Activism
Explore the role of activism in creating change, using some specific campaigns currently underway that require a strong civil society of creative activists…whether that be climate change or the need for a bill of rights to protect the right to protest. In this workshop we will examine some of the legislative and coroporate attacks that activism is facing in around Australia.
Presenters
Louise Morris is the Coal and Climate Campaigner with Friends of the Earth, a passionate believer in the need for a strong and active civil society to create change, and one of the Gunns20 going to trial in February of 2010.
Roland Browne is a Hobart lawyer and spokesperson for the National Coalition for Gun Control. He has been involved in a string of important court cases, recent examples including Bob Brown’s Wielangta Forest case, the Gunns20, and the Triabunna 13.
