Native forest rally
You need to listen. Stop old growth forest logging. Stop native forest logging. Stop poisoning our seas. Stop poisoning our fresh waters. Those are the most important things that we need to get to government.
Uncle Jim Everett speaks at the Native Forest Rally in Naarm (Melbourne) on Sunday 3 November 2024. These rallies, organised by Bob Brown Foundation, were held around the continent in over 10 different locations.
Film Kieran Sullivan
Save Our Forests
Our Country is hurting and is in constant pain. Our spirit as a people isn’t fully fulfilled and healed until our beautiful milaythina, or our Country, is healed.
Nathan Pitchford, Neika Lehman, Tasha Matthews and Carleeta Rose Helen Thomas share how they feel while in the forests of Lutruwita and experiencing, first-hand, the aftermath of native forest logging.
Film Troy Melville
Standing up for our Forests
We’re destroying what maintains our people on this planet. Cause this is our home. This is all the environment that keeps everything else alive.
Uncle Jim warns of the risks to human life on this planet we’re taking by continuing to feed the rich who profit from the destruction of our “most idyllic aged forests”.
Film Troy Melville
Styx Valley
We’ve got a saying: we are Country and Country is us. Which means, as Aboriginal people, we are obligated to protect these forest. I believe that we all go in together, we all become part of that sovereignty of Country.
Uncle Jim speaks to forest defenders in the Styx Valley of the important of solidarity with the Palawa community.
Film Troy Melville