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Thu, 2009-10-01 14:04 — Cyber Activist

To all in the Brisbane area-

Sydney Event

Thu, 2009-06-04 13:22 — Cyber Activist

http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/news-and-events/events/austmusexhib-...

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2009, 1PM

"Greenpeace and the Australian Museum present two inspiring talks in conjunction with the "Climate Change: Our Future, Our Choice" exhibition.

Two of our Climate Change and Energy campaigners, John Hepburn and Julien Vincent, will give talks on the opportunities and challenges presented by climate change."

PLANET IN CRISIS - where to from here?

Wed, 2009-05-13 11:51 — Cyber Activist

...Come to a forum on climate change, the environment and political will - Friday 15th May in Sydney with Bob - http://is.gd/z65T

When: 6.30 pm - 8.30 pm, Friday 15 May 2009
Where: Ferguson Hall, St Stephens Uniting Church, Macquarie St Sydney

Senator Bob Brown, Leader of Australian Greens: climate change & the political will to transform the economy

Cate Faehrmann, Executive Director, Nature Conservation Council of NSW: harnessing community action to create the political will

Geoff Evans, University of Newcastle: ensuring a just transition for workers

URGENT RALLY:

Tue, 2009-05-12 17:25 — Cyber Activist


It's time to stand up to big polluters
10am, Saturday 16 May
Sydney Town Hall

IT'S TIME to:
* Stop handouts to big polluters
* End the influence of the fossil fuel lobby
* Fast-track clean, renewable energy
* Create green jobs and protect the climate

Join this peaceful community protest to oppose the Federal Government's recent moves to weaken the already inadequate Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.

Speakers include Cate Faehrmann (Nature Conservation Council of NSW), Senator Bob Brown (The Greens), Simon Sheikh (GetUp!), Graham Brown (ex-Hunter Valley coal miner and climate change activist) and more.

Enough is Enough when it comes to the undue influence of big polluters over decisions being made on climate change.

Thanks and appreciation go to Mira Wroblewski for the images.
More images here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/miraw2/UrgentClimateChangeRallySydneyMay1620...

For further information see http://climatemovement.org.au
or call (02) 9279 2466.

Walk Against Warming Rallies - Australia

Tue, 2008-11-04 19:45 — Cyber Activist


Saturday 15 November 2008

Walk the walk for renewable energy and a safe climate future for our children.

Join thousands of families, workplaces and communities across Australia in this year's Walk Against Warming on 15 November.

DETAILS
Sydney :: 11am, Martin Place
Melbourne :: 1pm, Federation Square
Brisbane :: 12.30pm, Queens Park (behind the casino)

Want to do more? To volunteer on the day please email volunteer@au.greenpeace.org with your name and mobile number.

Further information:
http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/news-and-events/events/waw08-291008
www.greenpeace.org
Source: www.greenpeace.org
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Feel free to download and print our t-shirt transfer and wear proudly on Saturday :-) see attached file or click here:
http://globalclimatechangeaction.org/files/newT-jpg.JPG
Remember to "invert" the image before you print it so that when you iron it on it's not mirrored.

climate emergency protest, Sydney - please spread the word

Tue, 2008-09-16 07:21 — Cyber Activist

climate emergency protest, Sydney - please spread the word - *Climate **emergency - **renewables **now**!*

*Protest outside offices of Xstrata coal!*
*1 Macquarie Place** Sydney** CBD (off Loftus St, near Circular Quay) , **
5pm Thursday October 2nd*
***It's a climate emergency!** **Melting of the Arctic sea ice may be
complete by the northern summer of 2010. We must urgently decarbonise our economy to radically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and existing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Xtrata, NSW's biggest coal exporter, is about to start work on the Mangoola mine in the Hunter Valley. The call for renewables is more urgent than ever!*

The protest is organised by People for a Safe Climate (PSC), which brings together people from climate action groups and other environmental, peace, social justice and political organisations. We meet Thursdays, 6pm in the UTS Students Association back room, level 3, UTS Broadway. All welcome. For further info, contact Kamala, 0417 319662; Holly 0417 682 541; Alison 9818 6718

*How you can help out before **October 2nd:*

- Come along to the smaller stunts we're holding in the lead-up. The
first such action is on *Thursday Sept 25th 8-9am at Martin Place, *with another on *Tuesday Sept 30th*.

- Help out at stalls or with leafleting. Please contact us or come along
to our next meeting. Posters and leaflets for the rally can be picked up at the Resistance Centre (23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale) or outside the UTS Students' Association (level 3, UTS Tower). *Or they can be downloaded at *
http://safeclimate.wikispaces.com/poster and
http://safeclimate.wikispaces.com/leaflet+to+print.

- Help us cover the costs of the campaign by donating to:

People for a Safe Climate
Commonwealth Bank. BSB 06 2498 Account no 101 556 65

**
*The rally is calling for:

· *100% electricity from renewables within 10 years*
Former US vice-president Al Gore has called for US power generation to be 100% carbon-free within 10 years. With abundant solar, wind and geothermal resources, there's no reason why Australia couldn't be powered entirely by renewables. We must go beyond the government's inadequate targets.

· *Keeping power in public hands*
We need maximum public accountability for the power industry. Full
electricity privatisation has been knocked on the head, but there is still a danger that our new Premier will sell-off the electricity retailers, move that would continue to sacrifice our environmental needs.

· *The phasing out of coal*
Burning coal for electricity accounts for over a third of Australia's
greenhouse gas emissions each year. In addition, when Australia's coal exports are burnt, it causes more pollution than the total of Australia's domestic economy.

· *The expansion of public transport
*Transport is responsible for 14% of Australia's carbon emissions, with the largest contribution coming from passenger cars. We need to reverse the priorities of Governments which fund for freeways while starving public transport systems.

· *No carbon trading loopholes!*
The government is taking a business-as-usual approach to the climate emergency. Carbon trading alone will be too slow; with free permits for the big polluters it won't work at all. It must not be linked to international "carbon offset" schemes; these do nothing to reduce domestic emissions and often support environmentally damaging projects. Under its plan, the government admits, emissions will rise for some years to come. From: [Climate Change Action Group]

Call for urgent action - Climate Emergency

Thu, 2008-08-21 02:05 — Cyber Activist

CLIMATE EMERGENCY
Renewables Now

* 100% electricity from renewables in ten years
* no carbon trading loop holes
* Coal, keep it in the ground
* expand public transport
* keep power in public hands

Call for urgent action
5pm, Thursday, October 2
outside offices of Xstrata Coal
1 Macquarie Place
Sydney

Organised by People for a Safe Climate

Next organising meeting: 5pm Thursday August 21, Students Association back room, UTS Broadway

All welcome!

Sydney climate emergency rally: organising meeting August 14

Sun, 2008-08-10 00:43 — Cyber Activist

via: Yahoo Climate Change Action Group
Sydney climate emergency rally: organising meeting
***August 14***
Take part in organising a climate emergency rally in Sydney, September 27, please come to the first meeting:

6.30pm
Thursday August 14
UTS

We're seeking the involvement of as many groups and individuals as possible, so please forward this through your networks.

Supported by

Alison Potter, Climate Change Balmain-Rozelle
Brianna Pike, Resistance
Damien Lawson,
Climate Justice Coordinator Friends of the Earth Australia
Janet France, North Shore Climate Action
Jonathan Doig, Sutherland Climate Action Network
Jo Ferris, Sydney Uni enviro collective convenor
Jo Spangaro, Ryde Gladesville Climate Change Action Group
Kamala Emanuel, Socialist Alliance
Maria White, UNSW enviro collective co-convenor
Nicky Ison

*We need urgent action on climate change!*
A call for a national week of protest action beginning September 21
Climate change is already occurring, much faster than the world's
scientists have predicted. Recent data including the very real possibility of the arctic sea-ice melting by September this year demonstrate that this is a climate emergency.

We are concerned that the Australian government's proposed Emissions Trading Scheme will be full of loopholes and by the government's own admission will allow emissions to continue rising for some years. We believe such incremental measures are unacceptable: We need greenhouse emissions to start to fall immediately and sharply.

To begin to solve the problem we need action on many fronts including:

* No new coal;
* Massive public spending on renewable energy;
* More public transport not new freeways;
* End logging of old growth forests.

We call for a national week of protests across Australia at the Spring Equinox, in the week beginning September 21. This week of action can highlight the summer melt of the Arctic ice and other worrying signs that demand urgent measures to de-carbonise the economy from state and Federal governments.

We ask climate change campaign groups and networks and all environmentally concerned organisations across Australia to work together for a co-ordinated and effective week of public protest around these themes.

*Call issued by the organising committee for the July 5 Climate Emergency rally in Melbourne
Endorsed unanimously by participants at the final session of the August 2
Climate Justice seminar in Melbourne
http://www.climatejusticeseminar.blogspot.com
Please spread the word and START ORGANISING!!!

You are invited to the *Climate change | Social change conference*,

Wed, 2008-02-20 23:45 — Cyber Activist

*Climate change | Social change conference*, -
April 11-13, 2008 Sydney

The world is teetering on the brink of unstoppable climate change. Many
now recognise the need for serious change in the way we produce and use
energy, our transport systems, food production, urban design and
forestry practices. Yet politicians are still mouthing platitudes while
allowing corporations to continue to profit from polluting our
atmosphere and destroying our ecosystem.

The need for social change has become an urgent part of preventing
catastrophic climate change. Can the market fix the problem? What is
the real record of carbon trading? How can we build a social movement
capable of averting this disaster? What models and experiences can offer
real solutions? [Further details: Climate Change Action Group]

climate change conference

Wed, 2008-02-20 22:43 — Cyber Activist

climate change conference - 'Imagining the real life on greenhouse earth' is the theme of a conference to be held at the Australian National University in Canberra on 11th and 12th June, 2008 [further details: Climate Change Action Group]

ANSTO Action

Thu, 2007-11-08 10:46 — Cyber Activist

Protest Lucas Heights - Friday 11.30am
DUMP HOWARD NOT RADIOACTIVE WASTE

Friday 9th November, 11.30am under ANSTO sign!

Speakers include:
John Kaye - Greens Parliament Member
Uncle Dootch - Kurradji Tent Embassy
Jaimie Paterson - Greens candidate for Hughes, long-time involvement in anti-Lucas heights campaign
Darren Bloomfield - Sydney Aboriginal Tent Embassy

Dissenting Drummers Collective also!!

The International Atomic Energy Agency is in Sydney this week for its 'International Conference on Research Reactors: Safe Management and
Effective Utilization' (what a joke).

Sydney Climate Change Forum

Sun, 2007-11-04 06:30 — Cyber Activist

Climate Action Bondi
WENTWORTH CLIMATE CHANGE FORUM

Electorate event: Wentworth NSW

With speaker Dr Mark Diesendorf, Institute of Environmental Studies, UNSW "Climate Change, the State of Play"

The action that residents of Wentworth take now to influence the candidates will have a major impact on how Australia tackles climate change. Come and find out how your candidates intend to represent your views about climate change.

CANDIDATES:

* Susan Jarnason (Greens)
* Pierce Field (Democrat)
* George Newhouse (Labor)
* Malcolm Turnbull (Liberal)

MC: Samantha Lang, film writer/director and Wentworth local

When: Wednesday 7 November 2007 at 7 PM
Where:
Auditorium, Waverley RSL Club,
1-9 Gray St, Bondi Junction
More details: 0419 002 606

PICKET NUCLEAR INDUSTRY FRIDAY OCTOBER 19, 8.30am

Wed, 2007-10-17 09:24 — Cyber Activist

PICKET FRIDAY 8.30am - NO TO NUCLEAR: SOLIDARITY WITH NT INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES

Please come along to this very important picket as the election approaches, the intervention intensifies and very serious preparations for a nuclear industry in Australia are begining. We need to let both Howard and Rudd know that Indigenous justice and a nuclear-free Australia are serious election issues and we demand that genuine committments are made to each. Great speakers as listed below. Leaflet attached - please distribute widely.

PICKET OF AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
FRIDAY OCTOBER 19th 8.30AM
280 PITT ST SYDNEY

NO TO NUCLEAR: HOWARD MUST GO!!!

SOLIDARITY WITH NT INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES

LAND RIGHTS NOT MILITARY LAND GRAB

CLEAN COUNTRY & STRONG CULTURE, NOT URANIUM MINING

Speakers include:
Darren Bloomfield - Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Kerry Nettle - Australian Greens Senator
Jessica Morrison - International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Michaela Stubbs - Nuclear-Free Campaigner of Friends of the Earth

CLIMATE CHANGE SEMINAR - Sydney

Wed, 2007-09-19 17:46 — Cyber Activist

Fw: CLIMATE CHANGE SEMINAR - ... From: Chippendale News To: Coalition Chippendale Community Groups Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:50 AM Subject: CLIMATE CHANGE SEMINAR The CUB site [Climate Change Action Group]

Cycle for clean energy or Cycle Against the Nuclear Cycle (CANC)

Mon, 2007-06-11 20:13 — Cyber Activist

Cycle for clean energy or Cycle Against the Nuclear Cycle (CANC) - Anne Goddard added an entry about Stop the nuclear industry:

Today we (Nat and I) asked our boss if we could take some time off work to join the peace convergence 22, 23, 24th June, Qld, Australia
http://peaceconvergence.com

We had committed to going before getting the jobs.
Further, I asked if I could take extra time off to do the Rockhampton to Bundaberg leg of the CANC ride (some further 2 weeks).
http://canc.org.au !>/image

Unfortunately, I cannot go all the way to Canberra again, as i am casual, no work, no pay. I am eager to return to the job as I like it and all of the team in the packing shed are wonderful people.
On the other hand, we do not want to lose our jobs … and as the recent rains have really slowed the season, i hope they will give us a favourable decision on Wednesday, when we return to work.

My family, friends, neighbours and I are attending the peace convergence to draw attention to the facts that;
1. we need safe sustainable, renewable and reliable energy supplies … with the aim of “benign” output.
2. we do not need nuclear ships in our harbours.
3. we must not allow our troops to be exposed and unmonitored in the vicinty of Depleted Uranium weapons either on the battle field, or anywhere else.
4. we do not need nuclear energy
5. we do not need nuclear waste.[Stop the nuclear industry]

I hope you will consider joining us.

Warm regards
Anne

Traditional Owners Speak Out: No Radioactive waste dump in NT

Sun, 2007-05-20 09:25 — Cyber Activist

Traditional Owners Speak Out No Radioactive waste dump in NTNational Speaking Tour
Adelaide - Melbourne - Canberra - Sydney
speakers - art - photos - films

Melbourne Public Meeting
June 18, 6pm, New Council Chambers
Trades Hall Carlton
(Poster attached)

Despite giving an "absolute categorical assurance" prior to the last election that the NT would not be targeted for a Federal radioactive waste dump, in June 2005 the Federal Government announced that three Department of Defence sites in the NT would be assessed for suitability.

Brendan Nelson, as Federal Science Minister, queried "why on earth can't people in the middle of nowhere have [radioactive] waste?" ; Current Science Minister Julie Bishop remarked "all the sites in the NT are well away from houses... some distance from any form of civilisation."

Protecting Community, Country and Culture

Remote areas are not uninhabited and lifeless places. Traditional Owners and community members from the proposed dump sites are travelling across the country to express their concerns of how a radioactive dump would irreversibly damage country and culture.

Mt Everard - 40kms NW of Alice Springs.

3 km from the proposed dump site Werre Therre community runs several business enterprises, including mustering wild horses

Tent Embassy "report"

Tue, 2007-01-30 11:20 — Cyber Activist

http://www.aboriginaltentembassy.net

Dear friends :-)

... back in Bundy, safe and sound.

Considering we left on a wing and a prayer (with NO funds), we feel a great sense of accomplishment.

My kids (Scott 13, and Natalie, 18) had a wonderful time.

As did our dogs - Lady (a highly active and skittish female six month old rottie/border collie cross) and Chief (a 2 year old blue/border collie cross).
It was very "comfy" in Natalie's little 20 year old toyota hatchback.

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