Manly Beach was the site of the World Volley Ball Championship on Friday 18 August. Combatants in the high stakes final were the Knitting Nannas and Team Fossil Fools. Nannas met at the Wharf, donned their hand-crafted knitted or crocheted bikinis and then marched down the busy Corso to the beach. Their novel attire andContinue reading “Nannas in bikinis in the REAL World Cup”
Tag Archives: Climate change
Nannas visit Minister for Climate Change, and koala activists
New signs, reels and radio interview. It all happened last week when news of extreme heat, wildfires, floods and ice melts around the world told us that climate change is happening faster than most climate scientists predicted, and global tipping points are closer than we thought.
Letter to Minister for Climate Change
The following letter was delivered to the electorate office of Chris Bowen, Minister for Climate Change and Energy on Thursday 27 July 2023.
Nannas join like-minded people
Sydney Knitting Nannas joined many other groups including Move Beyond Coal, 350.org, XR Drum Rebellion, Australian Religious Response to Climate Change and Lismore activists at a demonstration outside the Financial Review Banking Summit at the Hilton last Tuesday. All these like-minded people were there to tell the Big Bankers plotting inside to stop funding destructiveContinue reading “Nannas join like-minded people”
Explaining Labor’s Safeguard Mechanism
On Wednesday evening Nannas met one of their heroes economist Richard Denniss after the forum on federal Labor’s Safeguard Mechanism at the Sydney Town Hall. The forum posed the question: will it safeguard the climate and the future, or the fossil fuel industries?
Violet is free
Sydney Nannas once again were up early to support Violet Coco outside court before her appeal hearing at the Downing Centre Court. Violet was sentenced in December to a 15-month jail term with a non-parole period of eight months.
Wins in 2022
Here we are at the end of 2022 and Sydney Knitting Nannas & Friends are thinking about what we have achieved this year. The Nannafesto calls for us to leave our children and grandchildren a clean and healthy environment – so how did we go?
We are the crowd who knows that climate action is urgent
Nannas were outside Parliament yesterday, with others, to speak out against the sentencing of Deanna “Violet” Coco to a non-parole period of eight months. Violet blocked a single lane of traffic on the Sydney Harbour Bridge in April in a protest staged to draw attention to the global climate emergency.
COP27 Climate Rally
Knitting Nannas from Sydney and the Hunter joined a rally and march in Sydney last Saturday to call for much stronger climate action by the global leaders gathered at the COP27 in Egypt.
IMARC Conference protest
Knitting Nannas are still puzzling over police actions at the International Mining and Resources Conference at Darling Harbour on Friday 4 November. One of the Sydney Nannas struggled to make sense of what’s going on in the following short video.