A documentary highlighting the power and passion of those taking action agains the proposed Adani coal mine in Queensland will be shown in Nimbin on Thursday.
The film, #StopAdani: A Mighty Force, will be shown at the Birth & Beyond building at 54 Cullen Street at 6.30pm, and will be followed by pictures and stories from members of the Front Line Action Against Coal group.
The free event will be one of dozens simultaneous screenings in communities around Australia.
Organisers said the film shows a young Aboriginal woman standing up for her country; A Melbourne Rabbi putting pressure on his MP; Sydney volunteers calling voters during an election, and a Queensland farmer leading a massive protest.
The #StopAdani campaign’s first documentary, Guarding the Galilee, screened over 400 times to around 10,000 people across Australia, bringing communities together to build a movement that now has well over one hundred active groups across the country.
Organisers said the combined membership of these groups and the organisations of the Stop Adani Alliance well and truly tops two million Australians.
‘In 2017, the movement pushed Australian and Chinese banks to say no to funding the mine, pressured the Queensland government to veto the $1 billion loan, and saw engineering firm Downer break $2 billion in ties with Adani,’ they said.
‘So far in 2018, rail operator Aurizon have withdrawn their application for taxpayer funds to build Adani’s railway.
‘Yet with Adani having sunk billions into their QLD mine, and ongoing political support for the project, Adani aren’t just going to walk away. The fight to stop Adani is not over, but as Juru Traditional elder Carol Prior says in the film, “Adani are dealing with a mighty force, and the more it grows, the harder we’ll be to beat.”
Alan Roberts who’s back from two trips up north and will be showing pictures of the proposed Adani mine site, said the documentary was inspirational.
‘This Mighty Force is encapsulated by the character, humanity, determination and selflessness of the people turning up on the front line and implementing the direct actions against Adani’s operations. They come from all around Australia. You’ll see just a few of them in my pictures,’ he said.
‘These people understand that we broke our 1.5degC Paris agreement on coal production in August 2017 and we’re on the way to breaking our 2degC Paris agreement in 2020 without opening any new coal mines. So it’s imperative that coal in the Galilee Basin stays in the ground.’
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