News, glorious news

Sun 8 Aug 10

As the Yellowcake Road crew make our way from Lucas Heights, Sydney, to Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory we'll be touching base when we can to share our adventures! As the first journey (perhaps of many!) along the proposed radioactive waste transport route we are finding that we are bringing the first news of the waste transport. In our talks with locals and community groups we are hoping to have the opportunity to visit again and hold public meetings to help build awareness and local resistance to the dump and the waste's 3,376km journey!

Wed 2 Jun 10

PENGON-FOE Palestine calls on all activists around the world to hold protests and vigils in memory of the people killed on board the ships. We urge international solidarity groups to work with even more determination to build a strong and effective movement for boycotts, divestment and sanctions until Israel respects human rights and international law, and until justice prevails in Palestine.

Wed 19 May 10

This week (from 17-22 April), the Governors’ Climate and Forests (GCF) Taskforce takes place in Aceh province, Indonesia. Three working groups in the meeting will discuss standards and criteria; project based carbon accounting; and funding. But local groups feel they have been excluded from the discussions and particularly from the REDD-type project at Ulu Masen in Aceh province. Yesterday, the Acehnese Civil Society Forum for the Sovereignty of Mukim released a press release signed by 51 groups.

Tue 11 May 10

Sydneysiders who are keen to build a sustainable and peaceful future are invited to join women who are walking for 80 days from Brisbane to Canberra. The women will be walking from Ashfield to Lucas Heights on Monday 10 May and will be holding a peaceful vigil outside the ANSTO site at 8am Tuesday morning 11 May.

Sat 1 May 10

The aggression towards Mother Earth and the repeated assaults and violations against our soils, air, forests, rivers, lakes, biodiversity, and the cosmos are assaults against us. Before, we used to ask for permission for everything. Now, coming from developed countries, it is presumed that Mother Earth must ask us for permission. Our territories are not respected, particularly those of peoples in voluntary isolation or initial contact, and we suffer the most terrible aggression since colonization only to facilitate the entry of markets and extractive industries.

Sat 24 Apr 10

Yesterday was the last day of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, organised by the Bolivian government in Cochabamba. REDD, CDM, carbon trading and ecological debt were among the hottest issues discussed in Cochabamba. The final declaration on forests rejects REDD.