Joanne, a woman in her sixties from South Australia, joined the resistance after a close friend lost her home in a bush fire. From her vantage point, she communicated the scale of the crisis,
“These coal trains are over one kilometre long. Just imagine them coming every 15 minutes, every day, every week. Climate change is here, and we’re on a railroad to hell.”
Australia’s economic and political system is maintained through the resource flows between roads, ports and rails. It will continue to grow and profit off industries that threaten all life on earth, if we do not get organised and get in the way.
The economic and political structures on this continent were brought here and built on stolen lands. This economic system is complicit in ongoing ecocide and genocide, here and around the world.
We must use sustained, direct action to resist those systems and cultivate another way to care for the land and each other.
