Anti-racists score win over Pauline Hanson
The Refugee Action Collective (RAC) welcomes the cancellation of Pauline Hanson’s event at Village Cinemas at Crown Casino tomorrow, Thursday 29 January.
The anti-racism rally called by RAC will still go ahead from 5.30pm outside Jeff’s Shed, opposite Crown on Clarendon Street.
Hanson was planning to raise funds and build support for One Nation by showing her film A Super Progressive Movie.
RAC called an anti-racism rally outside the venue. Unionised workers inside raised concerns about their safety on two grounds:
- The psychosocial implications of having One Nation bigots in their workplace (particularly as many of them are queer and/or migrant workers)
- The general risk of harm based on violence at previous One Nation rallies.
The workers indicated they were considering ceasing work on health and safety grounds. Management then cancelled the One Nation screenings.
RAC spokesperson David Glanz congratulated the workers on their stand.
“We will go ahead with our rally tomorrow to celebrate this setback for One Nation and to celebrate the workers’ unity.
“It’s great that Hanson has been sent packing but we still need to build an anti-racism movement. Rallying tomorrow will bring people together to help do that.”
The rally will hear from union, Indigenous, Indonesian and refugee activist speakers.
“We encourage everyone to still come along at 5.30pm tomorrow,” said Glanz. “We need to drive home the point that racists are not welcome here.
“Hanson might not be able to put on the event today but we still need to organise.”