Chalk Rundle Mall red! It's a climate emergency!
* 100% Renewables by 2020! (Read the plan at beyondzeroemissions.org)
* Free, Affordable, Accessible Public Transport Now!
* Government investment for Green Jobs!
* Ban Old Growth Logging!
“An extreme illness cannot be cured with a moderate medicine."
Wear red & black, grab some red chalk and join the Climate Radical Bloc at Walk Against Warming.
Sun 15 August 11am Victoria Square
With current emission rates, scientists estimate that we will hit a climate tipping point that will trigger unstoppable run away global warming within the next 10 years (WakeUpFreakOut.org). We can not wait for politicians to act. Delay is denial. We must force action. Petitions & lobbying DO NOT force politicians to act. Even when an issue has massive popular support they will ignore it if it seriously challenges big business. This is why Labor never seriously engaged with the Australian anti-war movement even when half a million people were protesting in the streets. This is why even The Greens don't set policies in line with the climate science (VoteClimate.org.au). It is safer for a party to lose an election than it is to lose the support of big business and their media.
In order for a movement to be powerful it needs to be based on people power NOT lobbying. For instance, in 2000, despite the pro-corporate World Economic Forum being supported by both Labor and Liberal parties, a 10 000+ strong protest blockade shut down their meeting. More recently, after years of being ignored, Melbourne's taxi drivers won safer working conditions by organizing a wildcat strike & blockade of Melbourne streets. These are just a few examples that show that people power can make real change. We all saw how quickly the anti-Iraq war movement grew. Climate movement can grow just as fast but we need to make sure that it understands how to force real change. Nothing else can make the dramatic changes necessary.
Reclaiming Rundle Mall and decorating it with climate action slogans in red chalk is a way to demonstrate that we are not waiting for politicians and we are not playing by their rules. We can take control of public space back from corporate and government interests and as we get stronger we are going to set our sites on increasingly bigger targets.
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