ANTI-McDonald’s campaigners are still fighting the fast food giant, keeping a continual presence at the building site in Tecoma.
As the protest entered its third week last week, the community blockade received support from local traders, some of whom provided food.
Garry Muratore from No McDonald’s in the Dandenong Ranges said the support had ranged from vegetarian Indian meals from the relocated Saffron Cottage to coffee and toasted sandwiches from the Garage Coffee.
“We were pleased and touched last Friday at a community breakfast in support of the blockade when the Tecoma Bakery provided all the baked treats for several hundred who gathered,” he said.
He said the local charcoal chicken shop also regularly sent down chickens for the hungry protestors and the local real estate agent offered the use of its toilet facilities.
“Every day we find someone or some business coming to the site and offering support,” Mr Muratore said.
“We have even had a guy turn up and donate a brand-new patio heater so the protesters on the gate could keep warm.”
He said the protestors had no plan to back down.
“We’ll be here as long as it takes and we do that with the support of our friends, neighbours and traders.
“We can’t thank them enough.”
