MRCC gets more press!

The latest Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle action already got in the local paper. And to add to that I did an interview on 3CR’s fabulously awesome DIY Arts Show – which you can listen to online now.

AND today a story has appeared in The Vine about it.

Yay!

Fence love

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The awesome Welly Outdoor Knit crew have come out with a seriously nice piece of loveliness – and just round the corner from where I used to live!

This piece was constructed as an antidote to the ugliness left all over the city after the construction of the Bypass aka that stupid bloody road.  Not content with ripping giant swathes through Wellington’s heritage and community they apparently now ‘can’t afford’ to clean up the fringes of the project, leaving wasted land behind.

Totally support any efforts by people to reclaim and beautify these spaces!

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RCS in the paper

After the latest action by the Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle in Footscray, one of the local papers, The Star, wrote a story about it. Including a lovely bad ass guerilla crafter pic!

What the…

Readers of Radical Cross Stitch will remember last year when the Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle got out in Footscray and stitched ‘I Wanna Live Here’ on the fence on the corner of Barkly St and Commercial Road.  Here’s the award-winning short film by Anna Brownfield as a refresher

So almost a year on and some philistine (guessing the landlord..) cut it off!  Clearly not happy with the community questioning the ongoing waste of such a precious resource the local landmark was destroyed.

The MRCC was clearly not going to let this go unresponded to.  So a few days later we were out again, this time armed with bright green wool and tummies filled with Pho.

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What the hell is going on?
Why is this block still empty?
Why are there 11 other vacant sites around the primary school?
Why does the State Government continue to believe the outright lies of the property industry that the housing crisis is driven by lack of land?
Why do we still allow this waste of our most precious resource when there’s over 100,000 people every night in Australia with no place to live, let alone call home?

We’ve had enough.