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A female Blockade Australia protester was shoved to the ground by police officers as the group charged down the streets of Sydney for another day of wild climate change demonstrations.

Shocking footage shows the activist carrying a large banner for the group before it’s ripped out of her hands by one officer.

Another policeman then shoves the woman over, sending her falling backwards onto the pavement below.

Other protesters were also shoved around by police as the group ran through the streets towards Hyde Park on Tuesday morning.

A live-stream of the group was shared to Facebook showing dozens running through the city’s CBD while loud chants of ‘what do we want? Climate justice!’ rang out through the streets.

‘Come to Sydney to resist climate inaction by taking strategic direct action in the heart of Australia,’ the group said.

‘Coordinated action is more important than ever.’

About 50 members were seen in Tuesday’s action – many wearing face masks – while a long line of police officers walked nearby.

‘This is about all the things that are necessary for life to survive on earth,’ one activist filming the demonstration said.

Police were seen questioning one woman while two men were dragged away in handcuffs.

Blockade Australia protesters have filmed themselves charging down the streets of Sydney for another day of wild climate change demonstrations

Blockade Australia protesters have filmed themselves charging down the streets of Sydney for another day of wild climate change demonstrations

Another member, James Woods said the human species was ‘teetering on the edge of total collapse’.

‘We are facing a catastrophic climate collapse, the biggest existential threat our species has ever known, and the system that we call Australia is driving us straight past the point of no return,’ he said.

‘There is no possibility of meaningful change within this system. Australia has been designed to operate as a project of extraction and exploitation, and without a total upheaval of this project, we have absolutely no chance of survival.’

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The group have urged more Aussies to join them for another day of chaos on Wednesday. 

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet said the activists would face consequences.

‘It can’t go on for much longer, these people are dumb, divisive, disrespectful and they’re bloody idiots who will face the full force of the law,’ he told 2GB.

‘These are not isolated incidents, it’s a coordinated campaign.’

LNP Senator Matt Canavan blasted the protesters as ‘eco terrorists’ and called for law-breakers to be shown the ‘full force of the law’.

A live-stream of the group shared to Facebook showed dozens running through the city's CBD towards Hyde Park on Tuesday morning, while loud chants of 'what do we want? Climate justice!' rang out through the streets

A live-stream of the group shared to Facebook showed dozens running through the city’s CBD towards Hyde Park on Tuesday morning, while loud chants of ‘what do we want? Climate justice!’ rang out through the streets

‘This just shows the folly of negotiating with eco-terrorists. These people will never be happy,’ he told Sky News on Tuesday morning.

‘Give them an inch they’ll take a mile. We signed up to net zero and now they want to end coal next year.

‘They have no idea how world works – they want to threaten and bully people into submission.

‘We have to stand up to it and say no more.

‘People who break the law should be arrested face the full force of the law and there should be no sympathy for them.’

He described the protesters as ‘unreasonable and violent’.

Earlier Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek backed the right to protest but said demonstrators must obey the law.

Ten Blockade Australia members were charged after similar demonstrations in Sydney on Monday.

Police allege 60 people were involved the unauthorised demonstration, which saw a hoard of activists storm the streets blocking off traffic at various locations. 

Six women and four men aged between 21 and 49 from three states were arrested and charged with a string of offences related to willfully preventing the free passage of a person or vehicle. 

All but one were refused bail to appear in either Central or Downing Centre Court on Tuesday and could be facing heavy fines and up to two years in jail. 

Police established Strike Force Guard vowing to maintain a highly visible presence in the CBD for the rest of the week after Blockade Australia warned of further disruptions.

‘It is unacceptable that a small number of people – who have little to no regard for everyday individuals going about their lives, are causing unnecessary disruptions to their morning commute,’ Acting Assistant Commissioner Paul Dunstan said.

‘What these individuals are doing is both illegal and unsafe, putting the lives of themselves, the general public and our officers in danger by running on roadway and blocking roads by other means to disrupt traffic.’

Dozens of specialist officers were deployed to assist in the operation, including the Public Order and Riot Squad, Mounted Police, Rescue Squad, Dog Squad, Traffic and Highway Patrol and Transit Police.

Protesters hold a sign outside the Sydney Harbour Tunnel as a car blocks off traffic on Monday

Protesters hold a sign outside the Sydney Harbour Tunnel as a car blocks off traffic on Monday

Both sides of the NSW government condemned the protestors’ actions. 

‘I would say this to the protesters: Go and get a real job,’ Deputy Premier Paul Toole said.

‘Go and talk to somebody who’s actually been delayed in getting to work today.’

Protesters can be fined up to $22,000 and put behind bars for two years 

Read the extreme writings of climate pest leader who caused mayhem across Sydney as she plots to do it again TODAY – and how she was almost hacked to death in a massacre 

By Nic White for Daily Mail Australia

The woman leading climate protests that paralysed Sydney during Monday peak hour is a career activist with a colourful history. 

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Zelda Grimshaw, 56, has waged war against the Adani coal mine, written bizarre protest music and once condemned the whole idea of ironing clothes.

She was also nearly hacked to death by militia during a massacre in East Timor and campaigned against weapons sales by calling war ‘peak toxic masculinity’.

Now the Queenslander, occasional firefighter and cabaret dancer is the figurehead of Blockade Australia, a radical group that causes mayhem around Australia to draw attention to climate change.

Protesters on Monday parked a car sideways over the entrance to the Sydney Harbour Tunnel and marched through the CBD hurling debris at police, with 11 arrested.

Blockade Australia has promised a week of disruption to ‘blockade the streets of Australia’s most important political and economic centre and cause disruption that cannot be ignored’ and is armed with a $75,000 legal war chest.

Ms Grimshaw last week invoked American civil rights hero Martin Luther King to call for 10,000 people to join the protest in Sydney.

‘To paraphrase Martin Luther King, when climate destruction becomes laws, resistance becomes duty,’ she said.

The group shut down the main freight route in and out of the Port of Botany in March and blocked freight trains carrying coal in Marrickville and Tempe in May.

Ms Grimshaw has been active in various protest causes for decades, mostly in Queensland where she lives in Cairns.

Her activism has involved opposing: the Adani coal mine in Queensland, cuts to arts funding, military spending and weapons production, forest logging, an wealth inequality.

Profiles by other activist groups credit her with being a driving force behind the Stop Adani group that waged a war of attrition against the mine by blockading trains and freight routes and harassing its financial backers.

Zelda Grimshaw, 56, is the figurehead of Blockade Australia, a radical group that causes mayhem around Australia to draw attention to climate change

Zelda Grimshaw, 56, is the figurehead of Blockade Australia, a radical group that causes mayhem around Australia to draw attention to climate change

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