The Government is facing an unprecedented level of litigation from miners and big business in response to the Mining Resources Rent Tax and the Carbon Tax. Meanwhile Clive Palmer is agitating that the CIA is in cahoots with the Australian Greens to stifle coal mining in Queensland.
Forest Rescue Activists have kept up with their commitment to defend Warrup State Forest near Bridgetown in our South West.
Activists are prepared to be charged during the campaign as personal sacrifice for the conservation of native forests and the endangered species which inhabit it such as the Numbat. However, police have stepped over the line this morning arresting activists unlawfully for Trespass on private land without prior knowledge and consent from the landowner. Police have forcibly taken cameras, video equipment and personal items from the Activists home and persons.
Indigenous representatives of Muckaty, Greens and environmentalists are vowing to fight the nuclear waste dump passed by the Australian Senate on March 13.
The Greens spokesperson for nuclear issues, Senator for Western Australia Scott Ludlam, said Labor and the Coalition colluding to pass the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill in the Senate today was "just the beginning of the next phase in the campaign to stop this waste dump".
Forest Rescue Media Release
14 March 2012
Forest Rescue has been waging a Non Violent Direct Action battle with the WA state government's Forest Products Commission (FPC) in order to secure the last remaining Numbat habitat in our southwest - the Warrup Forest near Bridgetown in WA. The forest is one of the last remaining intact colonies of the Numbat, of which less than a thousand remain in the wild. The Numbat was originally found across the whole of southern Australia.
Gerry Georgatos
This summer the south west of Western Australia has experienced a record series of heatwaves - eight, and climate trends during the last four decades show a rise in temperatures and a drying climate. According too the Weather Bureau and CSIRO WA's south west is drying faster than other part of the country and scientists say it will have a transforming effect on agriculture and the habitats, and there will be an increased risk of bushfires.
Government lies, Tokyo radioactive, 3 out-of-control reactors. News from nuclear expert Arnold Gundersen to Vancouver conference March 11th, plus reports of citizen activism in Japan, as parents measure radiation in their air, food, and children.
Reports from Aya Marumori & Wataru Iwata of CRMS from Fukushima.
Bottom line: when disaster strikes (whether nuclear, hurricanes, floods, etc) - big government hides the truth, and will not help. We have to organize and act as local communities to survive.
Renegade Activist chooses to hide on board the Ocean Shearer.
Forest Rescue
Media Release
3pm,Sunday 4th March 2012
Forest Rescue Works With Earth First.
Forest rescue lock up sheep ship, Ocean Shearer.
Media Release
Sunday 4th March 2012
The NSW State Liberal Government is planning to send Nuclear Waste from the site of an old uranium smelter in Hunters Hill to the Western Sydney Suburb of Lidcombe. The proposed storeage facility is within walking distance of thousands of local homes. Local residents have produced this film to try and explain why Nuclear Waste shouldn't be brought to our backyards.
Please send us your support.
You can find our film at: http://www.battler.org.au/2012/03/no-nuclear-waste-film/
http://bit.ly/Ad7hzA Dr. John Mashey investigates right-wing billionaires & corporations who pay alleged "charities", bloggers, & old weathermen to deny climate science. Some of that propaganda money went to New Zealand and Australia. Then Canadian journalist Margaret Munro on government muzzling scientists, plus update by UCS Francesca Grifo on science freedom in U.S.
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CD Quality of this Radio Ecoshock report (56 MB) here:
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock12/ES_120229_Show.mp3
