Vigils Restart 26 Aug 01

The first vigil of the new season was organised by RAC-West and was attended by about 40-50 people - a good number even without allowing for the miserable weather. But as one of the speakers pointed out, standing outside the camp for an hour or so in miserable weather is one thing, but life inside the camp is immeasurably worse. Several people were there for the first time, and many were clearly shocked by what they saw and heard. Amongst the many speakers were Arun Pradhan and John Tully from RAC-West, Jorge Jorquera, Socialist Alliance candidate for Gellibrand, Pamela Curr and Damien Lawson from No One Is Illegal, and Sarah, representing a group of students from Princes Hill Secondary College. At the end of the rally proper, several people took advantage of an open gate to get right up to the wire near the exercise yard, and were able to talk to men inside the building, while police looked on - until ACM staff insisted they close the windows - as can be heard on the audio clips.

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