💥BREAKING💥

Pedal Rebels are swarming Naarm / Melbourne with a scramble of skeletons and a message for @SantosLtd, sponsor of @TourDownUnder, and @ANZ_au, sponsor of @AustralianOpen:

It’s time to kick fossil fuel sponsorship out of Aussie sport! 🖕

🧵⬇️
@ANZ sponsors the @AustralianOpen and is one of the big four banks funding @SantosLtd, responsible for desecrating sacred Gomeroi Country and cooking the planet.

Santos sponsors the @TourDownUnder. Rebels have protested Santos’ sportswashing all week:

ausrebellion.earth/news/xr-sa-cha…
As rebels swarm the streets of Naarm, deathly fingers of @ANZ and @SantosLtd Business Execs are clutching briefcases stuffed with worthless dollars because business-as-usual = death.

@ANZ_au: We 👀 through your greenwashing!

@SantosLtd: We 👀 through your sportswashing!
Fossil fuel corporations like @SantosLtd use sponsorships to buy social licence for their climate-wrecking activities.

Coal, gas and oil companies spend $14 to $18 million every year greenwashing their public image by sponsoring sport in Australia 🤮

acf.org.au/new-research-f…
LIVE: fb.watch/iaW9Y8Z8a8/?mi…

Rebels are booing in response to @TourDownUnder sponsor @SantosLtd’s plans for 850 gas wells on sacred Gomeroi Country.

In solidarity with Gomeroi, XR’s message for the #TourDownUnder: Dump Santos!

@ANZ_au: Stop funding fossil fuels!
ICYMI: @Santosltd’s Narrabri Gas Project will pump 120 million tonnes of toxic carbon into the atmosphere.

They’ve tried to pay off Gomeroi people for their $3.5bn death project.

There are tales of cash in briefcases and tickets to sporting events for a select few 🤑🤮
But Gomeroi choose Country over profits.

You can’t put a price on culture!

#GamilMeansNo
“The destruction that will occur at the hands of @SantosLtd will impact peoples’ access to clean air and water. Whether underground, above or falling from the sky, water is the key to all life and nobody must upset the balance,” said sovereign Gomeroi yinaar Linda Whitten.
“We reiterate the fact that @Santosltd is not welcome on the sacred lands of the Gomeroi. The fight and stance against them, and those like them, will continue,” said sovereign Gomeroi yinaar Linda Whitten.

“Santos, get off our sacred lands!”

#GamilMeansNo
“The Gomeroi fight for Country is our fight for life on this planet,” said rebel Viola.

“See this shirt? He is the Hairy Man who protects the Pilliga forest. Aunty Polly said that Pilliga belongs to him and Gomeroi will fight for him! He needs our help to stop @Santosltd!”
“Extinction Rebellion is appalled that fossil fuel companies are allowed to sponsor anything at all, let alone big sporting events like the @TourDownUnder and @AustralianOpen while they destroy our future and sacred cultures and lands,” said rebel Viola.
“Banks and corporations like @ANZ_au and @Santosltd are investing in environmental destruction and fuelling climate collapse, despite the @UN Secretary @AntonioGuterres labelling Australia a ‘holdout’ for refusing to do more on climate change,” said @ScientistRebel1 rebel Brenda.
“We are here today to call out this attempt to greenwash the image of fossil fuels,” said @ScientistRebel1 rebel Brenda.

“It’s time to #TellTheTruth about sports sponsorship in Australia. Sports and the companies that sponsor them have a choice: planet or profits.”

#ActNow
GREENWASHING SPORT?
WHAT A RORT! 🙅🏿‍♂️🙅🏼‍♀️🙅🏽

Coal, gas and oil companies spend $14 to $18 million a year greenwashing their public image by sponsoring sport in Australia, according to a new report by the @ClimateCouncil.

#ClimateEmergency

climatecouncil.org.au/wp-content/upl…
“By 2040 heatwaves in Sydney and Melbourne could reach highs of 50°C, threatening the viability of summer sport as it is currently played,” said @ClimateCouncil.

“No athlete is immune to increasingly hot summers which are a health hazard for those playing and watching sport.”
CLIMATE CRISIS = ATHLETES AT RISK

Extreme heat, exacerbated by climate change, is already a major health hazard for cyclists and the viability of the @Santosltd #TourDownUnder.

Code Red temps forced TDU to reduce the length of the of the race in 2019:

cyclist.co.uk/news/5859/extr…
Temperatures at the @AustralianOpen have repeatedly hit +40°C with games suspended and players taken to hospital.

In 2014, almost 1,000 spectators were treated for heat exhaustion.

Yet @ANZ_au who fund fossil-fuelled heat sponsor the event! 🤪🙃

nytimes.com/2014/01/18/spo…
WE 🫶 CYCLING + TENNIS!
WE HATE FOSSIL FUELS!

Extinction Rebellion Australia begs the @TourDownUnder and the @AustralianOpen to dump @SantosLtd and @ANZ_au as sponsors.

No sport or culture on a dead planet!

WE WANNA LIVE 🌏🐨🌿

#ClimateEmergency
This action takes place on the stolen land of Wurundjeri, Woiwurrung people.

We pay respect to Elders past and present. We acknowledge their sovereignty and ongoing resistance against the forces of capitalism and colonialism which fuel the climate and ecological emergency.⁣

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Jan 22
💥 BREAKING 💥

After participating in Extinction Rebellion Australia actions over the years, scientists and academics across many disciplines have launched Scientist Rebellion Australia.

Their message: WE ARE NOT SAFE.

Sign the open letter:

actionnetwork.org/forms/scientis…

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⚡️LIVE ⚡️

Scientist Rebellion is congregating at the southeast side of Princes Bridge, Naarm / Melbourne with a warning for the public:

We are NOT safe!

Governments and companies must stop investing in gas, coal and oil!

#ClimateEmergency ImageImageImage
“We, scientists and academics, believe we should expose the reality and severity of the climate and ecological emergency by engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience.

Unless those best placed to understand the emergency take action, then how can we expect the public to act?” Image
Read 19 tweets
Jan 21
💥BREAKING💥

Minutes out from the #TourDownUnder criterium race, rebels have chucked buckets of black paint and sprawled ‘Dump Santos’ across @SantosLtd HQ.

Our demand: SA Govt must dump Santos as TDU sponsor!

No social consent for climate destruction!

#ClimateEmergency twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🤨 WHO ARE THE REAL VANDALS?

"Roughly ten years ago @SantosLtd went unpunished after spilling 250,000 litres of oil, narrowly avoiding widespread water contamination in Queensland,” said @XRSouthAus spokesperson Chris Johnson.

abc.net.au/news/2015-10-0…
💧 WATER IS LIFE

"Now they want to rip up the Pilliga Forest to establish 850 gas wells which would put the climate and the Great Artesian Basin, the largest artesian basin in the world, at risk,” said rebel Chris.

abc.net.au/news/2023-01-1…
Read 19 tweets
Jan 21
Extinction Rebellion Australia stands in solidarity with #StopCopCity and @DefendATLForest and extends condolences to Tort’s comrades and loved ones.

One struggle, one fight.

Love and rage,
XR Australia

#JusticeForTort
We need a borderless, internationalist rebellion against extinction.

We must rebel against those who uphold the toxic system which fuels the climate and ecological emergency.

XR stands with all land and water defenders and against state violence.

democracynow.org/2023/1/20/atla…
What is Cop City? Truly dystopian.

#StopCopCity
#JusticeForTort
#ClimateEmergency
#EcologicalEmergency
Read 4 tweets
Jan 20
💥BREAKING💥

Pedal rebels David and Andrew have donned the ‘Dump Santos’ message as they complete the grueling #TourDownUnder Challenge Tour.

They were followed by seven rebels who joined the tour in the final stretches with supporters cheering them on at the finish line.

🧵⬇️
Tour Down Under security stepped out in front of the supporting riders, putting them at risk.

One rebel was dragged off their bicycle and grazed their knee. Their bicycle was also damaged. Image
"I love the #TourDownUnder. I want it to continue. But Santos is a major oil and gas producer. It's a big cause of the climate crisis." said Challenge Tour rider David.

"It's time we stopped helping them look respectable, and found another sponsor." Image
Read 9 tweets
Jun 21, 2022
💥BREAKING💥

@DanielAndrewsMP wants to hit peaceful forest defenders and scientific surveyors in logging coupes with $21K fines / 1yr jail!

Rebels have joined 30+ groups incl. @Alliance_Forest to demand our right to protect some of the most carbon dense forests in the world!
🧵
WHAT HAPPENED TO DEMOCRACY? 🌳🌿

We call on all Victorian MPs to reject the proposed draconian laws which will increase penalties for citizens wishing to protect forests from VicForests’ often unlawful logging practices.

cc. @DanielAndrewsMP @LilyDAmbrosioMP

#VicGov #AusPol
📣 LET IT BE KNOWN!

Government-owned VicForests is facing 9 court cases and corruption scandals including illegal logging and spying on a conservationist.

Yet it’s #VicGov that wants to send peaceful forest defenders to jail when logging is the crime!

abc.net.au/news/2021-12-1…
Read 15 tweets
Jun 20, 2022
NSW Police loves nothing more than harassing protesters only to run with its tail between its legs when it gets confronted over it.

@BlockadeAus: ‘WE ARE NOT THE ONES WITH THE GUNS.’

Full statement by our comrades on behalf of the BA network below.

pedestrian.tv/news/nsw-polic…
But first:

‘WTF is an unauthorised protest, really? Isn’t the whole point of a protest to be disruptive? Protests by definition should not be state-sanctioned. Australian democracy, everyone.’

Exactly, @pedestriandaily.
Full statement from @BlockadeAus.

See this tweet and the next.
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