If anyone's wondering how things went with the arrests from #RisingTide blockading the world's largest coal port in #Newcastle at the end of November 2025, here's an update from one of the arrestees - former Senator Janet Rice from Victoria:
https://janetrice.substack.com/p/we-are-the-rising-tide
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction
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Peoples Blockade in full swing.One coal shipped stopped today, N to go.
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People power in action, stopping another coal ship ✊🏻
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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
![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](https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/115/631/320/583/820/928/original/4fce3dbd14748714.jpg)
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.
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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
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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
People power in action, stopping another coal ship ✊🏻
This is what arrestee support looks like at #RisingTide in #Newcastle.
Bunyip is a Very Good Boy and lovely team-mate. And the coffee cart makes the best iced mocha on oat milk that I’ve ever had.
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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
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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
Peoples Blockade in full swing.One coal shipped stopped today, N to go.
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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
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Oh that does look like fun & I love your word “protestival”! Thanks for being a part of it: stay safe!
at #RisingTide in #Newcastle
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
Good morning Fediverse #Newcastle
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
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
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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.
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.
While there has been a lot of coverage & discussion of the far right demonstration in London (and I accept that criticism for my own posts too), there have been other demos & counter demos around the country;
here is Ben Dickenson's account of the 'organised, noisy, stubborn kindness' in Newcastle that countered the angry toxicity of the Right.
And, unlike the London confrontation in Newcastle the Right were far outnumbered by their opposition.
#politics #Newcastle
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/region/tyneside/newcastle-says-no-a-city-united-in-kindness-and-against-fascism/
