Cairns volunteers for Dr Jonathan Strauss, the lead Socialist Alliance Senate candidate, spoke out in the present day towards the unlawful destruction of their roadside marketing campaign corflutes. That is earlier than Dr Strauss, who lived in Cairns for 18 years till the tip of 2024, returned to the Far North for marketing campaign actions from this weekend.
“We’re decided to get the phrase out about Jonathan’s marketing campaign. He has made the genocidal assault on Gaza his prime difficulty. We’re additionally proposing emergency motion for public housing and the local weather,” Dr Strauss stated.
“We use our roadside corflutes to unfold the phrase. Lots of people informed us how glad they had been to see these up as soon as the election was known as, the second the Council by-laws allowed this.
“Now, inside every week, an unknown individual or individuals defaced, destroyed or eliminated virtually all our corflutes.
“We received’t be silenced.
“In parliament Socialist Alliance will proceed to persistently oppose Israel’s try to ethnically cleanse Gaza. However the Australian authorities took two weeks to name out the Israeli army’s ambush and execution type war-crime killings of 15 humanitarian employees in Gaza on March 23.
“The destruction of our marketing campaign corflutes is towards free speech and undemocratic. To get the phrase out, corflutes are what campaigns that aren’t major-party, or financed by billionaires, can afford.
“However even corflutes aren’t low-cost, so that is additionally legal harm and theft. My campaigners have reported this to the police.
“Socialist Alliance needs individuals to hitch the marketing campaign to assist have our voices heard. You will get involved with our Far North Queensland department to learn how to participate.”
Dr Strauss will:
Converse on the Free Palestine FNQ vigil on the nook of Esplanade and Shields St at 6pm, Friday, April 11.
Participate in a Socialist Alliance stall at Rusty’s Markets from 9am, Saturday, April 12.
Converse at Socialist Alliance’s “Options to the Housing Disaster” workshop (visitor speaker: Kristin O’Connell, The Anti-Poverty Centre) from 12.45pm, Saturday, April 12, ARC Neighborhood Corridor, 52 Macnamara St, Manunda.
Converse on the Socialist Alliance Tablelands Election Launch, 9.30am for 10am, Sunday, April 13, 3 Glenwood Shut, Atherton.
