Killing Lawns with Urban Guerrillas | The Fingerboards Mine Part 1

Friday, 22 August 2025 - 9:00am to 10:00am
An Image of Amy and Urban Guerrillas in the 3CR Studio

We begin this episode with a chat with Ashton and Sam from Urban Guerrillas. Urban Guerrillas are a youth focused environmental group restoring Indigenous biodiversity while educating the community. We chat to them about their project and about the problems with current approaches to greening our urban environments. 

https://www.instagram.com/urbanguerrillas.official/

https://au.linkedin.com/company/urban-guerrillas

https://www.facebook.com/people/Urban-Guerrillas/100091280282889/

The second part of this episode begins a multi-part series on a proposed mineral sands mine in the fingerboards, along the heritage listed Mitchell river. This mine proposed by Gippsland Critical Minerals, risks devastatation to sacred land to Gunaikurnai country, valuable ecology, a major food bowl, farmers, residents and local townships water supplies. You can follow support Mine Free Glenaladale her:

https://minefreeglenaladale.org/

Acoustic guitar music for the Fingerboards Mine Segment by Amy.

The Image reads Kill Your Lawn and Kick Your Fence. The letters are cut out from from magazines. There are more magazine cut outs of Kookaburra's and an Owl with flowers groing out of their heads in a psychadelic fashion. The background is cardboard spray painted with orange and green. There are cut outs of bush fires and an 'idealic' suburban lawn.
Friday 9:00am to 10:00am
Why are we so behind on greening our cities and suburbs? What happened to communities, where truly no one is left behind? Where is justice for communities that have been abandoned? Kill Your Lawn and Kick Your Fence, talks to and with communities, about how we can learn to share and care for each other and our beloved planet.

Presenter

Amy Ciara.

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