SAW returns!
After a blissed out four month absence, Students Against War burst back onto the scene today with a banner drop over the Northfields Avenue entrance to UOW. As hundreds of cars crawled past in morning peak hour, a dedicated crowd of SAW supporters clambered up onto the giant UOW sign and stood around holding our big “Stop UOW’s War Research!” banner, laughing, chatting, catching up, and alerting thousands of people that we’re still around and still intend to bring UOW’s war research to a permanent end. It was pretty enjoyable way to kick off the 2011 campaigning season, and totally heartening to get forty or fifty beeps/thumbs up from passing drivers (as well as a couple of one-finger salutes and the yelled comment “tossers!” which we also kind of enjoyed). Then after about an hour-and-a-half of this we jumped down and headed off to have coffee… with three security guards trailing along after us, peeping out from around corners and reporting our every move on walkie-talkies, much to our amusement.
And thus the year of anti-war campaigning at UOW has begun, exactly a year after it kicked off with a similar protest on the first day of semester in 2010. We’ll be back again in even more dramatic style soon 
