Environmental activists, excluded from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation聮s May 27-30 energy summit, erected a large inflatable cooling tower outside the fenced-off security zone surrounding Darwin聮s Parliament House. Energy ministers from the US, Australia and the Pacific rim failed to come up with any solutions to the global warming crisis, reaffirming instead the dominant role of fossil fuels in future energy supplies.
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On May 31, a picket of 50 people organised by Solidarity Unity protested outside the offices of Mighty River Power, which supplies electricity to Mercury Energy, the company responsible for the death of an Auckland woman on May 29.
The Canadian-owned Barrick Gold Corporation, the world聮s largest gold producer, is exploring, building and operating huge, open-pit goldmines on nearly every continent on the planet.
Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change
By Clive Hamilton
Black Inc. Agenda, 2007.
266 pages, $29.95 (pb)
By Clive Hamilton
Black Inc. Agenda, 2007.
266 pages, $29.95 (pb)
The union movement must take urgent action to end the ALP聮s backflips on industrial relations.
May 31 marked the first day of a court challenge launched by the Wilderness Society (TWS) against the federal government, which TWS claims has broken its own environmental laws. According to TWS, federal environment minister Malcolm Turnbull acted illegally by allowing a proposed billion-dollar Gunns Ltd pulp mill in Tasmania鈥檚 Tamar Valley to escape proper assessment by the independent Resource Planning and Development Commission.
Therese Rein has done very nicely under the Coalition government 鈥 particularly since its 1996 decision to privatise the Commonwealth Employment Service and set up a private Job Network to steamroll the unemployed into often underpaid and unrewarding jobs. From humble beginnings in Brisbane in 1989, Rein has built up an international employment business with an annual turnover of $175 million. She should be a poster child for the benefits of the Coalition鈥檚 privatisation drive for business, except that she is also the wife of federal Labor leader Kevin Rudd.
The good news this week is that the 麻豆传媒 Weekly Fighting Fund has reached a third of the way to its $250,000 target for 2007!
Rest in peace,
carbon profits,
bathed in blood.
Before you drown us
in your flood,
we will rise
to bury you.
Tremble in fear,
carbon merchants,
profiteers.
You refuse to lift Earth's shroud,
your carbon mushroom cloud.
A people's fire
The following is an abridged version of the Beyond Zero Emissions stationary energy plan for the state of Victoria. It is reprinted with permission from MATTHEW WRIGHT of Beyond Zero Emissions, a non-profit, volunteer-run campaign set up under Sustainable Energy Future Inc. The full version can be read at .
On the evening of June 1, international shipping company Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) announced it was backing down after a tense four-day stand-off with Port Kembla members of the Maritime Union of Australia. Garry Keane, Port Kembla MUA branch secretary, reported to jubilant wharfies and community supporters that CSL had agreed to let 鈥渟hore-based labour鈥 unload the bulk carrier Capo Noli.
The Weird Mob 2: The Italian Invasion
June 4 to 9, Parliament House of NSW and Chauvel Cinema, Paddington
, 0406 135 607 or info@theweirdmob.com
June 4 to 9, Parliament House of NSW and Chauvel Cinema, Paddington
, 0406 135 607 or info@theweirdmob.com
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