BRISBANE, Queensland—As the dust settles from Brisbane’s G20 leaders’ summit, Queensland police have been credited for ensuring a smooth event, but organisers of the alternative “People’s Summit” say the activists who peacefully expressed their views deserve some credit too.
“The media are attempting to congratulate the police for their tolerance and peacefulness when in fact you must congratulate both parties,” said Robin Taubenfeld, spokesperson for the Brisbane Community Action Network (BrisCAN-G20), the umbrella group who organised the “People’s Summit, Rally and March”.
Taubenfeld congratulated those who attended the week-long event, saying they had upheld important democratic freedoms despite difficult conditions. These included temperatures well over 40 degrees and what she described as excessive police presence.
