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Apr 01
National Day of Action against Muckaty Radioactive Waste Dump: 12th April!
On 12 April, the Senate will hold a public hearing in Darwin as part of its inquiry into the legislation that will lock-in Muckaty as the site for a national radioactive waste dump. There will be no hearing in Tennant Creek, effectively SILENCING many Traditional Owners, who will be unable to travel to Darwin.
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT to the Muckaty Traditional Owners who have been opposing the plan to dump dangerous nuclear waste on their country since it was first proposed.
Several actions and events are already in the works, but more would be great – so get a group of friends together and plan something magnificent!
Be sure to take lots of photos and tell the media what you’re doing and why!
Send photos to natwasley@alec.org.au who can pass them on to everyone at Muckaty.
Find an action or event happening near you:
NT: Chris the.sentimental.bloke@gmail.com 0400 047 552 (Darwin)
Lilia tasquoll@gmail.com 0458 698 614 (Alice Springs)
SA: Amanda naturearthlove@hotmail.com 0410 413 532 (Adelaide)
WA: Grace grace.india.p@gmail.com 0424 485 806 (Perth)
TAS: Jen jjspen@gmail.com 0402 750 208
NSW: Libby kinglib@gmail.com 0418 882 407 (Sydney)
ACT: Scott enviro.collective@anu.edu.au 0409 717 601
VIC: Yaelle iamyaelle@gmail.com 0431 268 423 (Melbourne)
QLD: Jen jjspen@gmail.com 0402 750 208
NT ACTION POSTER:
Mar 26
Students of Sustainability 2010
Students of Sustainability is a 5 day camping conference for anyone interested in creating a more ecologically and socially sustainable world.
Join us for…
- Workshops
- Creative Projects
- Live Entertainment
- Field Trips
- Networking
and much more!
For details and registrations visit www.studentsofsustainability.org or contact Peta (registration) at info@studentsofsustainability.org
Mar 14
People’s Blockade of the World’s Biggest Coal Port
The fifth People’s Blockade of the World’s Biggest Coal Port is happening on March 28 at 10am at Horseshoe Beach in Newcastle (where it always is). This will be a fun colourful community-type day where hundreds of people will get in kayaks, rafts and other vessels to fill up Newcastle Harbour and block the world’s biggest coal port for the whole day. We’ve always held up the coal industry and nobody has ever been arrested. Want to know why? Here are some details:
Newcastle, already the world’s biggest coal port, is set to open a massive new coal terminal this year, bringing the export capacity of the Hunter Valley coal chain to an incredible 178 million tonnes of coal per annum. That’s the climate change equivalent of 30 Bayswater Power Stations. Within ten years, the coal corporations plan on exporting more than 300 million tonnes of coal per annum – a tripling of current export capacity. Tripling coal exports means tripling coal mining. As Newcastle coal exports boom, more precious bushland will be razed, more waterways polluted, more communities ripped apart as the transnational coal companies carve their way westwards into the Liverpool Plains. The profits will be exported, but the devastation will stay here in the Hunter. The catastrophic effects of climate change will hurt all around the world.
For more information, visit the Riding Tide website. Now the important bit: there will be a raft-building competition with a prize for the coolest raft! We hope that every enviro collective in NSW (and maybe even Vic/Queensland) will participate. You just have to meet our definition of “coolest”, which might be most pretty/fast/effective/extravagant – try to get into our heads and see what you need to score the prize. There’s already a SEAN raft under construction. Want to get involved? Email us and we’ll share our detailed schematics with you (or at least give you some ideas).
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Seriously, don’t you wish you were building rafts with us?
