We're back, and this time it's global. Join MP Mark Pearson, MP Emma Hurst, MP Andy Meddick and Senate Candidate Darren Brollo outside Nike to protest their mass slaughter of kangaroos.
SYD: Nike Flagship Store, 319 George St, Sydney 2000
MLB: TBC
BRIS: TBC
Protest Vibe: Peaceful, inclusive, welcoming, polite.
NEVER PROTESTED BEFORE?
We will have posters for you to hold! Flyers for you to hand out! We need people to hold banners, get petition signatures – every single attendee will have an important role. You will be loved and appreciated!
Speakers at the Sydney protest include MP Mark Pearson, MP Emma Hurst and Lead Senate Candidate Darren Brollo
MP Andy Meddick will lead the Melbourne protest
WE’RE BACK. AND THIS TIME IT’S GLOBAL
In December 2021 we held a national protest outside Nike stores in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Our protest made the evening TV news and was picked up by global vegan media Plant Based News.
We've made huge strides in raising public awareness. Join us now for the first ever coordinated global protest to stop the #nikekangaroomassacre.
SEVEN CITIES WORLDWIDE
The protest will take place simultaneously in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and, in the USA, NYC, Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland – home to Nike’s global headquarters.
WHY?
Every night across Australia, thousands of kangaroos are shot so that Nike can turn their skin into shoes. Even mothers with joeys in their pouches are shot down. Their shocked joeys are pulled out and ‘dispatched’, usually by having their skull crushed under the shooter’s boot or whacked on a bullbar.
This nightly horror is being driven by huge profits for Nike, who use kangaroo skin to make high-end soccer boots.
The 2021 Parliamentary Inquiry found that this is driving kangaroos to extinction: a chain of local extinctions has already been reported across NSW.
We need to end this profit-driven slaughter of our gentle wildlife. Join us to demand Nike stop using roos for shoes.
WHY YOU?
Kangaroos need every single person they can get to show up to this protest. The more numbers we have, the more seriously we'll be taken by Nike, the media and the government, and the more public awareness we can raise!
IS IT BYO PROTEST SIGN?
No, we will have plenty of posters, flyers, banners, roles for every single person who attends! However, if you feel like getting creative, absolutely feel free to make your own sign! Slogans we recommend:
NIKE, STOP FUNDING A KANGAROO MASSACRE #KANGAROOSARENOTSHOES
JOEYS MURDERED SO THEIR MUMS CAN BE SHOES #NIKEKANGAROOMASSACRE
KANGAROOS ARE NOT SHOES #NIKEKANGAROOMASSACRE
OVER 40,000 KANGAROOS SHOT PER MONTH IN NSW ALONE #NIKEKANGAROOMASSACRE