http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMUsrj32WIE Interview with Uncle Dootch, Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy Students from Wollongong, Sydney, Newcastle and the ACT recently spent some time at the Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy (SPATE), helping to set up the site for the Sovereign Union Assembly 2012, which happened last week. In this interview, Unlce Dootch tells us about the fight against property developer Stocklands who are threatening sacred land at Sandon Point, and the movement for Aboriginal Soveriegnty in Australia. -Thanks to Sally Stuart (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)...
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Air conditioners and other absurdities

Air conditioners and other absurditiesThis is a great article by Tim Frewer, a friend previously involved in ASEN who has been living in Cambodia for the last few years. The article explores the wholesale adoption of climate change discourse in Cambodia by the state, NGOs and farmers as an explanation for a multitude of problems facing rural areas. While land degradation, use of fertilisers, changes in rural labour, corruption, lack of irrigation and changed hydrological regimes are all well-documented and empirically-researched problems facing Cambodian farmers, they are obscured by the power of climate change as an all-encompassing explanation for farmers’ problems. Tim suggests that farmers and the state strategically wield donor-driven climate change discourse in order to attract foreign aid, acutely aware of the necessity of articulating their problems in line with donors’ concerns. Over the years there has been much discussion amongst ASEN folks about the necessity of moving beyond a search for/belief in technical fixes as a way of combatting...
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Air conditioners and other absurdities

Air conditioners and other absurditiesThis is a great article by Tim Frewer, a friend previously involved in ASEN who has been living in Cambodia for the last few years. The article explores the wholesale adoption of climate change discourse in Cambodia by the state, NGOs and farmers as an explanation for a multitude of problems facing rural areas. While land degradation, use of fertilisers, changes in rural labour, corruption, lack of irrigation and changed hydrological regimes are all well-documented and empirically-researched problems facing Cambodian farmers, they are obscured by the power of climate change as an all-encompassing explanation for farmers’ problems. Tim suggests that farmers and the state strategically wield donor-driven climate change discourse in order to attract foreign aid, acutely aware of the necessity of articulating their problems in line with donors’ concerns. Over the years there has been much discussion amongst ASEN folks about the necessity of moving beyond a search for/belief in technical fixes as a way of combatting...
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