SHAC has been peacefully occupying four formerly vacantterrace houses owned by the Universityof Melbourne sinceAugust. This may end soon, now that a warrant has been issued, at the behest ofthe University, for their eviction. As every good corporate journalist knows,only protesters resort to ‘violence’. Authorities never do so intentionally andif the police are ever found to engage in violence it is never reported as such:Euphemisms such as ‘undisciplined behaviour’ or 'cracking down' are frequently deployed. Moreover,whilst the use of force is always legitimate – though sometimes regrettable ­– whenundertaken by authorities, it is never defensible if undertaken by protestersin their attempts to resist violence. Indeed, corporate journalists oftenportray peaceful attempts to resist violence and actual suffering at the handsof official violence as ‘violence’.