getup – Gabe Feathers McGee

A message from Getup:

‘Tomorrow, firefighters across Australia are coming out for rallies on climate action. We can’t afford not to show up too.
We can’t let this Government think that we will stay silent as they abolish climate legislation, axe the Climate Commission, fire CSIRO scientists, and not even show up to international climate negotiations. We can’t send the message to Labor and the Greens that they can go weak on climate change.
It’s going to be a big, powerful day. Danny Ward, a firefighter from Victoria, may have said it best: “When you stand actually fighting a bushfire, you just realise there’s something wrong here, something different. Something has changed. Climate change is real. I’ll be there with my family this Sunday, and we need you there too.”
There are 130 simultaneous events this Sunday – most of them organised by GetUp members like you. From community picnics to huge rallies in capital cities, thousands of hours of time have gone into organising these events. Now it’s over to you.

http://www.getup.org.au/firefighters
Share this video to invite friends and family along to join you.
So please, right now, invite some friends, neighbours or family to come along on Sunday. Some of them might be making up their mind about whether or not to come along. Here’s just a few reasons to pass along:

It’s going to be fun – events from picnics to rallies are planned to happen in backyards, parks, churches and beaches all over Australia,
It’s going to be powerful, with more than 100 diverse community actions going on simultaneously around the country,
It’s going to be an explosive, incredible start to a summer of climate action, and the huge fight for our climate’s future.

Rain, hail or shine, let’s do this. Let’s make Sunday an amazing, powerful, heartfelt display for action on climate change, and a celebration of the movement fighting to make it happen.

Click here to find your local event and RSVP to come along: http://www.getup.org.au/climate
Click here to invite your friends and family along on Facebook.
See you there?
Sam, and the GetUp team’

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Great footage of Bob Dylan throughout his career 😉

Holiday’s continue – the boy has been sick for the whole first week and it rained as well! But now the sun is shining and he is starting to feel a bit better.

c’est la vie

The good news is the carbon tax was introduced on the 1st of July (even though the Rabbit man promises to repeal it, along with all the tax cuts and cash compensation that will go to low and middle income families).

Now the big polluters have to pay $23 for every tonne of carbon pollution they emit. If that ain’t fair I don’t know what is. If we do nothing about climate change than we all pay (and the poorest most vulnerable people will pay the most, along with all the now threatened species).