SEAN trip to SOS
Here's a little happy-snap from the train trip on the way back from SOS, held in Adelaide this year.
In 2011, SOS will be held in either Albury or Sydney. Stay tuned!...
QEAN @ SOS 2010
Their route at the mercy of Google Map's accuracy, the Queensland kids could sleep easy, bellies full of wood fired pizza, ready for tomorrow's long day of driving. Destination? SOS2010 on Kaurna Land, rAdelaide. As the sun rose on a chilly South-East Queensland morning early in July, the first wave of Brisbane kids busied themselves preparing for their 2000 km drive across three Australian states.
Their transport? An ex-chip-shop-oil-powered 4x called Buttercup, and a shiny new V6, aptly daubed the horse-powered speed machine. As HPSM zoomed off at the speed of light, Buttercup decided 'trouble' was her middle name; not even an hour out of Brisbane, she was rattling and spluttering, belching green sludge from her bonnet. However, with some TLC from a new-found mono-legged friend , Buttercup was happy and back on the road. For now.
While half the Queensland crew sped on, stopping and languishing in 'sunny', 'tropical' Goondiwindi, the other half could but crochet, as Buttercup spluttered along, careening...
Getting Away with Crime, A Tale of Privilege
By Lian – reach me here: lian [at] riseup.net
I was in court a few weeks ago. The legal part of a 'lock-on' action some friends and I did at Hazelwood power station in Victoria in November 2008 is now finally over. It was a good result too. I got a diversion: A 12 month good behaviour bond and no conviction. Sweet right? Well maybe but maybe not...
The action itself was pretty good. The best part of it was the sweet video we made – check it out at whosepower.wordpress.com. The second best part was the debates we had with each other and some of our friends in the climate movement about how change can be made. We approached the action with an unconventionally hostile approach towards government and media. For example on our website we said:
“This is not a call to government to make a series of policy changes. This is not a call for large businesses to become “greener”...
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SEAN finances update
I've put together this finance update for SEAN (the NSW student enviro network) to cover the first half of this year. If you have any questions, please email me.
Our opening balance was $4161.08. Our current balance is $4129.64. This means so far we're down $31.44. We also have some expected income/expenditure which might change this.
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