BREAKING: Today the NSW Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the NSW Police Commissioner against grassroots climate action group Rising Tide in the Police’s attempt to prohibit “The People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port” in Newcastle later this month. While this outcome is extremely disappointing, we must remember: the people do not need permission from the police to protest on public land and water in this State.

1/Did Violet Coco’s imprisonment outrage you? The full story's even more shocking.
Police and lawmakers in NSW are subverting democracy in *unprecedented* ways.
Making dozens more face Violet's fate.
A breakdown - how we got here + what we can do🧵
👇👇👇 #NSWPol #ProtectProtest 2/April: Anti-protest law passed w full Lib/Nat & Labor support. You can now be punished w up to 2 years in prison + $22K fines for disrupting a major road.

June: 32 activists arrested for peaceful climate march thru Sydney under S144G (Roads Act).

Sound bad yet? Read on.

Minister Dugald Saunders has made his response to the 21 000 people who signed the petition to end public native forest logging. To say it’s disappointing is an understatement (1/7) The NSW Government has basically dismissed the thousands of people who have called for an end to this destruction, saying they have a whole state of people to worry about so won’t be taking any action (2/7)

I still can’t actually believe so many good folk just deal with Splendour and what is North Byron Parklands. I wonder if people remember or know the truth. Your own community spent years fighting the absurdity of putting the event on that land. The land is the home of endangered ecological communities, 28 threatened species and is the site of significant Aboriginal Cultural Heritage.