• Adam Brereton

via New Matilda

19 October 2011It wasn't only the usual suspects who turned out when Adam Brereton went to the Occupy protests in Sydney and Melbourne over the weekend. Here's his take on who is showing up - and why, for New Matilda.

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Over the weekend the #occupywallstreet movement's Australian iteration begain in earnest, in concert with other worldwide uprisings under the same banner.  The Australian arm is small - no more than around 1500 attended the Sydney meeting at its height - and pales in comparison to the tens of thousands of people camped out in Times Square and Zuccotti Park, or the estimated 200,000 rioting and burning cars in Rome.

I visited both the Melbourne and Sydney occupation sites over the weekend.  Far from the conspiratorial, bitter old whitey demographic represented at the anti-climate movement's Potemkin people's uprisings in Canberra, the occupations were generally good natured and multi-ethnic, with plenty of youth involvement.

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