A Bushman from a settlement deep in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve has travelled to the Gambia to ask the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights for help.
Speaking at the African Commission’s international conference earlier this month, Smith Moeti described the Bushmen’s struggle to access water and escape persecution from the Botswana government.
His investigation of mass mortality and mutation of hatchery fish has “thoroughly terrified” one of Australia’s leading aquatic veterinarians about the agrochemical pollution of the supposedly pristine Noosa River on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
Dr Matt Landos, consultant to most of the country’s fresh water fish hatcheries and most aquatic sectors, accuses Queensland and federal government agencies of dereliction of duty of care.
On Thursday 18th of November, Dandenong TAFE students held their second rally against the regressive changes brought in by the Brumby Government that greatly increase the costs of TAFE for people and increase subsidies to private operators. Organisers of the rally said "We think it's unfair to increase the TAFE student fees; TAFE should be affordable to everyone!". The crowd gathered to make their voice heard in the lead up to the State election on November 27th, soldiering on despite the rain.
Tafe4all -- Tafe4all Facebook page
November 18 2010
The Clock is Ticking For Our Ancient Forests
Tasmanian forest activists have painted a high-profile water tower on a major highway south of Hobart with the bold message 'The clock is ticking for our ancient forests!'. The painting is a call-out reminding the community that some of our most precious forests are still being destroyed, while they sit on the waiting line for protection.
Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (November 19) is up at the website
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(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, Radio Netherlands, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.
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The global dissent, looming and prevailing conflicts - a kaputt response in audio collage
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German language Australian news commentary
Australischer Nachrichten Kommentar mit Wolfgang
7:45 min 96 kbps stereo 5.4 MB
10 weeks ago... 100 people break out of Darwin Detention Centre screaming a message of desperation, hope and freedom that the media does everything to silence.
2 months ago... Josefa Rauluni dies in Villawood detention centre on the day he is expecting to be deported. He feared death and torture upon return to Fiji.
Since the Australian Conservation Foundation launched its campaign against the proposed nuclear waste dump at Muckaty in the Northern Territory some 2700 signatures have been collected on the 'Dump the Dump' petition. Today, Dave Sweeney, ACF nuclear free campaigner, went to Energy and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson's office to deliver the petition, accompanied by anti-nuclear activists including members of Friends of the Earth ACE collective, who brought a trailer loaded with drums of 'radioactive waste' to highlight the message.
14 anarchists arrested accused of "terrorism" by the Chilean state, around the mediatic "Bombs case", 10 are still in the Maximun Security Prisons under Pinochet's anti-terrorist law.
Survival International has sent a letter signed by more than fifty leading NGOs to oil companies Perenco, Repsol-YPF and ConocoPhillips to demand their immediate withdrawal from an area inhabited by uncontacted tribes in Peru.
Amazon Watch and Save America’s Forests join a global array of NGOs that have pledged their support to stop the companies from working in oil blocks 39 and 67 in the northern Peruvian Amazon.
2 banners placed in Newtown on Tuesday evening in solidarity with immigrants.
"SOLIDARITY WITH IMMIGRANTS, FIRE TO THE PRISONS" and "NO BORDERS NO NATIONS, DESTROY THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS"
-anarchists
A postgradaute at the Australian National University is currently facing intimidation from academic staff at the Australian National University for publishing an essay on Ney York Indymedia.
The University is accusign the student of plagerism and is threatening to expel the student for publishing this essay
In light of the appeal court of December 6, 2010, we call for acts of solidarity everywhere.
FREEDOM FOR GIANNIS DIMITRAKIS
The anarchist Giannis Dimitrakis was arrested heavily wounded after a robbery at a branch of the National Bank in the center of Athens, on January 16th, 2006.
A new booklet has recently been published, entitled "Space for Movement? Reflections from Bolivia on climate justice, social movements and the state". Collectively written from an anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian position, it will hopefully add to our understandings of the struggle for climate justice and the conflict this will create with capitalism and the state.
An Iraqi man has tragically taken his own life on Monday 15th November at Villawood. This is the second suicide in two months at the detention centre run by the Multinational Serco. Refugee activists are holding protests outside the centre as detainees go on a hunger strike inside the centre. This suicide comes in the same week as a violent brawl at a Melbourne Detention Centre between Afghan teenagers recently moved from Christmas Island. Just like under Howard, traumatised people are being stressed and broken by the thousands by the Gillard Government with over 5000 people locked up in Australia's immigration gulag's. Just to emphasize the sense of history repeating, the Federal Government has confirmed that 10 asylum seekers have sown their lips together in protest on Christmas Island as the trouble in the detention centres escalates.
RISE Press Release -- RAC Sydney Press Release -- Article on Brawl in Melbourne Centre -- Solidarity Banners in Newtown -- Summary of recent protests
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.
WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)
WGAR Website: http://wgar.info/
16 NOV 2010:
Contents:
* Racism and the Media: The lie that built the NT Intervention
* Proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in the Constitution; Jenny Macklin has ruled out a treaty
* Canada signs on to UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
* Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Jobs with Justice
* Other Aboriginal Articles
RACISM AND THE MEDIA: THE LIE THAT BUILT THE NT INTERVENTION:
WGAR: Racism and the Media
Concerned Russians are appealing for international signatures against the dumping of 1,000 spent nuclear fuel rods from Germany in a part of their country that is already the most radioactively contaminated in the world. If you want to take part, add your signature at the bottom of the list, cull the list and send it to Natalia Mironova at nmironova@gmail.com. A very critical German television report about this is at http://www.wdr.de/tv/monitor/sendungen/2010/1118/atom.php5 See English transcript of it at http://indymedia.org.au/node/2126/edit
On Friday November 12th the “No More Band-Aid Solutions: End The Housing Crisis” rally closed down Victorian Housing Minister Richard Wynne’s electoral office in Collingwood. Despite sweltering heat and a looming rainstorm 80 to 100 people joined the protest playing drums and percussion, setting up tents and a clothesline and plastering Wynne’s office windows with band-aids and squatting stickers.
