Chain Reaction

Weaving The Mat - Reverend James Bhagwan on Pacific approaches to climate justice

Jun 10, 2022

Volker Boege writes for Chain Reaction #141 on the importance of including Pacific spirituality in climate justice.


Nifty Neville; Catch Him If You Can

Apr 14, 2022

This article was written for Chain Reaction magazine by John Merkyl.


Ring-barking Patriarchy: Towards an Eirenikon – a Peaceable Realm

Apr 01, 2022

In compiling this edition, Chain Reaction asked activists to share their experiences of gender (in)justice and dismantling the patriarchy within the broader environment and social justice movement. Author of Butterfly's Children, Eleanor (Annie) March, shares her thoughts in this Chain Reaction #140 article.


Camp Nunguu and the North-East Coast fight for forests

Dec 01, 2021

This article, from Chain Reaction magazine written by Zianna Fuad, is a small story about a motley crew of caring souls that have risen together to reject the destruction of public state forests across Gumbaynggirr homelands.

Camp Nunguu


Gender Injustice and Environmental Injustice are Intersectional

Nov 30, 2021

In compiling this edition, Chain Reaction asked activists to share their experiences of gender (in)justice and dismantling the patriarchy within the broader environment and social justice movement. Alana Mountain shares her experiences in this Chain Reaction #140 article.

Illustration of a women speaking into a megaphone


There is no climate justice without LGBTIQA+ liberation

Nov 16, 2021

This article was written for Chain Reaction magazine by queer, enviro and social justice activists, Zianna Fuad (they/them) and Phil Evans (he/him or they/them), who are part of the Friends of the Earth community.

Activists at Friends of the Earth paint a LGBTIQA banner


Queering the Earth, and Earthing the Queer: a radical conversation

Nov 11, 2021

This radical conversation was recorded and transcribed for Chain Reaction magazine between two radical, queer activists, facilitators and all round awesome folks who are part of the Friends of the Earth community.

We will call them M & Z and use they/them pronouns for them both.


Reflections on gender (in)justice

Oct 26, 2021

In compiling this edition, Chain Reaction asked activists to share their experiences of gender (in)justice and dismantling the patriarchy within the broader environment and social justice movement. Sarah Day shares her experiences in this Chain Reaction #140 article. 

Trigger Warnings: Sexual harassment, sexual abuse, systemic misogyny.


Acting up! Recording FoE's 45 years of creative resistance

Jul 29, 2020

Em Gayfer – As part of Friends of the Earth's 45th birthday celebration in 2019, members of FoE Melbourne's Dirt Radio team came together with 3CR staff to host a retrospective hextory* radio series: 45 Years of Creative Resistance.

Protesters blockading the extension of Alexandra Parade in Melbourne in the early 1990s


How can we transition the fossil gas industry?

Jul 15, 2020

Community protest at beach in giant human sign

Jim Crosthwaite – With an unpredictable climate already upon us, achieving net zero emissions by 2050 is not enough. Half the world's emissions have been emitted in the past 30 years, and that "to keep warming below 2 degrees Celsius, about four-fifths of the known fossil fuel reserves must not be dug up and burned" (Aronoff et al. p.37).