On May Day in Melbourne – the refugee rally was dwarfed by another gathering of largely young people – about one thousand people took part in the Zombie Shuffle. Is this a subversive cultural statement about the zombification of our corporate, consumerist society? Or is it actually a manifestation of a braindead culture obsessed with meaningless spectacle? What does it say for the left that this “rally of the undead” was much bigger than the refugee rally happening at Trades Hall literally at the same time?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_walk
http://www.dogmaticblog.com/2010/05/01/melbourne-zombie-shuffle/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJnmk7vt6J8&feature=related
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Re: Zombie’s March on on May Day – subversive or braindead?
This year live music at pubs reenact ACDC live on truck gig got maybe 20 thousand into the streets
Last year the protest at closure of the Vic College of Arts was the most imaginative, creative "festival" of puppets, clowns, musicians, jugglers, artists etc for many a long time.
The Zombie kids on May Day are in that tradition of popular culture "subverted" I reckon.
The folks doing the housing action banner drop had instead of a passers by Saturday arvo shopping crowd some lively "zombie kids" notice their banner and cheer, so some kidz were "subversive" surely !
That the serious competing Party building Left sects could get it together without haranguing each other was an achievemet and May Day next year on Sunday will bring together all the above with the olde Aussie CP Stalinist/BluevsRedMaoist controlled Trades Hall May Day Committee and some unionists and their families and kids.
Could be interesting or could be dreary depends on what those involved put in as an effort
some "subversive" pics (about insulation installation deaths/sellout artist PG ?
Why Garrett ?
TV rots ya Brainz
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