Extinction Rebellion
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Locals mourn logging destruction
Members of the Wombat Forest community joined with Extinction Rebellion to draw attention to what they describe as environmentally damaging salvage logging in the Wombat State Forest. Theatrics took place on the roadside at the Forest Fire Management Victoria log storage site near Daylesford last Tuesday. Large volumes of logs are stored from nearby salvaging…
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Protesting proposed protest laws
Central Vic Climate Action, along with a number of other groups such as Extinction Rebellion and Wombat Action Group, gathered outside Jacinta Allan’s office in Bendigo last Thursday to celebrate protest and all it has achieved, and bring an important message: democracy dies when protest is criminalised. Avery Barnett-Dacey was one of the speakers at…
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Central Vic to disrupt Land Forces
Concerned citizens from across central Victoria will be supporting the disruption of Land Forces, this year’s largest weapons expo in the southern hemisphere, to be held at the Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre. The ‘Land Forces’ massive weapons convention is being held from September 8 to 14. Delegates from 30 countries around the world, including generals,…
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Climate activist in court
Jade Jungwirth Climate activist Trevor Scott appeared at Castlemaine Magistrates Court last Friday after gluing himself to the former federal treasurer’s Melbourne electoral office in August last year. The protest was initiated by Extinction Rebellion (a movement using non-violent direct action and civil disobedience to persuade governments to act on the Climate and Ecological Emergency)…
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‘Declare a climate emergency’: XR
Local Extinction Rebellion protesters last month launched coordinated protest actions across the Macedon Ranges to demand immediate action on climate change. The actions took place as part of the statewide XR Rural Day of Climate Change Action on February 21 in the lead up to the Climate Justice Alliance’s Climate Crisis National Day of Action…
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‘Time to wake up’ – Extinction Rebellion demands emergency declaration
Extinction Rebellion protesters took to the street in Woodend recently in a display of polite civil disobedience to raise awareness of our climate emergency. On December 28, nine protesters with the well-known logo printed on their flags shared the High Street crossing with pedestrians as part of global protests demanding action on climate change. Traffic…