@nando161 NB it would be more helpful if your alt-text described the photo, rather than repeating the text of the main post.

The photo appears to be of the #BlockadeAustralia protest. It's dark. A protestor is standing on top of some sort of container. There is a ladder leaning on it, and at the bottom of the ladder more protestors holding a banner reading "Survival depends on non-compliance. Act your politics. #BlockadeAustralia"

NO LIBERATION WITHOUT RESISTANCE!
Aahana (17) takes bold action this morning, hanging from a bipod at a pinch-point into the Port of Newcastle. We believe she is still there 3+ hours later, after locking onto the structure when search and rescue cops arrived.

She shares some potent words,
"I extend my respect and solidarity to all indigenous communities fighting for liberation. The nation state of Australia is responsible for not only the massacre of Indigenous people on this continent but across the globe."

"98% of Australia's trade is through the ports. I'm disrupting corporate and institutional power, the foundation of Australia's system. Disruptive tactics have always been employed, and are always criticised as extremist and counter intuitive. Despite this, the status quo celebrates many wins of the same disruptive tactics, attributing the successes to the framework of liberal democracy and the more passive reformist movement."

"I'm totally disabled from participating in our "so-called democracy" but still expected to be compliant - with all the evidence that suggests we need to take action, strategically and urgently."

"We are living with finite resources but this system works towards infinite extraction. Blockade Australia immobilises key infrastructure on the ground where power is manufactured. I believe nothing happens without people. I want to use myself, as a person, to take action."

13 actions and counting... we must #BLOCKADEAUSTRALIA

THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED, NOT BROKEN

#BLOCKADEAUSTRALIA 5th consecutive day of action blocking the Port of Newcastle, Grace hangs from a bipod over a rail bridge with a banner that reads, "the system is rigged, not broken."

Grace is right... environmental disasters, climate change, pollution and inequality are not mistakes - they are symptoms of a system built to exploit, to benefit those in power over the many.

The system is working just as intended. Politicians, corporations and the rich profit from the exploitation of people and planet because it's in their job description.

She says, "I don't think l'd be able to look at myself, if I wasn't doing something.

If you agree, join the resistance!

https://chuffed.org/project/blockade-australia-support-fundraiser

#BLOCKADEAUSTRALIA TAKES 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."
"We need to organise ourselves differently to create economies that prioritise people's needs."

"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."

THIS SYSTEM HAS NO ANSWERS: TAKE ACTION AGAINST ECOCIDE

#NSW parliament passes new laws bringing harsher penalties on #protesters

By Heath Parkes-Hupton
Posted Fri 1 Apr 2022

"The NSW Parliament has passed tough new punishments for protesters the state government says wish to wreak 'economic chaos' on #SydneyAustralia.

"Under legislation that cleared both houses today, people could be fined up to $22,000 and/or jailed for a maximum of two years for #protesting illegally on #PublicRoads, #rail lines, #tunnels, #bridges and #industrial #estates.

"The new offence applies to #ports in #Newcastle, #PortKembla and #PortBotany, but the government says it intends to add more facilities.

"Attorney-General Mark Speakman said the laws applied to activities that 'shut down major economic activity'.

"It comes after a string of demonstrations by #ClimateActivists last month disrupted operations around Sydney's Port Botany, the largest container hub in NSW.

"Members of #BlockadeAustralia staged protests on bridges, roads, freight rail lines and a crane to call for greater action on #ClimateChange.

"This morning, four people were arrested after blocking peak-hour traffic on the Princes Highway in Sylvania.

"#FireproofAustralia has claimed responsibility for that incident, which saw traffic blocked by people holding banners across the road."

Read more:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-01/nsw-new-protest-laws-target-major-economic-disruption/100960746

#Australia #Fascism #ClimateAction #ClimateActivism #CriminalizingDissent

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/28/whatever-it-takes-the-activists-who-risk-prison-to-shatter-australias-climate-complacency

#climate #BlockadeAustralia

this is from friday, but deserves to be shared. bc the actions are really quite something.

#climateCrisis #Australia #BlockadeAustralia

https://masto.ai/@kai_ash/110590081283888329

Blockade Australia are at it again this morning. I think this is the fifth day now?

They live stream on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BlockadeAustralia (though state governments are currently trying to get Facebook to agree to delete their streams)

The media isn't reporting their actions much, so the best place to keep up to date is via the Blockade Australia Media Releases page https://www.blockadeaustralia.com/category/media-releases/

#BlockadeAustralia #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #protest #Brisbane #Melbourne #Newcastle #HunterValley