Thursday May 17, 2012
Woolies Protest Inspires Song By 14 Year Old  

Unhappy with the Woolworths plans to build a supermarket in her home town of Mullumbimby, 14 year old school girl Rachel Stevens has written a protest song  ‘Biggest Little Town’. Originally intended as a school project, her parents were impressed when they heard her song and encouraged her to record it with Gyan and Simon Greaves of Museagency.

‘Every protest needs a theme song,’ says Deborah Lilly, co-ordinator of Mullumbimby Community Action Network ‘and this one’s even more potent then most because it’s written by a teenager. How can we even think to teach children about things like bullying when they can see multinationals get away with it in their own community?’

Filmmaker Susie Forster of Byron Bay Multimedia cut together a YouTube clip using the footage from the Mullumbimby Woolies protests. 

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