Instruments of Democracy planning

On Saturday we met at Mangrove Mountain to discuss our promised coal and CSG contribution to Cementa 15. We can see that science and health professionals have identified serious problems with the radical new forms of coal and gas mining that are spreading across NSW. We can also see that in the face of government inaction about these growing problems, an urgent sense of community concern for the future is spreading like a new form of democracy. Consequently we plan our contribution to Cementa 15 as Instruments of Democracy, inspired as much by artworks such as An Immaterial Retrospective of the Venice Biennale  as by the art-like actions we have witnessed in the Leard, Newcastle and Gloucester blockades. 

ActUp 6 at Camp Wando - Release the Bats

Learning to address the problem of coal in non-violent direct action workshops and actions at Act Up 6, Release the Bats, at Camp Wando, Maules Creek, 1-3 November. 

Protest at Whitehaven AGM

For the polite protest outside Whitehaven AGM against Whitehaven's rude destruction of the Leard State Forest, protesters are asked to wear red and purple, the colours that weather charts are starting to use to forecast the 40+ degree temperatures that are becoming the norm each summer now. 

David and Margaret colour coordinated against Whitehaven's promise of No Future

Pacific Climate Warriors Flotilla, Newcastle Harbour

Yesterday WRVAP artist David Watson witnessed and participated in We are not drowning – we are fighting!, the Pacific Climate Warriors Flotilla on Newcastle Harbour.  see more

Mikaele Maiava from Tokelau

paddling partners - Caitlin Rawding (Australian Youth Climate Coalition) and David

Climate Warrior George Nacewa from Fiji with a message for the current Australian government

Leardblockade Shenanigans

We learned a lot from the #leardblockade shenanigans and hope to be back for more. 

http://www.standwithjono.org/

LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND Opened by NSW Greens MP Jamie Parker

Opening of LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND 

by Jamie Parker MP (left with chocolate frog ) 

with Juliet Fowler Smith WRVAP founder (right)) 

David Watson, artist and chief editor of The Stuttering Frog, 

introducing Sharyn Munro

Sharyn Munro, author of Rich Land, Wasteland

The Stuttering Frog #2

The title of this exhibition is taken from a popular song, a version of which you can see and hear here