How can the climate movement avoid igniting old jobs versus the environment culture wars? How can we push for public investment in new industries and alternative employment?
Hear from activists, researchers and lawyers about how we build a civil rights and environment justice movement capable of winning the right to protest.
With: Paul Gregoire journalist with the Sydney Criminal Lawyers speaking in personal capacity, Emma Dorge environment activist with Blockade Australia Zane Alcorn, Rising Tide activist based in Naarm/Melbourne
Find out about Erskineville's radical history. A people's history of Erskineville will be revealed.
First Nations resistance, anti-eviction, rent strike battles at Union Street in the time of the Great Depression, successful campaigns to Save Erskineville's Public Housing estate, the Builders Labourers Federation Green Ban park, and current campaigns to improve public transport in the inner west suburb.
Why we need a mass, diverse and disruptive climate movement and how we can build one that has the power and strategy to match the urgency of the climate crisis and achieve transformative change.
With Alexa Stuart, 19-year-old climate activist from Rising Tide Newcastle. More speakers TBC
Since Albanese's Labor government has been in power, it has continued to roll out many of the Coalition's unpopular policies such as the Stage 3 tax cuts, and the controversial AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine deal.
Hear a panel of speakers assess the current stage of the ''New Pink Tide'' in Latin America, and join in the discussion of this vital topic for LA and the world progressive movement.