By Joe Montero
Australia witnessed incredible images last Friday (20 September 2019), as hundreds of thousands joined activities in 110 cities and towns across Australia, joining the mass of school students who skipped class to join the strike4Climate, and to demand immediate and serious action on the climate crisis. Continue reading Success of Climate Strike could be beginning of a big change
Get along to your local Climate Strike this Friday 20 September.
Led by the school kids and supported by others, events are going to take place in more than 140 locations around Australia and in 120 countries. Join yours, from 12 am to 2 pm. Go this link for the the main places and times.
Video from When Our Turn Comes
They began to arrive at the Swanston Street-Flinders Street intersection, out the front of Melbourne’s iconic Flinders Street Station, at midday on Saturday (14 September). More were congregating at the edge of Princess Bridge, on the other side of the station. A third group was forming at the other end of the same bridge, near the Melbourne concert Hall. Continue reading Extinction Rebellion wins a major victory on Melbourne’s Princes Bridge
Hundreds of supporters of Extinction Rebellion descended on Melbourne’s central business district and caused significant disruption on Friday last week. Continue reading Extinction Rebellion is already making waves in Australia
Things are going well…We’ve been piss-farting around at climate summits, whilst handing out subsudies to climate criminals…
Video by thejuicemedia
It’s great to hear that a major engineering firm has decided to cut its ties with the Adani project at Abbott Point terminal and will refuse to work on the Carmichael coal mine. Continue reading Engineering company pulls out of Adani project
Roger Hallam talks about how the October Rebellion is based on the “movement of movements” theme and why this focus is crucial to our success. In his inimitable direct yet larrikin style, Roger emphasises that now is the time for all of us to unite, to put any ideological differences between us into their proper context and to suspend any animosity towards others with different points of view. Or as Roger puts it, “We don’t have time to be snotty”. Solidarity, unity in diversity, compassion and love for all life… these are our antidotes to the massive climate and ecological crisis that confronts us.
Contributed by a member of the Australian Education union
The Victorian Branch of the Australian Education Union (AEU) has thrown its support behind the next school students climate strike, which is going to take place on 20 September. The AEU is the union that represents teachers across Australia.
School students are timing their walk out of the classroom for shortly before the United Nations Climate Summit, and will joining similar action by school students across a range of countries.
The Climate Summit, which will happen on 23 November, is supposed to be the defining moment, where global agreement to accelerate implementing the terms of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change is supposed to take place. But this is far from a foregone conclusion, in the face of pressure from vested interests and reluctant governments.
Our young have a vital role in calling out, exposing and making those who wish to prevent change pull back, and allow humanity to steer a course away from disaster.
The union’s support came at a Sate Council meeting, where it was unanimously agreed, “to ensure students participating in…are afforded their democratic rights and can do so safely.” A union delegation will be sent to the 20 September march in the city.
Union members are to be encouraged to attend the strike associated march, organise a workplace action and use social media to show support. Most importantly, members are being asked to make it as easy as possible for students in terms of classroom content.
The school student strikers are acting for the third time since late last year, because they believe that we are now in a climate crisis, and have no other choice but to take decisive action, to push for a serious reduction in carbon emissions.
Government moves to open up to produce more coal, oil and gas is raising the level of anger and determination. The fact that it is young people who will inherit the damage, has driven home a high level of awareness and recognition of the seriousness of the problem need to now and in a big enough way.
Being less blinkered than some older people, they know that we are already hurting from climate change and that it is going to get much worse, if not enough is done.
Consequently, the school strikers are calling for a fair and swift transition from fossil fuels, to hundred percent renewable energy.
This time around they are asking adults to join them by at least taking a day off work.
By Joe Montero
Hundreds of people came out in Melbourne’s late last Friday afternoon (21 June). They blockaded the Bourke and Swanston Streets intersection in the city centre, then marched further north along Swanston Street, to the State Library. Continue reading Extinction Rebellion Australia holds a day of national action on climate emergency
By Ben Wilson
Great news has come in. As the result of a long battle on the ground by local community members, and led by the anti-fracking group Groundswell Gloucester, an important victory has just been won. Continue reading The Rocky Hill mine will not go ahead
