DEMAND ACTION ON AUSTRALIAN FIRES

The unprecedented fires in Australia are at least five times bigger than those in the Amazon in 2019. Twelve million acres have burned or are currently burning. After prolonged drought and the country's hottest ever temperatures, the fire threat level is now frequently reaching "catastrophic" -- the worst possible rating, never invoked before 2019. Hundreds of millions of animals and 17 people killed, enormous habitats destroyed, fears for the ancient and rare Wollomi Pines, thousands of buildings burned... And the Australian government relies on tens of thousands of volunteers to tackle the fires, many of whom have been working for weeks or months already, with no thought through compensation scheme in sight.

Join us outside the Australian Embassy on January 10, at 12pm (noon), in solidarity with a mass protest in Sydney cohosted by Australian Uni Students for Climate Justice and Extinction Rebellion. Their demands, supported by Extinction Rebellion, are: -…