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Category: Blockading

News and resources relating to blockading in Australia

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160+ days of brutality & beautiful resistance

Overview of genocide and struggle in Palestine with FAQ, comprehensive & cited references, challenges to Israel & Australian claims & inspiring global resistance

Police protect the Beeliar Wetlands from community determined to save it
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Beeliar Wetlands

The Beeliar Wetlands stretch 25 kilometres south of the Swan River in Western Australia. Beeliar was the name given to the area by the Aboriginal people that have lived in …

No Gas Blockade
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Camps & Blockades

A blockade is an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving. A blockade camp is a temporary camp site set up near …

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Actions

Actions are specific, visible activities within a broader campaign. This section offers resources on different types of action you may take, and how to plan, execute and evaluate a successful …

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Reflections From Walking on Country

n August 2018 I joined Footprints for Peace and the WA nuclear free Alliance on the Walkajurra Walkabout, walking 250kms from Wiluna to Leonora on Wangikatja Country. Here’s what I learned.

Activists lying down on Manari Road in a direct action
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Direct action

People using civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action have successfully created change for hundreds of years.  The civil rights movement, suffragettes and people power driving the overthrow of dictators have …

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