Some people at these discussions expressed surprise that someone so young was standing against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in New York. Trowe, a meat packer from Austin, Minnesota, said she found an immediate interest from workers here, both because of the common conditions they face as a result of the employers' offensive and the renewed resistance to these assaults on the working class and the unions. The socialist candidates were warmly received August 23 at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy where they held a discussion over coffee with indigenous activists. Trevor Close, an Aboriginal man, explained how they had set up the scores of tents in Victoria Park adjacent to Sydney University. Close said that Aboriginal rights protests were planned, including a September 15 march on the Olympic Stadium in Sydney, just before the games begin.
Aboriginal people are tired of being pushed around.
That is what the Tent Embassy is about. We're doing this for indigenous people all over the world. Trowe explained the efforts of her campaign to build an alliance between workers and farmers, as part of the revolutionary struggle to establish a workers and farmers government in the United States. Over dinner that evening at a supporter's house, the candidates and campaign supporters talked with young people interested in revolutionary politics. That is, how to build a working-class leadership capable of leading a massive movement of workers and farmers that can win because it is prepared and determined to fight for governmental power and wants to learn from history's defeats and victories in order to accomplish that goal.