Zero Emission Network

You've been invited to a fundraising dinner for the Camp for Climate Action. This event will be a wonderful opportunity to share experiences and reflect on Australia's first Camp for Climate Action which peacefully blockaded the world's largest coal exporting port.

When: Sunday August 24th from 6pm
Where: Lentil As Anything at the Collingwood Convent in Abbotsford
How do I get there? See: http://www.abbotsfordconvent.com.au/visitors
How much will it cost? Participants are encouraged to donate generously for there meal and towards the remaining legal costs resulting from the camp.
Why should I go?: To support community activists arrested at the Camp for Climate Action and to share dinner with amazing people who are concerned about run away climate change.

Please RSVP to this address. vicclimateaction [at] gmail.com RSVPs are not essential but will be greatly appreciated.

In July 2008, over a thousand people at Australia's first Camp for Climate Action peacefully blockaded the world's largest coal exporting port in Newcastle. It was an incredible day. Children led the march along the edge of the coal rail line, until we held a five minute silent vigil in front of the massive coal stockpiles. Then, one by one, small groups of people made their way over or under the fence and onto the tracks.

Each person to cross the train tracks sent a message to the world. Each incursion onto the train line, banner drop, lock-on and arrest was celebrated by the crowd as a collective victory. By the end of the day, 57 people had been arrested, successfully halting all coal trains through the Carrington port for the day. While showing footage of Climate Camp activists being removed from the train, the ABC 7.30 Report stated the battle lines in Australia's climate change debate had been re-drawn.

We are a people's movement that is making the burning fossil fuels socially, politically, economically – and on the rail line to the Newcastle coal port in July, even physically – impossible. We learned we can stop the reckless expansion of the polluting coal industry. We face a future of dangerous climate change, and more than ever before, the world needs activism. The world needs civil disobedience. The world needs people, as we did in Newcastle, to stop the polluting coal industry in its tracks.

We are asking you to support the brave community activists who participated in the Camp for Climate Action. We are mothers, grandfathers, students, and workers who were served $28,000 in fines. The majority of these were $400 fines for trespass in the rail corridor. Please consider donating to the Camp for Climate Action Fund to support community activists and the campaign for a safe and just climate future.

See the website to donate online (tax deductible)
Or deposit directly to: Climate Camp Australia
BSB: 650 000
Account Number: 984525802

P.S. See Pete explain his experience of stopping coal trains, being arrested and fined in a fantastic two-minute film online. He says, cheekily: "Four hundred bucks for getting arrested, but stopping runaway climate change, that's priceless."