CLIMATE ACTION SHOW

APRIL 7TH 2025

VIOLET COCO - Portrait of an Activist

Produced by Vivien Langford

Interview courtesy of  Tim Budge and Ruth Yateman at Seymour FM on BEAM Mitchell Environment Group's radio show

EARTH CHAT

https://programs.seymourfm.com.au/earth-chat

Featured Guest: Violet Coco

You may not know the name Violet Coco, but you would have seen her on the news, arrested for protesting in different places, all to highlight the precarious state of our planet. Violet is a passionate environment and social justice activist. She has been arrested 49 times in 6 years as a non-violent, direct action, change maker. She recently spent two months in prison.

She was the first person sentenced under controversial new anti-protest laws in NSW, receiving a sentence of 18 months in prison for blocking the Sydney Harbour Bridge in a campaign which was supporting firefighters. Her sentence was dropped on appeal. Violet describes herself as a conscientious objector to the murder of our planet. Violet is an eloquent and gracious conversationalist and someone who has great wisdom to share.  

Information on Violet:

- Patreon, Wilipedia and The Guardian

Some links of interest mentioned in the show:

- Song: People's Uprising by James Brook ft Violet Coco (on Bandcamp)

- Some books and other resources: 

Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet and Peace is Every Step, Thich Nhat Hanh

We can’t get There from Here: Carbon, Climate and the Call to Wonder, with Báyò Akómoláfé and Paul Hawken 

Any book by Joanna Macy