04 October, 2019

Climate change activists plan week of disruptive capital city protests

Police are promising to crack down on protesters ahead of a week of planned disruptive climate change demonstrations in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
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Extinction Rebellion protesters lie down on Brisbane's
 Queen Street on a weekday morning in June. 
Protest action, known as the Spring Rebellion, is planned for the capital cities next week (October 7-13) – beginning on Monday with a blockade of the Swanston and Flinders intersection in Melbourne’s CBD and a “human tide” marching along the Sydney harbour foreshore.
Protests are also planned for Perth and Adelaide.
The week of action is organised by Extinction Rebellion, a group of climate protesters that has already caused peak-hour chaos in Brisbane several times this year.
Extinction Rebellion was founded in Britain in 2018. Now a global organisation, it wants urgent action to prevent on climate change.
Nonviolent civil disobedience is at the core of its protest action.

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