Southern Cross University trade unionists win landmark Environmental Sustainability Agreement

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The Australian Student Environment Network congratulates general staff at Southern Cross University (Lismore, NSW) and the Public Service Association / Community and Public Sector Union for winning a climate Environmental Sustainability agreement this week. The PSA/CPSU represents non-academic/teaching staff on campuses (and in schools and TAFEs), such as building maintenance staff.  The union also organised their members to make a Sustainability Pledge and a climate change forum on campus for rank-and-file members. This is new ground for the PSA / CPSU (and for all trade unions) to be looking at climate change, and organising with their members for climate justice.  Certainly, there is a long way to go in looking at climate change as a class issue - with and well beyond trade unions - and organising with workers and communities for land, labour and climate justice. Media Release 24 July 2009 Southern Cross University Reaches Landmark Environmental Sustainability Agreement Southern Cross University Staff today applauded the reaching of a landmark Environmental Sustainability...
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The dates of the SEAN gig have changed!

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Sorry to mess things around, but you might be interested in knowing that the upcoming SEAN gig is going to be a week later than previously planned. This is so we don't clash with the Rivers SOS meeting in Boolar (north of Newcastle) so SEAN folk can go to that meeting, and so some local (to the illawarra and it's myriad coal problems) Rivers SOS peeps can hopefully come speak to us during the weekend. So it shall truly be the 4th-6th SEPTEMBER! (Same place, different time- Sandon Point near Wollongong, on Dharawal land) Registration is HERE!...
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We are not no-one, this is not nowhere

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“The people of the Northern Territory elected the Labor Party. We were led to believe that the nuclear waste thing would be all overturned and overruled, and at this moment we are extremely disappointed”. Marlene Bennett, Muckaty Traditional Owner In 2007 the new Rudd Government promised to end a decade of division on radioactive waste management. Labor pledged to: 1- Repeal the Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act 2- Implement an open, transparent and inclusive process 3- Remove the threat of imposed radioactive waste dumps. This position was warmly welcomed by the Northern Territory government, Traditional Owners, environment, health and human rights groups and trade unions. So far it has not been acted upon. Traditional Owners continue to live with the threat of a nuclear dump and the gap between federal Labor’s promise and performance is growing. It’s time to close the gap. It’s time to honour the promise. It’s time for an open and responsible approach to radioactive waste management in Australia....
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SEAN chats at Students of Sustainability- meeting minutes

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So the 2009 Students of Sustainability conference at Monash Uni in Melbourne was pretty freakin wicked. There were hundreds of people camping out in the cold on Wurundjeri land and spending many hours anguishing over which workshop to choose to go to out of a choice of 8 amazing options. We ate vegan, kept our vitamin C up with a giant crate of oranges and had a day of actions including a vegie barbecue with workers at Hazelwood power station, a colourful musical protest at BHP Billiton, a powerful visit to Minister for Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin's office and a stirring example of police brutality at Centrelink. We also played with bikes, gardens, talked politics, strategies, coal, anti-nukes, anti-oppression, feminism, racism, mental health, communities, radical legal strategies, organising skills, direct action skills and ideas and we danced too. One day we got together in state networks and talked about what we'd been up to and what we want to do. This was...
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