When One Becomes Many

Has anyone called your Nana an “extreme” activist?

Were you a little surprised to see the activist posts about #tweet4taiji on the Stories My Nana Tells Facebook page, back in 2014? Or any of the other environmental posts and shared petitions, since then?

Perhaps we should tell you a little more about Lesley Dewar, who writes all the stories, and what she stands for.

For a very long time, she has actively campaigned for (by being there) and written about (in stories, emails, petitions) environmental issues.

Which begs the question:

When do you become an “extreme” activist?

Is it when you speak out and turn up, on a lot of really worthwhile issues? Is it when you see things are “done” in response to the campaigning? This is the term given to those protesters against the shark cull in Western Australia, by the (former) Premier The Hon Colin Barnett, MP.

My family used to live in Big Bell, a gold mining town in the middle of Western Australia.

In the summer, my father played Country Week Cricket and one year we went with some other families to Busselton on the coast.

We stayed at the caravan park and we all went fishing, crabbing and played on the beach. The water was crystal clear; you could see the crabs twenty feet below your boat and the beach was covered with thousands of iridescent sea snail shells.

We took half a bucket back to Big Bell, to make necklaces and to dream of clean oceans filled with fish, crabs and whales. I was about seven or eight. I wanted to be a marine biologist…

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Is Your Nana An Extreme Activist?

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When One Becomes Many

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