Our country elects a new government in a week’s time, so the local enviro groups organised a ‘Walk Against Warming’ march through the city streets.
We had a march last year, and the blog entry is here....
…and this is the video of this year’s event.
The band is Watusi who played to entertain the folks who walked. The music is South American inspired and there is another video of these guys here…
About twenty thousand people turned up, which is pretty poor considering the number of bodies living in Sydney.
I hear that Melbourne had fifty thou.
The usual politicking types got up to make a short speech. The crowd booed the Left wing party representative, cause like other liberal parties all over the planet, it’s hard to tell the difference between the left and the right these days.
The Right wing didn’t even bother to turn up. At least those guys never change.
This is especially true in America, though both sides refuse to admit it. My Republican friends here still think their party stands for fiscal responsibility. Pointing out the Bush Administrations spending record and unprecidented expansion of health-care for elderly Americans just gets them angry, since they have no real defense for their actions
ReplyDelete(disclaimer, I did not vote for Bush in 2000 but did in 2004, mainly because I have had personal dealings with Kerry and despised the man.)