Margot Giblin
Friendly waves, nods and smiles are in the majority but the anger of the others is jolting in its intensity.
Orange Friday No. 4
Amnesty International
8.15 am
Cnr Murray & Macquarie Sts. Hobart
23.3.07
AMNESTY International is mounting these early morning demonstrations every Friday — same time, same place, until David Hicks’ situation in Guantanamo Bay is resolved.
Where would these Amnesty members and supporters have been if they hadn’t come along to stand up for David Hicks ?
• Building a shed. Combined with a chook pen.
• Having a cup of tea at home, getting ready for work.
• Still in bed.
• Sitting at home playing scrabble on the internet.
• At home. It’s my day off work at the hospital.
• Sleeping in.
• Having breakfast — getting ready for uni — 4th year — mechanical engineering.
• Writing and editing articles for the Green Left paper.
• I’d be at work. I’m on the senior management team of the Tasmanian Prison Service.
Get a Real Job! —from a passing driver.
Car horns tooting are not all in support. One combines with a jabbed ‘thumbs down’, just visible behind the tinted window.
Another driver — Fuck the Terrorists. Fuck em all!
Friendly waves, nods and smiles are in the majority but the anger of the others is jolting in its intensity
Pedestrians’ answers to Tasmanian Times asking their view of David Hicks’ situation included:
• It’s not a matter of whether he’s guilty but of getting a fair trial. David, 27
• It happened over there. It should be sorted over there. Julian , 19
And
• Piss off!
Another half hour, another wrapping up of signs, retrieving of balloons and taking off the orange. All were then free to get back to what they chose to do with the rest of their day.
