Germinate Submissions Now Open

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The point is, we would really like your contributions to the next issue of Germinate. ASEN's bi-annual super rad 'zine. - Check out - http://asen.org.aupublications/ -for more info The theme is CULTURE and we've been thinking about this in terms of ASEN's culture, activist culture, punk culture, vegan culture, ethnic cultures, safer spaces culture, cultural appropriation, etc. etc. etc.. We don't want to be heaps strict on the theme but are just putting it out there to get your imaginations going! Just as a guide, writings can be as long as a haiku or an essay, or a max of 800 words. Either way, get in touch with us if you have an idea and we can help you with it. Even if you don't want to write, we're keen to see lots of collaborative things happening so we'll hook youse up with other people interested in similar issues. Likewise, if you...
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Students of Sustainability 2010

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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...
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Photos from the glorious beach getaway… I mean… SEAN skillshare last weekend!

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Here we are talking about renewable energy on campus campaigns! And doing workshops on campaign strategy, and building and maintaining collectives, and talking about resisting nuclear power on indigenous land, and protecting the last remaining koala habitat forests in NSW, and how we're going to stand up to the coal industry, and also filling our bellies with scrumptious vegan food (we need our energy for all these things) ! ...
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Get your rad articles in

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***cue beat boxing*** Listen up maggots, we're the germs from perth tryna get a message to the centre of your head We're here cos we care bout the way the world is killing all the awesome things quicker than a blink And the social conditions that created all this shit Domination, oppression are only part of it There are so many issues to fight against too big for just a few of us so we gotta grow our power. We've gotta Germinate. Germinate our power, Germinate ourselves Nothing's gonna stop us cos we're gonna make change. Just imagine this – it's a big rad zine And you should contribute caused we've all been Thinkin bout a bunch of stuff bout the way we work Activist culture sometimes hurts your head, your heart, the way you live your life.. Criticising everything can cause a bit of strife. We wanna know what's going on, deep inside your head Write it down and send it through to the Germinate crew We wanna figure out what's deep inside your heart So let's collaborate, let's germinate,...
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ASEN climate strategy 2010!

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If this makes you feel excited then now is the perfect time to contact us and get involved! Campaign focus for 2010 The working group decided to focus on two campaign areas: 1. 100% renewable energy by 2020 with a specific focus on 100% of energy on ASEN campuses being renewable by 2015; and 2. (Non violent – needs discussion*) direct action to support campaigns to phase out coal mining and energy generation including to stop new mines and stations being built and existing ones being expanded. Some of the assumptions informing the decision to focus on these areas included: - Building on previous work, lessons and wins, including a focus on coal and mobilising for climate camps. - Learning lessons to scale down goals such as the 2009 one of shutting down one piece of infrastructure in each state which was not achieved and subsequently assessed as beyond our capacity. - Building on ASEN’s strengths, energy and passion for direct action. - Working within ASEN’s sphere of influence and focusing on ASEN’s core...
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