Building a World Beyond Mining and Extractivism
The Blockade IMARC alliance is holding an electrifying one-week counter-conference in opposition to the annual International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC).
September 23 – Darebin council endorses ‘Blockade IMARC’
Darebin Council has just joined the councils of Moreland and Yarra, along with the Victorian Greens and growing numbers of unions and organisations in unanimously passing a resolution to endorse the...
17 September – IMARC Activists Vow to Ramp up
Hundreds mobilized. Thousands disrupted. Dozens arrested. “This is only the Beginning,” say activists planning to blockade a major international mining conference to be held in Melbourne in late...
September 12 – “Strike, Occupy, Shut It Down”
The wave of disruptive civil disobedience protesting the climate emergency is set to escalate, with activists gathering support for a “mass blockade” of the International Mining and Resources...
27 August – Yarra Council and Vic Greens endorse Blockade IMARC
Activists planning a mass blockade of the giant International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC) in Melbourne in late October have been given a boost with two significant endorsements in the...
23 August – IMARC activists against anti-protest crackdown
Activists planning to disrupt a major international mining conference to be held in Melbourne in late October have slammed the Queensland government’s crackdown on climate protests, announced...
August 2 – Herald Sun Article Release
Climate change activists are planning a four-day blockade to shut down a major mining conference in Melbourne in October. The group is promising an “S11-style protest’’ around the Melbourne...
BEYOND MINING CONFERENCE HAS NOW ENDED
WHAT AN AMAZING 8 DAYS!Thank you so much to everyone who came along, spoke, contributed, listened and shared between 22-29 November. It has been a very special time of solidarity across the world, resisting extractivism and building a better world!
