S11 protests
I am a long-time Labor voter and a delegate of the Community and Public Sector Union at my workplace. Last weekend I travelled to Melbourne to visit my family, and to attend the non-violent protest against the World Economic Forum.
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The S11 protests against the World Economic Forum were a triumph for the Australian left, writes Susan Price. But it was a tough job to put them together and took enormous efforts of many different people from many different backgrounds.
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