http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U37cDBXAc
“Coal, Climate and Community Action” at the People’s Blockade of the World’s Biggest Coal Port, Newcastle 1st April, 2012.
A collection of short interviews taken on my mobile phone. Some of the audio is out of sync.
Aimee(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)...
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Welcome to ASENincubate: turning up the heat on environmental and social justice conversations
Being involved in the Australian Student Environment Network (ASEN) can be a life-changing experience. I don’t use these words lightly, not in the way we often hear of ‘life-changing’ cleaning products or ‘life-changing’ tourist packages. I’m talking about the life-changing experience of being part of a group of people committed to critical thinking about our world, committed to seeing the environment as deeply implicated in our social and political systems rather than as isolated and separate from them, and most importantly, committed to fighting for environmental and social justice.
However, like all organisations, ASEN goes through high times and low times, peaks and troughs. Sometimes it’s easy to remember why ASEN and its aims and ideals are important. At the annual Students of Sustainability (SoS) conference there’s no way you can help but get swept up in the enthusiasm of 500 people committed to creating a better world together. At the Summer Training Camp the daytime workshops and late-night discussions on...