WASEN mad skills in May!

Hello friends, co-conspirators, companions, and people everywhere,

As activists we all need mad skills to rock the shaky foundations of oppression and destruction. The West Australian Student Environment Network (WASEN) has been involved in skilling up the activist community, students, youngsters and older cats alike, in WA for a while now.

Join us in May for our latest foray into the depths of radical activist education because we are all educators and we are all learning. This, on the surface is a series of 7 workshops, over 4 consecutive weekends. However dig a little deeper and you will find that it is part of a lifelong exploration into how we learn, how we learn to learn and how we learn to educate.

Topics include Scamming the System that Scams you, Direct Action, Bike Maintenance, Climate Change for Activists, Sustainable Activism and Collective Organising. The venue changes every week so that we will be close to you some time! See the flyer attached email WestASEN@gmail.com or call Dom:   0415 258 301   for more info!Web: www.asen.org.au/states/wasen

Sunday May 17
Location: Earth Wise Subiaco 315-317 Baggot Road
Workshops and times:
10-12: Theories of Change
2-5: Animal Rights and Feminism Presented by ARA (Animal Rights Australia)

Sunday May 24
Location: Notre Dame Prindiville Hall Mouat St Fremantle
Workshops and times:
10-12: Climate Change Crash Course
1-3: Direct Action

Saturday May 30
Location:UWA or Murdoch or Charlies Gally TBA
Workshops and times:
10-12: Personal Change and Sustainable Activism
1-3: Scamming the System that scams you!

Sunday June 7
Location: Charlie’s Gally 458 Charles St North Perth
Workshops and times:
10-11: Bike Workshop
11:30-1: Direct Action and Social Movement                                                                                                                                                    1-3: Collective Organising and Facilitation

Ziggy, we don’t want you spreading a toxic message at UWA!

Ziggy Switkowski, renowned for his  advocacy for uranium mining and nuclear power, is coming to the University of Western Australia this Monday 4.30pm: let him know we don’t want him here!

Dr Ziggy Switkowski presents: “Energy options in a warming world”.

He will be there advocating uranium mining and nuclear power to businessmen.

We will be there with Ziggy the White Elephant, banners and dissent.

UWA is actively supporting Ziggy Switkowski to come to Perth to speak about how great nuclear power and uranium mining are, specifically speaking to businessmen about the economics of the industry rather than health & safety issues and real facts on the immense amount of resources needed for uranium mines (e.g. 33 million litres of water per day at Roxby Downs uranium mine alone) and the long-term environmental impacts.

First with a speech at the Parmelia Hilton on Monday morning, and then at 4.30pm at UWA itself. Come to one or both actions – 8.30am at Parmelia Hilton for a silent protest and 4.30pm at UWA outside Banquet Hall, The University Club, Hackett Drive, Crawley (Parking: Enter off Hackett Drive, Hackett Entrance 1 Car Park 3).

Dr Ziggy Switkowski is the Chair of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization. He is also a non-executive director of Suncorp, Tabcorp and Healthscope, and Chair of Opera Australia. He is a former chief executive of Telstra, Optus and Kodak (Australia). In 2006 he chaired the Prime Minister’s Review of Uranium Mining, Processing and Nuclear Energy which returned nuclear power to the country’s strategic debate. He has a PhD in nuclear physics from the University of Melbourne and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engine.

If you are UWA Alumni please RSVP and go inside the event! RSVP details:
Yvette Vittorio
Administrative Officer – Special Projects
Office of Development & Alumni Relations (www.development.uwa.edu.au)
P: +61 8 6488 4774, or F: +61 8 6488 1063, or E: yvette.vittorio@uwa.edu.au

Students of Sustainability July Conference: Registration is Open!

Registration for Students of Sustainability 2009 is OPEN!
www.studentsofsustainability.org

SoS09 is going to be held on Wurundjeri Land at Monash University’s Clayton Campus from July 6-10. The theme this year is “Doing It For Ourselves” and we’re looking forward to a jam-packed week as participants come from all around Australia and the world to share knowledge, experience and skills in the struggle for justice.

To find out more, and to do the actual registration, go to

http://studentsofsustainability.org/content/rego

For general inquiries, send emails to
info@studentsofsustainability.org

For registration inquiries, send emails to
rego@studentsofsustainability.org

To submit workshop proposals, download a form from

http://studentsofsustainability.org/program

and send it to

program@studentsofsustainability.org

BHP Billboard jam in W.A.

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