Indonesia: Gold mine instead of UNESCO world heritage status |
| by Reinhard Behrend and Diet Simon |
2009-11-23 7:02 AM +0800 |
The Tinka Tindung goldmine threatens rainforest and especially marine life off the Indonesian island Sulawesi. The Minahsa region in northern Sulawesi (Indonesia) is in the running for a UNESCO world natural heritage listing. But its incomparable nature is in danger. The Indonesian government has licensed the Toka Tindung gold mine in north Minahsa. A study by the University of Jakarta predicts fatal consequences for people and the environment of the region.
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Indonesia: Gold mine instead of UNESCO world heritage status |
| by Reinhard Behrend and Diet Simon |
2009-11-23 7:00 AM +0800 |
The Tinka Tindung goldmine threatens rainforest and especially marine life off the Indonesian island Sulawesi. The Minahsa region in northern Sulawesi (Indonesia) is in the running for a UNESCO world natural heritage listing. But its incomparable nature is in danger. The Indonesian government has licensed the Toka Tindung gold mine in north Minahsa. A study by the University of Jakarta predicts fatal consequences for people and the environment of the region.
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To the Old Navajo Indian Elder |
| by SVNC |
2009-11-22 8:47 PM +0800 |
“Statement out to the world” submitted by a Senior Elder, Swan Valley Nyungah Community and posted by Perth Indymedia Contact Person.
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Human Rights Day Protest: Asylum is a HUMAN RIGHT |
| by rraner |
2009-11-22 12:34 PM +0800 |
On the eve of Human Rights Day, tell Kevin Rudd:
ASYLUM is a HUMAN RIGHT
* Let the refugees in
* End ties with repressive regimes: Sri Lanka & Israel
* Bring the troops home from Afghanistan
RALLY AND MARCH FOR JUSTICE, DEMOCRACY & HUMAN RIGHTS
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“Third world scenes” among Centre Aborigines |
| by Amnesty International |
2009-11-21 7:31 AM +0800 |
"In the heart of this first world I found scenes more reminiscent of the third world. That Indigenous peoples experience human rights violations on a continent of such privilege is not merely disheartening, it is morally outrageous. The moral imperative to eradicate such poverty is no less an imperative on government than to eliminate torture."
The comments of Irene Khan, Amnesty International Secretary General, after visiting Aborigines in central Australia.
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Dolphin Death in the Swan River |
| by Swan Valley Nyungah Community |
2009-11-20 1:47 PM +0800 |
The reason why the Dolphins are dying in the Swan River is it’s been polluted too many times and the next lot of dredging and deepening of the Fremantle Port is like sending them to the gas chambers with disturbing all the years of Silence of the River Bed with all the spill that comes from sewerages of the white society and it destroys the real naturalness and the Sacredness and the Silent Beds of the River.
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FREE Jock Palfreeman |
| by ozi batla |
2009-11-20 11:45 AM +0800 |
Jock Palfreeman is a 23 year old Australian currently in prison in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is undergoing trial on a charge of murder and attempted murder, following an encounter with a group of 16 far-right football hooligans.
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FOTOBOOK_47: GM Rally @ Parliament House - 18/11/09 (ONE) |
| by Desire |
2009-11-19 2:21 AM +0800 |
See also:
PICTURES: GM Action - Parliament House - 10/06/09
http://perth.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=144260
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FOTOBOOK_48: GM Rally @ Parliament House - 18/11/09 (TWO) |
| by Desire |
2009-11-19 2:13 AM +0800 |
See also:
PICTURES: GM Action - Parliament House - 10/06/09
http://perth.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=144260
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What gain in stopping the boats? |
| by GT |
2009-11-18 3:46 PM +0800 |
A very good piece from Suvendrini Perera, an academic at Curtin University, and author of Australia and the Insular Imagination. Lifted from The Age.
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