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Michael J. Gratton

Peoples Blockade in full swing.One coal shipped stopped today, N to go.

#ClimateEmergency #RisingTide #Newcastle

People's Blockade on Horseshoe Beach, large crowd of people, with large Palestinian and Pride flags.

People's Blockade on Horseshoe Beach, a massive empty coal ship entering port in the background hundred of people in kayaks in the foreground.

People's Blockade on Horseshoe Beach, a man standing in a Rising Tide tshirt, holding a large model coal ship on a pole with "STOP THE COAL" written on the side.

People's Blockade on Horseshoe Beach, a crowd of people standing on the beach, and in kyacks on the water.

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Michael J. Gratton

@mjog@eigenmagic.net · 2 weeks ago

People power in action, stopping another coal ship ✊🏻

#ClimateEmergency #RisingTide #Newcastle

Rising Tide protesters filling the Newcastle port channel, police unable to stop them.

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S. K. Riley

@SKRiley_Author@universeodon.com · 2 weeks ago

Thousands of climate activists launched kayaks and small boats into a major Australian harbour on Saturday as a flotilla protest entered its second day.

Breaking: Newcastle Port is now closed to coal ships!

#RisingTide #Blockade #NoNewCoal #TaxCoalExports #FairTransition #ClimateAction #Flotilla #FossilFuel #Protest #Newcastle

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/thousands-gather-in-newcastle-harbour-as-rising-tide-flotilla-blocks-coal-exports/news-story/dfd55421b29a231ba137b3b817529664

People dressed in red raise their arms in peaceful protest while standing on the beach at Newcastle Harbour.
[See video of flotilla action on the water in link above].

Rising Tide say their actions are peaceful, describing the event as a family-friendly mobilisation with a serious purpose.

Picture: NewsWire / Damian Shaw — People dressed in red raise their arms in peaceful protest while standing on the beach at Newcastle Harbour. [See video of flotilla action on the water in link above]. Rising Tide say their actions are peaceful, describing the event as a family-friendly mobilisation with a serious purpose. Picture: NewsWire / Damian Shaw

Emma Davidson

@emmadavidson@aus.social · 2 weeks ago

Later tonight, I’m going to start posting my reflections on this weekend just gone’s #RisingTide blockade of #Newcastle coal port, but here’s a good starting point… I was on the protest site for all of five minutes before I did this interview with Newcastle Herald. Lovely journalist and photographer to chat with.

https://archive.is/03oEZ

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Michael J. Gratton

@mjog@eigenmagic.net · 2 weeks ago

Not too late to get to the The People’s Blockade! A protestival to blockade the world’s largest coal port and have a bunch of fun while you're at it!
https://www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025

#ClimateEmergency #RisingTide #Newcastle

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S. K. Riley

@SKRiley_Author@universeodon.com · 2 weeks ago

7000 expected to protest at world’s largest coal port

Organisers are calling for 3 things:

🛶 An end to new coal developments
🛶 A fair transition for workers & communities affected by the shift away from fossil fuels
🛶 A 78% tax on fossil fuel export profits

#ClimateAction #Flotilla #Newcastle #NSW #FossilFuel #Protest #ClimateChange #Australia

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/28/australia-protestival-newcastle-rising-tide-music-climate-change

Michael J. Gratton

@mjog@eigenmagic.net · 2 weeks ago

People power in action, stopping another coal ship ✊🏻

#ClimateEmergency #RisingTide #Newcastle

Emma Davidson

@emmadavidson@aus.social · 2 weeks ago

Emma in a Radical Greenie shirt and neck scarf standing in front of blue Arrestee Support sign in a white marquee

Laptop with screensaver of a big yellow box tree, phones, reading glasses, and a Stride mental health service Keep Cup with a paper straw in in, on a folding table

Bunyip the dog lying on grass under a table

Emma Davidson

@emmadavidson@aus.social · 2 weeks ago

Still at #RisingTide in #Newcastle. We stopped the coal ships yesterday, let’s see if we can do it again today! Will post more after the event, I’m trying to just be in the moment for now.
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #NoNewCoalOrGas

Night time view off Horseshoe Beach with the night flotilla of kayaks in the water. People in the kayaks wear life jackets and head lamps and have had safety training.

Dusk on a beach. Yellow kayaks on the sand, and a pink sail boat with yellow flags on the mast, and Fossil Fuelled Floods painted on the side

S. K. Riley

@SKRiley_Author@universeodon.com · 2 weeks ago

Thousands of climate activists launched kayaks and small boats into a major Australian harbour on Saturday as a flotilla protest entered its second day.

Breaking: Newcastle Port is now closed to coal ships!

#RisingTide #Blockade #NoNewCoal #TaxCoalExports #FairTransition #ClimateAction #Flotilla #FossilFuel #Protest #Newcastle

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/thousands-gather-in-newcastle-harbour-as-rising-tide-flotilla-blocks-coal-exports/news-story/dfd55421b29a231ba137b3b817529664

Michael J. Gratton

@mjog@eigenmagic.net · 2 weeks ago

Peoples Blockade in full swing.One coal shipped stopped today, N to go.

#ClimateEmergency #RisingTide #Newcastle

Emma Davidson

@emmadavidson@aus.social · 2 weeks ago

From 9am today at #RisingTide in #Newcastle getting ready to start today’s protestival. Music, dancing, food, talks and workshops, a flotilla of kayaks to block the coal ships, yoga, chai, and fun

Su_G

@Su_G@aus.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@emmadavidson
Oh that does look like fun & I love your word “protestival”! Thanks for being a part of it: stay safe!
at #RisingTide in #Newcastle

Emma Davidson

@emmadavidson@aus.social · 2 weeks ago

From 9am today at #RisingTide in #Newcastle getting ready to start today’s protestival. Music, dancing, food, talks and workshops, a flotilla of kayaks to block the coal ships, yoga, chai, and fun

Emma Davidson

@emmadavidson@aus.social · 2 weeks ago

Good morning Fediverse #Newcastle

View of a beach at sunrise. Blue skies with a bit of pink and orange at the horizon, calm seas, green grass as seen through a window

S. K. Riley

@SKRiley_Author@universeodon.com · 2 weeks ago

7000 expected to protest at world’s largest coal port

Organisers are calling for 3 things:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/28/australia-protestival-newcastle-rising-tide-music-climate-change

Michael J. Gratton

@mjog@eigenmagic.net · 2 weeks ago

Not too late to get to the The People’s Blockade! A protestival to blockade the world’s largest coal port and have a bunch of fun while you're at it!
https://www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025

#ClimateEmergency #RisingTide #Newcastle

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Emma Davidson

@emmadavidson@aus.social · last month

Politics has failed us.
Corporate social responsibility has failed us.
The only people who can rebuild the world that we want is us.
This is how we’ll do it.

https://conservationcouncil.org.au/blog/2025/10/29/why-im-blockading-the-worlds-largest-coal-port-this-november-and-why-you-should-too/

#RisingTide #ClimateChange #Newcastle

Emma Davidson

@emmadavidson@aus.social · last month

Politics has failed us.
Corporate social responsibility has failed us.
The only people who can rebuild the world that we want is us.
This is how we’ll do it.

https://conservationcouncil.org.au/blog/2025/10/29/why-im-blockading-the-worlds-largest-coal-port-this-november-and-why-you-should-too/

#RisingTide #ClimateChange #Newcastle

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Preston von Gabbleduck

@backupbear@aus.social · 4 months ago

#AskFedi Can any #Newcastle NSW folk remember the name of a bookstore that was in the city (around Cooks Hill, maybe) in the late 90s to early 00s run by a number of near-retirement ladies? Fairly certain its name started with a P. (Husband just noted he thought it might have been on Bolton Street.)

Preston von Gabbleduck

@backupbear@aus.social · 4 months ago