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Critical Mass Harbour Bridge Ride

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 10/11/2011 - 4:52pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 25/11/2011 -

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Archibald Fountain, Hyde Park North.

Website:

http://bikesarefun.org/

Critical Mass Harbour Bridge Ride

WHAT: It’s that time of the year again, where a Critical Mass of several hundred cyclists rides over the Harbour Bridge!

WHEN: Friday 25 November, 5.30pm.

WHERE: Starts at the Archibald Fountain, Hyde Park North.

WHAT IS CRITICAL MASS: http://bikesarefun.org/

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Sydney

How to use a bikelock to save the Great Barrier Reef - protest halts Gladstone dredging

Submitted by takver on Wed, 09/11/2011 - 3:05pm

Derec Davies used a bicycle U lock to attach himself to a dredger in Gladstone Harbour this morning. The direct action was taken to protect the Great Barrier Reef against the development of Gladstone harbour liquefied natural gas facilities on Curtis Island to export Coal Seam Gas. Massive Dredging of the Gladstone harbour is occurring which fisherman and environmentalists say is causing turbidity in the water and causing illness of fish effectively closing down the local fishing industry. Development is endangering the World Heritage status of the Great Barrier Reef.

Related: In 2010 Conservationists criticised government over coal ship grounding on Great Barrier Reef near Gladstone | Capricorn Conservation Council: The LNG invasion of Curtis Island | ABC TV Four Corners: Great Barrier Grief | Getup! petition to Save the reef

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Mutiny Zine #62- paper of anarchistic ideas and actions

Submitted by Mutiny Zine on Wed, 09/11/2011 - 12:20pm

Mutiny Zine, a paper of anarchistic ideas and actions, is now available for October/November 2011 (issue 62). Find the zine online at jura.org.au/mutiny. This months zine includes analysis of the global occupy movement, as well as info on activism by the 'Superfluous ones' in Germany, a report from the Cancun climate summit protests in Mexico 2010 and from the rally to save Political Economy at Usyd.

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Sydney

WGAR News: Aboriginal leaders call for apology over NT intervention; Darwin launch of Walk With Us

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 09/11/2011 - 9:46am

Newsletter date: 9 November 2011

Contents:
* Aboriginal Leaders call for apology over NT intervention
* Report on 'Consultations' - "A flawed process and not what people said"
* Darwin book launch of 'Walk With Us' - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention
* Video: Yuendumu Voices - Reflections on the Intervention
* National Health Leadership Forum (NHLF) to be voice to govt
* Interview with Jonathan Nichols, Editor of a APY Project
* Project: Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud exhibition
* Jon Altman: The intervention is dead, long live the intervention

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Northern Territory Intervention

Report on 'Consultations' - A flawed process and not what people said

Darwin book launch of 'Walk With Us' - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention

Yuendumu Voices - Reflections on the Intervention

National Health Leadership Forum (NHLF) to be voice to govt

Interview with Jonathan Nichols Editor of a APY Project

Project - Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud exhibition

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 15 events from 9 November 2011

Songs of Meaning and Power

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/11/2011 - 8:38am

Date and Time:

Sat, 26/11/2011 - 10:00am to Sun, 27/11/2011 - 5:00pm

Location:

Fire Brigades Employees Union conference centre at 1-7 Belmore St Surry Hills

Website:

http://www.songweekend.wordpress.com

Songs of Meaning and Power

Lovers of music and justice are invited to gather in Sydney in November to sing songs together of a fair, inclusive and sustainable community.

It will take place on 26-27 November at the Fire Brigades Employees Union conference centre at 1-7 Belmore St Surry Hills.

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Sydney

Riot police brutally break up Occupy Sydney housing protest squat

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/11/2011 - 6:02am

On the 8th November five occupy Sydney protestors were arrested. The arrests came after the riot police usinig police dogs and chainsaws forced their way into an unoccupied Sydney building Occupy Sydney had began to squat that day as a protest against unaffordable housing in Australia. A banner had been hung from the building declaring "Housing Crisis solved".

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Sydney

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Occupy Sydney

Rememberance day for desecrated sacred burial sites

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 2:41am

Date and Time:

Sun, 13/11/2011 - 2:30am

Location:

We will be meeting at the Golf Course at Fairlight in Sydney on the 13th November 2011 to protest the desecration of sacred burial lands.

Ancestoral graves of Australian pioneers were desecrated with Bulldozers at Fairlight Sydney & the burial grounds were transformed into a Golf Course, people now play Golf on top of sacred burial sites, join us at Fairlight in Sydney on the 13th November 2011 to protest the desecration of sacred burial lands.

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Sydney

Rally to re-Occupy Sydney report and eviction from Hyde Park - November 5th

Submitted by Flowerpower on Sun, 06/11/2011 - 8:38pm

How to deal with pepper/capcicum spray should you ever need to

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Sydney

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Occupy Australia

Occupy Sydney

WGAR News: "Congress joins opposition to big stick policies in the NT" - NCAFP media release

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 06/11/2011 - 10:22am

Newsletter date: 29 October 2011

Contents:
* What’s Working: Animation of stories
* "Congress Joins Opposition to Big Stick Policies in the NT" NCAFP Media Release
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (NCAFP)
* Occupy Melbourne calls for Treaty with Indigenous Australia
* Interview with Brian Devlin on cuts to bilingual education in the NT
* Prof Jon Altman: Governments can not afford to neglect homelands
* UTS Lecture by Dr Miriam Jorgensen & Prof Stephen Cornell:
Indigenous Government - A Solution in Settler States

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Northern Territory Intervention

Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (NCAFP)

What’s Working - Animation of stories

Occupy Melbourne calls for Treaty with Indigenous Australia

Interview with Brian Devlin on cuts to bilingual education in the NT

Prof Jon Altman -Governments can not afford to neglect homelands

UTS Lecture by Dr Miriam Jorgensen & Prof Stephen Cornell - Indigenous Government - A Solution in Settler States

Global warming in Antarctica: Glaciers accelerating, west Antarctic ice sheet losing mass

Submitted by takver on Sun, 06/11/2011 - 12:08am

Scientists have been studying the climate change impact on ice shelfs and glaciers for some time in Antarctica, and particularly around the Antarctic Peninsula where there is substantial warming occurring increasing ice shelf melt and the speed and discharge of glaciers. The most recent studies predict a faster retreat for the Thwaites Glacier and that warm ocean currents are already speeding the melting of the Pine Island Glacier and Ice Shelf and Getz Ice Shelf. A NASA Icebridge flight detected a major new rift in the Pine Island ice shelf on October 14 - the start of the calving of a massive iceberg. A recent paper in Nature Geoscience discusses the Stability of the West Antarctic ice sheet in a warming world and the likelihood of collapse that would raise sea level by more than three metres over the course of several centuries or less.

Related: Record Increase in Greenhouse Gas Emissions for 2010 | The Wilkins ice Bridge collapsed in April 2009 as Polar regions felt the heat of climate change. I reported as far back as 2004 that warming in Antarctica was cause for concern with ocean food chain crashing due to Antarctic warming. More recently in April 2011 I discussed Penguin numbers suffering with krill decline due to Global Warming.

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