This week we chat to the people who have been protesting the controversial Western Highway upgrade near Ararat. The Djab Wurrung Heritage Protection Embassy has been existing amongst the contested trees for three years and this week one of the significant trees was cut down and others were at great risk. Protesters scrambled into action – some scaled trees and tied themselves in and others supported from the ground and started legal processes. In this episode we speak with the leader of the protest movement Zellanach Djab Mara and others who have been involved in the protest.
This episode of Saltgrass was recorded on Djab Wurrung country and produced in Castlemaine, on Djaara country, home of the Dja Dja Wurrung people. We pay respects to elders past, present and emerging.
Links:
The Djab Wurrung Facebook group
Go to this facebook group to join in on the benefit gig on the 7th of November.
News related to this weeks action:
ABC coverage
SMH coverage
Alternate perspective from Ruben Berg
Illustration for this episode by Trace Balla
S2 E25 Dja Dja Wurring Radio Uncle Rick
S2 E24 Regenerative Agriculture
S2 E23 Conscious Clothing
S2 E22 Neighbourhood Houses and Climate
S2 E21 What is Z-NET?
S2 E20 The environmental cost of our digital world with Maikel Linke
S2 E19 Cam Walker and Friends of the Earth (FoE)
S2 E18 Deep Ecology and Non Violent Direct Action
S2 E17 Adani Coal Mine and its protesters
S2 E16 Natural Funerals
S2 E15 Deb Taylor - The Long Ride
S2 E14 In the Beginning - Nappies
S2 E13 Food Security - Local Food and Farmers Markets
S2 E12 Peter Yates and Deep Adaptation
S2 E11 Author Illustrators: Trace Balla and J M Rodier... and the virus v the environment (update)
S2 E10 Coronavirus and Human Signs
S2 E9 Upwelling - Art and Climate Change
S2 E8 Coping with Climate Change
S2 E7 When the River Runs Dry
S2 E6 Protest Part 2
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