Don’t hang our kids out to dry!

Join a peaceful, creative action in Rundle Mall to highlight the urgent need to protect our children, grandchildren, and future generations from climate risk.

Mothers’ Rebellion is a global movement of mothers, caregivers, and allies across 6 continents who refuse to look away, refuse to give up, and instead turn climate frustration and grief into action.

Meet next to the State Library on North Terrace at 10.45am for a briefing, before moving to Rundle Mall from 11am – 12pm. Finish with an optional picnic in Hindmarsh Square at midday.

Mothers, carers, children, and supporters are all welcome. This is a family friendly event with kids’ activities and music.

What to bring:

A piece of children’s clothing to hang on the washing line.
Musical instruments, whistles, drums
A placard with a climate message (we’ll have some too)
Family and friends

This peaceful event is sponsored by South Australia Grass-Roots Ecosystem (SAGE) and Extinction Rebellion SA (XRSA).

Join us at Parliament House on Thursday 16th May as we launch a campaign to repeal the undemocratic SA anti-protest laws on the first anniversary of their introduction.

Passed by the South Australian Parliament in just 20 minutes, and without consultation, these laws escalated penalties in the Summary Offences Act for obstructing public places from $750 to $50,000 (or 3 months) imprisonment. These new laws are part of a concerning trend nationwide of introducing legislation to repress protest. They broaden the scope of offences that police can use and further criminalise peaceful community activism.

Protests and social movements have delivered our civil and political rights. Tolerance of dissent and even civil disobedience are hallmarks of a strong democracy. History has vindicated many acts of disobedience, including ‘Votes for Women’, the global suffrage movement; American Civil Rights Movement; Builder’s Labourers Federation Green Bans; and Vietnam Moratorium marches that blocked Adelaide intersections. With implied threats of extreme fines and jail time, the new laws have had a chilling and repressive effect on protest. This often disproportionately impacts those with marginalised identities, who so often have played a key role in bringing about social change.

The South Australian community deserves laws that are the result of deliberation and consultation, not policy on the run, so we’re calling on the SA Parliament to go back to drawing board and reconsider them.

Sponsored by XR

Love the race but not the Santos greenwash? Here’s an easy way to take action: Copy and paste this brief email to our Premier Peter Malinauskas …

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 Dump Santos from the Tour Down Under Dear Premier Malinauskas I love the Tour Down Under but the sponsor is Not On. Santos gas fuels extreme climate-change impacts like mega droughts, floods and wildfires, and its blatant greenwashing shames our Renewable Energy State. Santos makes multi billion $ profits and doesn’t employ many people. It is expanding its gas operations to sell overseas, forcing domestic gas prices through the roof, and causing catastrophic amounts of CO2 to be pumped into the atmosphere. Burning heat endangers riders, spectators and the sport we love. So please Dump Santos from the Tour Down Under and find a better sponsor. Kind regards {Add your name here.} 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

Make any adjustments or additions you like. Then send it to Premier@SA.gov.au

LEAKY & SNEAKY : Santos has been caught red-handed using a giant gas tank which has been leaking at least 184 kg of methane per hour for around 20 years at the Darwin Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Plant.

The NT Environment Protection Authority (NTEPA) approved the tank in 2020 : the leak was reported just hours later while Santos was buying the tank. NTEPA Chair is Paul Vogel: on ABC on Sept 3rd he described the methane emissions from the leak as “insignificant” and the fire risk as “low or negligible”. He DIDN’T say that he’s a paid lobbyist for an organisation that works for gas industry clients. Santos kept quiet & continued to use the leaky tank with no penalty or requirement to fix it. Santos is aiming for massive profits from its Barossa gas field – with its extensive undersea piping north of Australia … What could possibly go wrong? And the results – more carbon emissions heating the atmosphere and endangering life, livelihoods and health across the globe.

Come along for coffee or lunch nearby.

UnNaturalGas #DirtyGasDirtyDollars #SantosLeakySneaky #MakeThemPay

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Elder Park Paddleboats.

Contact XRSA for more information