Anti-coal protest at Newcastle – 66 charged by police
66 charged at Newcastle anti-coal protest May 8, 2016 SMH, Tim Connell Sixty-six people were charged by police on Sunday after they took part in a climate change protest at Newcastle’s coal harbour.
About 1500 joined the demonstration, part of a global day of protests about fossil fuel use.
About 200 took to the water in kayaks and canoes, to impede access to the port, while 57 were arrested for blocking a rail line to the coal loader……. A spokesman from environmental activist group 350.org said climate change was an important issue to raise as the country prepared for the election on July 2.
“On a day when the election [was] called, it’s sending a signal to our elected leaders,” spokesman Campbell Klose said.
Despite the arrests, the protests were mainly peaceful, Mr Klose said……http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/66-charged-at-newcastle-anticoal-protest-20160508-gopbna.html
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International Uranium Film Festival Berlin 2022 Friday, October 7th 2022 – Zeiss Large Planetarium
8.30 p.m TOTEM & ORE
Australia, 2019, Director & Producer: John Mandelberg, Executive Producer: Bozic Wongar,Actress and speaker: Ursula Yovich, documentary, with German subtitles, 97 min.
German premiereThe film begins in 1945 with the atomic annihilation of Hiroshima and ends with the Fukushima meltdown in 2011. It examines the aftermath of atomic bombs, nuclear weapons tests and the Fukushima reactor accident. Radioactive fallout from the British nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s at Emu Field and Maralinga in South Australia not only contaminated large parts of the Australian outback. Radioactive rain also reached cities like Adelaide. Above all, however, the Aborigines have suffered from this to this day.
“Totem & Ore” tells the historical tragedies and fears from the point of view of witnesses of the atomic bombing and atomic bomb tests. Indigenous people, activists, filmmakers, artists, actors, writers, composers, doctors and professors all have their say. Ursula Yovich, a Native American actress, appeals: “There must be no more place in the world for nuclear weapons!”
Totem & Ore received a special recognition from the 2022 International Uranium Film Festival
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