Do you hear the people sing?

Vanguard October 2013 p. 8

Residents of the village of Tecoma in the Dandenong Hills outside of Melbourne are continuing their battle with the McDonalds octopus, despite the police smashing of their picket line and threats of physical intimidation and lawsuits.

In a marvellous and imaginative action on August 31, they organised a ‘flash mob’ to converge outside McDonalds’ outlet in the Knox City Shopping Centre food court. In fine voice, they belted out their adapted version of the rousing song from Les Miserables. They well and truly told McDonalds to ‘burgeroff’ and the event went viral on YouTube across the world.

With the generous help of supporters, a delegation of four travelled to Chicago to present their petition (97,340 signatures) to the bosses at McDonalds’ headquarters. They were escorted by 30 inflatable kangaroos decked out with Australian flags – it created great interest and support across America. McDonalds’ flunkeys took away the petition with little argument and less grace.  

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See the Tecoma flash mob video here