Action photos
Saturday 3rd November 2007 - 400 people came to Newcastle Harbour and 250 blockaded the shipping channel. The protest was the start of a community non-violent direct action campaign to prevent the planned massive expansion of coal exports from Newcastle Harbour.
Here is a slideshow of images from the day.
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Last updated: 6 November 2007 - 10:34pm
150-200 people gave up a weekday lunch hour to march to the offices of Jodi McKay and Sharon Grierson, state and federal members for Newcastle, to call on the Labor Party to take a stand against Australia's biggest contribution to climate change - coal exports.
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Last updated: 1 August 2007 - 12:07pm
About 60 people froze for 5 minutes in a shopping centre food court, to the bemusement of shoppers. The message: Freeze emissions growth. Despite the global climate crisis, greenhouse emissions in Australia and around the world continue to rise. This was an eye-catching and unusual way to draw attention the problem.
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Last updated: 23 June 2008 - 12:00am
The People's Occupation of the World's Biggest Coal Port. Over 500 (some say 1000) people gathered together and more than 200 took to the water to protest against plans to massively expand coal exports from Newcastle Harbour - the world's biggest coal port. Demonstrators called on the NSW Government to reject proposals for new coal mines and new coal loaders, and to take real action against climate change.
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Last updated: 4 October 2007 - 8:29am
Rising Tide Newcastle blockaded a coal train on its way into Kooragang Coal Terminal. The blockade prevented all trains from entering or leaving for about 3 hours. Monday 19th November 2007.
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Last updated: 20 November 2007 - 1:58pm
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Last updated: 13 December 2007 - 12:07am
Close to 50 people walked on to the construction site of the proposed third Coal Export Terminal in Newcastle, shutting down all work on the site. Work was stopped for over an hour, sixteen people were arrested and charged with trespass.
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Last updated: 23 April 2008 - 10:07pm
Over 800 Novacastrians braved miserable weather to spell out "Beyond Coal" with their bodies, at the mouth of the world's biggest coal port. Organised by Climate Action Newcastle
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Last updated: 5 November 2006 - 5:41pm
The NSW ALP held their annual conference at Sydney Town Hall. Rising Tide Newcastle went down for the day to join other groups demanding some real action from the ALP against climate change, starting by canning plans for the Anvil Hill coal mine.
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Last updated: 26 August 2006 - 5:27pm
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Rising Tide Newcastle placed Peabody Energy under temporary new management, deciding to cancel Peabody's entry into the Hunter Valley coal chain.
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Newcastle Harbour, World Environment Day, 5th June 2006.
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Last updated: 30 November 2006 - 11:54pm
On 7th December 2005, Rising Tide Newcastle stopped construction on the Sandgate Rail Flyover. A few hours and a dozen arrests later (no joke, they charged everyone there), work recommenced on the rail upgrade - a key part of the massive expansion of Hunter coal exports.
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Last updated: 13 July 2006 - 8:10pm
24th November 2006 - The Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile hides from the release of the final report of the Cole Inquiry, by coming to Newcastle to official open the Sandgate Rail Flyover. Rising Tide crashed the party, calling for, among other things, a Coal Inquiry.
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Last updated: 25 November 2006 - 12:38am
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Last updated: 13 July 2006 - 6:08pm
Rising Tide blockaded the NSW Headquarters of the Australian Labor Party, demanding an announcement on the proposed new Coal Export Terminal in Newcastle Harbour.
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Last updated: 3 March 2007 - 2:33pm
The NSW Labor Government were gearing up to announce plans for new coal-fired power stations. Rising Tide invaded their Sydney headquarters and refused to leave. 3 members of the group chained themselvse to 2 entry doors, and the rest of the protesters occupied the foyer. The police came, and the rest was predictable...
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Last updated: 19 July 2006 - 8:21pm
The coal companies and their mates intent on turning the Gunnedah Basin from amazing bushland and fertile plains into wall-to-wall coal mines, had a conference in Gunnedah to discuss these plans. They called their conference "The New Coal Frontier".
The local farming community held a protest outside the conference, and were joined by people from other coalmining regions of NSW, and a handful of climate change activists from Newcastle.
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Last updated: 25 September 2006 - 10:29am
16th August 2006 - Newcastle Harbour declared Climate Disaster Zone. A road block was set up on the way into the Carrington coal loader, to alert drivers of the dangers of coal exports.
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Last updated: 16 August 2006 - 1:24pm
Our first ever Solstice event, and still the dearest in our hearts.
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Last updated: 24 August 2006 - 12:10pm
The International Climate Change Taskforce met in Sydney in late 2004. While the objectives of the ICCT are laudible, environmentalists decided to hold a protest out the front anyway. Why? Because Bob Carr, then Premier of NSW, was talking up his green credentials as usual, waxing lyrically about the need to address climate change, while at the same time making plans to build new coal-fired power stations in NSW.
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Last updated: 28 May 2007 - 10:03pm
Rising Tide Sydney organised a parade in Sydney, against the phony climate rhetoric of the G8 meeting in Scotland
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Last updated: 13 July 2006 - 6:47pm
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