Greenpeace is taking to the water once more, alongside 1000’s of individuals, on the Rising Tide Folks’s Blockade in Muloobinba (Newcastle) on Awabakal and Worimi Nation. The local weather disaster is escalating and it’s now not sufficient to easily increase consciousness, it’s time to take motion. We’d like brave, people-powered motion.
Newcastle is the world’s largest coal export port, sending out tons of of 1000’s of tonnes of coal on daily basis.
In 2025 the Australian authorities has accepted extra closely polluting fossil gas initiatives, proposed grossly insufficient nationwide nature legal guidelines, and set dangerously weak local weather targets. Whereas communities proceed to undergo from one local weather catastrophe after one other, Australia remains to be the world’s third-largest fossil gas exporter with no plan to decelerate.
Folks energy
The science is obvious that the continued export and burning of fossil fuels is incompatible with a protected planet and a habitable future. So it’s time to ship local weather polluters and the federal government a message they’ll’t ignore: the persons are rising up and demanding pressing motion.
Rising Tide is likely one of the world’s greatest people-led local weather actions – and collective motion (which has at all times been embedded in Greenpeace’s DNA) has by no means been extra vital. The Blockade is an occasion the place grandparents, faculty college students, employees, First Nations leaders, musicians and folks from all walks of life collect with a shared function. It’s a reminder that strange folks maintain extraordinary energy when united in function.
Proper to protest
Greenpeace will likely be standing along with the remainder of the Australian neighborhood who refuse to simply accept a fossil-fuelled future. We’re placing our expertise, our folks and our world platform to work. We champion non-violent direct motion, we defend the appropriate to protest and we again communities who problem the political and company inaction that continues to fail us. When authorities try to shut down community-led motion, it merely proves how important our local weather motion is.
The proper to peaceable meeting is a elementary pillar of a wholesome democracy and a fundamental proper of all Australians.
David Ritter, CEO Greenpeace Australia Pacific
The proper to protest is beneath critical risk. Rising Tide has confronted political and authorized roadblocks and, in 2024, over 170 peaceable protesters had been arrested. Greenpeace stands with the various who refuse to be silenced by draconian legal guidelines or threats in combating for a protected local weather future.
Fossil-free future
Finally we’re paddling out to assist improve stress on the Australian Authorities to decide to a plan for the part out of coal and fuel – one that’s fasst however truthful, defending employees, communities, and nature. Which means no new fossil gas approvals, but in addition a managed wind down of our present extraction initiatives. We consider in a renewable, people-powered financial system for Australia and the Pacific. Local weather justice isn’t non-compulsory, it’s crucial and the accountability is now in all of our palms.
In case your coronary heart is telling you a similar factor, be a part of us on the seashore, within the harbour, or on the protest camp. Deliver your kayak, your sunblock and your willpower. Collectively we are able to struggle for the long run and present that actual change comes from folks energy, not polluters.
