South Australia: strong police presence protecting BHP against peaceful anti-uranium protestors
Poor little old BHP – the Big Non Australian and its damn Olympic mine (which probably won’t make any profit for its shareholders anyway – as the nuclear industry continues its ungracious decline into oblivion) – any way – poor BHP, even scared of a little game of cricket!
But not to worry – cops and security guard aplenty are there to preserve Australia’s colonial status and the privileges of this 76% foreign owned company BHP!
Troop of police, some on horseback, crack down on anti-uranium protestors’ cricket game
Lizards Revenge – Arrests are just not cricket , 17 July, A light-hearted game of cricket near Roxby Downs was disrupted today at 1:15pm as police moved in to arrest the players, who are camping near the Olympic Dam uranium mine as part of the Lizards Revenge protest festival.
Police and off-duty miners were invited to join the game, but cricketers were instead bowled over by the severity of the police response. About 50 officers, six on horseback, formed a line to push the group from the road and the oval. Musical equipment and props were confiscated, and five players were arrested in the ensuing scuffle – bringing the total number of arrests so far to eleven.
Both sport and opposition to the nuclear industry are proud Australian traditions. BHP, the once “big Australian”, is now 76% foreign-owned. After the resource has been extracted from Olympic Dam, Australia will be left with 40 square kilometres of toxic tailings whilst most of the profits have gone overseas.
One player explained: “We say uranium mining is just not cricket. BHP Billiton, give the Arabunna people, the Kokatha people and all the Australian people a fair go.”
170,000 rally in Tokyo against nuclear power
Thousands reject nuclear, http://www.theage.com.au/world/thousands-reject-nuclear-20120716-226gd.html#ixzz20xx3KSqt The Age, July 17, 2012, TOKYO. Tens of thousands of people have rallied in Tokyo demanding an end to nuclear power, the latest in a series of demonstrations following the disaster at Fukushima. As many as 170,000 demonstrators chanting ”Don’t resume nuclear power operation. Prime Minister (Yoshihiko) Noda should quit” marched in one of the biggest rallies since last year’s earthquake and tsunami disaster sparked one of the world’s worst atomic disasters. Participants included Nobel-winning author Kenzaburo Oe and Japanese musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
”We are so angry because no progress has been made in terms of compensation and decontamination,” said Noboru Shikatani, 71, who was evacuated from Fukushima following the disaster.
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Olympic Dam uranium mine- activists break through gate
VIDEO Activists break through gate at uranium mine, ABC News, By Rebecca Brice and staff, July 17, 2012 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-16/activists-break-through-gate-at-roxby-downs-uranium-mine/4134442 Anti-uranium activists have smashed through the perimeter gate of the Olympic Dam mine near Roxby Downs, 560 kilometres north-west of Adelaide.
The protesters are opposed to the planned expansion of the mine which sits on top of the largest known uranium deposit in the world.
Security guards and police waited inside the mine gate as the group of about 350 people broke a lock to smash through an exterior fence….
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