Archive for August, 2008

Preperations for September 13

August 27, 2008 10:35 am by SirFluffingtonAD

We are moving full steam ahead into planning for the next raid. While alot of the details have not been finalised at the moment, we have made headway in discussing many points.

All details are subject to change, please keep updated through the forums and for the announcement on the front page. If you don’t like any of these details, get on the forums and get discussing, these raids are yours and they are not possible without your contribution.

Route:

We will follow a similar route to the last raid, except doubling back for epic exposure

  • Start at Victoria Square at 2:00pm
  • Walk down King William St at 2:15pm
  • Turn onto Rundle Mall
  • Split into 2 groups and Continue down either side of Rundle St
  • Walk down to Rymill Park
  • Catch our breath, and turn around
  • Head back down Rundle St, again, in 2 groups
  • Back through Rundle Mall
  • Back up King William St
  • Turn onto Waymouth St
  • Protest out the front of Scientology
  • Continue down to Victoria Sq to conclude the Raid where we started

Map

Topic:

This month, we might do the “Tax the Cult”/”Tax the Bastards” theme again. It is an extremely hot topic at the moment and should continue to be the focus of our protest in an attempt to make the government perform a review of Religious Charities, and ATO to check their records to make sure the tax-exempt businesses have been keeping the high level of transparency and strict record-keeping required for accepting donations peoples money.

Masks:

Whoever put their name down for a Guy Fawkes mask in this thread, one of our resourceful anon, AnonVocis has received the shipment and they will be available for pick-up on the day, at the cost of $7.00 each. There may be some spares available, send AnonVocis a private message in our forums to see if there is one available, or to arrange some alternate form of picking it up.

Business Cards:

We have 1000 Anonymous business cards on order, they will be made available to any Anon who may want some to hand out.

Event Tickets:

We are looking into organising event tickets with some of the donation money for the raid to hand out to people to invite them along to our protest. They will be handed out to the public and left in places for people to find before the protest to invite them along.

Flyers/Pamphlets/Info/Mini-Raids/Misc Stuff:

We always need new flyers and other handouts for our protests, if your creative, get making em, post them to our media gallery and people will hand them out.

We also need mini-raids to help spread the word and visibility of Anon, we need to get them organised and people postering/handing out flyers and invites to the protest. This will be extra important once we get the event tickets, we don’t want em to goto waste.

Link to the September 13th Organisation thread.

Operation: Tax the Bastards!

August 4, 2008 1:29 pm by SirFluffingtonAD

After some (ongoing) planning in the thread for August 16th, We have come up with a number of the details for the next protest.

For August, our theme will be “Operation: Tax the Cult!” or, for a more Australian spin, “Operation: Tax the Bastards!

The details for the protest are:

Date: August 16th
Time: 2:00pm
Meeting Location: Victoria Square (northern side, as per usual)
Route Plan:

  • Start At Victoria Square
  • March down King William St
  • Head down Waymouth St, and spend 1 hour and 5 minutes out the front of the Scientology building. (long enough to give the Security Guards an extra hour of pay :P)
  • Continue down King William St
  • Turn Right onto Rundle Mall
  • Continue Down Rundle Mall and Rundle St
  • Finish the march at Rymill Park

Route Map

Things to bring to the next protest:

  1. Big ass banners and other signs if you took the time to make one of these before (the big 1s, the looong 1s, the sheet 1s, the 1s on poles, etc) it’d be so great to see them all flying again [thread]
  2. Petition (the same as before? or a tax-specific one? What about form letters for people to sign and post to their MP either then/later?)
  3. Party hard attitude; the lulz, the caek, the win, the confectionery! remember?
  4. Loud music; it has always been win but you can never have enough [thread]
  5. Handouts full of win: pamphlets, Gold InfoPack CD-ROMs, cards, badges + other viral marketing - Lots of great flyers, stickers and other media can be found in the August 16th Planning Thread
  6. YOU and your friends: In the City, Bustin teh Cultz
  7. ???
  8. Profit!!

The standard fare for how the raids will progress and how to behave applies to this raid just as much as the others:- No Drugs, Alcohol, Weapons, Violence, Hateful speak/actions. Always follow road traffic rules, move out the way for foot traffic, only cross the road for the green man. If members of the group are stuck on the wrong side of the road, the rest of the group should stop and wait for them to catch up - you guys know how to behave, and I don’t expect any problems. The police as usual, will be following us for everybody’s safety.

Help us with the planning for this event by offering your comments and suggestions either here in the comments, or in this thread.