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The Inaugural Meeting of the Rising Tide Central Coast Hub will be held next Tuesday, May 21, at the Narara Eco Village Hall.
Last year during People’s Blockade of Newcastle – the World’s Largest Coal Port – 3,000 people attended and blocked the coal ships for 32 hours, making global news.
“It was the largest civil disobedience for climate justice in Australia’s history,” said John Seed, who was a participant in the blockade.
“Rising Tide is scaling up its response to the climate crisis and aims to have 10,000 people for a massive 10-day mobilisation from Tuesday the 19th to Thursday the 28th of November blockading the Newcastle coal port for a record 50 hours.
“Please join us to help plan a big Central Coast presence at the next People’s Blockade in Newcastle and to brainstorm ways to build a stronger social movement on the Central Coast.”
Program
6.30 Coffee Cart serving drinks and treats.
7pm Screening Rising Tide’s documentary film THE FIRST WAVE: Revisit the epic 2023 People’s Blockade with footage from the beach, the water, and the sky – and hear from Rising Tide organisers and blockaders about how this historic event came together.
7.30-9pm We’ll begin to organise for spreading the word around the Central Coast about this year’s blockade, plan a screening of THE FIRST WAVE at the Avoca Beach Theatre and other brainstorming activities to encourage blockade participation.
Louise Harris’ moving song about the climate crisis will be screened and John Seed will give a brief presentation about how to transform climate change despair into empowerment.
“Whether you can make it on Tuesday or not, please join the Rising Tide Central Coast Hub Facebook page and stay connected. If you are unable to make this meeting we plan to have a following meeting on the 4 th of June with agenda TBD.”
Deep ecology
John Seed will be offering another Deep Ecology weekend immersion at the Narara Ecovillage July 5-7. More info and tickets.
There are other Deep Ecology weekends at Kyogle June 7-9, Melbourne, NSW S Coast, Sunshine Coast and another at Narara in October.
Buddhism and Deep Ecology: The webinar starts at 1.30am our time!) but all registrants will receive a link to the recording of our EcoDharma exploration of The Ecological Self which I’ll be hosting with Zen brother Tenzin.
A beautiful 10-part podcast with Joanna Macy is available at We Are The Great Turning.
John Seed talks about Judy Cassab
“There is an exhibition of paintings at Gosford Regional Galleries which includes several by my mother, the late Judy Cassab,” says John Seed.
“I will giving a talk about Judy which will include extracts from her diaries and videos of Judy painting Michale Kirby, Jack Thompson and other notable Australians. At Gosford Gallery at 7pm on May 24, 36 Webb St E Gosford.”
