
The Nambucca Heads arrival will be a particular focus for Greens supporters from Bellingen and further south.
DATE
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DAY
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DEPARTURE
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ARRIVAL
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EVENTS
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6-Jan
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Friday
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Minnie Water
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Woolgoolga
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7-Jan
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Saturday
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Woolgoolga
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Welcome Flotilla 3.00pm
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8-Jan
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Sunday
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Coffs Harbour
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Nambucca Heads
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9-Jan
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Monday
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10-Jan
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Tuesday
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Nambucca Heads
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13-Jan
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Friday
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Arrive Frday 9.00am. Presentation
Fri 6.00pm Departure flotilla Sat 1pm -3pm
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14-Jan
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Saturday
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Port Macquarie
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North Haven
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– See more at: http://climateemergencydeclaration.org/kayak/#sthash.8dM5CmI7.dpuf
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Steve is interviewed at Coffs Harbour |
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Steve arrives at Coffs' Jetty Beach |
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Steve talks on Jetty Beach |
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Uncle Martin welcomes Steve to Gumbaynggir country |
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Steve is welcomed by a haka |
Steve Posselt kayaks to Canberra via Nambucca
Heads.
Steve Posselt, kayak adventurer and ecowarrior, set
off from Ballina on New Years Day on the last leg of his Connecting Climate
Chaos journey that has taken him around the world. He plans to collect 100,000 signatures for the Climate Emergency
Declaration petition.
Steve Posselt will be met at cities and towns on the
way, including Nambucca Heads. At Nambucca
Heads, Justin Field and Jeremy Buckingham, Greens MLCs will paddle out to meet
Steve. Steve plans to arrive at 5.30 PM, January 9, at the Wharf St Café,
weather permitting.
It is hoped many Nambucca Valley and Bellingen Valley
residents will gather to greet Steve, hear his climate emergency message, and
sign the Climate Emergency Declaration petition. He will depart for South West
Rocks before sunrise on January 10.
His journey is 1200km down the coast to Moruya and
then 180km dragging the kayak up the mountains to Canberra.
Posselt said that paddling into New York past the
Statue of Liberty, paddling past Big Ben in London, and paddling to the steps
at the Eiffel Tower in Paris were the emotional highs on his journey but that
nothing beats paddling in his own country.
The
petition Posselt will deliver to Canberra asks Parliament to declare a climate
emergency and mobilise resources to restore a safe climate. It can be signed at
http://climateemergencydeclaration.org/sign.
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Steve's
wheeled kayak odyssey started on 15 Jan 2015 in Canberra with the aim
of publicising the urgent need to act against dangerous climate
change and to connect
extreme weather event areas to this need. Steve's epic journey then
continued to the Sydney Opera House on 31 Jan 2015, Gulf of Mexico 1 March, New Orleans, up the Mississippi in flood, 22 April
across to USA East Coast, New York in June, across the UK, through
London, English Channel and then up the Seine to Paris arriving 15 Oct
2015 for the COP 21 Paris Climate Conference.
The last leg of his journey from Ballina on January 1 to Sydney and Canberra, includes publicity for the need for at least 100,000 people to sign the Climate Emergency Declaration Petition, which he will present to the Australian Government.
The last leg of his journey from Ballina on January 1 to Sydney and Canberra, includes publicity for the need for at least 100,000 people to sign the Climate Emergency Declaration Petition, which he will present to the Australian Government.
Thank you Nambucca and Macleay Greens! THe FB event page for inviting friends along is at https://www.facebook.com/events/134991496992211/
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