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Jan 21, 2023 19 tweets 13 min read Read on X
💥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…
"The govt and companies like @SantosLtd are putting our lives into jeopardy for the sake of their profits,” said student Louis Umlauf.

"We’re acting in self defence and then criminalised for it. But as terrifying as a prison sentence sounds, fossil fuels are a death sentence!"
🙅‍♂️ WE REFUSE TO BE BYSTANDERS!

"The crisis we face demands more than nice, polite activism which has not worked,” said photographer Peter Barnes

"@SantosLtd should not be allowed to buy its way into our acceptance of its damage to our planet with its greenwashing sponsorship.”
🔄 WE ARE HEADING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION

Acreage for oil and gas in the Cooper Basin is increasing.

In 2022 the number of petroleum wells that were expected to be drilled in the basin nearly doubled from 54 in 2021 to 100 in 2022.

energymining.sa.gov.au/home/news/late…
"I am so angry, frustrated and upset that this has been allowed to happen by greedy fossil fuel companies and our captured governments,” said grandmother Claire.

"I am prepared to take any nonviolent action I can to put pressure on the powers that be to take urgent action.”
“We have known about climate breakdown for so long now and the devastation it will cause,” continued Claire.

"Governments have done effectively nothing to halt or stall our decline into environmental and social collapse."
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?

Labor MP's @joe_szakacs, @KatrineHildyard, @ZoeBettisonMP and Susan Close have all come out against our protest of @SantosLtd.

@ALPSA loves to stand with climate activists except when it's inconvenient for them and their fossil fuel mates.

#SAParli
In November @TKoutsantonisMP was calling the slow approval process of @SantosLtd's destructive Narrabri Gas project a 'national disgrace'.

Not a surprise when he told the industry that the government had their backs!

xrsa.earth/blog/2022/12/1…
afr.com/companies/ener…
Oh lookie!

It’s @TKoutsantonisMP 🤔💁🏾‍♂️💁🏼‍♀️💁🏾‍♂️

#DumpSantos
#TourDownUnder
#ClimateEmergency
All the govt needs to do is tell @SantosLtd that this sponsorship is over.

Wait a sec! 🤔

Robert Malinauskas, the brother of the premier, was hired as the Head of Government Affairs at Santos just months after his brother was elected 😮😏

Making this happen should be EASY!
Before that Robert Malinauskas was head of Corporate Affairs at Beach Energy and Chief of Staff to @TKoutsantonisMP.

Sounds like it's time to get the boys club together to sort out this mess.

💩 DUMP @SANTOSLtd NOW 💩
"Capitalist culture has trained us to live in disconnection and disempowerment. This is a lie,” said Louis.

“We’re connected to everything. We’re all participants in creating our world.

No one is too small to make a difference and today I have chosen to stand up and push back.”
This action takes place on stolen Kaurna country.

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

Peter who was glued-on has been asked to cease loitering.

Head of @SantosLtd security is here.
⚡️ ACTION UPDATE ⚡️

Claire and Louis have received charges of property damage and will have to appear in court.

We wanna know, who are the real criminals?

🌏💀🌏

#DumpSantos
#ClimateEmergency
#TourDownUnder

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💥 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:

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Unless those best placed to understand the emergency take action, then how can we expect the public to act?”
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One struggle, one fight.

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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.

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What is Cop City? Truly dystopian.

#StopCopCity
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Jan 21, 2023
💥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!
Read 20 tweets
Jan 20, 2023
💥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.

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