Auckland Climate Action

Looking for something fun, worthwhile, altruistic, artistically creative, and political, to do on the last day of Labour Weekend? Undecided what to do? Sad at the damage climate change is doing to our world?

Following on from our highly successful protests at Easter, Queens Birthday Weekend and Labour Day seen by thousands of vehicles, we are returning to Mangatawhiri for an encore.

Why not join the fight against the number one preventable cause of global greenhouse gas emissions, coal?

When?
Auckland Anniversary day Monday 27 Jan, starting at 3pm

What?
Meet for a roadside rally against Fonterra’s proposed new coal mine.

Who?
Auckland Coal Action is calling for the public to rally to protest Fonterra’s proposed new coal mine.

Where?
On the Auckland-bound side of State Highway 2 next to the site of the proposed new coal mine on the Mangatawhiri straight.

Meet after 3pm for roadside protest at the corner of Homestead Road (motorway overbridge) and Bell Road.

Coming from Auckland you will need to take the Mangatawhiri exit from State Highway 2 onto Mangatawhiri Road (incorrectly shown as Mangatangi Rd on Google Maps).

Coming from East, you will need to take the Golf Road exit.

What should I bring?

Sunblock, something to drink, rain gear and warm clothes. Check this website for updates.

We have heaps of large banners for you to hold up.

What will I do?

There will be lots of returning holiday crowds for you to interact with, Bored out of their minds sitting in the traffic and interested by anything you do, to bring attention to the danger of coal to the environment.

Can anyone come?
Yes. If you are returning from your holiday why not stop and join the rally? You will only be stuck in traffic anyway!

Support the campaign against new coal mines!

Auckland Coal Action’s Labour Day protest against Fonterra’s proposed new mine at Mangatawhiri was well attended, with almost 30 protestors seen by thousands of cars.

Aucklanders returning home from the long weekend got the message loud and clear: no new coal mines!

Fonterra must switch to wood waste ASAP !

Looking for something fun, worthwhile, altruistic, artistically creative, and political, to do on the last day of Labour Weekend? Undecided what to do? Sad at the damage climate change is doing to our world?

Following on from our highly successful protests at Easter and Queens Birthday Weekend seen by around 2000 vehicles, we are returning to Mangatawhiri for an encore.

Why not join the fight against the number 1 preventable cause of global greenhouse gas emissions, coal?

When?
This holiday Monday 28 October, starting at 1.30pm (set up from 1pm)

What?
Meet for a roadside rally against Fonterra’s proposed new coal mine.

Who?
Auckland Coal Action is calling for the public to rally to protest Fonterra’s proposed new coal mine.

Where?
On the Auckland-bound side of State Highway 2 next to the site of the proposed new coal mine on the Mangatawhiri straight.

Meet after 1pm for roadside protest at the corner of Homestead Road (motorway overbridge) and Bell Road.

Coming from Auckland you will need to take the Mangatawhiri exit from State Highway 2 onto Mangatawhiri Road (incorrectly shown as Mangatangi Rd on Google Maps).

Coming from East, you will need to take the Golf Road exit.

Click here for a map of the area: http://www.wises.co.nz/l/waikato/mangatawhiri/bell+road/#c/-37.221375/175.148721/15/

What should I bring?

Bring your own banners and signs stating your opposition to climate change, and coal mining. Warm clothing is advised.

Some suggested messages:

• No New Coal Mines
• Coal Cooks the Climate
• Back Off Fonterra
• Use Wood Waste Fonterra
• Coal Causes Drought
• Coal = Climate Chaos = Drought
• Coal Dried Milk = Climate Dried Paddocks
• Coal Free Mangatawhiri

Or, invent your very own personal climate change message to present to the public and Fonterra.

What will I do?
There will be lots of returning holiday crowds for you to interact with, Bored out of their minds sitting in the traffic and interested by anything you do, to bring attention to the danger of coal to the environment.

Can anyone come?
Yes. If you are returning from your holiday why not stop and join the rally? You will only be stuck in traffic anyway!

Support the campaign against new coal mines!
Contact Geoff 09 528 9450, 027 384 7927 or Pat 09 296 8538, 021 066 9009

our sign from state highway 2 at Mangatawhiri

The queue of traffic returning to Auckland at the end of the holiday weekend was alerted to plans for a new coal mine at Mangatawhiri, near Auckland.

On this cold and breezy Queen’s Birthday afternoon, members of Auckland Coal Action got together to protest the new Fonterra coal mine. As at Easter, we hung banners and passed out leaflets to people in the line of cars on State Highway 2 as the vehicles passed the site of the proposed mine.  

We were heartened to receive lots of waves and beeps from the passing cars.

Police eventually arrived to deliver a warning for leafleting, but not before hundreds of flyers had been given out.  The banners, however, were allowed to stay up and will have been seen by thousands of people.

Looking for something fun, worthwhile, altruistic, artistically creative, and political, to do on the last day of Queens Birthday weekend? Undecided what to do? Sad at the damage climate change is doing to our world?

Following on from our highly successful protest at Easter, seen by around 2000 vehicles, we are returning to Mangatawhiri for an encore.

Why not join the fight against the number 1 preventable cause of global greenhouse gas emissions, coal?

When?
This holiday Monday, 3 June, starting at 1.30pm (set up from 1pm)

What?
Meet for a roadside rally against Fonterra’s proposed new coal mine.

Who?
Auckland Coal Action is calling for the public to rally to protest Fonterra’s proposed new coal mine.

Where?
On the Auckland-bound side of State Highway 2 next to the site of the proposed new coal mine on the Mangatawhiri straight.

Meet after 1pm for roadside protest at the corner of Homestead Road (motorway overbridge) and Bell Road.

Coming from Auckland you will need to take the Mangatawhiri exit from State Highway 2 onto Mangatawhiri Road.

Coming from East, you will need to take the Golf Road exit.

Click here for a map of the area: http://www.wises.co.nz/l/waikato/mangatawhiri/bell+road/#c/-37.221375/175.148721/15/

Need a ride?
Contact Rosemary Segedin about carpooling. 0274873033.

What should I bring?

Bring your own banners and signs stating your opposition to climate change, and coal mining. Warm clothing is advised.

Some suggested messages:

• No New Coal Mines
• Coal Cooks the Climate
• Back Off Fonterra
• Use Wood Waste Fonterra
• Coal Causes Drought
• Coal = Climate Chaos = Drought
• Coal Dried Milk = Climate Dried Paddocks
• Coal Free Mangatawhiri

Or, invent your very own personal climate change message to present to the public and Fonterra.

What will I do?
There will be lots of returning holiday crowds for you to interact with, Bored out of their minds sitting in the traffic and interested by anything you do, to bring attention to the danger of coal to the environment.

Can anyone come?
Yes. If you are returning from your holiday why not stop and join the rally? You will only be stuck in traffic anyway!

Support the campaign against new coal mines!
Contact Geoff 09 528 9450, 027 384 7927 or Pat 09 296 8538, 027 705 9741

Motorists returning to Auckland from the Easter weekend on Monday afternoon from Coromandel or Tauranga were slowed to a crawl for much of the length of SH2. As they passed the site of Fonterra’s proposed new mine at Mangatawhiri they were entertained and informed by a resolute group of ACA folk.

“Fonterra plans coal mine here” was hung on a 2.4m x 1.2m billboard from the overbridge where the mine site starts, alongside one saying “Fonterra could use Wood Waste”.

The various anti-coal messages included “Coal causes drought” – very pertinent in the white parched fields of Mangatawhiri.

A traffic count suggested a hundred cars were passing the site every six minutes so at that rate we talked to about 2,000 vehicles, most of them with multiple passengers. Further along where traffic neared a standstill leaflets were handed through the windows to those interested.

The heartening thing was the huge number of toots of support we got, along with friendly waves and thumbs up. The few thumbs down were a tiny minority and none of them looked to be having a good time!

Eight people were kept very busy holding all this stuff but we had a great time. What did we learn? Next time start earlier in the day and have more people so we can run shifts!