The Places in the Street
Channel: Peter Deane
Date: 2015-04-17

(6 mins) In 1888, Henry Lawson published the poem "Faces in the Street". He was 21 at the time.

Slipping forward to now, it is incredible how relevant it still is. And it gives guidance to us here in Newcastle:

   The warning pen shall write in vain,
   the warning voice grow hoarse,
   But not until a city feels Red Revolution's feet
   Shall its sad people miss awhile the terrors of the street

When we've been wronged by government, we are forced to become activists and fight for what is right. That fight can take many forms, but fight we will, because fight we must.

I've changed an absolute minimum of words from the poem, and dropped a couple of stanzas, but I can feel the hands of Lawson stretching out from distant past to today, and telling us that he approves.

Hopefully this video will gee us up a bit for what will inevitably be coming. I have one word for Mike Baird. "Bentley" - and that's NOT a car owned by McCloy, it's a town in northern New South Wales.

Link to new and original poem: http://www.facebook.com/notes/save-newcastle/places-in-the-street/644448729022946

Source: http://www.facebook.com/SaveNewcastle