News Report

Dublin (Ireland) Screening of "Liyarn Nigarin" with Peter Postlewaite followed by
gig with Archie Roach, Rubie Hunter, Bart Willoughby, Shane Howard,
Steve Cooney, Mary Black & others

Report by Ciaron O'Reilly

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

2 JULY 2008: NORTHERN TERRITORY INTERVENTION

Contents:

Petition

Media Release

Opinion

News

PETITION:

Reinstate RDA - PETITION in relation to NT Intervention

http://lists.ntne.ws/pipermail/talk/2008-June/000239.html

The Previous Liberal Government had plans to purchase Australias very first Aircraft Carrier, which was going to be manufactured in Spain. The Aircraft Carrier was going to carry the Euro Fighter Typhoon. . . . .

Greenpeace has announced the Esperanza will be visiting the East Coast of Australia over the next six weeks highlighting the need for a transition away from coal to clean renewable energy as contained in a new report called Blueprint for an energy [r]evolution

In related news: The Minister for Climate Change has announced new Greenhouse Gas Emission reporting requirements; and scientists have proclaimed that ocean warming has proceeded faster than expected and that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is in danger of collapse over a period of 20 years possibly raising sea levels 4 to 6 metres, unless measures are taken to limit fossil fuel use and its contribution to global warming. Upcoming event: Camp for Climate Action, Newcastle July 10-15

The time has come for responsible people
all over the world to get together to demand an end of
the senseless war
and furthermore demand an independent international
investigation of the September 11 terror attacks.
The questions that are being asked all over the world
need to be evaluated by independent experts.

The attacks of 9/11 are used as the central justification
for the war on Afghanistan and Iraq in which
hundreds of thousands of innocent people have already
been killed.

The anarchist film collective 'a-films' announces another short film from Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp in North Lebanon.

The first few hundred Palestinian families were allowed to return to their destroyed or damaged homes at the outskirts of Nahr al-Bared Camp in winter 2007/08. They faced a very difficult situation. Many of them lost their homes and most of their property was either destroyed or stolen.
This short video documents the refugee's experiences once they returned to their camp and their efforts to deal with their new reality.

I thought I would do my bit to post this news on here, seeing the original website has been taken out of google indexes and any pages that link to this site.

Skye Bortoli of Australian Teens Against Whaling has described the 60th International Whaling Commission meeting in Chile as pathetic saying “this body will be known in the future as a small group of ecologically arrogant people who are condemning the world’s whales to agony and oblivion for petty politics and a few lousy bucks.”

UK Indymedia Feature | Sea Shepherd