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A very small, symbolic action in solidarity with
everyone heading out to Woomera took place in
Edinburgh earlier this morning. I would have waited a few days but I thought a pre-emptive strike was called for, and, well, I've got holiday plans. So, a highly organised underground cell of one took to the streets in the wee small hours and visited the Australian consulate. Unfortunately, the Aus consulate in Edinburgh is a bit shit, it's just a door. But quite a big expensive looking wooden door, so it got sprayed with "Woomera", "no borders", a circled A, and an, admittedly pretty poor, attempt at the aboriginal flag. An Australian travel agent also got a new window display, posters were affixed to the windows encouraging prospective tourists to:

"VISIT WOOMERA!
Experience a warm Aussie welcome at the Woomera
detention centre, so good you might end up staying...
 http://www.woomera2002.com"

So, not much I know but the thought was there. The following letter has been sent to the Australian consulate by way of an explanation:

"The small symbolic act of property damage against
your premises was part of a global opposition to the abhorrent practices of the Australian government in the Woomera region.

The action was in solidarity with aboriginal peoples still fighting dispossession and in opposition to a society founded on genocide and sustained by violence.
In its latest incarnation this violence takes the
form of a concentration camp, built in the desert in the hope that nobody would notice its depravity.
People around the world HAVE noticed and this week we act in solidarity with all those trying to tear down the fence- whether from the inside or the outside.

The action was in solidarity with all those who oppose militarism and with all the victims, past,present and future, of military technologies developed in Woomera.
A testing ground for weapons frequently turned
against the world's poor and a concentration camp
built to imprison those fleeing violence and poverty sit side by side- a perverse joke at the expense of humanity. And all this against a background of violence against the planet, of proposed toxic dumping and uranium mining.

Finally, it must be made clear that if for one week people all over the world focus on the crimes of the Australian government, this in no way excuses other governments. I recognise fully, and oppose vigorously, the similar practices of the British
state.

For an end to all environmental destruction,
For an end to all militarism,
For a world without borders!"

Anyway, love, solidarity and the very best of luck to everyone heading out to Woomera,

Yours for the glorification of (very) petty crime,


:: woomera2002 ::

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