Peoples Blockade 2024

Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen discuss the 2024 People’s Blockade of the world’s biggest coal port in Muloobinba/Newcastle. 

People's Blockade participants explain why they attended, what they think about the NSW government's attempts to suppress the protest and why we need to end coal and gas.

Protesters on the road outside Parliament House

The Rising Tide “People’s Blockade” of the world’s biggest coal port has begun, with thousands expected to join throughout the week. Alex Bainbridge and Isaac Nellist report.

The NSW government has made a last-ditch attempt to stop the People’s Blockade of the world’s largest coal port by designating Muloobinba/Newcastle Harbour an ‘exclusion zone’, reports Isaac Nellist

Rising Tide said the People’s Blockade of the coal port in Muloobinba/Newcastle will go ahead, despite the Supreme Court ruling in favour of the NSW Police. Isaac Nellist reports.

kayaking

To tackle the worsening climate emergency, we need to build a mass movement that opposes the profits-driven capitalist system, argues Pip Hinman.

Isaac Nellist discusses Israel’s latest attacks on Lebanon and talks to Zack Schofield, an activist with Rising Tide, about Labor’s expansion of coal mining in New South Wales and how we can resist.