• Entry type: Organisation
  • Entry ID: PR00040

Women’s Environmental Action Group

  • WE NAG
(From 1988 – 1991)
  • 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

Details

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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Archival resources

  • State Library of South Australia
    • Women's Environmental Action Group (WENG)
    • Feminist Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG) records
    • Women Against Nuclear Energy
    • Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archives Collection

Published resources

Related entries


  • Membership
    • Moon, Silver (1952 - )
  • member
    • Moon, Silver (1952 - )
  • Related Organisations
    • Feminist Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG) (1982 - 1984)
    • Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archive (1984 - 2009)