The world can see Australia is behaving badly, recklessly and with vested self-interest and is now forming an alliance to ‘Raise the Heat’ on the Commonwealth Bank and Tony Abbott misguided policies. I’m leaving upstate New York – Ithaca Co-housing Community – today heading to New York City hoping to get to this rally.
Thursday, May 21st @ 4:00m – 5:30pm 
New Yorkers are holding a solidarity rally in Midtown Manhattan to tell the Commonwealth Bank of Australia to stop its plan to finance the massive coal mine development in the Galilee basin
This is part of a global action and in NYC we will start at 4pm with a brief rally at the Australian Consulate and then at 4:30pm walk to the Commonwealth Bank to present a letter and at 5pm rally some more.
The global climate movement is at a critical stage in the fight to stop the Galilee Basin mega coal mines that, if built, would cook the climate and trash the Great Barrier Reef. Join the 350.org/350NYC solidarity action in Manhattan to speak out against this alliance of big money and big coal which threatens our planet.
Right now, the Indian mining giant Adani is calling upon The Commonwealth Bank to help them finance the Abbot…
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Giselle Wilkinson 