Antinuclear

Aboriginals to get basic rights in exchange for their land for uranium mining

For access to essential goods, services and infrastructure — a basic right for white Australia — communities are being forced to sign over their land rights. It’s a policy of starving people out to take their land…………

Youth candidates to witness NT intervention ,  Green Left Weekly, June 26, 2010 In July, Socialist Alliance election candidates…..— Jess Moore, Zane Alcorn and Ewan Saunders will join Indigenous activists, students, community groups and campaigners from across the country in Alice Springs for an important gathering of intervention-affected Aboriginal communities…………..
For access to essential goods, services and infrastructure — a basic right for white Australia — communities are being forced to sign over their land rights. It’s a policy of starving people out to take their land…………

Local community control, which has been undermined by successive governments, must be restored.

The movement for Aboriginal rights must take its lead from Aboriginal-led resistance, such as the Ampilatwatja walk-off. The convergence of activists and traditional owners at the “Defending Indigenous Rights: land, law, culture” convergence is an enormous opportunity to do just this…..

Youth candidates to witness NT intervention | Green Left Weekly

June 28, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News, uranium | aboriginal, antinuclear, Australia, Muckaty, nuclear wastes, radiation, renewable, uranium