Industrial Workers of the World

Student Housing Action Cooperative (evicted after 5 months from 272 - 8 Faraday Street, Carlton, VIC Australia) shachouse@gmail.com http://www.shacmelbourne.blogspot.com/

I ♥ the Student Housing Action Collective (SHAC) update Hi All, Thanks for all your support over the last few days. So even though SHAC has been evicted from faraday st we're not going to go away. We're going to hold a follow up meeting/picnic at 5.30 pm this sunday at the edinburgh gardens near the rotunda. Thanks, SHAC

The Ballad of Pete McPhee. Introduction (spoken): How things had changed in the Royal Court of Victoria. Professor Peter McPhee, French Revolution scholar and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, appeared to take from the poor to be a hero to the rich. Unlike good King Richard, Vice-Chancellor Glynn Davis was away – not at the crusades but on holidays: He was more than happy to leave Prince Peter and the Sheriff of Melbourne in charge. The merry peasants of “S.H.A.C.-wood Forest” stood their ground. Where was Robin Hood?

(To the tune of ‘Robin Hood’)

Pete McPhee, Pete McPhee

riding round with Glynn.

Pete McPhee didn’t like to see

merry women and men.

He robbed from the homeless

to give not to the poor

but the rich.

What a bitch.

Dum dum dum.

Pete McPhee, Pete McPhee

– riding without Glynn.

Pete McPhee, Pete McPhee

He sent the Sheriff in.

Cos without Glynn,

Pete’s a little bit dim.

Without Glynn

Pete McPhee.

Dim dim dim.

Pete McPhee had a horse called Fred -

A fine white steed was he -

But Fred had joined with shac and Union solidarity

He threw Pete off his back.

Pete landed on his behind,

then on his head. He was dead.

Thanks to Fred.

Pete McPhee Pete McPhee

Arrived at heaven’s gate.

Said St Peter to McPhee:

“Its time to meet your fate.

My son you’ve lived in sin

Just like your friend Glynn.”

So, down below,

Pete McPhee!

Dum dum dum.

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