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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · 5h

❓Not sure if you're coming to this year's Blockade❓

Join us THIS Monday, for our ONLINE Blockade Information Session!

We'll cover everything from how we'll stop the ships, to Protest Camp vs. Protestival, to volunteering, dancing, meals and more!

👉 RSVP: www.risingtide.org.au/blockade-inf...

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · 8h

🪑 Armchair activists, assemble! 😜

We need YOU to sign our petition to the Port to stop coal ships during the Blockade.

The Port calls itself “a global leader in sustainability” — let's pressure them to live up to that claim.

risingtide.nationbuilder.com/stop_the_coa...

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · 16d

"Cyclones are decreasing" – climate change denialist and LNP Senator Matt Canavan, 16/09/25. A week later, Typhoon Ragasa is bringing winds up to 315 kmh, 400mm rain bombs and huge surf. #auspol #climatechange #fakenews

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · 18d

🚨BLOCKADE ONLINE INFO SESSION Oct 1, 6pm🚨
Ask questions, get across the plan for the blockade, discuss the program and meet some of our core organisers!
Register here: risingtide.org.au/blockade-info

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · 24d

If deaths from extreme heat, millions of people in coastal areas hit by flooding doesn't worry our leaders, maybe this will: "losses in property value could increase to $611bn by 2050, rising to $770bn by 2090". What's a real climate target? No new coal and gas. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

First climate risk assessment finds 1.5m Australians at risk from sea level rise by 2050

One and a half million Australians are at risk from sea levels rising by 2050 unless climate change can be limited, Australia’s first national climate risk assessment warns.

www.abc.net.au

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · 26d

www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/02/n...

Forget climate denial, Labor's tactical fatalism will burn us all

The climate movement is ill-equipped to deal with a threat that looks like this. Any fantasy we had of a global moral pact of good intentions is dead.

www.crikey.com.au

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · 26d

UNCLE PAUL TOWNEY COURT RESULTS ✊

35+ gathered in Orange to support Wiradjuri man, charged after reoccupying stolen Wiradjuri Country.

Outcome:
⚖️ No conviction for refusing to leave
⚖️ 12mo good behaviour bond for cutting chain

"let's fix our damaged mother nature we Wiradjuri call baaiame"

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · 26d

🎉 ONLINE People’s Blockade Info Session 🎉

📅 Wed 1 Oct, 6–7:15pm AEST
Get the latest updates + all you need to know about the Blockade!

👉 RSVP: www.risingtide.org.au/blockade-info

Come for the plan: the camp, the Protestival, & why you shouldn't miss it!

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · 28d

🌊 Magandjin/Brisbane Paddle Party Playback! 🎶🚣‍♀️

Kayaks + music on Maiwar, chants of Rising Tide + No New Coal with West End crowds joining in. Big thanks to DJ Nez + safety crew!

📅 See you at People’s Blockade 2025 👉 www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025rego

#risingtide #unsinkable

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Sep 7

drilled.media/news/algal-bloom

“There Was So Much Death.” A Toxic Algal Bloom Is Ravaging Australia’s Southern Coast—Warming Waters Are to Blame.

Three ingredients are required for an algal bloom to get going – temperature, the right conditions and food. South Australia had all the preconditions necessary, thanks to climate change.

drilled.media

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Sep 6

Rising Tide crew in Gimuy/Cairns joined the Cairns Festival parade 🌊 alongside local enviro groups!

A big Gimuy contingent is gearing up to travel to Muloobinba/Newcastle for People’s Blockade 2025, Nov 27–Dec 2 💪🩵

Join the convergence 👉 www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Sep 6

Rising Tide stands with First Nations & migrant communities as racist movements grow bolder.

We back the National Day of Action Against Racism — Sept 13 ✊ and gatherings at Camp Sovereignty this weekend in Naarm.

NO to racism & hate. YES to justice & inclusion.

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 Last week the govt quietly approved Glencore’s Ulan coal expansion on Wiradjuri Country — the first new coal project this term. 😡

🔥 41M+ tonnes pollution
🐨 Endangered habitat bulldozed
🏺 53 cultural sites at risk

www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/ne...

New coal approval undercuts 2035 climate goal, before it’s even set | Climate Council

If the Government wants its 2035 climate target to be taken seriously, it must stop approving new and expanded coal and gas projects.

www.climatecouncil.org.au

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Sep 3

🥳 MASSIVE WIN 🥳

Most of the 18 Canberra Wave arrestees had their cases dismissed today! 💪 Those with priors got minor fines, with the magistrate praising their good character.

Support Rising Tide arrestees with legal costs here: chuffed.org/project/supp...

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Sep 2

🔥 Rising Tide is thrilled to announce TJAKA for the 2025 People’s Blockade: Sat 29 Nov in Muloobinba/Newcastle!

@tjaka_music are a genre-blending powerhouse from Meanjin/Brisbane.

This November: peaceful, powerful, and full of music. ✊ 🌊

Be part of it → www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Sep 1

Solid support outside ACT Magistrates Court for Canberra Wave arrestees from PB24! 🌊 Thx @ShaneRattenbury & Greens MLAs Jo Clay & Laura Nuttall for showing up.

📅 Join us Wed 3 Sept, 8:30am, for the remaining hearings: www.facebook.com/share/16Wrqa...

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Aug 28

Richard Denniss gave the People's Blockade a shout-out at his Newcastle book talk! He backed civil disobedience too (“it works!”). Here he is with local legend Dr Peter Schofield. 📅 Nov 27–Dec 2. Register now: www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Aug 22

🌊 Registrations are OPEN for the 2025 #PeoplesBlockade! 🌿
Unite in Muloobinba/Newcastle to stop coal exports at the world’s largest coal port and demand a plan to support coal workers. 🌏✊
#FundNewJobs #ClimateJustice

🌿 More info + FAQ: www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Aug 19

Join the Nationwide March for Palestine wherever you are on August 24. 📢

Rising Tide will see you there! ✊
And we hope to see you in Newcastle at The People's Blockade of the world's largest coal port this November 27 - Dec 3! 🌊 🌊 🌊

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Minns govt has tried and failed to crush our right to protest! ✊
Earlier that morning, we painted our message on the doorstep of NSW Parliament:

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Aug 19

🌊 NO to genocide & ecocide
YES to protest 🌊

On Sunday morning Rising Tide organiser Zack Schofield confronted NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley over her office’s cover-up of police brutality against him & Greens candidate Hannah Thomas.

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Aug 17

JOIN YOUR UNION! Shane Reside (insta: @sreside) from Sydney MUA:
Union actions can be viable tactics as part of a social movement, hwvr if u want to strike, it must be as part of ur union’s negotiations. If u've joined ur union & get nicked for striking, Shane can help you. If not, u cld b FINED 😱

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Aug 14

⭐ ACTION CAMP PROGRAM OUT NOW ⭐
Aug 15-17 Addi Road Community 🌈
Workshops, skill-building & action planning for change.
RSVP & full program: www.risingtide.org.au/action-camp
Join us for a weekend of connection & collaboration ❤️

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thanks Newy Council for backing the community and supporting climate justice, and to the councillors who spoke and voted in our favour.
This is a powerful reminder that people power works.

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Aug 7

Despite community support, council is undecided whether to approve our application to use Camp Shortland & Richardson Park for the blockade. If you can be in the Newcastle area on the eve of August 12th, come & support the YES vote outside Council Chambers, 17:30! www.facebook.com/events/18331...

Council Vote on Rising Tide 👀

Event in Newcastle, NSW, Australia by Rising Tide on Tuesday, August 12 2025

www.facebook.com

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