This morning 250 odd police officers had Musgrave Park surrounded
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Surrounding roads were cordoned off from public access
A line of spectators gathered at Cordelia Street by 7AM
The Embassy members guarded their Sacred Fire
Negotiations began
Channel 7 and Channel Ten helicopters rovering above the area
Police officers keeping people out of the Musgrave Park boundary
Supporting spectators formed up along Cordelia Street
Anglo-Australians wearing the Aboriginal Flag
and began chanting "Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land"
Spotted: Cr. Helen Abrahams
Indigenous people from the around area came to support
(4th from left) Local Aboriginal Activist/Murri Community Worker, Sam Watson
watch video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDUyBu9JBRI
Delivering a message from within the fence by phone
Negotiations failed and police moved in
arrested 31 people while the rest chained themselves together
Hulk Hogan
The Embassy was taken over and the aboriginals salvaged the Sacred Fire
Blowing the fire up
Watch the video below, it's amazing!
At 8:58, this dude ate a burning coal!
watch video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lEcw6l9pME
The Embassy members marched to Jaggera Hall in song and dance
People living in West End joins in
Hamish Cairns with his Leica M2
Embassy Leaders addresses their people
Original site of the Sacred Fire
Negotiations to let three of them enter the site to retrieve their Sacred Objects
The protesters and supporters marched to Parliament House
to demand Cr. Newman to remove his Aboriginal flag pin
which was received by Police barricades to protect QUT students and visitors of City Botanic Gardens
The protesters then marched to Police Watch House
watch video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7C-dCrimwE
Police guarded the Queensland Police Headquarters
as the mob marches pass
Aboriginal people angry with Queensland Premier Campbell Newman's statement
about the Embassy being a squatters' camp
Police Watch House
Arrested Embassy members were released
Wayne "Coco" Wharton released, holding his bail conditions paper
Jack Black
(Nah.. that's Harrison Saragossi)
The wait continues...
More photos here
Brisbane Sovereign Embassy at Musgrave Park
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