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📘 Living Democracy: Your Summer Must-Read & Listen 🎧 This summer, dive into the bold ideas of Living Democracy by Tim Hollo. Whether you’re relaxing with a paperback or streaming the free audiobook, this ecological manifesto will challenge and inspire you. 📘 Buy the book. Info at https://bit.ly/4iRMPxE 🎧 Listen for free. Info at https://bit.ly/4gQZOOt

"As I sat in the rain on the road in front of Parliament House, with a cop’s knee in my back, the crowd broke into a powerful chant of: Show me what democracy looks like! This is what democracy looks like!" - Tim Hollo Read more from Tim about his time at Rising Tide.

At Rising Tide, we pulled off possibly the biggest act of climate-focussed nonviolent civil disobedience in Australian history. But we actually did something much bigger than that. Read more from Tim Hollo about what went down.

Nonviolent protest is central to democratic rights and change-making. Continuing to exercise the right to nonviolent protest, pushing back against its suppression, is crucial. And, in this final Green Institute webinar for 2024, we will hear from three brilliant and courageous leaders in this space, using their bodies, their minds, and their creativity to defend nonviolent protest: David Mejia-Canales from the Human Rights Law Centre (David will be appearing in his personal capacity); Joana Partyka from Disrupt Burrup Hub; and Dr Lina Koleilat, a Lebanese-Palestinian activist-scholar at ANU. Join us at https://lnkd.in/gVpkjYr8 Hopefully Tim will share a few stories from his time at the Rising Tide 2024 People's Blockade, the LARGEST act of civil disobedience in Australia’s history, where countless protesters were arrested as they took action against coal exports and climate change.

🌲 Call for Contributions on Forests 🌲 Green Agenda invites submissions from Indigenous activists, researchers, forest protectors, scholar-activists, collectives, and creatives involved in forest, environmental, and ecological justice movements. Our next issue will focus on forests and forest struggles across the continent, highlighting powerful voices and perspectives on these vital issues. Share your abstract or pitch with us by Friday, 29 November to contribute to this conversation. (Image Credit: Uncle Jimmy Everett-puralia meenamatta by Ramji Ambrosiussen for Bob Brown Foundation)

Last night at the Green Institute's Missing Peace webinar on decolonising and nonviolence, we acknowledged what was happening, and how scary and significant the moment is. And then we discussed ways of being and doing together that are the only genuine path to a survivable future. The old world is dying, and the new is struggling to be born. Yes, this is the time of monsters. And yes, it’s ancient wisdom from what Mary Graham described as “an incredibly long experiment in human order-making” which provides the most important lessons for midwifing the new world we need. Read more from Tim Hollo in his latest blog: Kinship Is The Antidote To Scarcity.

What better way to ride the emotional roller-coaster that will be the US Presidential election results coming through than to discuss deep time, relationality, and transformative action for peace with three incredible First Nations scholar-artist-activists? Join us tomorrow night Wednesday 6 November at 8pm AEDT. Register your place now at https://lnkd.in/gYPATDPc

"Violence can destroy power. It is utterly incapable of creating it." - Hannah Arendt Explore more of The Missing Peace at https://lnkd.in/gAQ2jkb3

TOMORROW NIGHT! Webinar: Nonviolence, consensus, and politics coming together across difference. It’s no coincidence that two of the Australian Greens’ best and most respected facilitators of consensus and difficult decision-making are also two of our staunchest activists for peace, and we at the Green Institute are enormously privileged to have Janet Rice and Giz Watson join us for the third webinar in our series, The Missing Peace, on Wednesday October 2, 8pm AEST. Register now at https://lnkd.in/gXaJ3iRd

Nonviolence is about a willingness to appreciate our coexistence, to respect our mutuality, our entanglement, and our differences, and to seek a path forward together. In this way, a commitment to nonviolence is fundamentally intertwined with a commitment to consensus decision-making. And, indeed, strengthening our commitment to nonviolence goes hand in hand with strengthening our commitment to consensus. It’s no coincidence that two of the Australian Greens’ best and most respected facilitators of consensus and difficult decision-making are also two of our staunchest activists for peace, and we are enormously privileged to have Janet Rice and Giz Watson join us for the third webinar in our series, The Missing Peace, on October 2. Register now.