In Newcastle NSW, home to the world's largest coal port, a community-powered climate movement is proving that ordinary people can create extraordinary change. Rising Tide is a grassroots climate activism group, using peaceful civil resistance to challenge the fossil fuel industry and advocate for climate action.
Their recent "People's Blockade" brought together 7,000 participants for a ten-day "protestival" (protest festival) that successfully blocked coal-exporting ships for 50 hours – their longest action yet. Through community building, creative activism, and peaceful civil disobedience, Rising Tide is showing how collective action can disrupt business as usual and help push for the systemic changes our planet desperately needs.
With the approval of 28 new coal and gas projects under the current government, Rising Tide's work is more crucial than ever. Their successful actions have managed to pile a huge amount of pressure on the Australian government and fossil fuel industry, while their community-building approach demonstrates how bringing people together in creative resistance can build the momentum needed for real climate action.
We redistributed $7,271* towards Rising Tide’s community-powered climate activism and their ongoing work in advocating for urgent climate action.
*Due to timing considerations, this amount was delivered to Rising Tide in two parts.
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