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our planet needs us…
it takes many ants to move a mountain… but… it can be done!
Awareness has been raised. Solutions are available. All we need now are leaders who show courage.
Big Hugz to you Spiraljetty :-)

Hiya all,

Well an Australian Federal Election looms :-)
At last, its so hot out here… (rural Queensland) and just coming into summer.
I will try not to notice my brain frying when i step out to vote.
Our little e-petition grows towards its (more realistic) goal.
Please forward the link to all you know.

http://tinyurl.com/2wutbp

Full address:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/global-petition-for-the-implementation-of-sustainable-energy-production-and-living-systems

Thanks for your time
Anne
http://globalclimatechangeaction.org
Stop the nuclear industry

Global Climate Change Action is open for business :-)
http://globalclimatechangeaction.org

I hope to link our team’s contributions to the front page via RSS feed.

Please promte awareness of Operation Talisman Saber 2007 throughout your global networks… help us… more details on the website.

Regards
Anne

great november anti nuclear events
from: nukefreeaus@green.net.au
Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:42 am (PST)

• PLEASE DISTRIBUTE AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE**

The month of November has 3 great events that relate to the anti nuclear campaign.
It would be great to see a really large turn out at each event.

1 We need stall banner and leafletting volunteers for this. Please email me or call me on 0417506150 if you can help
Walk Against Warming
1pm – Saturday, November 4, Melbourne Town Hall

...walking to Birrarung Marr for music, speakers, stalls and even a sustainability circus!

Get your community, family, kids, friends, bikes, placards and happy faces to join the Walk Against Warming on November 4!
Go to http://www.walkagainstwarming.org/ to REGISTER or find out whats going on around Australia!

EMAIL Bracks and Baillieu now to tell them to do more on climate change, just visit – http://www.envict.org.au/getactive.php?c=12
Walk Against Warming is a fun afternoon out, where you can show your support for action on climate change + find out what you can do to help prevent dangerous climate change. So many people have seen An Inconveniet Truth and want to play their part – and this is the perfect place t start!

Walk Against Warming is happening right across Australia, and events will be taking place across the world in support of the International Day of Action on Climate Change. The Walk is supported by over 20 different groups including development organisations, health groups, unions, environment groups and people just like YOU!

In the lead up to the state election, there is no better way to show you support action on climate change. Together we can make sure all political parties have strong climate change policies – and don’t use this crucial issue as a political football.

2 Nuclear Free Australia benefit The benefit is to raise money so that Nuclear Free Australia can continue its activities opposing nuclear weapons, nuke power and uranium mining.

When: 2.30pm to 10.00pm Sunday the 12th of November

Where: The Cornish Arms Hotel, 163A Sydney Rd,
Brunswick
Why: At 3.00pm there will be a screening of David
Bradbury’s doco Blowin’ in the Wind. Followed by
Rebecca Barnard, Elephant Mojo, Kinematic, the Benson
Campaign and many more.
Cost: $10 concession, $15 full.

For more info see www.nukefreeaus.org.

3 We need lots of people at this. We plan a major publicity stunt. We have booked the FOE office at 312 Smith Collingwood from midday till 4pm this saturday for a sign making workshop.

We are making a sign that says NUCLEAR IS NO SOLUTION. We intend to make this very large and occupy a major city
intersection at the protest. We need lots of people at the protest so we can do this.

We need volunteers to help us make the signs this saturday.

Please email me or call me on 0417506150 if you can help.

Stand up for a Nuclear Free Australia – November 14
Protest John Howard’s Trojan Horse Nuclear Inquiry.
On June 6 John Howard appointed a task force to review uranium mining, processing and nuclear energy in Australia headed by Ex Telstra CEO Ziggy Switkowski. The inquiry would seem to be little more than a Trojan horse for the Government and Industry.

The Howard Government is raising the sceptre of Nuclear Power plants and generating fear in the community. This is simply political game playing. Ian Lowe, emeritus professor of science at Griffith University and president of the Australian Conservation Foundation suspects that “when the inquiry
concludes that Nuclear power plants will only happen if there were massive government subsidies, people will be so relieved that we aren’t having nuclear power stations that they will be more accepting of an expansion of uranium exports, and possibly more accepting of the argument that we should put public money into enriching uranium on the grounds that this produces a
value-added product. Then, of course, the government will run the argument, that as a massive uranium exporter we have a moral responsibility to accept the waste back.

The inquiry’s terms of reference themselves have been criticised as being slanted towards the Nuclear Industry. The export potential of Australian uranium is highlighted, and references include examination of the future
viability of nuclear power in this country, and the establishment of uranium enrichment. The make up of the board is heavily stacked towards pro-nuclear members and has been described by Ian Lowe, as being as “about as independent as an Alabama sheriff”.

John Howard himself pre-empted the Inquiry by saying that he believes Australia will eventually have nuclear power. It is planned that a draft report is released for public consultation by November and the final report due by the end of the year. To add to concern that Government is not seeking a balanced view on the future of Nuclear power in Australia, the peer review
set up by John Howard to test the voracity of the Switkowski inquiry’s findings is headed by the Government’s own chief scientist Jim Peacock, who also known to support nuclear energy.

Why protest?
The nuclear energy cycle is far from being safe or greenhouse gas emission-free. Even if it were, nuclear power addresses the source of only around 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions – electricity production. The problems of Nuclear Power have not been solved. Nuclear Power is still hugely expensive, dangerous, environmentally costly and produces waste that
persists for millions of years. Nuclear power is not the new solution to Global warming. A recent Newspoll of 1200 Australians in May 2006 found that a majority of those surveyed opposed Uranium mining or wanted no new mines opened, Uranium being enriched for export, and nuclear power stations being
built in Australia The Nuclear Industry is still dangerous and dirty at every stage despite the government trying to convince the Australian people otherwise.

What you can do.

Australians are already sending the Howard Government a strong message that they are not fooled by the Government and Industries misleading campaign that Nuclear is the answer and that they will not allow the Government to extend the nuclear industry in Australia by using this Trojan horse Inquiry.
Australian Conservation Foundation Supporters sent PM’s Nuclear Taskforce a strong message with 2,800 ACF member submissions delivered to PM’s Nuclear Taskforce.

Contact Nuclear Free Australia for more information: nukefreeaus@green.net.au Ph. 0417 506 150 about anti nuclear groups in your state and help organise an action in your town or city on Tuesday November 14 th.

In Canberra members of Canberra Region anti-nuclear campaign have already protested outside the department of Prime Minister and Cabinet with banners and flags. Join others in insisting that the Howard Government acknowledge that Nuclear Power is neither clean nor Green and future Australian generations do not deserve to be bequeathed a dirty legacy for short term gain. PEOPLE MATTER BEFORE PROFITS.

‘ If Nuclear Power is the answer , it must have been a pretty stupid question. Professor Ian Lowe, President of the Australian Conservation.

have a look at my website:
http://globalclimatechangeaction.org
and TAKE ACTION!

or join the original Climate Change Action Group at Yahoo(mountains of information and informative, interactive discussions): http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/ClimateChangeAction/

sign the petition which originated from that group:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/737214963
and help me to promote it around the globe.

AND…”adopt my goal” (join the team)...
to Stop the Nuclear Industry:
http://www.43things.com/things/view/501521

Thank you for the invitation :-)

Warm regards
Anne