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Podcast: Climate Conversations
Episode: Interview: Alexa Stuart talks about the "people's blockade" in Newcastle
Description: Alexa Stuart (pictured) is an organizer with the Newcastle-based "Rising Tide" and so is presently busy beyond belief setting up the "people's blockade" - an act of civil disobedience in which the group and its supporters plan to disrupt (stop) the arrival and departure of coal ships from the Newcastle harbour, the largest coal port in the world, for 30 hours.
What's happening in Newcastle has been somewhat ignored by the mainstream media, but Michael West Media carried the story: "Coal from Newcastle. The port blockade that aims to stop it." written by Wendy Bacon.
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