept responsibility for all people in the embassy. The protesters have also agreed not to make noise between dusk and dawn, unless they first notify the council. The council last week successfully sought a court injunction against the one-month-old embassy, which now has about 25 tents. Despite the court move, there was growing evidence that some councillors were likely to allow the tent embassy to remain beyond the Games by putting the issue to a vote. Some councillors were concerned about the image of police dragging away Aboriginal protesters before the world's media. -- ********************************** 'Click' to protect the rainforest: Make the Rainforest Site your homepage! http://www.therainforestsite.com/ ********************************** ------------------------------------------------------ RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/
