Australia

Greenpeace targets BHP Billiton over carbon pollution

A Busy week for the activists of Greenpeace Australia who did a banner drop outside BHP Billiton headquarters in Melbourne on Monday and followed it up midweek with erecting a Pollution Tax Collection Point at BHP’s Mount Arthur Mine in the Hunter Valley holding up a BHP coal train temporarily.

Youtube Video: BHP Billiton: The Polluter must Pay

The ethics of meat eating, by Helen Lobato

My daughter’s been a vegetarian since her early teens. Her reasons are ethical, based on her love of animals. So I was rather surprised that she could watch A Bloody Business, which exposes the brutal killing of cattle in Indonesian abattoirs.

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ANU accuses student of plagerism for publish essay on Indymedia

the Letter

Dear Pr McIntyre,

I am writing to you to register a formal complaint about my treatment at the hands of teh Strategic defence Studies Centre at ANU.

This matter started durign a winter unit STST 8027 Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in an Age of terror offered through the Strategic Defence Studies Centre.

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Was the shutting down of Borders bookshops an attack on freedom of speech?

It has been widely rumoured that the same people who stole countless technology from humble but diligent BBS Bulletin Board Systems so as to build the IT Information Technology mainframes shut down borders bookshop so as to basically put a gag order on freedom of speech.

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Australians for troops out of Afghanistan

Australians for troops out of Afghanistan

The first part here is an extract dictated to me from an Australian distinguished 2nd world war veteran:
"They shouldn't be there, the Australians, the Canadians and the Americans, we went there and it's unwinnable, it's a pointless war, and our troops should come home now."
Listen to more of their voices and hear what they have to say if you want more grass roots knowledge.

Extract from Micah Sifry's "Wikileaks and the age of Transparnecy" also writes of Afghanistan an (I quote) "unwinnable war".

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WGAR News: Prime Minister Julia Gillard visits Mparntwe Alice Springs

Newsletter date: 9 June 2011

Contents:
* Prime Minister visits Mparntwe Alice Springs
* One week to go! June 14 Canberra Rally against NT nuclear waste dump
* Background to Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

PRIME MINISTER VISITS MPARNTWE ALICE SPRINGS:

- Media Release

Intervention Rollback Action Group, Alice Springs:
Aboriginal leaders tell Gillard: The Intervention is a failure - Self-Determination now
http://rollbacktheintervention.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/mr-7-6-11.pdf

WGAR News: Aboriginal Rights - Upcoming events around Australia - June 2011

Newsletter date: 7 June 2011

Contents:
* Aboriginal Rights - Upcoming events around Australia
* Prime Minister Julia Gillard visits Alice Springs today
* Bankstown Income Management forum, 20 June 2011 - Organised by STICS
* Central Australian delegates return from UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York
* Calls for Native Title reform
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

ABORIGINAL RIGHTS - UPCOMING EVENTS AROUND AUSTRALIA:

Click on the links for details of the events ...