In Armidale Town Hall seventy residents gathered on 1st March to consider the merits of a community-owned wind farm for the New England region. The New England region has good wind resources and good access to transmission lines.
Melbourne's Anti-Intervention Collective organised a protest under the banner "Jobs with Justice, not Work for Rations". After speeches at the State Library there was a march down Swanston Street to Federation Square, where the stage was occupied for more speakers and the formal handing over of a petition for delivery to the CFMEU in the NT...
See report on the MAIC website, http://maicollective.blogspot.com/2011/03/we-sent-them-message.html, and also on this site - http://indymedia.org.au/2011/03/05/melbourne-anti-intervention-rally-432011
The campaign to stop investment in another generation of polluting coal power is marching on. Following a big presence at the ANZ bank's AGM in December, activists and Climate Action Groups have taken the message to the streets, confronting ANZ during their sponsorship of the Australian Open in Melbourne and Sydney Festival. Over 45 actions have taken place outside ANZ branches since the campaign kicked off toward the end of last year.
300 people braved the Melbourne cold and drizzle on Friday 4th March, standing in solidarity with exploited workers in the Northern Territory, demanding Aboriginal rights. We chanted for equal pay and jobs with justice. We called for an end to the 'work for rations' system of many Aboriginal people living under the racist NT Intervention. Friday's protest was at its most lively when we took to the march along Swanston Street. We reclaimed the corner of Bourke and Swanston, the symbolic heart of Melbourne, and heard from Jenna Tipuamantumirri from the Tiwi Islands.
"We need a residence permit"
By close Meinersen
A man from Nepal, who lived for 15 years as a "tolerated" refugee in Germany, received a notice by the immigration office in Gifhorn about his upcoming deportation. The man could not stand that anymore and committed suicide.
The long-running saga over the mammoth 11GW Belo Monte dam project in Brazil has taken another turn, with a higher court overturning a previous ruling that blocked the beginning of construction on the grounds that the project did not meet environmental standards.
The project, should it proceed, would be the third largest hydroelectric dam in the world and its construction would require the resettlement of thousands of indigenous people.
He's in There for Us, We're on the Loose for Him!
GUARDIAN - Bradley Manning may face death penalty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/03/bradley-man...nalty
*From Jeff Patterson, Corage to Resist, Bradley Manning Support Network (U.S.A.)
I’m shocked that the military opted to charge Pfc. Bradley Manning today with the capital offense of “aiding the enemy”.
Akbayan Youth on the 25th Anniversary of EDSA and the Marcos burial issue
The corpse of Ferdinand Marcos remains preserved in a mausoleum. It is a spectral remnant of a past that refuses to let go: a time when Marcos fashioned himself to be a leader who used “utopian causes” to centralize power and justify his authoritarianism.
Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (March 4) is up at the website
http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59)
(NEW! If you have access to Audioport.org there is a higher quality version posted up there {26.7MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)
This week's show features stories from China Radio International, The Voice of Russia, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and Radio Havana Cuba.
Anti USA Police State rock music video released by American rocker who has been targeted with a decade of government oppression. Scott X and the Constitution Commandos take on corrupt and criminal acts of the government with their 5th video release from their new album: "Fighting the U.S. Police State With Music".
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By SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL
A Murunahua man. The Murunahua's reserve is occupied by illegal loggers. ©Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy
After seven months of additional investigation by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC) and other investigative agencies, the U.S. Army charged Pvt. 1st Class Bradley E. Manning with 22 additional charges on March 2, 2011. Most significantly, the capital offense charge of aiding the enemy under UCMJ Article 104 was added. The Army claims that the prosecution will not recommend the death penalty; however, the Army’s Convening Authority, Maj. Gen. Karl R. Horst (Commanding General, U.S. Army Military District of Washington) will have the final say in the matter.
Statement from Rising Tide 7: Magistrate Elaine Truscott has today (March 3rd) dismissed a $525,000 victims compensation claim brought against 7 climate change protesters on behalf of Port Waratah Coal Services in Newcastle Local court. We are relieved that the claim was rejected but have our concerns that the Magistrate’s decision was based on insufficient evidence, rather than rejecting it as an abuse of NSW Victims Compensation laws.
Rally: Thursday, 10 March 2011 at 1.30pm
in front of the Chinese Consulate, 45 Brown Street, East Perth
Tibetans and their supporters living in free parts of the world, annually organise rallies to commemorate the anniversary of the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
These rallies send a clear message to the government of China to immediately restore human rights in Tibet and give the Tibetan people their freedom.
By Diet Simon, translating Wolfgang Ehmke
A cash-strapped German state will fork out billions of taxpayers’ euros to deal with nuclear waste produced by an industry two out of three Germans want axed.
And it won’t even be for permanent disposal, because worldwide there’s no safe technology for that.
For years, anti-nuclear activists have demanded to no avail that the nuclear power industry fund the waste handling problem.
Racism, xenophobia, hostility towards refugees, migrants, Asians, Jews, Muslims or Aborigines as with the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, or any other expression derived from a perception of the superiority of one group over another, is entirely the product of an imbalance of power between women and men, the primary constituents of community.
If women and men achieve equality all demographics comprised of women and men achieve equality.
A republic governed by agreement between women's and men's legislatures, courts and corporate committees eliminates racism.
Newsletter date: 3 March 2011
Contents:
* Indigenous survival: Where to from here? - Symposium on the 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
* The Desecration of The Sacred Alum Mountain
* ACTU Indigenous Conference in Darwin
* Two Surveys on racial relations in Australia
(1) Challenging Racism: The Anti-Racism Research Project
(2) Australian Reconciliation Barometer
INDIGENOUS SURVIVAL: WHERE TO FROM HERE?
- SYMPOSIUM ON THE 2007 DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research:
WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM PROBLEMS?
Have you or someone you know had problems with Witness Protection Program?
Have you ever been in the Witness Protection Program in Australia? Have you, or someone you know, had problems with the Program?
Were you promised to be provided with things that never eventuated? Did they fail to uphold an agreement or contract with you?
Did you have ongoing problems with any issues that you are unable to resolve?
Did you or other members of your family have problems regarding proper, legitimate Identification Documentation?
http://traffic.libsyn.com/kaputtradio/kr__189_dictators.mp3
A serious, musical, satirical audio trip
SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
March 2, 2011
Three Amazon Indians protested in London today against dams which threaten to destroy the lands and lives of thousands of tribal people.
Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, an Ashaninka Indian from Peru, Sheyla Juruna, a Juruna Indian from the Xingu region and Almir Surui of the Surui tribe in Brazil, are calling for three controversial dam projects in the Amazon to be halted.
