This is the second part of an exploration into how anger can be channelled into powerful actions.
Part two comes from Brisbane, Australia, where a simple vigil outside a hospital turned into a national flashpoint that overturned a decade of political consensus on Australia’s refugee policy. Remarkably, when they began the organisers of the vigil didn’t know what they were even aiming to achieve.
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Top photo: “Welcome asylum seekers and refugees.” Refugee Action protest on 27 July 2013 in Melbourne. Photo by Flickr user Takver. CC BY-SA 2.0
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