Albertinho

And it’s all because of some protesters who have decided to stay a few blocks from my work indefinitely. The type of protesters who can and will be deemed “high-risk” by the company I work for.

I work in corporate finance, but I work rather low down the scale. Mailroom, procurement, data entry, basic shit. Shit that, if push comes to shove and they need to move base, they can do without. As I’m a casual, I won’t be paid for the days I miss. I will be losing money that pays for my board, my education, my medications and my groceries.

I don’t make much, at all. I am yet to hit the Low Income Tax-Free Threshold every year I have submitted a tax return. Every day I don’t work is a significant chuck of my income lost. Money I can’t make back.

This is not Australia’s problem. At best, it’s a worldwide issue that needs a solidarity protest, preferably in front of state government. And we all know this has nothing to do with actually “creating awareness” or “standing in solidarity” or “uniting as one”. It’s because this is a trendy topic. It’s because this happens to the be uneducated left wing’s (a group as stupid as the Tea party, imo) flavour-of-the-month cause, one they’ll forget once the Huffington Post gets it off its front page. They’ll then move to something else with an easy tagline.

Remember the Chanology protests? Remember how thousands of people marched in highly ironic Guy Fawkes masks? You know what was needed? Constant protests and pressure against the Church of Scientology to change its practices. You know what happened? Tom Cruise left the limelight, then suddenly no one gave a shit.

You know what I want to happen? Tonight, as groups of young, middle class, white people who live in comfort in the Sydney suburbs “occupy” Martin Place, I want them to look around and see the 50-or-so homeless people whose temporary homes on tiles and benches of Martin Place they will be literally be occupying. I want them to see the Government-funded social workers handing out soup and tea at 1am, provided for free by Bushells and Campbell to these homeless people.

Then I want them to realise some people have real problems and go home.