Aired on 2SER 12 August 2010
Presented by Tessa Dowdell and Jessica Minshall
Download here: Defending Indigenous Rights - Radioactive Country part 2.
This week you’ll hear the third in our series of reports on issues affecting communities in the Northern Territory, with a continued focus today on uranium - part two of ‘Radioactive Country’
'Breaking the Nuclear Chain' was a forum held at the ‘Defending Indigenous Rights: Land, Law and Culture’ gathering held in Mparntwe, Alice Springs from 6-9 July 2010. This forum was chaired by Natalie Wasley from the Beyond Nuclear Initiative, and this week features Raelene Silverton from Hermannsburg as well as Mitch, an Arrente woman, artist, author and poet.
Aired on 2SER 12 August 2010
Presenters Tessa Dowdell and Jessica Minshall
Sep 2, 2010
Ep. 120 Darwin Detention Centre Escape and Big Oil
Download here: Ep. 120 Darwin Detention Centre Escape and Big Oil
Aired on 2SER radio 107.3 Sydney 9-9.30am - 2nd September 2010
Presented by: Tessa Dowdell and Jessica Minshall.
DARWIN DETENTION CENTRE ESCAPE
At 6:30am Wednesday morning 92 detainees broke through two 11 000 volt electric fences before being held by police on the side of the Stuart Highway near Darwin where they sat in protest. The asylum seekers were pleaing for protection after years being shuffled back and forth in the detention centre cycle.
The escapees were not offered food, water or sunscreen as they sat in unshaded heat, with immigration department spokesperson Sandi Logan claiming that this was, quote: “part of the negotiation strategy”.
This comes off the back of 100 Indonesian fisherman, also from Darwin Detention Centre, claiming to have been detained for 9 months without charge, uprising and rioting on Sunday. They are quoted as strongly claiming that they would rather die be shot than remain in prolonged detention.
Tessa Dowdell spoke with Ian Rintoul from the Refugee Action Coalition.
BP GULF OIL SPILL PROTESTS CONTINUING
This week in San Francisco, on the 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a coalition of national, regional and local groups marched and blockaded the offices of Chevron and BP and the Environmental Protection Agency. They called for Big Oil to stop environmental damage and devastation – and sought compensation to be paid to ‘all impacted communities’ affected by the industry.
We spoke with Konrad Fisher, who works with the Mobilisation for Climate Justice West group which organized, marched and presented the Oil companies with a letter and a list of demands.
ARTIC OIL
With the oil industry skating on thin ice after the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster, Britain’s Cairn Energy has received a very crude awakening. With the sun rising on an unprecedented Arctic oil rush, four Greenpeace campaigners successfully halted operations at the Baffin Bay oil rig off the coast of Greenland on Tuesday morning. The activists, suspended in hanging tents for the last two days, are set to remain indefinitely.
Tessa Dowdell interviews Leila Dean from Greenpeace, floating nearby in the arctic aboard the Esperanza.
COURT RESULT FOR COP15 CLIMATE DEMONSTRATORS
Australian Natasha Verco and American Noah Weiss were accused as having planned violence against police, disturbance of public order and vandalism during COP15 in Copenhagen last December. These are the charges, that could have led to several years of prison and deportation. The Copenhagen City Court this week has ruled that they are innocent.
The Klima Kollektiv says: The charges didn't stand in court and the verdict discredits the violent methods adopted by police during the climate summit, when politically active people were denied their democratic right to criticize the climate negotiations.
Aired on 2SER radio 107.3 Sydney 9-9.30am - 2nd September 2010
Presented by: Tessa Dowdell and Jessica Minshall.
DARWIN DETENTION CENTRE ESCAPE
At 6:30am Wednesday morning 92 detainees broke through two 11 000 volt electric fences before being held by police on the side of the Stuart Highway near Darwin where they sat in protest. The asylum seekers were pleaing for protection after years being shuffled back and forth in the detention centre cycle.
The escapees were not offered food, water or sunscreen as they sat in unshaded heat, with immigration department spokesperson Sandi Logan claiming that this was, quote: “part of the negotiation strategy”.
This comes off the back of 100 Indonesian fisherman, also from Darwin Detention Centre, claiming to have been detained for 9 months without charge, uprising and rioting on Sunday. They are quoted as strongly claiming that they would rather die be shot than remain in prolonged detention.
Tessa Dowdell spoke with Ian Rintoul from the Refugee Action Coalition.
BP GULF OIL SPILL PROTESTS CONTINUING
This week in San Francisco, on the 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a coalition of national, regional and local groups marched and blockaded the offices of Chevron and BP and the Environmental Protection Agency. They called for Big Oil to stop environmental damage and devastation – and sought compensation to be paid to ‘all impacted communities’ affected by the industry.
We spoke with Konrad Fisher, who works with the Mobilisation for Climate Justice West group which organized, marched and presented the Oil companies with a letter and a list of demands.
ARTIC OIL
With the oil industry skating on thin ice after the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster, Britain’s Cairn Energy has received a very crude awakening. With the sun rising on an unprecedented Arctic oil rush, four Greenpeace campaigners successfully halted operations at the Baffin Bay oil rig off the coast of Greenland on Tuesday morning. The activists, suspended in hanging tents for the last two days, are set to remain indefinitely.
Tessa Dowdell interviews Leila Dean from Greenpeace, floating nearby in the arctic aboard the Esperanza.
COURT RESULT FOR COP15 CLIMATE DEMONSTRATORS
Australian Natasha Verco and American Noah Weiss were accused as having planned violence against police, disturbance of public order and vandalism during COP15 in Copenhagen last December. These are the charges, that could have led to several years of prison and deportation. The Copenhagen City Court this week has ruled that they are innocent.
The Klima Kollektiv says: The charges didn't stand in court and the verdict discredits the violent methods adopted by police during the climate summit, when politically active people were denied their democratic right to criticize the climate negotiations.
Aug 6, 2010
Ep. 116 Defending Indigenous Rights Special Report 2 - Radioactive Country
Produced by Jessica Minshall and Tessa Dowdell
Click to Download: Ep. 116 Defending Indigenous Rights Special Report 2 - Radioactive Country
Before being elected to Government, the Federal labor party scrapped it’s ‘three mines’ policy – a 25 year Labor stance against new uranium mines in Australia.
Now, Labor is continuing a policy plan to transport and dump radioactive waste in the Northern Territory. We’ll hear today from Aboriginal women, from all over the country, who are affected by the mining, transportation and waste of toxic uranium.
In this show: Arrente woman Margie Lynch; Diane Stokes, Muckaty Land Trust member and Yapa Yapa elder; and Jillian Marsh, Adnyamathanha woman from South Australia.
Music: 'Balooraman' by Last Kinection
We also recommend 'Muckaty Voices', a video about community resistance to a radioactive waste dump at Muckaty Station:
Ep. 115 Real World News and Detroit Hiphoperations!
Presented by James and Tessa
Click to Download: Ep. 115 Real World News and Detroit Hiphoperations!
Today we bring you news from across the globe, a show called 'Rising Voices' from Real World Radio. In this week's headlines: Canadian organisation 'The Blue Planet Project' joins Bolivian President Evo Morales in a push for the United Nations to recognise human rights to water; European parliaments to ban toxic cyanide in mining processes; and communities in Peru are fighting Pluspetrol after 300 barrels of oil were recently spilt in the Maranon River.
Also this week is the incredible docu-music-video 'Locusts' by Invincible and Finale, about gentrification and the housing crisis in Detroit, USA. Watch it here!
Jul 23, 2010
Ep.114 Defending Indigenous Rights Special Report 1.
Download here: Ep. 114 Indigenous Rights Special Report 1.
First aired on 'The Third Degree' on 2SER radio 107.3FM Sydney on 22nd July 2010.
Presenters: Tessa Dowdell and Jessica Minshall
Having just returned from Mparntwe -Alice Springs we bring you audio from the 'Defending Indigenous Rights: Land, Law and Culture' gathering from the 6th to the 9th of July. The conference provided a space for Traditional Owners from the NT to talk about living under the 'Intervention' and the proposed nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station at Tennant Creek.
This week is the first in a series of reports on issues affecting communities in the Northern Territory.
This program features the voices of:
Mitch, an Arrente/ Luritja woman, author, poet, artist
Marianne Mackay from Wadja country in WA
Barb Shaw from the Mount Nancy Town Camp
Christine Abdullah, Nurundjeri woman from SA
Related Event:
3376km: A long haul for nuclear waste
is a forum about the proposed nuclear wast dump at Muckaty Station at Tennant Creek.
Muckaty Traditional Owners will be travelling down and speaking next Tuesday July 27 6.30pm at the Fire Brigade Employee's Union 1-7 Belmore Street, Surry Hills.
Speakers include:
Muckaty Traditional Owners Dianne Stokes and Mark Lane
Fire Brigade Employees’ Union NSW Secretary Jim Casey
Human Rights Lawyer George Newhouse
Wollongong Wednesday July 28, 2010
6:30pm at Illawarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre
22 Kenny Street, Wollongong
Blue Mountains Thursday July 29, 2010
7:00pm at Gearins Hotel
273 Great Western Hwy, Katoomba
More information on the waste dump and Freeways project:
http://www.sydney.foe.org.au/projects/nuclear-free
http://www.foe.org.au/anti-nuclear/issues/freeways/nuclear-freeways-campaign
http://www.beyondnuclearinitiative.wordpress.com/
Jul 22, 2010
Ep 20. The G8 the G20 and Justice
First to air on 2ser 17 July 2010
Hosted by James
How did the group of 8 and group of 20 nations come about and what do they do? Why have they chosen to ignore existing forums such as the united nations? And why have such meetings elicited such huge mass mobilizations where ever they have taken place around the world.
Hosted by James
How did the group of 8 and group of 20 nations come about and what do they do? Why have they chosen to ignore existing forums such as the united nations? And why have such meetings elicited such huge mass mobilizations where ever they have taken place around the world.
The latest meeting of the G20 took place in Toronto in June, as usual there were huge protests, broad breaches of civil rights and a policing operation that reportedly costs up to $2billion. Ahead of this meeting, Canadian civil society group, the Council of Canadias, organized a forum “shout out for global justice”. This morning we will hear audio from to talks from that forum, courtesy of the Council of Canadians and Rabbletv.
You will here talks from Naomi Klien, author, activist and journalist talking about the formation of G20, as well as Vandana Shiva, Author and founder of the Nandanya environmental justice organization in India. She talks about the agenda of the G20 forum and the need to resist and call for justice.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)