As you no doubt heard on the latest GrodsThink and read at teh hottest formerly anonymous barrister in Australia’s blog, the GrodsTeam and a handful of like-minded Leftists picketed East Melbourne’s Fertility Control Clinic to prevent anti-abortion terrorists from occupying their usual position out the front, where they harass patients of the clinic and passers-by with their passive-aggressive bigotry and propaganda.

Though the police kept the two groups separated for the duration of the protest, our presence in front of the clinic was a complete success: the bigots left, defeated, after about half an hour of non-violent confrontation and fiendishly clever chants. (I particularly enjoyed the subversive “we demand free 24-hour child care” one: take that, whichever side of the child-care debate you stand on … whoever you are!)

Anyway, that’s enough of my blathering. Pictures, after all, speak louder than words. But since no one took any particularly good photos of the event, we’ll have to make do with the next best thing: The Editor’s brilliant documentary.

Anyone not moved by this remarkable film is dead inside. And a git.

PS: Special thanks to GrodsCorp’s own General Bron, who did an outstanding job rallying the troops for this protest. Getting a ragtag bunch of booze-soaked Lefties out of bed and into the bitter Melbourne air before 10am on a Saturday — with nary a latte-stand in sight — is quite an achievement, but doing it all via email from Sydney is another matter. Awesome, awesome work.

So thanks again, Bron! And we’ll all see you down here for the next one.

This is a propaganda message from Comrade Bron. All you other non-NSW residents (and NSW union/lefty haters) carry on playing with your Fleshlights.

COMMUNITY RALLY - SATURDAY 3rd MAY 2008

TELL THE IEMMA GOVERNMENT - NO!

Join concerned workers and families who want to stop the NSW State Government trying to sell our electricity to a private company. Come and join the Rally outside the NSW ALP Conference.

WHERE: Darling Harbour, Convention Centre (near Olympic monument)
WHEN: 9:30 am Saturday 3 May 2008

The electricity anti-privatisation Rally will be followed by the MAY DAY RALLY AND PROCESSION.

* Stop the Sell Off of public utilities
* Demand rights at work for all workers
* Demand social justice for workers around the world

www.stoptheselloff.org.au