Sydney Nannas attended two events to stop native forest logging last week, including the biggest rally since the beginning of the Covid pandemic. Meanwhile, Northern Beaches Nannas were invited to speak at a retirement home.
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Around the country people rallied outside ALP MPs’ offices on Friday 11 August to call on them to end native forest logging. Sydney Nannas were at the snap rally outside Tanya Plibersek’s office.
The following day 5,000 people gathered in cities and towns around the country to tell their governments to stop native forest logging.
There were amazing turnouts in the regional towns where people are witnessing their governments ramping up the extinction crisis and global heating.
Nannas caught up with friends at the big rally at Addison Road, Marrickville, and on the march to the PM’s office. This was a loud intergeneration cry for promises to be kept and for action now, before it’s too late. Some wore costumes representing the threatened native animals while others were forest witches.
The MC was standup presenter, comedian and film maker, Dan Illic. Speakers were John Seed, the founder of the Rainforest Information Centre, Susie Russell from North East forest Alliance, Sue Higginson MLC and Senator Mehreen Faruqi from the Greens, and Chris Black from the School Strike for Climate. And it wasn’t all talking – singers Montaigne and William Crighton gave great performances.
Willandra Retirement Village
Knitting Nannas from the northern beaches were invited to talk to twenty residents at Willandra Retirement Village in Cromer last Wednesday.
Afterwards several of the audience were so inspired by Keelah (from Manly Nannas) and Felicity (from Pittwater Nannas) that they now want to support the campaign against fossil fuels. A few were in denial about climate change, with the usual queries about problems facing transition, but others were knowledgeable and contributed to the discussion.
Keelah read out the announcement about the Commonwealth Bank’s promise to deny funding to gas and oil projects, a decision reached after many years of advocacy by activists and shareholders.