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A serious problem is looming in the City of Melbourne, we have a new Mayor who is an ultra-conservative who lead the right-wing State Parliamentary Party to a record landslide loss at the last elections.
With a handsome 28% of the votes he has finally won one and is our new Mayor.
Part of his platform includes a crackdown on buskers.
I’m not sure what that means but I intend to mount a robust defense based on a pre-planned counter attack (in other words an ambush). I play chess and believe in making sure my pieces are all in place before I move. I play poker too but my passion when it comes to games is Mah Jong. All are about strategy.
I have journalistic connections that go a long way back and intend to us them. I’m currently writing an article to try to pre-empt the Mayor. There are members here whose career was born in Melbourne or grew here and not all of them locals. There are others who have visited, offered their work and been rewarded and celebrated for it.
I will easily be able to garner local the support I need but what would help a great deal would be some significant international support. I want to use this thread to assemble it.
I would like any-one who has worked in Melb., been influenced, helped by Melb. Performers in any way to write some thoughts or stories here that may give me ammunition.
I would also like to ask those people to begin composing letters for my media campaign. Letters from all over the planet, esp. by those of us that can write, Director; (insert city here) Buskers’ Festival (insert year/s here) or any other co-ordinator role after their name (Beaumanz?). Some names that spring to mind are Finkel, Petra Massey, Rumple(and any other Aussies at Cirque d’Soliel, Gav, Lee Nelson, Nick, Roland Jossuttis, Gary Palmer, Lynneski, in fact anyone who was planning to come or just finds the news disturbing.
Melbourne has a great reputation for busking that is under threat by this worm. Buskers are why we have the circus school, hundreds of very famous Australian performers began supported by busking.
I will provide some email addresses over the next day or two. Let the campaign begin.
With a handsome 28% of the votes he has finally won one and is our new Mayor.
Part of his platform includes a crackdown on buskers.
I’m not sure what that means but I intend to mount a robust defense based on a pre-planned counter attack (in other words an ambush). I play chess and believe in making sure my pieces are all in place before I move. I play poker too but my passion when it comes to games is Mah Jong. All are about strategy.
I have journalistic connections that go a long way back and intend to us them. I’m currently writing an article to try to pre-empt the Mayor. There are members here whose career was born in Melbourne or grew here and not all of them locals. There are others who have visited, offered their work and been rewarded and celebrated for it.
I will easily be able to garner local the support I need but what would help a great deal would be some significant international support. I want to use this thread to assemble it.
I would like any-one who has worked in Melb., been influenced, helped by Melb. Performers in any way to write some thoughts or stories here that may give me ammunition.
I would also like to ask those people to begin composing letters for my media campaign. Letters from all over the planet, esp. by those of us that can write, Director; (insert city here) Buskers’ Festival (insert year/s here) or any other co-ordinator role after their name (Beaumanz?). Some names that spring to mind are Finkel, Petra Massey, Rumple(and any other Aussies at Cirque d’Soliel, Gav, Lee Nelson, Nick, Roland Jossuttis, Gary Palmer, Lynneski, in fact anyone who was planning to come or just finds the news disturbing.
Melbourne has a great reputation for busking that is under threat by this worm. Buskers are why we have the circus school, hundreds of very famous Australian performers began supported by busking.
I will provide some email addresses over the next day or two. Let the campaign begin.
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