Radical Craft Action in Footscray

A few days ago members of the Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle went out armed with bags of finger knitted wool, seeds, painted banners, ribbons, thermoses, cups, cameras, chocolate and some sneaky hip flasks to engage in some creative resistance against the rampant speculation which is wreaking havoc in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray.

Concerned that there are increasing numbers of young people with nowhere to live while there is a ton of land lying around unused while the owners reap huge rewards as the property market delivers the rewards that are always guaranteed when a resource is scarce. They asked themselves when are the politicians gonna realise that something needs to change when land values always go up at a higher rate than wage increases? There is a big connection between land speculation and the 27000 people who sleep it rough every night in Australia.

So they decided that all the boring chainlink fences in our suburb keeping people off the land needed a bit of cheering up.

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Gemma Jones is a pop art painter, curator at Outré Gallery and founder of the renegade Melbourne craft group - the Kaotic Kraft Kuties. She blogs about art, craft and the creative moments in everyday life.