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Rising Tide - Digital Creator Session – Monday 7 July (tomorrow)

There's a Digital Creator Training session on Monday 7 July at 7pm (AEST) for anyone interested in being part of the RT social media team.

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Great turnout for Canberra’s premiere of the new Rising Tide film on Sunday night. Richard Denniss from The Australia Institute, and Jessie Price (who successfully turned a “safe” ALP seat into an almost Climate 200-backed independent seat) talked about how now is the time we most need to demand more of our government on climate action.
Also Shane Rattenbury and Jo Clay showed up, and they’ve told me they’re coming to the blockade in Newcastle this November.
#climatecrisis #RisingTide

📽️ TURNING THE SHIP, a Rising Tide film 📽️

#risingtide – a fast growing grassroots climate justice movement – is excited to announce the release of Turning the Ship, a story of the extraordinary 2024 People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port.

Over 210 South Australians joined the 2024 Blockade. We’ll hear from some of them about their experience, and why they’ve signed up to make this year’s Blockade even bigger and better!

👉🏻 RSVP for the ADELAIDE event: risingtide.org.au/film

I would love if you could all join me at the Rising Tide doco screening coming up July 5th.

I headed over to Muloobinba/Newcastle last year to blockade the world's largest coal port. I worked on the social media team and worked very closely with the capture team who were also filming for this documentary.

I'm so excited to see it! Will be ever better if we can get a couple of hundred people to our Kaurna Country event!

Please RSVP (it's free but helps with catering) and share! #risingtide

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@bounding_star @naceugene you’d probably be interested to know that #RisingTide has a very active practice of hand signals that they’ve been refining as part of their large group decision making processes.

I reckon you’d totally love the dynamic governance work they’ve been doing.

Def worth experiencing how they do it if you’ve not already connected in. (Apologies if you’re already well across their practices)

For those interested in Rising Tide, you might like to follow #RisingTide.

Click the hashtag above and then click follow.
Also you may like to scroll through the posts listed under that hashtag and follow any and all accounts of interest.

This same tip applies for other topics, do a search and see what you find. Also no harm to follow a hashtag even if it’s not often used. When someone uses it, it’ll show in your standard feed :)

From 2023: Explainer: What are your rights to #protest in #Australia?

by Amal Naser

"Which states have criminalised protest and what forms of protest are criminalised?

"#HumanRights organisations have been increasingly critical towards some Australian states over new legislation which seemingly targets #EnvironmentalProtests in the midst of a global #Climatecrisis.

"There are dozens of protest regulations across many states, with five (#NSW, #Queensland, #SouthAustralia, #Tasmania and #Victoria) introducing forms of #AntiProtest regulation most recently. South Australia's new laws, passed just last month, increase maximum fines from $750 to $50,000 along with potential jail time, and were prompted by disruption of an #OilAndGas conference by protestors in early May.

"In the aftermath of protests which sought to block port operations and shut down economic action to draw attention to demands for climate action, the NSW Parliament passed legislation which could see protestors face up to a $22,000 fine and/or prison for a maximum of two years. The legislation targets individuals who block major roads and new tunnels and/or disrupt #port operations in major ports such as #Newcastle and #PortBotany.

"In 2022, Tasmania passed anti-protest laws by way of the Police Offences Amendment (Workplace Protection) Bill 2022 under the guise of protecting Tasmanian workers. Under these laws, any protestor who obstructs a workplace during protests could face up to 12 months in prison, the Human Rights Law Centre reported:

" '…community member protesting the destruction of #OldGrowthForests on a forestry site could face a penalty of over $13,000 or 2 years in prison; and An organisation supporting members of the community to protest could be fined over $45,000.'

"Similar laws were also passed in Victoria. #AntiLogging protestors who 'hinder, obstruct or interfere with timber-harvesting operations' can face up to 12 months in prison and/or a $21,000 fine. PVC and metal pipes which are often used in protest activities are now prohibited in working sites, with additional powers provided to police to search suspect individuals who are 'reasonably suspicious'.

"In 2019, on public safety grounds, Queensland passed legislation which bans locking devices as modes of civil disobedience. These are tactics used to make it difficult for police to remove protestors and are often used by protestors to lock themselves to property and #pipelines to prevent construction of environmentally-harmful projects. Protestors face up to two years in prison and/or a $6,000 fine. It was rationalised on the basis of activists lacing devices with 'butane canisters' and other devices which were harmful for law enforcement. However, there is no evidence of the use of these devices."

Read more:
humanrights.unsw.edu.au/resear

#PipelineProtestors #BigOilAndGas #BigLogging #ACAB #RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #ProtectTheForests #AustraliaAntiProtestLaws #RisingTide

Australian Human Rights InstituteExplainer: What are your rights to protest in Australia?
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Day three:

Dutton is following a long line of #LNP leaders (Howard, Abbott, Morrison) who ditched Canberra to live in Sydney.

“A woman managed to get close to Dutton and unfurl a #banner calling for no new #gas or #nuclear. There’s now been about half a dozen events - mostly hosted by the Coalition - “bird-dogged” by #RisingTide.”

Duttons camp has a leak. ☢️🏭

#VicPol / #LNP / #liberal / #MickTsikas/AAP <theguardian.com/australia-news>