Rising Tide Australia

Coal exports are Australia's single biggest contribution to global climate change, and the fastest growing.

In Newcastle, the world's biggest coal port, community groups have been campaigning against the doubling of coal exports from Newcastle Harbour. This campaign has involved large community protests and nonviolent direct action to shut down the coal industry.

The image above shows hundreds of people blocking the shipping channel in Newcastle Harbour in February 2007. There have been three community blockades of Newcastle Harbour now, and each of them has managed to keep coal ships from entering or leaving for most of the day.

The next one is on Saturday 14 March 2009. If you want to help end Australia's addiction to coal - the primary cause of climate change, please come along and join in the protest. It will be fun, it will be non-violent, and you don't have to get arrested. Most of all, it will be effective - we'll be shutting down the world's biggest coal port for a day.