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Friday, January 10, 2020

Sydney Climate Rally - Signs and Wonderful People

Scomo must go - Students for Climate Justice - Fund the Firies, Rally and March from Sydney Town Hall.  So many people, a great turn out. So many I missed seeing most of my friends that also attended; but I'm seeing their pictures too on Facebook which is great. It's been terrible here in Australia for months now. I can't complain too much as I am relatively safe in the city, if you don't worry about the toxic air quality. There was such a wide variety of people, of all ages at this rally; it really gives one hope. The police seemed quite decent, though seeing the oft now mentioned black suited police presence, the Public Order & Riot Squad.. I mean Australians don't really riot so you have to wonder how far the political establishment intended to push us if they need to beef up so the policing so much! Anyway here are some of my shots from the rally and march, hope to see you at the next big one, there will unfortunately need to be more protest to bring about the change this planet needs - right now.  Click Images to View large
Sydney Climate Rally - 'Time Up' sign. Town Hall
Sydney Climate Rally 'Engadine' Poop sign
Sydney Climate Rally - 'NOPE' Placard, George Street
Sydney Climate Rally - 'This Home Say No Scomo'
Sydney Climate Rally - George St Crowd.
Sydney Climate Rally - 'Out 4 Six' Sign with cricket refrance.
Sydney Climate Rally - Sign with reference to Australian government campaign from 70s 80s
Sydney Climate Rally - it is all about saving the planet for future generations - Girl on parents shoulder holding save the planet sign.
Sydney Climate Rally - 'I Don't Want To Move To Mars'
Sydney Climate Rally - 'RIP Blinky Bill' the famous story book Koala
Sydney Climate Rally - three teens, Steve Irwin Would Be Disapointed'
Sydney Climate Rally -'Scomo Captain Cooked'
Sydney Climate Rally - Sign pointing to all other signs - 'What They Said'
Sydney Climate Rally - 'Living On Borrowed Time'
Sydney Climate Rally - Red costumed Extinction Rebellion performance during speech.
Sydney Climate Rally - 'How Dare You'
Sydney Climate Rally - A crowd of placards Town Hall Square
Sydney Climate Rally - 'Koala Killers'
Sydney Climate Rally - Hey Scomo Fk You We Deserve a Future'
Sydney Climate Rally -'My World Is On Fire What About Yours'
Sydney Climate Rally - NSW Mounted Police, George Street Town Hall
Sydney Climate Rally - 'Dump Coal'
Sydney Climate Rally - Street march ' THere's Blood On Your Hands'
Sydney Climate Rally - Mr S. Morie? Have not seen him for years! Did not get to speak.
Sydney Climate Rally - Vegans bringing up the rear of the march.
Sydney Climate Rally - Vegans bringing up the rear of the march.
Sydney Climate Rally - Koala sign, 'RIP 1-2 Billion Animals'

The march went up Park St along Elizabeth St to Bent Street , along O'connell, up Hunter to Macquarie where we all marched past NSW Parliament House with the march ending at the Hyde Park fountain. #ClimateEmergency  #Sydney #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #AustralianBushfireDisaster

Telling Stories in Pictures all over..
Kent Johnson, Sydney, Australia.
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Thursday, February 21, 2019

Modern Artefacts, Culture and Colonisation - at Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery

Honestly if you walk into this show and wonder what it's all about; it's time for you to give up looking at art. Me; I was relieved to be looking at a show where no explanation, no tags, no room sheet is required. All this metal, moulded from the iron taken from the ground, taken from a taken land; remodelled into facsimiles of aboriginal artefacts. But now with a hard, harsh edge. And yet still beautiful. This work is so layered, political, aesthetic, historical, craft, art, anthropological. The only time I've even seen anything like it was the first time I saw several of Lorraine Connelly-Northey's sculptural pieces at Measured Response, NAS Gallery last year; just as visceral then as last nights viewing. As the man used to say 'do yourself a favour' head on down to Roslyn Oxley9 and see this show, you can thank me later. Lorraine Connelly-Northey Narrbong-Galang on until the 16th of March. (Click images to view larger).
Portrait of Connelly-Northey, Roslyn Oxley9 Narrbong-Galang. Photography by Kent Johnson for Street Fashion Sydney

Narrbong-Galang installation view, opening night at Roslyn Oxley9. Photography by Kent Johnson for Street Fashion Sydney

Bag made from chicken wire with barbed wire strap Narrbong-Galang by Lorraine Connelly-Northey - Photography by Kent Johnson for Street Fashion Sydney

Two bags made from steel mattress springs and wire Narrbong-Galang by Lorraine Connelly-Northey - Photography by Kent Johnson for Street Fashion Sydney

Narrbong-Galang installation view, opening night at Roslyn Oxley9. Photography by Kent Johnson for Street Fashion Sydney

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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Time to ACT - No Planet - No Future! Sydney Climate Change Rally & March.

One of the fun things I saw this morning after logging into Facebook was a fairly typical; Positive Thinking cartoon of two people riding in a bus above a valley on a curving road. One person (the negative sad one) is looking at an endless craggy rock face, a solid impenetrable wall. The other person (the happy positive one) is looking out the other side of the bus at a golden valley. The obvious conclusion is that life is how you look at it. Unfortunately life is a little more complex than simplistic solutions to all your problems and the problems of the world - #ClimateChange is real. A trip to Bali to meditate on it is not going to solve it - at least unless your mediation leads you to ACT!

Back to the cartoon, and all I could think was, "thank god someone's driving the bus"! Because these two passengers are BOTH just passive riders; and the time for being Passive Riders, Passive Consumers, just Passive, passive.. is over. So here I am today, wanting to put my two cents in, and my pictures from the march in Sydney yesterday - You should have been there! I also read the other day that there would be no fish in the sea by 2048, not concerned? Don't be lazy, Google it. It's Time to Act!!!

Don't burn my future - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Tibetans for climate action now - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Save our earth - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
If the oceans die we all die - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Solar! Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Danny's Page Its ABC, for the children - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Unless you care - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Hey Malcolm, This sign has more direct action.. Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Project Serenity, Bushcare - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Marching for the Fish - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Fight Connex, Haberfield - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Doctors for the Environment - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
100% Clean - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Save the planet, Go VEGAN - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Windmills, Renewables - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
VEGANS against climate change - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Farms not Gas, Knitting Nannas, PITTWATER - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
#March4u #Paris - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Giant puppets, Tony Abbot, Malcolm Turnbull, CBD Hi-rise in background, King Coal Forever slogan - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Large Sun banner, 100% renewables, marching Macquarie Street - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
No Nukes, Act Now, crowd marching, Macquarie Street - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
#ClimareShip marching Macquarie Street - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Renewable Energy, marching Macquarie Street - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Climate action NOW, marching Macquarie Street - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Breaking up the march peacefully - marching Macquarie Street- Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
The whole march skilfully diffused and rendered mostly impotent by police directives and law abiding citizens..
The view, people diffused, Opera Quay, marching Macquarie Street - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Giant puppets, Opera Quay, Tony Abbot, Malcolm Turnbull, CBD Hi-rise in background, King Coal Forever slogan - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,
Well Done Sydney banner and people after the march, Macquarie Street - Sydney, Climate Change March, The Domain, Macquarie Street, Climate Change, Protest, #NoPlanetNoFuture, #PeoplesClimate, #PeoplesClimateMarch, #Sydney,

Apparently when the march arrived at Moore Stairs, marchers were asked to head down the stairs and also put away their banners so as to not disturb people enjoying the weekend.. Ultimately some were permitted to also continue down Macquarie street to the Opera House forecourt(ish) area; but there would be no massed gathering of marchers under the Opera House sails; which as was pointed out to me by the award winning photo journalist I was standing next too, is "what you needed for international coverage, and saleable pictures".. Strange coincidence or political expedience? You decide dear reader.

View these pictures larger on Street Fashion Sydney's Facebook page HERE.

Telling Stories in Pictures all over Sydney..
Kent Johnson, Sydney, Australia.
0433 796 863
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