Re: March in support of free speech on the Internet

Daniel Mahler (mahler@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au)
Mon, 29 Apr 1996 20:53:43 +1000 (EST)

From: Dennis Clark <dennis@nospam.ilanet.slnsw.gov.au>
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But if you're thinking of the idea of going around saying "Hi I'm
from ProgSoc and we're going to march on Parliament House, would
you like to join us?" then I'd hesitate to agree: politics isn't really
our thing IMHO (even if it is for a good cause).

True but the odd poster around the place
to inform people what is happenning and why
could hardly hurt.
(when and where probably helps too :))

ProgSoc is not about politics,
but it is not about shoving your head
in anatomically inaccessible places either :).
It should be about looking after programmers' interests.
(Oh no! Gasp!! maybe it is about politics after all.
Well ... , just a tiny bit)

BTW by poster I do not mean anything artistic.
Few lines of text in large font should be adequate.

If ProgSoc are seen to be behind it,
then people may get the idea that
this is not just a rent-a-crowd affair.

And while the SA and NUS are less afraid of being political than we are,
I'm not sure if it's their kind of thing either. Never hurts to ask
tho.

"Charlie don't surf", or do they ?
(Sorry, I just couln't resist. Pathetic, really ...)

One could always tell the first years
(third years, postgraduates, lecturers ...)
that Fred Nile
is coming to take their porn and show it to their mothers.
If you also told them there is beer,
you might have the biggest march since the sixties :).

Daniel

PS ... <more random garbled thoughts> ...