Lake Cowal Easter Protest Halts Mine
20/04/2006
Mining operations at Barrick Gold's Lake Cowal Project in western NSW were stopped for over five hours on Easter Sunday when a group of nearly one hundred protestors walked on to the mine site to highlight concern over the mine’s safety and social implications. The group, including Wiradjuri traditional owners and a cross section of locals and others from around Australia, were part of Easter protests against the newly opened gold mine. [ Full Story]
[Desecration of Sacred Site | Save Lake Cowal | Cyanide Watch | The Lake]
Indigenous Camp eviction looms
09/04/2006
The Camp Sovereignty protest site in Melbourne's Kings
Domain Gardens faces the threat of eviction after
police visited the camp on Friday morning. The camp was
established for the Commonwealth Games to serve as a
base for actions coordinated by the Black GST campaign
to highlight the on going resistance of Indigenous and
non Indigenous people to the illegal occupation of the
Australian continent.
[ Full Story]
Background
[Black GST |
Camp Sovereignty Established]
Government Shuts Down Political Web Site
1/04/2006
from the newswireOne week before the third
anniversary of the criminal invasion and occupation of
Iraq, the Australian government forced the closure of
a satirical web site that powerfully exposed several
key lies told by Prime Minister John Howard to justify
participation in the US-led war. [ Full
Story]
[Propaganda Matrix | Richard Neville
| The Speech that disappeared]
Desecration of Sacred Site - Lake Cowal
26/03/2006
from the newswireLooking down on the mine with its open-cut pit, which is still only at about 7% of its total depth, and the cryptic markings of the unlined tailings dams, I reflected on a famous quote by Mark Twain: What's a definition of a gold mine? A hole in the ground owned by a liar. [ Full Story]
[Lake Cowal Corroboree planned for Easter]
Student protests and occupations in France
20/03/2006
More than a million students and workers took to the streets in France over the weekend to demonstrate against the imposition of new industrial
relations laws that particularly
impact young workers. The rallies follow weeks of unrest that have seen railways blockaded, airports disrupted, and up to two thirds of France's universities occupied. [ Full
Story]
[Libcom blog: Unrest in France
|
Paris Indymedia]
Camp Sovereignty Established
13/03/2006
The Stolenwealth Games protest camp has been established in Melbourne Kings Domain Gardens in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games. The camp will serve as a base for actions being coordinated by the Black GST campaign to highlight the ongoing resistance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to the illegal occupation of the Australian continent. Ceremonies were opened with the lighting of the Aboriginal Sacred Fire for Peace and Justice from ashes brought from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra.
[ Full Story]
Reports
[Getting to the Camp | What's on | Stolenwealth Games Convergence Begins]
Peace Activist found Not Guilty of Obstruction
07/03/2006
Christains Against All Terrorism member Sean O'Reilly was found not
guilty in the Alice springs Magistrates court on March 3rd. O'Reilly had
been charged with obstructing police while holding an anti-war vigil
outside the Pine Gap Military facility in December last year. [ Full
Story ]
My
Brother is in Court
Citizen
inspection shuts down Pine Gap.
Political Amnesia and Howard's Ten Years
05/03/2006
From the newswire
"The mainstream press's analysis of 'Ten Years of Howard' has involved a massive dose of political amnesia. A pattern of Government lies and racism is all but ignored. Instead Howard is lauded for his "mainstream" values and for keeping down interest rates." according to one Indymedia correspondent. [ Full Story ]
On Friday night Howard's 10 year party in Toorak was gatecrashed. (More photos)
Laws Proposed against Protests That Cause Economic Loss
21/02/2006
from the newswire
Peter McGauran, the Federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, said that he is developing new legislation aimed at protests involving his portfolio. With specific reference to the recent protests about live sheep exports, he said that the legislation would be framed around the ‘intent to cause economic loss’. Protests and protestors that are shown to cause an economic loss to an industry would be held ‘criminally and civilly liable’ for such losses.... [ Full Story
On 11th February animal activists attempted to stop the export of 50,000 sheep from Devonport, Tasmania, which involved 40 protesters chaining themselves to the dock and laying on the ground in an attempt to prevent trucks loading sheep. Twelve protesters were arrested. Animal activists have lodged a formal complaint with Tasmanian Police over their treatment at protests. Despite intensive port security, activists succeeded in scrawling "Death Ship" on the side of Al Messilah, bound for Kuwait.
Against Animal Cruelty Tasmania |
Live Export Shame
Obscene Tax Payer Funded Rites for Capitalist Monarch
16/02/2006
Kerry Packer is dead, but even in death he rips off the tax-payer. "Eulogies at today's taxpayer-funded service will be read by the Prime Minister, John Howard, the cricket commentator Richie Benaud and the actor Russell Crowe." (SMH 17 Feb 2006) The Packer family sent out invitations to a thousand select people. Sydney Activist, Peter McGregor, sent out his own invitation for a dis-memorial event encouraging activists to celebrate...[ Full Story]
Irony: New Public Holiday Feb 17th |
Packer Parasite Carks It
Sydney Indymedia
Saving the Habitat of Leadbeaters Possum
14/02/2006
Conservationists have been arrested over logging in the Central
Highlands, when Police and Department of Sustainability and Environment
broke up a blockade. Leadbeatters possum is facing habitat destruction
by logging approved by the Bracks Government in the Royston Valley of
the Central Highlands, 120 km east of Melbourne. Leadbeaters Possum is
the fauna emblem of Victoria and is on the endangered species list. [ Full
Story]
Friends of the
Earth |
Central
Highlands Alliance |
Wilderness
Society
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