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Huon Valley Environment Centre Press Release 18.2.11:“Conservationists have today returned to the threatened Picton Valley, where cable loggers have been sent back to clearfell an old growth forest area just weeks before a crucial moratorium deadline. One conservationist has climbed the cable logger and twenty five people are protesting in the forest. The Huon Valley Environment Centre is calling for the state and federal governments to take action to halt the loss of high conservation value forests,” Huon Valley Environment Centre’s spokesperson Jenny Weber said.

The Federal Government is currently reviewing funding for schools in Australia, after maintaining Howard's inequitable model of funding for the first four years in office. Visit the AEU For Our Future website to make a submission. If you want to read a great critique of the current arrangements, read the column below by Catherine Deveney from her Blog

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By Diet Simon
A train has just carted 56 tonnes of highly radioactive nuclear waste, including 16½ kilograms of plutonium, 934 kilometres from a recycling plant in southwest to a storage hall in northeast Germany.

Depending on the kind of isotope, less than 10 kilograms of plutonium is needed for an atom bomb.

Refugee Action Coalition Pres Release, 17 February, 2011 Refugee supporters and relatives of the survivors’ relatives again gathered at the Miowera Road gates of Villawood detention centre at 8.30am Thursday, 17 February to call on the Minister of Immigration not to return the Christmas Island disaster survivors to the island. It is expected that the survivors will be taken from the Villawood detention centre at 9.00am Thursday for the plane trip back to Christmas Island.

Anti-War Solidarity with Julian Assange - Verdict on Extradition Thurs Feb 24th. 2011

Youtube (4mins 39 secs) - Anti-War Solidarity with Manning & Assange outside Julian Assange Extraditon Hearing in London
Verdict - February 24th 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_QcSBGj_-8

London based Australian Catholic Workers - Ciaron (Brisbane), Roland (Melbourne), Rowan, (Adelaide) and Sue (Melbourne) joined with folks from WikiLeaks London Support, Justice for Assange and Anonymous over last week's three days of Julian Assange's extradition at Woolwich Courty/Belmarsh Prison.

Dear Radio Friend, 
            The latest Shortwave Report (February 18) 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, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and The Voice of Russia.

[this letter gives an analysis of the struggle in Kulon Progo in terms of the recent national debate about the status of the Sultanate of Jogja within Indonesia, as well as an update on the farmers' struggle including some recent actions and the attempts of local NGOs to cause divisions in the autonomous struggle]

Dear Comrades,

The family and supporters of T J Hickey, an Aboriginal youth killed in Redfern in the course of a police pursuit (another death in custody that was whitewashed), thought they were going to have a small win and be allowed to have a plaque commemorating his death at the spot where he was killed. But the police are objecting to words describing his death which were taken straight from the death certicate. The truth, once again, is forbidden! This was a rally and march (on February 14, 2011) in Redfern to mark seven years since this killing.

By Kristy Henderson

The father of India’s ‘Green Revolution’, Professor MS Swaminathan, delivered a lecture at Melbourne University on Monday night on how to feed the world’s poor in perpetuity. The evergreen revolution, as he calls this challenge, must be able to produce more, using less – less land, less water, less fertilizer.