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More from SLAM rally - 23 February 2010 Ctd

See previous post - these are the remaining speeches from the rally at Parliament House. (Note - Quincy McLean and Helen Marcou spoke in turns, and are represented by one file, and Dan Sultan's welcome and acknowledgement of the elders will be found on the video of the performance of "It's a long way...') MC Brian Nankervis spoke throughout, and again, some of what he said can be heard on the video clips.

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More from SLAM rally - 23 February 2010

The last part of the rally consisted of speeches from a number of prominent members of the music community, and the organisers of the event have placed partial transcripts/summaries of some of these on the SLAM website - http://www.slamrally.org/speeches/ There are also snippets in the video clips posted on YouTube.

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Will Mulrinji inquiry deliver justice?

Posted by: "Ray Jackson" isja01@internode.on.net
Mon Mar 8, 2010 11:46 pm (PST)

more on the not so unexpected racism involved in the secrecy and suppression involving the history of thuggery by hurley towards aboriginal people.

the qld. police tried every trick in the book in an attempt to stop the assault record of hurley being made public but had only half a victory. it was used in the inquest but was not made public.

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Melbourne hail storm - don't mention climate change

Melbourne experienced a hail storm March 6th that has done hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars of damage. The storm has been labelled a "once in a century" event. What's not been mentioned is that the storm fits the predicted pattern of the impact of Climate Change on South East Australia.

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The world's most important product

Ways of Viewing the World’s Most Important Product

I’ll begin by quoting from contemporary philosopher and psychologist Eric Fromm’s work, ‘The Art of Loving’, “The principal underlying capitalist society and the principal of love are incompatible.” And. “Those who are seriously concerned with love as the only rational answer to the problem of human existence must, then, arrive at the conclusion that important and radical changes in our social structure are necessary . . .”.

9/11 investigation movement heats up.

Recently an organisation of professional architects and engineers held a press conference to mark the milestone of 1000+ members.

The press conferences was held in various cities around the world by professionals in their fields, but did not receive much media response at all.

The organisation is currently raising funds to put NIST investigators in front of a grand jury for fraud.

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Federal Police raid Sea Shepherd vessel

Five Federal Police officers have raided the Steve Irwin as it docked in Hobart today at the behest of the Japanese Government. Australia instead of helping to enforce the international ban on whaling in its waters and condemning the Japanese for their illegal sinking of a Sea Shepherd vessel is trying to help criminalise the Sea Shepherds activities.

http://www.theage.com.au/environment/whale-watch/federal-police-board-an...

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The Brown Mountain landmark trial has begun!

After months of preparation, our legal team and supporters have gathered in Sale and begun the two-week Brown Mountain landmark trial.

Everything is going very well so far. It’s difficult to report on a hearing that is in progress, particularly since we are the plaintiff, so this article might lack a few things.

Our lead barrister, Debbie Mortimer SC, spent Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning in Court outlining what we say are the facts and the law, in a fascinating opening submission.

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TRU energy profits from polluting

TRU energy which owns Yallourn Power station in the Latrobe Valley enjoyed a large rise in profits last year up 22% to $A105.8 million. This money goes to the shareholders in TRU energies parent company CLP (China Light and Power) a Hong Kong based mult-national. The profits according to the Age come largely off the back of record output from the carbon belching brown coal electricity generator Yallourn in the Latrobe Valley.

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“Irrigation levee causing bigger floods than ever”

Goodooga, northwest NSW, 5 March 10 - - An Aboriginal Elder and farmer blames a 75-kilometre cotton irrigation levee for faster, deeper and greater expanse of flood water flowing across southern central Queensland and upper western NSW areas than ever before.

Aboriginal Elder and station owner and manager, Michael Anderson and his hydrologist wife Jutta, are currently awaiting record flood waters of 8-9 metres at their station “Mogila”, east of Goodooga, northwest NSW.

Stand up with women in Papua New Guinea

By Hannah Harborow, Amnesty International

Can we ignore a call for help from our nearest neighbour?

Right on our doorstep two-thirds of women experience violence at the hands of their husbands and 60% of men admit to participating in gang rape.

In Papua New Guinea (PNG), the statistics are incomprehensibly shocking, but the personal stories are even worse.

Imagine the constant fear of living in an environment where your husband is the perpetrator, your family often the facilitators and where the authorities - at best - simply turn a blind eye.

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Educational apartheid in the Northern Territory and the Building The Education Revolution program

The Northern Territory government has set up an apartheid education system in the Northern Territory and the Federal Government seems to accept it.

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Internet censorship laws play right into the hands of Murdoch

Murdoch beleives people should be paying for news on the internet. For some time now the profit margins that he built his news empire upon, the newspapers, have been declining. With independant news sites freely available, where individuals can express there views or campaign for their own platform, it seems the only chance for murdoch would be if the government were to implement new media laws.

The truth (news) can no longer be spoon fed, force fed, or under fed.

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2 days to save the oceans

Dear friends,

This Friday, the UK government could make history by creating the world’s largest Marine Protection Area around the Chagos Islands.*

Our ocean ecosystems are literally dying under pressure from mass, uncontrolled commercial fishing and pollution. This decision could start to turn the tide. But commercial fishing companies are opposing the move, putting short term profits ahead of all sense. We can’t let that happen -- already, over 90% of big fish like tuna and marlin are gone.

Why are the Australian media and politicians totally silent on the latest ABS crime figures?

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) issued a media release on the 18th February 2010 under the heading: “Over a million cases of household property damage”, found that: “there are  approximately 1.6 million incidents of malicious property damage” across Australia, and that: “912,500 households (11%) were victims of at least one incident of property damage in the 12 months” between 2008 and 2009.

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Brisbane: Pro-choice campaign to confront anti-abortion bigots

Pro-choice campaign to confront anti-abortion bigots

Week of action to be launched at International Women’s Day rally

The Pro-Choice Action Collective will launch a week of action at this Saturday’s International Women’s Day rally to be held at 10:30am in King George Square.

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20,000 march to protect live music in Melbourne

Over 20,000 people marched in Melbourne on February 23rd in probably the biggest protest in Australian history organised in defence of culture and the arts. The rally recreated the AC/DC clip "Its a long way to the top" by following a flat bed truck down Swanston St.

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