"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.
"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.
"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."
"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.
After participating in Extinction Rebellion Australia actions over the years, scientists and academics across many disciplines have launched Scientist Rebellion Australia.
“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?”
It’s time to kick fossil fuel sponsorship out of Aussie sport! 🖕
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@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:
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.
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.
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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.
"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."
@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!
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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.
‘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.’