Women Won the Day
Women's Action Group held their first Public Assembly on the steps of Victoria's Parliament in Melbourne
For the last eighteen months Women’s Action Group [WAG] has held by invitation only meetings to discuss the destruction of women rights in law and the insidious and very real harm our children currently face. This occasion was actually their 19th or so public assembly, but it was the first publicly advertised Public Assembly / Speakers Corner. These were held in public parks but WAG had always planned to begin public events. The sideshow around their first Public Assembly explains why that was a necessary precaution.
(L to R) Jessica and Michelle of Women’s Action Group on the steps of Parliament
On Saturday upon arriving at Victoria’s Parliament House in Melbourne I was immediately reassured by the police presence. In the 21st century women shouldn’t need police protection to exercise their freedom to assemble and freedom of speech but nevertheless, here we are. An hour before start, the police had already made a strict division between where the women would hold their Public Assembly, a legal gathering with a specific definition, and where the protesters would be allowed to protest.
From last year’s experience at the Let Women Speak public event, the Victoria Police has applied the lessons learned where the intimidation and threat of violence felt very real as happened in Auckland just a week later.
The orange barricades behind the women this year were an addition and twice as many police officers were already positioned along it on the first landing up the stairs.
Not long before the start.
Who does Victoria Police see as the threat?
Image courtesy of 9News Melbourne
It is possible to approach this landing from the side as the Parliament building is built on a large berm - and this is where the first attempt to disrupt occurred within seconds of Michelle Uriarau speaking.
While all news reports in Australia are claiming that two women were arrested. I can assure you that no women were arrested. No women from either side.
Male pattern violence aimed at silencing women led to the two arrests made on the day. Make up your own mind which sex is on the floor.
Man in pink plastic wig arrested for attempting to reach the women’s assembly.
Image courtesy of 9 News Melbourne
The approach of the attempted incursion.
This is a man waving his male privilege after the kerfuffle.
This is what happens in a country, a state, a city, a town, a school, a prison, a homeless shelter when Self ID is written into law.
Men who hate women intend to invade and the police must record their crimes as female crimes. And they are enraged when women say, ‘NO! We will protect our children and ourselves with our voices at great personal risk.”
The ABC - the nationally funded broadcaster
The media is compelled by the Press Association to report that a man is a ‘woman’ at his behest - no questions asked. The police are compelled to record men as ‘female’ when he answers “Female.” to the booking officer.
This is a lie and the law is complicit in the abuse of women’s rights. The State Parliament has given the power of every Victorian over to the most abusive and misogynistic men.
Despite extreme intimidation and a second attempted breach of the police cordon, women spoke honestly, loudly, and bravely.
Two detransitioners took to the mic and expressed the damage this ideology has done not only to them but to wider society. They expressed that while men lead this vicious campaign, it is young girls who are most affected.
Grandmothers spoke of the damage they have seen, and how they would have been manipulated by gender ideology activists if they were teenagers now.
One lifelong socialist woman spoke of how the loud, aggressive crowd do not know what socialism is. And she will never stop being a socialist despite the corruption they’ve brought to her political beliefs.
One woman spoke about the pornography that is deep seated within the trans ideology/queer activism and the damage it wreaks on young women.
The young women in the second line behind the aggressive and unhinged men were listening - because they were still, they were focused, and they could hear the speeches. It was noticeable that half way through that their lines had thinned greatly and only their hard core manipulators remained to egg on the police and to threaten women leaving Parliament. Indeed, leaving probably can cause more trepidation than arriving.
Women Will Speak. That is a promise.
Before leaving, I spoke to this old soldier, wearing his and his father’s medals, who arrived early and listened to every speech. I thanked him for coming and made the self conscious comment that he fought for us and our adversaries ‘over there’ to be free.
He replied, “And we have to fight for it all over again.”
Bloody right we will.
Women’s Action Group would like to say thanks to Victoria Police for their exemplary professionalism despite gross provocation from one side. They worked according to law without fear or favour, affection or ill will. Women expressed how they arrived nervous and hiding their fears but by the end they said how grateful and overwhelmed they were to be present, happy that they’d pushed away their fears and attended.
The final word goes to the Head Marshal for the Women’s Action Group Speaker’s Corner, “the event was 100% successful; women and other attendees were kept safe from harm; none of our attendes, woman or man, was arrested, and women were able to speak.”