- Entry type: Organisation
- Entry ID: PR00040
Women’s Environmental Action Group
- WE NAG
- Occupation Social action organisation
Summary
In 1988 a small group of Adelaide women formed the Women’s Environmental Action Group, to educate people on environmental issues effecting their lives and how they could help change things
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The Women’s Environmental Action Group members undertook a schools program in their area teaching children about recycling and paper making. They made a submission on waste management in Australia. They staged protest actions at supermarkets against excessive packaging, and in shopping centres placing stickers on toy guns as a protest against war and the first Gulf War. They protested the Roxby Downs uranium shipments, noting down container numbers to send to protesters in other countries. The undertook Nurrunga and yellow cake actions to increase awareness about uranium. The Port Adelaide local government area became a nuclear free zone and the women put up signs to celebrate this. The banner in the photographs at the International Women’s Day was confiscated by the police and longer exists. They wrote articles for ‘Liberation’, the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Newsletter. Members included Silver Moon, Doris Horvath, Kate Lawrence, Seja Sims, and Sally Sims.
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