Melbourne protest against Ferguson’s nuclear waste dump plan
VIDEO No Dump at Muckaty – Melbourne, 12 April 2010 — EngageMedia
National Day of Action, 12 April, against Federal
Resources Minister Martin Ferguson’s plans for a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty in the Northern Territory. – Jim Green 18 April 2010, Protesters gathered first on the steps of the Victorian Parliament House
before making their way through the lunchtime crowds of the CBD to join Ziggy the nuclear White Elephant at Flinders Street Station. Here there were speakers, music including rappers Luke Haralampou, Pataphysics and Izzy from Cambat Wombat, Jim Power with his banjo, and Madeline Hudson, who was also MC for the day. Jim Green from FoE discussed the options for dealing with nuclear waste, including the preferred one of not creating it in the first place, and Emma Kessord spoke for ASEN. Indigenous activist Robbie Thorpe acknowledged the elders and traditional owners of the land on which the protest was taking place, and condemned the trashing of Aboriginal land by colonialism. The protest ended with a symbolic dumping of ‘radioactive waste’ ‘in Martin Ferguson’s backyard’.http://asen.org.au/
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