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"We're building an army:" Angry anti-renewable groups take to city streets ahead of state election

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/43777872

The protest, organised by Across Victoria Alliance, brought around 300 CFA volunteers, farmers, One Nation and National party supporters, and a variety of renewable energy opponents into Melbourne on the sunny Friday morning.

Speakers, mainly men standing inside a large delivery truck, used Trumpian language to play up city-country divisions and went hard on militaristic calls for a war on transmission lines, renewable energy and data centres.

I'm disappointed that so many farmers and CFA (Country Fire Authority volunteers) who are going the be the most affected by climate change fronting this anti-renewables rally.

"We're building an army:" Angry anti-renewable groups take to city streets ahead of state electionhttps://reneweconomy.com.au/a-war-without-weapons-anti-renewables-groups-whip-up-fresh-transmission-tension-ahead-of-state-vote/Open linkView original on slrpnk.net
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Luddites specifically wanted machines to serve people, these people just hate everything.

Also I hope these people are getting paid well by Rupert Murdoch.

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s/Rupert Murdoch/Gina Rinehart - If you are unfamiliar with Australian politics, Gina is the heir to the Hancock mining empire, and she's used her billions to prop up Pauline Hanson's One Nation (the extreme right wing racist climate change denier party that was also at this rally)

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