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CLIMATE ACTION SHOWAPRIL 7TH 2025VIOLET COCO - Portrait of an ActivistProduced by Vivien Langford Interview courtesy of  Tim Budge and Ruth Yateman at Seymour FM on BEAM Mitchell Environment Group's radio show EARTH CHAThttps://programs.seymourfm.com.au/earth-chat Featured Guest: Violet CocoYou 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