Clark Gormley #75 Occupy George St

Light rail has occupied George St, completely blocking vehicular movement in both directions.  The protest, which is now into its fifth month, has been causing havoc to traffic flow in Sydney’s CBD.

The group claims to be protesting against social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the undue influence of corporations on government.  They aim to achieve their objectives through direct action.  A spokesperson for the group said “In our case, we achieve direct action by physically impeding cars. What could be more direct than that?  Not only that, at the same time we are building vital public transport infrastructure.”

However critics have pointed out that the movement, calling itself CBD and South East Light Rail, is in fact privately owned by a conglomerate of foreign investors.  Furthermore, they have unearthed documents implicating that ‘the project’ is in fact backed by the incumbent state government.

When asked to explain, CBD and South East Light Rail provided the following statement:-

“Around here, radical activism is ineffective without state approval, kickbacks, call it what you will”.