'It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.'

Slackbastard: Rising Tides

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"Blue Later in November … The People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port Newcastle Protestival: November 22-24 Newcastle & Canberra, Australia Organised by way of Rising Tide Australia: We are the rising tide of ordinary people, called by extraordinary …"

The network of climate defenders that was targeted by police is adamant it will not be silenced.

RESIST AUSTRALIA'S CLIMATE

DESTRUCTION

Okay, Day 9 and it's been a wild evening!

2pm: After Luke's morning action, Heike jumps on a coal train halting trains in and out of the Newcastle Coal Port.

11pm: Skye climbs into a tree-sit tied to the rail, blocking traffic for a solid 5 hours. She is kept company on her livestream by a few passionate supporters from around the world over night.

4.30am: Nate steps in at dawn for the next 3 hours, hanging from a bipod over 2-mile creek bridge leading into the world's largest coal port.

#BlockadeAustralia is a growing network that knows direct action is effective when it's targeted and sustained as it challenges power where it operates on the ground.

As long as Australia continues to exploit this continent and those who call it home, our resistance will continue.

Day 3 & 4 wrap up. Sustained action at the Newcastle Coal Port.

This is just the beginning... let's take matters into our own hands #BlockadeAustralia

FIFTH ACTION IN TWO DAYS!

Australia, Israel, and the USA are a part of the same financial, military, and ideological system of exploitation that maintains power through extraction and military force. Power that serves only the elite at the expense of the needs of the many and the climate that sustains us all.

Kim (33) who stopped trains into Newcastle Port shares, "it's all connected, the genocide of first peoples, the exploitation of land and the climate crisis."

"Whether it's through stopping coal as we hurtle headlong into climate collapse... or showing up in solidarity for Palestine and getting in the way of corporations who are enabling genocide for their own profit... we have to get to the root of the problem."

"The global systems that Australia supports are continuing genocides and dispossession using militarised state-sanctioned violence. I'm here to say that ordinary people without real access to decision-making power can and should intervene directly to stop the flow of resources."