Art and protest – If a tree falls
Eloise joined our team this year, and writes about her experience as an invited artist, to Tarkine in Motion This year I attended Tarkine in Motion, ran by the Bob …
Climate Justice Legals Network – LAUNCH
Exciting times! We have been doing this work informally for many years – providing activists with information and legal resources for being involved in safe, peaceful protest. From brand new …
Being an ally on Jan 26 and beyond
NOTE: This was written in 2018 so the event links are out of date and some excellent recent commentary hasn’t been added. Though much of the information remains relevant, the …
Beeliar – one year on
We recently returned to the area that the community defended as part of the campaign to defend the Beeliar Wetlands from the Roe Highway extension. Here are some personal reflections …
Revealed: community survey on policing of Beeliar
It was just a short question on the Beeliar Community noticeboard … “how do you feel about police” … and it unravelled a huge discussion, and led us to prepare …
Battle for Beeliar
Today the people in Western Australia will make a judgement whether they want Barnett and his Liberal government to continue. All signs point to no, but people are waiting hearts …
Humanity awaken – there is no time
“It is it worth it. we can not stop the struggle, we can not stop looking for a dignified life for all” Gustav Castro Soto from Mexico spoke of watching …
Check in… but don’t check out – On Standing Rock
Standing, not clicking with Standing Rock At the high point yesterday facebook told us that ONE MILLION people were talking about Standing Rock and #NoDAPL … the campaign to stop …
A vision for climate civil resistance
There are many conversations happening in the climate movement at the moment – with increasingly dire news – and likely breaching 2 degrees of warming or more by 2050, and …
Six things that won the #VicGasBan
Today it was finally announced by the Andrews Labor government that a permanent ban on unconventional gas is to be legislated in Victoria. It is a huge and significant announcement …