Congratulations to the very patient (and very peaceful) Tecoma Picket Knitters who earlier today unveiled 3 months worth of “craftivism” to a large supportive crowd and several media outlets. The Picket Knitters have been a popular feature at the community blockade of the unwanted Tecoma McDonald’s site and have featured several times in media articles as a clever, creative and peaceful way to illustrate a community’s rejection of a corporate thug. Inspired by the “Knitting Nanas” of Toolangi who knitted a scarf 150 metres long (to illustrate the court ordered exclusion zone of 150 metres), the Tecoma result was a “banner” comprising of over 180,000 stitches and over 16 metres in length. Put together “on the line” over the last three months the 20+ Picket Knitters have today shown McDonald’s and the greater community that we are not going away and will maintain one of the most successful grassroots campaign ever run against a corporation in Australia to date.