Hindmarsh Square / Mukata

Join us to stand together against racism and the far right, and for a genuinely free and democratic society.

📍 Hindmarsh Square** 🕦 11:30am — Meet at Mukata / Hindmarsh Square 🚩 12:30pm — March to Tarntanyangga / Victoria Square

ONE YEAR OF RACISM FROM “MARCH FOR AUSTRALIA”

The racist March for Australia (MFA) is mobilising nationally again on Sunday 30 August. We call on everyone who hates racism and fascism to join us to rally and march against the agenda of MFA that day.

We take inspiration from the huge nationwide rallies against Pauline Hanson’s racist One Nation party by school and university students on 14 August. This is a chance for all ages to build on their momentum.

We are doing our best to make our rally and march safe for everyone to participate in. We will be at a safe distance from their event, and will not be engaging with them in skirmishes on the streets.

It is one year since MFA’s first round of big marches around the country, which was a terrifying moment for everyone who believes in equality. Their marches highlighted a hatred of immigration, amplifying the lies that migrants are the cause of the housing shortage and rising cost of living.

Many MFA organisers are open neo-Nazis. In Naarm/Melbourne, the march emboldened some of these Nazis to trash Camp Sovereignty, an Aboriginal protest camp.

FREE SPEECH HYPOCRISY

This time MFA are claiming their mobilisation is about free speech. Their promotional videos make it clear what free speech means for them: the right to abuse and attack people who don’t fit their vision of a White Australia.

We’ve seen their version of free speech in action this month, with the break-in and scrawled swastikas at the Semaphore Workers Club, and abuse of players with Fijian and other heritage in suburban soccer.

Freedom of speech is important. But when we talk about free speech in Australia, we must also ask: whose speech has historically been protected, and whose has been silenced?

THE REAL FREE SPEECH CRISIS

For First Nations people, freedom of speech has never been equal. Aboriginal people have been punished for speaking language, practising culture, resisting dispossession, naming violence and asserting sovereignty — while racist policies and ideas have been given enormous institutional power.

First Nations communities continue to be targeted by racist movements and hate speech today. They must not become an afterthought in conversations about racism and free speech.

With Australian governments and industry supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza, free speech to defend Palestine is increasingly under attack. More and more workers are pressured by employers to self-censor what they say in their private lives, including on social media, making it harder and harder to participate in democratic processes.

March for Australia has no interest in these genuine struggles for free speech. It openly targets migrant and refugee communities, LGBTIQ+ people, First Nations people and abortion rights.

NO TO MARCH FOR AUSTRALIA, NO TO ONE NATION

With Pauline Hanson’s One Nation growing in the polls, we can’t sit back while racists mobilise.

Please message the page or email info@apnsa.org if your organisation would like to support this action.

See you at Mukata/Hindmarch Sq, 11:30 am Sunday 30 August.

YES TO FREE SPEECH. NO TO RACISM.

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