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Sep 21, 2009
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On September 16 and 17 2009 Greenpeace New Zealand and activists staged a massive action, blocking a shipment of palm kernel animal feed from Indonesia from entering Tauranga Port. The feed was destined for Fonterra dairy farms. They are calling on New Zealand PM John Key to halt imports of the product due to its impact on climate change and address intensive dairy farming in New Zealand.
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05:36
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Sep 02, 2009
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Six year legal battle for water rights in South Africa reaches
Constitutional Court on 2nd Sept 2009
Amanzi Ngawethu (Water is Ours) is spreading the word about a critical
moment for water struggles in South Africa. Please forward and spread the
news far and wide!
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Aug 17, 2009
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Dirty Old Coal is a short film made to emphasize how the coal industry is fed to consumers like brands of breakfast cereal. Like going to the supermarket to buy our breakfast cereal the option of renewables isn't on plain view and offer like coal is and sometimes it seems as though that is all we can get when reaching for the shelf.
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05:57
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Aug 14, 2009
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In June 1999 there was a global Reclaim the Streets event and Sydney took part with over 1000 people gathering in Newtown to reclaim public space from the tyranny of roads, create a community space and give the pedestrian, skateboarder, bike rider and musician a chance. The band Insurge perfomed their new single "I hate Stupid People there" - this is the dance remix cut to the Reclaim the Streets footage.
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05:11
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Aug 10, 2009
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Music video of John Butler in the Styx Valley, Tasmania. Many people have visited the Styx Valley in Tasmania during the battle to save the old growth forest and the giant trees aged hundreds of years from logging multinationals such as Gunns Ltd who clear fell these areas for pulp. The singer/songwriter John Butler performed up a tree sit 85metres up during a time when volunteers, The Wilderness Society and Greenpeace occupied the area and many lived up on the tree sit maintaining it for five months.
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Aug 14, 2009
We've begun our climate crisis video callout - get your climate action film out there and have it distributed globally and in Copenhagen at the most pivotal climate meeting of the century. Submit your climate film to us ...
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Jul 22, 2009
The Melbourne Film Festival which is on at the moment has sparked controversy because after pressure from Chinese Government they still have refused to pull the documentary by exiled Uighur leader, Reya Kadeer.
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Jul 17, 2009
EngageMedia held a successful skills building session in Kampung Halaman Jogkarta on the 22-24 June. Participants shared their skills in online video distribution. As part of our Asia Network program, EngageMedia is delivers a number of 'Skills Building Partnerships' to activist and community groups in Asia-Pacific to assist them in distributing their videos.
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Jun 23, 2009
Pacific climate change activists and ambassadors began meetings on Sunday 21 June in the lead up to the Pacific Island Forum (PIF) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Copenhagen later on in the year. The meetings began in Cook Islands and will continue on for a month throughout the Pacific also documenting climate change in places such as Samoa and Vanuatu. Leaders on climate change will be meeting with the global NGO Greenpeace and other travellers aboard the Esperanza such as Oscar nominated star of Whale Rider, Keisha Castle-Hughes.
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Jun 14, 2009
Environmental activists are still struggling in a legal battle against the timber giant Gunns that has been going on over four years now. Gunns have been been suing the remaining 14 activists from the original 20 over their anti-logging protests citing their activities as damaging to the company
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Sep 02, 2009
Do you want to report on the most compelling stories of the climate crisis? Are you an amateur photographer who wants to greatly improve your skills while doing your part to save the planet? Or maybe you are a videographer wanting to publish your work on 17 youth blogs in 15 languages.
Project Survival Media is calling all passionate youth journalists who want to use their skills to:
- become an Australian/pacific team member for an ever-increasing global movement
- launch 'Survival' to the forefront of the international political debate
- amplify voices underrepresented by traditional media, and
- report on the most compelling climate stories from around the world.
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Aug 13, 2009
MAKE HISTORY @ THE BIGGEST LIVE FILM EVENT OF THE YEAR
George Monbiot called it *the* thing to watch in 2009. Its UK premiere holds the Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous film premiere in history, and made world news when the President of The Maldives used it to announce that his country would be carbon-neutral within a decade.
'The Age of Stupid' is already changing the world. It's been shown at overseas Parliaments and the UN - and now it's our turn!
The Age of Stupid, the boldest film yet from director Franny Armstrong (McLibel), is coming to Australia & New Zealand with a live simultaneous A-list premiere across both countries - and YOU can be part of it, all from the comfort of your local cinema.
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Jun 17, 2009
Indigenous men and women currently in Victorian prisons will have a public voice during NAIDOC Week, 5 - 12 July.
3CR Community Radio Station, Melbourne, presents four prison broadcasts as part of a week of on air NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee) celebrations.
Please find a Press Release and flyer for the broadcasts attached
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Jun 03, 2009
World Environment Day June 5, 2009
Documentary movie premiere in Melbourne: Uranium – is it a country?
Start the Journey from Australia’s Uranium Mines to Europe’s Power Plants
in Melbourne at RMIT’s Casey Plaza Theatre
on the 5th of June 6:30- 8:30 pm
(RMIT City, Building 10, Bowen Street, enter La Trobe Street)
Speakers:
Ruth Schaldach (German Movie Maker), Dave Sweeney (ACF), Friends of the
Earth
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