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"Fukushima is everywhere, switch off nuclear power stations now," says the banner.

Germans demonstrated against nuclear industry in more than 190 locations across their country to mark the second anniversary of the Fukushima catastrophe in Japan on the 11th of March.

Already on Saturday, in mainly foul weather, more than 28.000 turned up at nuclear power stations at Grohnde, Günzburg and Neckarwestheim and a uranium enrichment plant at Gronau.

Demonstrators argued that a lot more lessons need to b e learned from Fukushima than have been so far.

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: from 13 March 2013: Canberra, ACT
Exhibition now showing:
First Australians - Resistance
"The lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples were profoundly changed by the arrival
of British colonists in 1788. Lives were lost
and land taken as the colonisers attempted to
impose new social, economic and religious
orders. ... "
"Indigenous people responded in a variety of ways.
Some fought back with weapons. Others

Today in the Northern Territory along the Roper Bar road on the Aboriginal Alawa people owned Station of Warrigundu you will find no activity. The part time Aboriginal station staff was sat down in early December last year by the lease holders of the property, the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC). While sitting down for two or three months over a wet period is nothing new in the top end, the pay systems the Aboriginal boys operate under within the ILC is.

By Francesca Dziadek Reprint |    |

BREAKING NEWS:

Two U.S. sailors tell their stories of being poisoned with radioactivity aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan during the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan.

Quartermasters Maurice Enis, and Jaime Plym, now out of the Navy, speak in New York City, at a press
conference organized by the Helen Caldicott Foundation and the Physicians for Social Responsibility on March 11th, 2013, two years after the triple melt down in Japan.

In addition to the sailors, we hear from Jeff Patterson, president of PSR, Helen Caldicott, and Robert Alvarez.

Monday was the 8th consecutive day of above 30C heat with a forecast of at least two more days of temperatures in the mid 30s. That will make 10 continuous days before a cool change is expected late on Wednesday brings down temperatures to a milder high 20s. The previous record for any month was 8 continuous days set in February 1961. For the month of March, seven consecutive days above 30C is the record set in 1995.

Coonamble, NSW, 11 March 2013 – Indigenous sovereignty campaigner Michael Ghillar Anderson has been collating more practical examples of Australia recognising Indigenous sovereignty despite itself.

He notes in a media release that they constitute “admissions against their own interest” which he argues have one of the highest evidence values in court.

Newsletter date: 11 March 2013

Contents:

* Ada Lee, South Sydney Herald: Stronger Futures 'fundamentally racist'
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* YouTube: Letters Patent Protest, South Australia - MAV Media

* PShift: Traditional owner - james bonner - supports tent embassy in Musgrave Park
* YouTube: Sovereignty is an Australian question - SovereignEmbassy
* Brisbane City Council Heritage Citation: Musgrave Park

Kiss your old climate good-bye. That's the word from scientists and measuring agencies on all fronts.

Download/listen to this Radio Ecoshock program (1 hour) in CD quality here (56 MB):

http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130313_Show.mp3

Or try the faster loading, lower quality Lo-Fi version (14 MB) here:
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130313_Show_LoFi.mp3

John Vidal of the Guardian was among the first to report that measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere at Hawaii's Mauna Loa observatory hit an all-time new high in February 2013 at 396.8 parts per million.