People's Blockade of the World's Biggest Coal Port

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The fifth People's Blockade of the World's Biggest Coal Port is happening on March 28 at 10am at Horseshoe Beach in Newcastle (where it always is). This will be a fun colourful community-type day where hundreds of people will get in kayaks, rafts and other vessels to fill up Newcastle Harbour and block the world's biggest coal port for the whole day. We've always held up the coal industry and nobody has ever been arrested. Want to know why? Here are some details: Newcastle, already the world's biggest coal port, is set to open a massive new coal terminal this year, bringing the export capacity of the Hunter Valley coal chain to an incredible 178 million tonnes of coal per annum. That's the climate change equivalent of 30 Bayswater Power Stations. Within ten years, the coal corporations plan on exporting more than 300 million tonnes of coal per annum - a tripling of current...
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SEAN gig in March

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The first SEAN gig of the year is going to take place on the weekend of week 3 (19th-21st March) at a beach house in Wombarra (Just north of Wollongong, accessible by cityrail network). Transport: meet at Central of 4pm on Friday (19th March) afternoon, underneath the big clock that hangs inside the main hall of Central station (upper level) , in order to catch the 4.27pm train, to get to Wombarra at 6.09pm. People coming down on the Saturday (20th March) morning should meet at the same place at 8.15am, to get the 8.40am train from Central, to get to Wombarra at 9.58pm. The focus of the SEAN gig will be on skilling-up brand new collective members in stuff like facilitation, collective organising, consensus, theories of change etc, refreshing and reviewing this stuff for older members, giving people the opportunity to develop their workshop facilitation skills, and giving collectives the time and resources to strategise...
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Welcome

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The Australian Student Environment Network (ASEN) is the network of environment collectives at universities, TAFEs and high schools across Australia. Every year ASEN organises the Students of Sustainability Conference (SoS), Australia's largest and longest running environment conference. Other key initiatives of ASEN include the annual Summer Training Camp, the campus renewable energy campaign, nuclear-free campaign, and organic food co-operatives. Every day ASEN is engaging and empowering the next generation of environmental and social justice campaigners. ...
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Nuclear waste likely to be dumped in NT

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/23/2827837.htm?site=alicesprings Australia's first nuclear waste dump is likely to be sited in the Northern Territory. Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson has revealed Muckaty Station, about 120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek, as the location the Federal Government will pursue for a national radioactive waste repository. "We will proceed firstly with the only voluntary site that we have, and that goes to the Ngapa land with respect to the Muckaty Station," he told 105.7 ABC Darwin. Mr Ferguson said several sites preferred by the Howard government would no longer be pursued. "We have knocked out the three sites which were not volunteered by the community but were determined by politicians in Canberra," he said. This is "despite the fact that scientifically they actually stack up". Should environmental and scientific assessments fail at the Muckaty site, Mr Ferguson said the nuclear waste dump could be located elsewhere in Australia. "I also have the capacity, if I assess that that is not a proper site, to then open up to...
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get along to Australia's Climate Action Summit 2010

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Saturday March 13 – Monday March 15 Australian National University, Canberra You're invited to the 2010 Climate Action Summit, the only national meeting of the grassroots movement for a safe climate. The Summit will provide much needed space to work out how we move forward in the year of a federal election after Copenhagen. Plenary speakers include David Karoly, Christine Milne, and Walden Bello, and there is a strong focus on alliance building and tactics to build the movement. The full program is available for download from http://www.climatesummit.org.au/summit-2010-program With the climate summit this year we’re aiming to build on the work of last year, and have developed campaign streams, a network stream as well as issues and skills workshops. The campaign stream are: 100% renewables, coal campaigning, vote climate, climate emergency, green jobs and building alliances with trade unions. There is also a full range of issues and skills workshops on topics as diverse as forests, transport, climate justice, alternatives to the CPRS, population, media,...
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