Rising Tide is preparing for the biggest 2024 Peoples Blockade of the world’s largest coal port in its almost 20 years of protesting human induced fossil-fuel driven climate change.

Early on the climate organisation relied on clandestinely-organised “militant minority” lock-ons and blockades of coal trains, coal-fired power stations, loaders and other infrastructure.

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However, Rising Tide decided that direct action, in and of itself, was not going to be sufficient to take on the power of the coal industry. Instead it started to prioritise mobilising large numbers of people to participate in action to both help build consciousness about the severity of the climate crisis and people’s skills and confidence as activists.

This was the genesis of the people’s blockade concept. The blockade is built on non violent direct action but, importantly, is able to be scaled up to include thousands or even tens of thousands of........

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