This Saturday, from 10 am to 10 pm, Café Locked Out is hosting an epic podcast to pay homage to the spiritual event that gave birth to the freedom movement.
I wrote this piece from the camp. What I wrote?
On the 12th of February 2022, I recorded a live show from the side of the road at Epic Camp.
I did several shows, but tonight’s is the big one. It went for 2½ hours and was totally unscripted.
What it does is capture the joy of the moment.
We also had a camera aimed at the crowds, so you might even see yourself.
So why not come and retaste the joy of those days we now culturally know as EPIC?

I wrote this from EPIC PARK 
Once inside, they set up their swags and tents, parked their caravans, or made beds in their cars, all without anyone telling them where to park. They figured it out together. Instead of awkwardly discussing the footy or the weather, they vigorously shook hands and then exclaimed, “Fuck it,” before embracing tightly. They asked each other if they needed anything, shared food, beer, and dope, and laughed as they cried. As the new arrivals told us where they were from, we all cheered in this new city where there were no QR codes, no social distancing, and no masks.

For a moment, the police tried to close the park, but it was a bubble in a storm. Our numbers and passion were an unstoppable force, and once the gates reopened, we surged back in, continuing throughout the night and into the next day.

The following day’s great march was just the party to celebrate the victory of Friday.

And the reason it was a victory was because we had answered the great question:

“What sort of future do Australians want?”

The answer? The government and the mainstream media’s propaganda machine could never compel this many people to make their way, on their own volition, to the country’s capital, chanting, “I really want to take the booster.”

The answer is clear: the people want freedom.

The only temporary defense those in power have had to counteract this great and beautiful truth has been to quibble about the numbers.

As always, it appears that courage is finally trumping fear.

Sadly, we will probably have to play out the rest of the game, which could take a while, but it is only for show. As I said, somewhere in the halls of power, they have figured this out too: in this war, brought to the people, we, the people, have already won.

The Epic Podcast, Sat 15 Feb, 10am to 10 pm . all are welcome

The audience will be able to come on via a link like a radio talk show.
Either by video or audio, to share their story, thoughts and experiences.
If you have videos or images we can use to paint the show with, please send them into, [email protected].
Epic was a unique spiritual event, perhaps the beginning of the end for those who would seek to oppress us, so it would be great and important to make this an annual event .
P.S. the special guests of this podcast will be you

Michael Gray Griffith
“The Day We Won. Written in Epic Park”

The day before, I stood at the front gates of Epic Park as vehicles kept arriving from all over Australia. These vehicles were flying Australian flags—both red and blue—and many of these flags were upside down. The windows of the vehicles were covered in slogans: “Hands off our kids,” “End the mandates,” and “Freedom.”

As soon as they passed through the gate, a small crowd cheered, and the occupants of the vehicles cheered too. They had made it. They were here now, helping to create EPIC—or, to others, the temporary Anti-Vax Capitol of Australia.

https://open.substack.com/pub/cafelockeddown/p/the-day-we-won?r=130l44&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false