ACE | Indymedia Australia

March on BHP Billiton - 20 October 2011 - on Day 6 of Occupy Melbourne

Submitted by peter on Fri, 21/10/2011 - 8:21am

On Day 6 of Occupy Melbourne, a number of protesters joined an action by Friends of the Earth ACE collective at the Melbourne Office of BHP Billiton, timed to coincide with the company's London AGM.

Having marched up Swanston Street to chants of ‘BHP BP Shell/ You can all/Go to hell’ and ‘System Change not Climate Change’, and escorted by about ten uniformed police - with at least one not-very-undercover plain clothes officer - protesters arrived at the headquarters to find it protected by even more.

Geography:

Keywords:

Protest as Martin Ferguson arrives at Growth Challenge conference in Melbourne - 30 June 2011

Submitted by peter on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 12:35pm

The speakers list at a conference entitled ‘Growth Challenge – Riding the Resources Boom to Lasting Prosperity’ had been described as “A Who’s who that’s Screwing You” (see the callout on this site - ), but in the event it was only Energy and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson who attracted a concerted protest, courtesy of Friends of the Earth ACE collective, who brought Mr Nuke Death with them…

Geography:

Keywords:

No dump at Muckaty! Protests continue in Martin Ferguson's electorate, 24 February 2011

Submitted by peter on Fri, 25/02/2011 - 11:20am

To mark the one-year anniversary of the announcement of Muckaty in the Northern Territory as the chosen site for a proposed national radioactive waste dump, members of Friends of the Earth ACE (Anti-nuclear and Clean Energy) Collective* toured part of Energy and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson's Batman electorate in search of an alternative dumping ground.

Geography:

Keywords:

Picket at BHP Billiton Melbourne office - 16 November 2010

Submitted by peter on Tue, 16/11/2010 - 5:03pm

Protests were held today in several centres across the country to mark BHP Billiton's AGM in Perth. In Melbourne, members of Friends of the Earth ACE collective and activists representing the Indigenous peoples of Latin America held banners outside the company headquarters in Lonsdale Street and distributed pamphlets setting out the case against it.

Geography:

Keywords:

Hiroshima Day in Melbourne - 6 August 2010

Submitted by peter on Sat, 07/08/2010 - 11:01am

Evening rush-hour crowds at the Flinders Street/Swanston Street intersection were met by a large banner yesterday reminding them of the 45th anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima with its attendant loss of life. The event was organised by Friends of the Earth’s ACE (Anti-Nuclear and Clean Energy) collective, who were also promoting the new Choose Nuclear Free website, while handing out leaflets inviting people to take part in ICAN‘s Million Pleas campaign…

Geography:

Keywords:

Melbourne launch of Nuclear Freeways 2010 - 30 July

Submitted by peter on Fri, 30/07/2010 - 6:48pm

Dave Sweeney, Nuclear Free campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation, was one of the speakers at the launch of Friends of the Earth Nuclear Freeways 2010.

Geography:

Keywords:

Northern Territory Intervention

Ferguson

ACE

nuclear waste dump. Muckaty

Lucas Heights

Stop Martin Ferguson dumping on traditional owners: Northcote Town Hall, 21 April 10

Submitted by peter on Sat, 24/04/2010 - 4:40pm

Federal Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson's ears should have been burning on Wednesday evening as speakers at an information evening at Northcote Town Hall attacked his perverse obsession with building a nuclear waste dump on Indigenous land at Muckaty in the Northern Territory.

Geography:

Promotion:

Keywords: