Protestival - Roxby Downs 2020
Yesterday was the last official day of the Lizards Revenge Music and Arts Festival of Resistance at the Olympic Dam Uranium mine, where over 500 protestors have gathered for the past week. Dr Helen Caldicott visited the Lizards Revenge to run a workshop addressing health issues relating to uranium yesterday afternoon. She pointed out that […]
Protestors at the Lizards Revenge Music and Arts Festival of Resistance closed the road to Olympic Dam Uranium Mine this morning for four hours. At approximately 8:30 am a car decorated as a giant lizard was parked on Olympic Way, blocking the road opposite the protest camp. Two protestors locked themselves to a truck heading […]
A light-hearted game of cricket near Roxby Downs was disrupted today at 1:15pm as police moved in to arrest the players, who are camping near the Olympic Dam uranium mine as part of the Lizards Revenge protest festival. Police and off-duty miners were invited to join the game, but cricketers were instead bowled over by […]
Activists call for “Breakfast not Bombs” as police defend what BHP-Billiton aims to make the largest uranium mine in the world.
The Lizards Revenge protest festival is today challenging BHP Billiton to a “Great Debate” on the question: Should the Olympic Dam mine expand? “After today’s disputes over the festival’s lizard mascot, the focus needs to return to the real issues of the proposed expansion of the mine,” said festival co-organiser Izzy Brown. An invitation has […]
An estimated 400 people marched to the gates of the Olympic Dam uranium mine today, marking the first day of the Lizards Revenge music and arts festival of resistance. The overkill of police escorts did not dampen the festival atmosphere, and despite road blocks preventing access to the camp site forcing vehicles to be escorted […]
Protestors continue to gather for the Lizards Revenge music and arts festival at BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam uranium mine. The event officially begins today and is scheduled to run for the next five days. The event will open with a welcome to country. At 11.00 am Uncle Kevin Buzzacott will be holding a press conference […]
The Lizards Revenge music and arts festival and protest camp will take place at the gates of the Olympic Dam mine (or close by) from the 14th-18th July 2012. The festival will include a variety of musicians, bands and artists from around the country, a solar powered sound system, wind powered cinema, mobile artworks and […]