The Nyungah people of Western Australia, in a landmark decision by Justice Wilcox of the Federal Court, were granted Native Title to 6000 square kilometres including Perth City. The decision makes them the first Aboriginal group to successfully claim Native Title over a capital city. Supporters say the decision is a long overdue recognition of the Nyungah people's identity. The decision does not affect freehold or leasehold land or people's backyards. On September 29 500 Nyungah and supporters rallied on the steps of WA parliament house.
Perth IMC feature - Noongar Call to Action | Noel Pearson: A mighty moral victory | Nimbin Radio: Scan Dot Org - 'Rascism and Resistance' From tirin at takver.com Thu Oct 5 02:56:35 2006 From: tirin at takver.com (takver) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 21:56:35 -0500 Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposed: Cycling 'School Bus' Quietly Takes Off as Thousands Cycle to Work Message-ID: <200610050256.k952uZmA027354@apollo.linuxengine.net> A trilogy of articles on cycling and cycle commuting in Melbourne. Comments? -- in solidarity Takver Image: http://melbourne.indymedia.org/uploads/ridetoworkday2006_7246.jpg needs cropping and resizing Cycling 'School Bus' Quietly Takes Off as Thousands Cycle to Work Moreland Council has embarked on an innovative program to get more kids cycling to school: cycling " school buses". The initiative comes as tens of thousands of cyclists rode to work on 4 October, in a nationall y co-ordinated Ride to Work Day, the largest so far in its 13 year history.
As more people choose to cycle commute, the lack of funding of cycling infrastructure has become apparent and a real impediment to even greater numbers of people choosing to cycle commute.
Ride2school | Ride2work | TravelSmart Teacher Resource Kit From tirin at takver.com Thu Oct 5 11:30:29 2006 From: tirin at takver.com (takver) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 06:30:29 -0500 Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposed: Yallourn Workers Locked-out for 3 Months Message-ID: <200610051130.k95BUTSR022914@apollo.linuxengine.net> Comments? -- in solidarity Takver Yallourn Workers Locked-out for 3 Months Mechanical Engineering Services have locked out 48 workers for a period of 3 months from the Yallourn Workshop in the Latrobe Valley. According to Gippsland Trades & Labour Council, the company has used Howard?s Treacherous IR laws against these workers and is refusing to negotiate on a new enterprise agreement. [read more]
The Gippsland TLC conducted an All Unions? Shop Stewards and Delegates Meeting on Friday 29 September 2006, with the meeting voting to support the next National Day of Protest to be held on November 30th.
Gippsland Trades & Labour Council | Donations (PDF) | Union Solidarity From tirin at takver.com Thu Oct 5 12:26:40 2006 From: tirin at takver.com (takver) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 07:26:40 -0500 Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposed: Chrisitans Against ALL Terrorism on Trial Over Pine Gap Spybase Message-ID: <200610051226.k95CQeAx019360@apollo.linuxengine.net> Another needy feature. Comments? -- in solidarity Takver Image: http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/images/200610Alicesprings01.jpg Chrisitans Against ALL Terrorism on Trial Over Pine Gap Spybase Christian Pacifists face court this week in the Supreme Court in Alice Springs. They are the first ever to face charges under the Defence (Special Undertakings) Act 1952, and risk up to seven years in jail. This legislation was devised to supress spies and saboteurrs in the cold war era. The Four activists, calling themselves "Chrisitans Against ALL Terrorism" are Jim Dowling, Bryan Law, Adele Goldie and Donna Mulhearn, entered the Pine Gap military base to do a citizens inspection. Colourful processions, silent vigils and protests are accompanying the trial. [Read more plus photos]
The Queen versus The Pine Gap 4 - Day One | Report from Ciaron O'Reilly | www.pinegap6.org From tirin at takver.com Thu Oct 5 12:54:37 2006 From: tirin at takver.com (takver) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 07:54:37 -0500 Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposed: Autogeddon - Car culture at the end of the World Message-ID: <200610051254.k95CsbRa000372@apollo.linuxengine.net> What do ppl think about this one? We don't feature many play reviews. And this play looks spot on! Yeah, I know it is a pay for event. Feedback? -- in solidarity Takver Image: I'll come up with something Autogeddon - Car culture at the end of the World A comedy play about the end of the world by motorcar is well on the way to becoming a a cult hit in Melbourne. Autogeddon the play is based on an epic poem : "Half the world?s paychecks are auto-related, Half the world?s resources are auto-devoted, And half the world will be involved in an auto-accident at some time during their life. Take the precaution of attaching the chrome fender to a car, Hit someone over the head with it, and kill them? Six months suspended. Licence briefly withheld." Excerpt from the poem by Heathcote Williams.
autogeddon.com.au | Aussietheatre Review From tirin at takver.com Thu Oct 5 12:56:00 2006 From: tirin at takver.com (takver) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 07:56:00 -0500 Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposal: Heinemann Workers Begin 6th Week on the Picket Line Message-ID: <200610051256.k95Cu0DQ000799@apollo.linuxengine.net> comments? -- in solidarity Takver Image: http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/images/200610Heinemann_meeting.jpg Heinemann Workers Begin 6th Week on the Picket Line "The striking workers of Heinemann Electric Pty Ltd, located in Mulgrave, Victoria, valiantly begin their 6th week on the grass. Spirits remain high, friendships continue to strengthen, and resistance is strong. This week has seen the arrival of Mr Helmuth Fischer, the managing director of Heinemann?s parent company CBI in South Africa. While contact has again been made with workers, negotiations continue to sit in a puddle." said Cheryl Cemeljic in a report from the picket line. [Read More]
Recent posts:
Mass
Exodus From Heinemann Electric Sparks Concerns |
Heinemann's
"negotiating" style
Heinemann
Enters Fourth Week |
Third
Week |
Union Solidarity
From tirin at takver.com Thu Oct 5 11:53:34 2006
From: tirin at takver.com (takver)
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 06:53:34 -0500
Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposed: Heinemann Workers Begin 6th Week on
the Picket Line
Message-ID: <200610051153.k95BrYlM004044@apollo.linuxengine.net>
Heinemann deserved another feature I reckon. Comments?
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in solidarity
Takver
Image: http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/images/200610Heinemann_meeting.jpg
Heinemann Workers Begin 6th Week on the Picket Line
"The striking workers of Heinemann Electric Pty Ltd, located in
Mulgrave, Victoria, valiantly begin their 6th week on the grass. Spirits
remain high, friendships continue to strengthen, and resistance is
strong. This week has seen the arrival of Mr Helmuth Fischer, the
managing director of Heinemann?s parent company CBI in South Africa.
While contact has again been made with workers, negotiations continue to
sit in a puddle." said Cheryl Cemeljic in a report from the picket
line. [Read
More]
Recent posts:
Mass
Exodus From Heinemann Electric Sparks Concerns |
Heinemann's
"negotiating" style
Heinemann
Enters Fourth Week |
Third
Week |
Union Solidarity
From tirin at takver.com Sun Oct 8 09:21:08 2006
From: tirin at takver.com (takver)
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 04:21:08 -0500
Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposed: When Corporations Spy on Activists
Message-ID: <200610080921.k989L8tc015004@apollo.linuxengine.net>
comments?
--
in solidarity
Takver
see: http://melbourne.indymedia.org/?preview=13
When Corporations Spy on Activists...
Amcor and elements of the CFMEU set up and funded an 'A-team' to spy on
environmental activists and Green groups during the 1990s, according to
a recent Four Corners program. In May/June 2001 it was discovered
that a member of the Barricade anarchist bookshop collective was a spy
"in the employ of a number of corporations (in particular, those in the
mining and timber industries) seeking to obtain otherwise ?confidential?
information on individuals and groups in the environmental movement." according
to @ndy from Barricade Books. The person also infiltrated 3CR,
Friends of the Earth and Nuclear Free Australia.
The environmental movement poses a big challenge for big business engaged in anti-environmentalism, some of whom are willing to use spying (like Amcor) or expensive legal challenges (like Gunns) to undermine environmental grassroots campaigns. @ndy said "Perhaps we should take comfort in the fact that state and corporate authorities should feel so threatened by our attempts to stop their ?progress? ? a ?progress? which strips us of our humanity at the same time as it plunders our communities and our Earth ? to resort to such measures."
ABC
TV Four Corners: The A Team | @andy's blog |
Political
Surveillance at ActivistRights.org.au
From changeling_au_2004 at yahoo.com.au Sun Oct 8 14:12:05 2006
From: changeling_au_2004 at yahoo.com.au (Nigel W)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 00:12:05 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposed: When Corporations Spy on Activists
In-Reply-To: <200610080921.k989L8tc015004@apollo.linuxengine.net>
Message-ID: <20061008141205.8640.qmail@web56603.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
An important issue.
Good to see @ndy getting some coverage - he's a good man.
Went through high school with him.
Nigel
takver
Carcentricity
| Car Free Weekend
From tirin at takver.com Thu Oct 12 12:37:52 2006
From: tirin at takver.com (takver)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:37:52 -0500
Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposed: Mismanagement of Barmah-Millewa
Redgum forest
Message-ID: <200610121237.k9CCbq8g017195@apollo.linuxengine.net>
Comments?
--
in solidarity
Takver
Superb Parrot Habitat Logged
Image: http://melbourne.indymedia.org/images/200610barmah.jpg
Mismanagement of Barmah-Millewa Redgum forest
In a display of street theatre to make the endangered superb parrot
blush with pride, environmental activists accused the Bracks Government
of mismanagement of logging in the Barmah-Millewa Redgum forest and
coverup by internal inquiries. Activists alledge that the Department of
Sustainability and Environment (DSE) have breached their Forest
Management Plan and the Code of Forest Practice in three separate
incidents: logging the protected habitat of the endangered Superb parrot
twice, logging four hectares outside an approved coupe, and felling of
protected old growth redgums...[Read more]
Background: Homeless
Parrots in the Fire |
Factsheet:
Superb Parrot |
FOE
Barmah Millewa Collective
From tirin at takver.com Thu Oct 12 13:05:45 2006
From: tirin at takver.com (takver)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:05:45 -0500
Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposed: Beekeepers call for end to
Leatherwood Logging
Message-ID: <200610121305.k9CD5jAR000324@apollo.linuxengine.net>
Another original story worth featuring. comments?
--
in solidarity
Takver
Tasmania: Fight over Logging of Leatherwood Forests
Image: http://melbourne.indymedia.org/images/200610cablelogging.jpg
Beekeepers call for end to Leatherwood Logging
Environmental activists in Tasmania have condemned cable logging of the
ancient, leatherwood rich forest in the Arve Valley. Bee keepers are
particularly concerned for the impact on production of leatherwood
honey. "Members of the community were shocked by the steep cable logging
operation, large leatherwoods in reserve areas were found knocked over
by large eucalypts. Work was halted for a short time, whilst activists
documented the current destruction of ancient forest," Huon Valley
Environment Centre spokesperson Jenny Weber said...Read More
Save Your Leatherwood
Honey |
Huon Valley Environment Centre |
Wilderness
Society
From tirin at takver.com Thu Oct 12 13:36:01 2006
From: tirin at takver.com (takver)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:36:01 -0500
Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposed: Long term detainees Walk Free from
Immigration Detention
Message-ID: <200610121336.k9CDa18n018162@apollo.linuxengine.net>
comments?
--
in solidarity
Takver
Image: http://melbourne.indymedia.org/images/200610deported_to_danger.jpg
Long term detainees Walk Free from Immigration Detention
Three detainees recently walked free from immigration detention. All
came out of psychiatric hospitals after years in detention. The longest
was 6 years. "Six long hard years of soul destroying, spirit breaking
detention for no moral reason. One permanent protection visa and two
temporary visas in the Vanstone lottery." said Pamela Curr of the
Melbourne Asylum Seekers Resource Centre.
A new report by the Edmund Rice Centre (ERC) accuses the Government of
deporting asylum seekers to danger. According to the report, 39 of the
41 asylum seekers interviewed in 2006 by the Centre were deported to
danger. "Fundamental reform is needed if we are to honour human rights
obligations and the values they enshrine. Those who are in danger have
compelling cases for their claims to be reassessed.? said Edmund Rice
Centre (ERC) director Phil Glendenning.
[Read
more...
Deported
to Danger Project |
DIMA:
Detention Statistics |
Refugee Action Collective
From tirin at takver.com Tue Oct 17 12:05:33 2006
From: tirin at takver.com (takver)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:05:33 +1000
Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposed: Activists Target Peabody for
"Practices of Cultural and Eco Genocide"
Message-ID: <5ad9a0ad0610170505o2be3c224i1d70f17000ef6d3d@mail.gmail.com>
Comments?
solidarity
Takver
Images: http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/images/200610peabody.jpg
Newcastle Solidarity with Navajo & Hopi
Activists Target Peabody for "Practices of Cultural and Eco Genocide"
Around 30 people descended upon Peabody's office in Newcastle in
protest against Peabody's practices of Cultural and Eco Genocide on
the homelands of the Navajo and Hopi peoples in America and their
interest in doing the same on Australian Lands. "Climate change now is
a global issue and the global community must now act to protect what
is left of our precious environment. These coal companies have no
place in our future the way they desecrate the earth and our sacred
homelands" said Arthur Ridgeway who is a traditional owner of the
Pambalong area that now makes up Newcastle. [Read
more] [Photos
on Arizona Indymedia | Quicktime
movie (4.7MB)]
From tirin at takver.com Tue Oct 17 12:06:48 2006
From: tirin at takver.com (takver)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:06:48 +1000
Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposed: Their ABC - the Ideological Push from
the Right
Message-ID: <5ad9a0ad0610170506o4359eb14q76a65cc8754a1b74@mail.gmail.com>
Comments?
solidarity
Takver
Image: http://melbourne.indymedia.org/images/indymobil2.jpg
Public Broadcasting
Their ABC - the Ideological Push from the Right
The ideological attack on the ABC has escalated this week with the new
ABC managing director, Mark Scott, releasing a series of 'upgraded
editorial values' for the national broadcaster. According to Jeff
Sparrow on the Leftwrites blog, "I always thought the Friends of the
ABC bumper-sticker a little weird. The ABC is a state funded
broadcaster. By definition, it's not independent, as is now becoming
painfully apparent." [Read
More]
The Australian Public Broadcaster -- "your ABC" -- has been re-shaped
to become a government media platform" said the Cleaves
editorial team in a statement. "The public response will no doubt
be more internet activity -- 'good one', Janet and Keith! Independent
Media applauds your decision; we all look forward to an increase in
readership," they wrote.
[Leftwrites Blog |
Cleaves
Independent Publishing
From tirin at takver.com Tue Oct 17 12:08:36 2006
From: tirin at takver.com (takver)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:08:36 +1000
Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposed: Heinemann Strikers Victorious
Message-ID: <5ad9a0ad0610170508k3032aa41l82ca43f468b14cc7@mail.gmail.com>
comments?
solidarity
Takver
Picketline victory
Heinemann Strikers Victorious
"46 employees of the Mulgrave company Heinemann Electric Pty Ltd, who
have spent the past 7 weeks protesting the company's theft of a full
week's wages, have yesterday returned to work. While celebrating the
victory, workers remain cautious while OH&S matters remain neglected,
including the unprecedented PIN for bullying?" said Cheryl Cemeljic in
her latest
report.
From tirin at takver.com Thu Oct 19 07:33:49 2006
From: tirin at takver.com (takver)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:33:49 -0500
Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposed: Liar, liar,
planet on fire: Howard's nuke lies
Message-ID: <200610190733.k9J7XniS031213@apollo.linuxengine.net>
I contacted Kim to put the whole article up, not just a teaser. Think it
deserves a feature. Comments?
--
in solidarity
Takver
Image: http://melbourne.indymedia.org/images/200606nuclear_reactors.jpg
Howard pushes for Australia to go Nuclear
Liar, liar, planet on fire: Howard's nuke lies
"In recent months something more scary than usual has been happening in
the media and the halls of parliament. John Howard, finally admitting
the reality of climate change is now telling us nuclear power is the
answer (just as uranium prices reach an all time high)." said Kim
Stewart, who outlines six ways
Howard is wrong on Nuclear Power. The latest statement from Howard
confirms Kim Stewart's earlier report in October 2005 on Howard?s
nuclearisation of Australia.
Anti-Nuke
Features | Climate
Features
The old growth forest in the area also provides habitat for the Sooty
Owl and for the endangered Baw Baw Frog and Leadbeaters
Possum. ?Its madness, while Melbourne Water tells us that ?every
drop counts? ordinary Victorians must put their bodies on the line to
stop logging in water catchments? said Lauren Caufield.
Our Water Their Woodchip |
Central Highlands Alliance
Background:
The protests are part of an international
campaign initiated by the US Venezuelan Solidarity Network, calling
for U2's Bono, who has appealed to the world on many occasions for peace
and poverty reduction, to apply those same values to block the
manufacture and distribution of the Pandemic
videogame which promotes the invasion and destruction of Venezuela.
Australia-Venezuela
Solidarity Network |
StopG20.org
From harrytuttle123 at yahoo.com Sun Oct 29 15:14:24 2006
From: harrytuttle123 at yahoo.com (harry tuttle)
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:14:24 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposal: NYC Indymedia volunteer killed in
Oaxaca
In-Reply-To: <200610211202.k9LC2EuD012349@apollo.linuxengine.net>
Message-ID: <20061029151425.60294.qmail@web62408.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
Hi all,
got the ok from And for this. It needs more work, but
we really needed to get something up. Add links as you
like
Harry
http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/images/Brad_Will.jpg
An American Indymedia reporter has been shot and
killed by pro-government forces whilst filming on a
barricade in the midst of the uprising in Oaxaca,
Mexico. Brad Will, 36, a documentary filmmaker and
reporter for Indymedia in New York, Bolivia and
Brazil, died of a gunshot to the chest when
pro-government attackers opened fire on a barricade in
the neighborhood of Santa Lucia El Camino, on the
outskirts of Oaxaca, Mexico. He died with his video
camera in his hands.
The city of Oaxaca has been in rebellion for months
since striking teachers took over the streets. Since
then the movement has grown into a demand that the
Government and Governor of the state resign. The
people have declared the city an autonomous zone run
through the democratic assemblies of the APPO.
Television and radio stations have been seized by the
people and the streets are constantly barricaded
against the threat of military and police attempts to
retake the city. People continue to be shot and killed
in drive by shootings by undercover police and other
pro-government forces. [Full
Coverage]
Current reports are that Mexican Federal Police are
attacking the Oaxaca people's assembly see Global
Indymedia or Mexico
Indymedia (spanish) for up to the minute
coverage
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From tirin at takver.com Fri Oct 20 05:11:07 2006
From: tirin at takver.com (takver)
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:11:07 -0500
Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposed: Activists Blockade Logging in Water
Catchment
Message-ID: <200610200511.k9K5B7UK027121@apollo.linuxengine.net>
I have been in contact with the poster...maybe more news or photos
tonight. Comments?
--
in solidarity
Takver
Image: http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/images/200610loggingwater.jpg
Central Highlands Logging
Activists Blockade Logging in Water Catchment
Twenty activists locked down machinery and stopped logging in the
headwaters of the catchment feeding the Blue Rock Dam, earmarked by the
Bracks government to be Melbourne?s next water supply catchment.
Spokespwerson Lauren Caufield said "Victoria is facing its worst ever
drought and Melbourne is in a water crisis." [Read more]
Melbourne
Water Catchments logged illegally
Saving
the Habitat of Leadbeaters Possum
From harrytuttle123 at yahoo.com Fri Oct 20 13:44:45 2006
From: harrytuttle123 at yahoo.com (harry tuttle)
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 06:44:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] proposed: Major disruption to Weapons
Conference in Wellington
In-Reply-To: <200610200511.k9K5B7UK027121@apollo.linuxengine.net>
Message-ID: <20061020134445.35606.qmail@web62408.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
Hey, I think we should run this one over w/e
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/848740.shtml
good work on the previous one Takver
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From tirin at takver.com Sat Oct 21 12:02:14 2006
From: tirin at takver.com (takver)
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:02:14 -0500
Subject: [Imc-melbourne-eds] Proposal: Protests to Target U2's Bono at G20
Meeting
Message-ID: <200610211202.k9LC2EuD012349@apollo.linuxengine.net>
I thought this story was worthwhile. Comments?
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in solidarity
Takver
Image: http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/images/200610bono_rice.jpg
The Hypocrisy of Bono
Protests to Target U2's Bono at G20 Meeting
Rocksinger Bono is being targeted by activists as part of the protests
around the G20 meeting in Melbourne in November. Bono has refused to
answer questions about his involvement (as a board member) of the
'Pandemic' software company that is a subcontractor for the US Army and
CIA funded Institute for Creative Technologies. The company develops
training simulations for US troops, and a commercial game, "Mercenaries
2: World in Flames" that describes an invasion of Venezuela to "...
overthrow an oil hungry Dictator", viewed by many as a classic psy-ops
production against popularly elected President Hugo Chavez. [Read
More] [Bono's
Creed of Greed (mp3) by Nimbin Radio]