http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/taxonomy/term/1119/all en http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/2010/05/16/free-lolita-melbournes-contribution-to-worldwide-protest-15-may <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> While thousands rallied at the State Library against homophobia - of which more elsewhere* - smaller protests took place further south, at Federation Square and outside Flinders Street station. At Federation Square, against a backdrop of the Buddha festival, a group of mostly young people joined a worldwide protest against the continued captivity of "Lolita", an orca captured in 1970 and kept in a tank not much larger than herself. They handed out fliers and displayed placards showing photos of the Miami Seaquarium where the unfortunate creature is imprisoned. </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Geography:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/geography/australia/victoria/melbourne">Melbourne</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Keywords:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/protest">protest</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/free-lolita">Free Lolita</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/whales">whales</a></div></div></div> Sun, 16 May 2010 01:09:40 +0000 peter 1163 at http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal