good one, Mike - can't wait to hear the rest!!

I'm at present tinkering with a rewrite to Billy Bragg's "Power in a Union" (which of course came from G F Root's Civil War song/s : "Battle Cry of Freedom") :

" Ma-leny forever : defending our rights!
A-way with you Woolworths : The People Unite!
No they cannot defeat us when together we all stand
For there is Power in Our Union."

John - it has been estimated that Maleny already has SEVEN Woolworths supermarkets WITHIN a 40 minute drive, but their aim is to have one in every town in Australia (WW's Corbett the Crusher, trained with WalMart executives!) - and this is just ONE of the chains!!! (albeit the biggest one - Woolies and Coles already have a whopping 80% of the grocery market in Oz, according to industry stats ...)

Sorry to hear about The Blue Mountains ... David HAS to find new ways to fight Goliath!!!


Cheers! R-J


PS from the MalenyVoice website - July 18th :

Obi Obi Protest - Global Sychronised Protest Drumming

Tonight at 5.30 on the dot, get your percussion instrument out, go outdoors and play that drum for ten minutes.
Last night's drumming was amazing - reports have come back that they are synchronising with us on the drums in North Queensland and even Canada and the US!!

Drum the message into them folks!

5:30PM Eastern Australian Standard Time = 7:30AM Greenwich Mean Time = 3:30AM New York (Sorry Guys)

Hey, middle of the night in North America? No problem, beat those drums at 5:30 PM your local time.

Let us know you are doing it for us. Put a message on the soapbox or the website.