Public meetings and protest against World Nuclear Fuel Cycle Conference a big success!

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A big thanks to those who came along to the fantastic public meetings in Sydney and Wollongong last week: hearing from Northern Territory Traditional Owners speak out against the proposed nuclear waste dump at Muckaty.  The public meetings and protest of the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle Conference on Wednesday morning were fantastic! You can check out information, campaign materials, films and more at: http://beyondnuclearinitiative.wordpress.com/ Below are two speeches from a public meeting at the Illawarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre on Dharwal country (Wollongong) on April 22, 2009. A couple of weeks prior to the meeting, a shipment of spent fuel rods from the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor had been transported in the dead of night through Wollongong to be taken out of Port Kembla in New South Wales. Dianne Stokes, Mark Lane and Mark Chungaloo (Traditional Owners of the proposed federal radioactive waste dump site at Muckaty in the Northern Territory ) were keen to meet with other communities affected by the Lucas Heights facility-...
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Students of Sustainability July Conference: Registration is Open!

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Registration for Students of Sustainability 2009 is OPEN! www.studentsofsustainability.org SoS09 is going to be held on Wurundjeri Land at Monash University's Clayton Campus from July 6-10. The theme this year is "Doing It For Ourselves" and we're looking forward to a jam-packed week as participants come from all around Australia and the world to share knowledge, experience and skills in the struggle for justice. To find out more, and to do the actual registration, go to http://studentsofsustainability.org/content/rego For general inquiries, send emails to info@studentsofsustainability.org For registration inquiries, send emails to rego@studentsofsustainability.org To submit workshop proposals, download a form from http://studentsofsustainability.org/program and send it to program@studentsofsustainability.org ...
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SEAN Second Sundays

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SEAN Second Sundays Meet-ups & Working Bees Some people in the SEAN network have been talking about Sunday meet-ups and working bees at the SEAN space in Erskineville in Sydney and what they could be. What we envisioned was a set day every month (the second sunday) in which everyone interested can get together and see the community that we are a part of. The goings-on would consist of broadly three things: 1. Report backs- on what people have been doing, recent news and events, help they might need. 2. Discussions- on politics, our strategies, what we think about stuff, whatever we want to talk about. We wanted to develop a culture of discussion around radical ideas, as this has been very much lacking in the past. The theme for the next discussion is 'Green Capitalism and Alternatives' and the readings are available at http://climateactioncafe.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/20-theses-against-green-capitalism/ and http://www.stuffit.org/trapese/rocky-road-a5-web.pdf 3. Working- making use of the space, the phone, the internet, the shared energy, and getting some...
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Stop the Olympic Dam Uranium Mine Expansion

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Protest at BHP Billiton office Grenfell St, Adelaide Friday, May 1, 2pm onwards On May 1, BHP Billiton will release the Environmental Impact Statement for its planned expansion of the Olympic Dam (Roxby Downs) uranium/copper mine in SA. Come along to this May Day protest to voice your opposition. At 2.00pm a mock BHP executive will launch the EIS complete with details of everything the company plans to get away with: ·    The mine operates under the SA Roxby Downs Indenture Act which exempts it from key environmental and Aboriginal heritage laws that apply everywhere else in SA.   ·    BHP Billiton plans to make Roxby the largest open-cut mine in the world. Export of uranium is expected to increase from an average of 4,000 tonnes per year to 19,000 tonnes. Enough plutonium to build 2,850 nuclear weapons each year.   ·    BHP Billiton proposes an increase in water consumption from 35 million litres daily (from the Great Artesian Basin) to 150 million litres daily (up to 42 million...
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qean camp reportback

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by Steve Skitmore 'Twas a dusty dusk that saw a bunch of intrepid Brisbanites pile into four wheeled transport and head west, following the dying sun towards its setting in the Bunya Mountains. On the eve of ANZAC Day, QEAN had once again formed out of the ether, in this instance linking students from across South-East Queensland for a weekend of awesome skill-shares and inspiring discussions in the bush and mountains. Saturday morning dawned raw and gusty and with the arrival of Ben and Karina from the Sunshine Coast we kicked off into the Theories of Change and Facilitation workshops, some of the core ASEN skill-shares which proved relevant and thought-provoking for both seasoned activists and those of us who had never done the workshops before. Emily then facilitated an amazing games workshop around the ideas of Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed, a fascinating experience in which cultural criticism and personal empowerment are enacted through play. Some of us are really interested...
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