In this episode I speak with Castlemaine local, Kerry Calcraft, who spent her twenties protesting logging in Western Australia at Giblett forest. We discuss the training she got in Deep Ecology and Non Violent Direct Action and how that has impacted her life since then… including how it helps her during this Covid-19 pandemic and into the future as the climate emergency increases.
We also have a recycling tips segment at the end of the episode.
Resources:
Non Violent Direct Action:
- How the Stanford University King Institute describes Martin Luther King’s journey to non-violent direct action.
- The Commons Social Change Library is a rich resource for further reading on Non-violent Direct Action
Deep Ecology:
- About Arne Naess, the originator of Deep Ecology
- An interesting article about Deep Ecology and Arne Naess.
- Joanna Macy
WA forest protests:
- This is a call to action for the Giblett forest from 1997
- A list of groups that unite to help protect the forests
- South West Forest Defence Foundation
This episode was created in 2020 as part of a series called Turning the Goldfields Green. This series was created with support from MASG, MAINfm and the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
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