An oldie but a goodie: A big pile of poo dumped at parliament
“We know the truth - a gas-led recovery is bullshit”
We’re half way there!
Who’s got poo?
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Reinserting a messaging idea that I feel attached to:
Overthrow Bullshit
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The Adelaide group, on the back of the ‘maybe not blood, maybe ash and charcoal’ idea suggested 4 business days with 4 focuses: one day brings ash for bushfires, the next day is a water dump for floods, one is a sand dump for drought, and one is (leaf blowers??) for cyclones. The fifth could be blood.
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This is John @strageplanet 's handy work.
This at an ambitious scale would be awesome.
Imagine the entire length of Royal Parade and Elizebeth Street
Bicycle Victoria might have a radical wing that might like to form an NVDA Affinity Group.
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What made the Westminster naked action so successful and was that it was funny.
It was so funny that it disrupted parliament because, try though they might, they couldn’t keep a strait face and ignore what was going on - so they started integrating puns about bottom’s into their business-as-usual speeches. Some times with no-pun intended someone might say “the bottom line is…” and everyone would start giggling. Which made a great media story and the rebels got the message out there that the elephant in the room is the climate emergency
Although it was disruptive, there was a lot of goodwill and respect.
Fart sounds are funny but fart smells are gross.
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I’m not convinced that whoopie cushions are enough by themselves, I’m sorry. People stripping naked is a lot more disruptive than some fart noises. Giggles are great but can’t the joke be on the MPs, not between them? How does the media get a big story out of some in-jokes the parliament made after XR set off some fart noises and left? There also isn’t really the element of sacrifice on behalf of the rebels? I’m not sure if the offenders could even be arrested for it, it really needs to be bigger and bolder. Whoopie cushions in my opinion are a gag more than a stunt.
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Soooo should we body paint people and then have them run through parliament? 
Does anyone have any good sites in mind for an action that could be replicated in other cities?
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WANTED: 3 rebels to do one of these somewhere in Melbourne.
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Keep XRTV in the loop please folks!
Video or it didn’t happen…
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Here are links to some detailed info on the vast number of fossil fuel projects in the pipeline from our friends at Market Forces:
Today we released analysis showing how Australia’s big four banks measure up against their Paris Agreement pledges, and what planned fossil fuel projects in Australia they could potentially fund next. Please find our media release here, as well as stories in the Guardian and the AFR.
We’re putting a big focus on their lending to projects and companies expanding the fossil fuel industry, as this is the type of lending most incompatible with their Paris Agreement commitments.
We’re planning to use this to push the banks to stop funding projects that expand the fossil fuel industry and to align their finance with the Paris Agreement (exit thermal coal by 2030, phase out oil & gas exposure consistent with 1.5°C).
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Here’s a spectacular but socially distanced XR UK action against the Bank of England.
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So this is a project I have been working on which is now looking for people who want to create groups around Australia who are wanting to post this giant 6m x 3m stencil. This could be posted to the side of a building. Coincidently it is exactly the same size as a standard billboard, so if anyone has their own private billboard they could certainly put this banner up on it. It is seven 1m x 3m lengths of butcher’s paper painted in black and yellow (see the mock up). It just needs to be posted onto a vertical surface like wallpaper. Get in touch if you want one of these and I will stencil one out and send it off to you.
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Wow! Looks great. Where do you get the rolls of paper from? Some of us in Melbourne have been working on giant banner posters but they are expensive to have printed so if we could stencil some of them that would help. but I haven’t known where to get the paper rolls from.
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Paper can be bought online from Brisbane and delivered. It is relatively cheap - about 25c per linear metre. I will find the name of the company and post it later but I believe it is something like “QIS”
Yes that is them Jane. The roll that I bought was just 92cm wide because at first I was just looking for something close to the butchers paper sheets that I was printing posters on but if I were to order another roll I would definitely go for the wider roll. I think that paper makes a good replacement for vinyl and cloth banners in many situations. You can do a banner drop off a bridge but it could be taken down in minutes and then you have lost all of that energy and effort and relatively expensive material. From a distance no one is going to know the difference between paper and vinyl and once the paper is pasted up it isn’t going to be easily be removed. The cost is so cheap (if you use stencilling) that you can produce tens of paper banners for the cost of just one vinyl banner. Here are a couple of other large and long banner/posters I have done using the QIS roll of paper.
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