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CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOW  SEPTEMBER 12th 2022Produced by Vivien Langford THE DIRTY TRUTH ABOUT GREEN OPTIMISM I was alerted to the new gold rush for critical minerals by Gavin Mudd, Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering at RMIT University. We must not make the transition to renewable energy and electrifying everything without putting far more regulation on global mining. As Carlos Zorilla says from Ecuador"The voices calling for careful considerations of the impacts of a transition to ‘clean' energy are drowned by the misplaced optimism of a green future. Few are asking commonsense questions that, if not answered now could easily create a worse environmental disaster later – and even compound the climate crisis. The elephant in the room few want to acknowledge is the destruction of people and the environment that will result from the hunger for so-called green energy minerals – mainly copper, cobalt, nickel and lithium."In Chile Lithium is called the "white gold" Lithium Mining Is Leaving Chile's Indigenous Communities High and Dry (Literally) | NRDCand in Ecuador   our own Gina Rinehart is determined to extract copper from a fragile mountainous cloud forest.Rinehart's Roadblock in Ecuador - Friends of the Earth Australia (foe.org.au)Meanwhile the Climate Campaigners focussed on  stopping  new coal exports from Australia are very grateful to the Wangan and Jagalingou people.The Adani Carmichael mine is 9 months into operation with a huge slag heap rising up off their land and underground water already being sucked out to wash the coal. But they are not lying down on the rail tracks. Their dignified year long Waddanangu Ceremony is attracting indigenous and other visitors from all over the country.W&J have shown their intent to continue the ceremony and take their land back - you can sign up as a monthly donor to keep the sacred fire burning here. Moving news from EcuadorCarlos Zorilla won the Equator prize for  the protection, restoration and sustainable management of ecosystems that help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. He speaks to us from the Cloud Forest in Ecuador where  they are protecting  a wonderland of biodiversity.They have made two foreign mining companies back down but now are defending their land against the ravenous appetite for critical minerals used in electric vehicles and all the machinery of the renewables transition we have to make.One of the companies HANRINE is connected to Australian Gina Rinehart. Carlos Zorrilla | The EcologistThe dirty truth about clean energy by Carlos Zorrilla — Local Futures | by Local Futures | Local Futures — Economics of Happiness | Medium Thrilling news from Colombia: New anti extractivist Government promises strong climate action.The Vice President  Francia Marquez is already a veteran environmental warrior. She was awarded the "Green Nobel" Goldman Prize in 2018.Green Left Latin America expert Federico Fuentes puts a bit of a brake on Vivien's enthusiasm by explaining how difficult it is going to be. But what new energy has been released with so many women, indigenous and Afro Colombian people in power?Latin America's Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism by Federico Fuentes and  Roger Burbach | Goodreads  Historic Year for Climate Movement and  Wangan and Jagalingou people : Waddanangu Ceremony near the  Adani coal mine in Qld completes its first full yearPlus :Coedie Mc Avoy is awarded the Environmentalist of the year  prize by Bob Brown (20+) Facebook Live | FacebookCoral Wynter tells us about  Aboriginal people from all over Australia coming to participate in this ceremony and week of listening to each others news. It sounded like a summit.Mining extracts gigalitres of water, leaved horrendous slag heaps and black voids. If the land rights laws lack teeth to prevent this, Coedie Mc Avoy and the Wangan and Jagalingou people are using the Human rights laws to occupy parts of their land for ceremony. Coral also talks about what she learned about the sacredness of this land. Trees where a person's placenta was buried become that person's responsibility. Imagine if all Australians were initiated into this level of care!On the eve of the anniversary a special First Nations panel was held on Wangan and Jagalingou Country to discuss the theme of resilience and reoccupation with some incredible speakers: Gwenda Stanley Gomeroi Cultural Ambassador - Tent Embassy, Josie Alec, Kuruma Marthudhunera Custodian, Burrup peninsula, DK- Fresh Water Yuggera man, Deebing creek (who have been reoccupying their homelands for 1000 days) and Wangan and Jagalingou Tribal elder Adrian Burragubba. If you missed it you can watch the livestream here. 

Welcome back to BirdCast after our covid19 break!We launch off today with a Citizen Science Project.. the hunt for the black throated finch  (Poephila cincta) (southern subspecies).. in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland.Poephila cincta became famous back a few years ago  over the planned (now approved) coal  mining operations in the Galilee Basin in Queensland. The Galilee basin holds rich coal deposits, has multiple mining areas owned by various companies/organisation some headed by very well known people and is also one of the last Queensland refuges of the Poephila cincta :( .  A people power movement was started to stop the coal mine development, amongst which was the "Black Finch Project" instigated by Melbournite creative, Charlotte Watson. https://www.charlottewatson.org/black-throated-finchDespite the massive street protests and the many and varied personal protest held under  #stopadani the mine is proceeding.  https://www.stopadani.com/ Due to the significant expected impact on this finch, the black throated finch became the banner for the #stopadani movement.Voted Australian Bird of the Year in 2019 in the Guardian newspaper's poll was still not enough to change the minds of those who approved the Adani/Carmichael coal mine.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/15/black-throated-finch-wins-2019-bird-of-the-year-as-tawny-frogmouth-comes-secondPoephila cincta did not only live in Queensland .. it was also known to live in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland.It was however declared EXTINCT in New South Wales in 2016.Spurred on by the rediscoveries of the night parrot over Australia, and the impending black throated finch doom in the Galilee Basin, a collaboration between  3 organisations : Australian Society for Avian Preservation (ASAP), EnviroKey, and the Finch Society of Australia has emerged in these Covid times and the hunt for the black throated finch - southern species - is ON  AND  the team needs your help!Today's episode is all about the hunt for the black throated finch.https://www.facebook.com/blackthroatedfinchprojecthttps://snelandcare.org.au/component/content/article/134-e-news/1353-help-us-find-the-black-throated-finch.html?Itemid=437&fbclid=IwAR0a6JntzJCcPySNWaDXwKmM98QDpqrxBeXLbYJlxuX6p3LUupp3l431_y8

Climate Action Radio Show -  July 26th 2021Produced by Vivien LangfordREHYDRATING THE EARTH  Episode 2 on Ministry for the FutureGuests: Michal Kravcik -    People and Water, Slovakia — The Flow PartnershipNicky Chirlian and Craig Carter - Upper Mooki Rehydration Project — NSW Landcare GatewayDidi Pershouse - About - REHYDRATE CALIFORNIA. / (191) Can We Rehydrate California? (Didi Pershouse & Walter Jehne at Paicines Ranch, 2018) - YouTubePeter Vandilevoo - Song Fight for the Trees.Molly - Reading from Ministry for the Future about Rehydrating California Soil carbon sponges, perennial grasses, slowing down creeks, we will find out how rehydrating the land affects the climate crisis.This is episode 2 of our series inspired by Ministry for the Future. There are many climate solutions dramatised by Kim Stanley Robinson and just this week flood waters have been wiping out towns in Northern Europe, India and  Inner Mongolia.Floods - The Watchers.In the novel Molly reads about rehydrating farm lands. I thought I would go back to Water Engineer Michal Kravcik in Slovakia. He is all about permeable pavements and slowing down creeks rather than big dams.Then we talk to Craig Carter about how 13 landholders worked together to rehydrate the Upper Mooki Catchment in Northern NSW. Nicky Chirlian is the chair of the landcare group that implemented regenerative farming prionciples over a wide area.In Vermont Didi Pershouse speaks to us about how all this rehydration has a big role in sequestering carbon. She talks about the soil Carbon sponge which is demonstrated in her video above. She is dedicated to building the sorts of communities that work together and learn from indigenous land carers. Water Protection Action you can take:A vital water source for the Wangan and Jagalingou People is the Doongmabula springs. The Adani Carmichael coal mine will threaten its existence by siphoning out and polluting great volumes of water. Here is a letter from Adrian Burrugubba. Please write an email as he suggests. Friends, I need your support.Today I have written to the Honourable Meaghan Scanlon MP, Minister for Environment, to call for an immediate stop work order on construction of the Carmichael mine.I have asked her to intervene and support our human rights by ensuring that our lands and waters, and our sacred Doongmabulla Springs, are protected from Adani.You can help strengthen our demands.Please write to Minister Scanlon expressing your support for the W&J cultural custodians and our call for immediate action to protect our sacred Doongmabulla Springs. Email her at environment@ministerial.qld.gov.au - and please Cc us at wanganandjagalingousog@gmail.com so we can see your messages too.The Queensland Government has so far failed to address our call for urgent action. We have raised the dire warning about the threat to our sacred springs - a place of profound cultural heritage to us. We fear that the very large volume of water extraction by Adani that is now evident has already locked in future environmental damage to our sacred site. The Department of Environment and Science concluded its investigation into our complaint with “no further action will be taken”, despite the evidence we provided about the harm being done to the Doongmabulla Springs.Adani continues to act with impunity and our lands and waters are in peril. We have raised many times that the Adani mine breaches our human rights - as there was no free, prior, and informed consent for the issuing of the mining leases - and that our lands and waters are in peril. The Government is now responsible for the terrible impacts occurring on our Country and to our sacred sites. You can help us change this. We have asked the Minister to meet with us and ensure four things happen. Let her know you support -A ‘Stop Work' on the mine until our sacred Doongmabulla Springs are protectedIndependent verification of the results of the department's investigation into our complaintA comprehensive, independent, scientific review to help protect the water and the springsThe right of our cultural custodians' group to hold Adani to account for its destruction of our lands and watersWe must act urgently! The very large volume of water being extracted by Adani is locking in future environmental damage to our sacred site. This can only get worse. Please donate to support the work of the W&J Nagana Yarrbayn Cultural Custodians.We know from experience and history that the consequences for our people will be severe, causing ongoing loss of connection to Country and to our culture, intergenerational trauma, grief, and psychological harm.Our culture is inseparable from our lands and waters, including groundwater. Where the groundwater flows to the surface, at the Doongmabulla Springs, is our most sacred site. Mining our land and extracting our groundwater denies us our right to enjoy, maintain and protect our culture and traditional stories. We need you to help ensure that we are not subjected to forced destruction of our culture. We are building new legal arguments to defend our human rights and protect the water. Please help us in this work.We need your support to bring new legal challenges to defend our human rights. With your support we will pursue all avenues to protect our cultural rights and our lands and waters.To see more about the W&J cultural custodians and how we are standing our ground, visit our website and FaceBook page. Yours for Country. Adrian BurragubbaWangan and Jagalingou tribal leader& W&J Nagana Yarrbayn senior cultural custodian   

Environmentalists and farmers have welcomed the Federal Court decision that casts doubt over the Carmichael coal mine plan to draw billions of litres of water from Queensland's Suttor River annually. The company, Bravus, formerly Adani, says the decision has no impact on the mine's construction or operation, but critics say this ruling will mean that greater scrutiny will be applied to the company's plans for alternative water sources.

Lucas Dow, CEO of Adani Australia, is an experienced senior executive who oversees the strategic direction and activities of the Carmichael Mine and Rail. He joined Adani Group in April 2018. Lucas is an experienced senior executive and has managed full profit and loss accountability for multibillion-dollar businesses and capital projects. Prior to joining Adani in April 2018, Lucas held senior roles in global organisations including CEO and Asset President for BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance, VP of Operations and Director at South 32. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering and in his early career held operational and management roles in thermal and metallurgical coal operations.

The astronomy and space science news podcast.For more SpaceTime visit www.bitesz.com/spacetime (mobile friendly). SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 47*One of the oldest objects in the Milky WayAstronomers have discovered an ancient globular cluster that appears to be a staggering 13.6 billion years old – making it one of the oldest known objects in the Milky Way galaxy. *Growing doubts about one of the universe’s fundamental constantsA new study suggests one of the fundamental constants of the laws of physics doesn’t appear to be quite so constant across the universe and seems to change depending on where you are. *Australia and United States threatened by out of control Chinese rocketAustralia and the United States have escaped being hit by a deliberately out of control Chinese rocket.It was the most massive object to have made an uncontrolled atmospheric re-entry since the 39-tonne Russian Salyut-7 spacecraft crashed in Argentina in 1991. *China’s new capsule returns to Earth following its first test flightChina claims its new prototype manned spacecraft has returned safely to Earth following a three-day orbital test flight. *The Science ReportSome kids with COVID-19 antibodies now showing signs of a new inflammatory multisystem syndrome.The Chinese Military undertake a cyber attack on the Western Australian Government.Palaeontologists discover the oldest known Homo sapiens remains in Europe.Evidence that scientific advice was dismissed as part of the Adani Carmichael mine approval process. For enhanced Show Notes including photos to accompany this episode, visit: http://www.bitesz.com/spacetimeshownotes Get immediate access to over 180 commercial-free, double episode editions of SpaceTime plus extended interview bonus content. Subscribe via Patreon or Supercast....and share in the rewards. Details at www.patreon.com/spacetimewithstuartgary or Supercast - https://bitesznetwork.supercast.tech/RSS feed: https://rss.acast.com/spacetime Email: SpaceTime@bitesz.com To receive the Astronomy Daily Newsletter free, direct to your inbox...just join our mailing list at www.bitesz.com/mailinglist or visit https://www.bitesz.com/astronomy-daily Help support SpaceTime: The SpaceTime with Stuart Gary merchandise shop. Get your T-Shirts, Coffee Cups, badges, tote bag + more and help support the show. Check out the range: http://www.cafepress.com/spacetime Thank you. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/spacetime. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This podcast is recorded on the lands of the Dharug, the Gadigal of Eora nation, and the Dharawal. We pay our respects to elders past and present and acknowledge the elders of tomorrow. This land was stolen and sovereignty was never ceded, Australia owes a debt that can never be repaid and must come to terms with the historic and ongoing genocide of the First Nations. There is no revolution without Treaties.G'day voters and welcome to the show notes for the fifth episode of 2020; we are 3 White Guys + Guest, a political podcast for a cynical nation.This week our plus guests are Jason Wu: a climate activist who has worked to stop the Adani Carmichael mine from going ahead, and a volunteer for the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign; and Chris Bourke: one of the founders of Australians Supporting Bernie Sanders, and a climate activist who has volunteered with Extinction Rebellion.Find us on Twitter: @3whiteguyspodFull show notes available at shutupandreadthis.com

On January 11th, a decorated J&K  police officer Davinder Singh was caught  driving from Kulgam district along with a top militant commander and his associates, and arrested. The conditions under which he was caught are suspect, and his links to the Afzal Guru case and other operations are now under the scanner. Deputy Editor Muzamil Jaleel explains who Davinder Singh is, his links to the Afzal Guru case and details the several unanswered questions about this incident. Next, Amitabh Sinha discusses the Adani Carmichael coal mine project that environment activist Greta Thunberg referred to in context of the devastating Australian bushfires. Last, what a Delhi trial court said during the bail plea hearing of Chandrashekhar Azad. 

Amy talks with conservationist and former Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown about climate change, the fight to stop the Adani Carmichael coalmine, and conservation issues in Victoria and Tasmania. The Guardian’s Gabrielle Jackson came in to discuss her new book Pain and Prejudice. Amy and Gabrielle explore systemic sexism in medicine and the historic and current downplaying of women’s pain and health issues. Plus Professor Jane R. Goodall came in to talk about her new book which explores how politics can and should work for the common good.

Amy talks with conservationist and former Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown about climate change, the fight to stop the Adani Carmichael coalmine, and conservation issues in Victoria and Tasmania.

We are joined by activist and musician, Andy Paine, part of FrontLine Action on Coal (FLAC) who are currently blockading the Adani Carmichael coal mine. They recently issued a red alert at the camp and we caught up to find out what is happening.Melbourne information night 20th August details here.Follow FLAC on Facebook, Twitter and their website.Donate to support Wangan & Jagalingou Family Council here.Check out all the events you heard about on Friends of the Earth's Facebook event page.

The city of Brisbane has been grinding to a halt recently due to repeated disruptive protests from extreme climate change activists which involve blocking traffic, including super gluing themselves to the road.  The target of their protests as been against the Adani Carmichael coal mine in central Queensland. The Palaszczuk Labor Government reluctantly approved the mine after the Liberal National Party vote surged in the just-passed federal election after they ran on a pro-Adani platform. To look at the groups and people behind these climate protests in Brisbane we bring in our Antifa and far-left expert Associate Editor of the Unshackled Lucas Rosas.  He reveals that two groups are organizing these regular protests: Extinction Rebellion an extreme global climate doomsday group and Uni Students for Climate Justice, a front group for the Socialist Alternative. Socialist Alternative a revolutionary Trotskyist Marxist group attach themselves to popular progressive causes to engage in further membership recruitment. Socialist Alternative tried to do this with the recent Transparency 4 UQ protests at the University of Queensland against the Chinese Communist Party-backed Confucius Institute.  Because they weren't allowed to take over they labelled the protest racist and white nationalist, despite it being attended by Tibetans and Falun Gong members, plus their sometimes friends the Greens. The Unshackled Links: Website: https://www.theunshackled.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TUnshackled Twitter: https://twitter.com/Un_shackled Free eBook: http://theunshackledbattlefield.net/ The Unshackled Shows: The Unshackled Waves: http://www.theunshackledwaves.net The Report from Tiger Mountain: https://www.theunshackled.net/reportfromtigermountain/ The Uncuckables: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDg6qZbQt68DJ4gmHWhOCuw Support Our Work:  Membership: http://www.theunshackled.net/membership Donate: https://www.theunshackled.net/donate/ Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/theunshackled Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theunshackled Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/TheUnshackled Store: https://www.theunshackled.net/store/ Other Social Links Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theunshackled/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/the_unshackled Minds: https://www.minds.com/The_Unshackled Gab: https://gab.ai/theunshackled MeWe: https://mewe.com/p/theunshackled Telegram: https://t.me/theunshackled Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/theunshackled/ Theme Music Super Power Cool Dude by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Support the show: http://theunshackled.net/membership/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On a small bush block some 50 kilometres out of Bowen, a group of anti-coal activists are camping, while also training for civil disobedience. As the Adani Carmichael coal mine readies to break ground, the long-standing activists are ramping up their protests, much to the frustration of the local community.

The highly contested Adani Carmichael mine proposal received approval for their groundwater management plan on the eve of the federal election being called. Today on the Radioactive Show we bring you recordings of the speeches at the final event in the Stop Adani Convoy as they arrived at Parliament House on Sunday 5th May.   We’ll hear speeches given by spokesperson for the Wangan and Jagalingou Family Council Adrian Burragubba, school climate strikers Tali Mullins and Tess Carlton and writer Richard Flanagan recorded by Earth Matters presenter Rebecca Horridge.  We'll also hear Dave Sweeney and Kirsten Blair speaking at the Fight For Country documentary screening in Melbourne late last year to celebrate the Jabiluka Blockade that stopped a proposed uranium  mine on Mirrar country in Kakadu 20 years ago.

Australia's Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Matt Canavan, is, like his coalition counterparts ideologically blind to the reality that the Queensland bushfires and the New South Wales downpours and flooding are examples of climate change at work.This manufactured ignorance of something nearly all the world's climate scientists, and nearly all other thinking people have absolutely no doubt about was front and centre on the same day the Mr Canavan announced that the Adani Carmichael mine and rail project was to go ahead, being self-funded by the Indian company.

Sadiya and Sarah are part of Stop Adani. It is an environmental movement working to block the development of the Adani Carmichael coal mine in the north of the Galilee Basin, Central Queensland, Australia. Last episode, Sarah told a story for Sadiya to reflect on. In this episode, Sadiya tells us a story, about a Bangladeshi farmer who lost livelihood and home to river erosion. Sarah pulls out the themes of loss and displacement in this story. For Sarah, this is a human story of the suffering already experienced by extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and global warming. Climate change is not just an issue of environmental justice, it is an issue of social justice. Sarah reflects on the increase in child marriage associated with climate change, as families are forced to make horrendous decisions to keep their children alive. “We know that burning coal, no matter where it’s burnt, is going to keep fuelling global warming and climate change and Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries, although no matter where you live in the world, we’re all going to be effected by it.”

Sarah Ellyard’s childhood, spent camping and bushwalking with her wilderness conservation father, explains her connection to the environment, and her ability to understand its importance to our health, physical and mental. She finds it hard to understand why Western society places such a low value on nature, and why we find it hard to take action on climate change. Sarah is part of Stop Adani Sydney, a movement that is trying to block the development of the Adani Carmichael coal mine, in the north of the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland, Australia. Sadiya Binte Karim is a Bangladeshi woman. Also part of Stop Adani Sydney, Sadiya reflects, for us, on Sarah’s story. She links it to climate justice, both in Australia, and in countries like Bangladesh and India, which are already suffering the consequences of climate change.

Melbourne-born author Anna Krien's latest Quarterly Essay explores the debates on climate change policy in Australia and the ecological effects of not acting. She interviewed farmers, scientists, Indigenous groups, and activists from Bowen to Port Augusta. She says climate change denialism has transformed into “climate change nihilism”. Krien says the Finkel review provides another opportunity in a long line of proposals to take up the challenge of legislating clean energy. “We just need to get that foot in the door. The door has been flapping in the wind for the past decade.” On a current frontline battle – the planned Adani Carmichael coalmine – she found the people who would be affected were being ignored and blindsided. Meanwhile, the potential for exploitation of local Indigenous peoples through “opaque” native title legislation was high. “Outsiders are not meant to understand it and to tell you the truth you get the sense that insiders aren't meant to understand it either.”

The Coalition has backed the Adani Carmichael coal mine but there's debate about assistance for the project, and argument about the jobs it would create in the region. Matt Canavan argues there's a role for the government to invest in large scale infrastructure. He tells The Conversation this mine is only one part of a plan for “opening up the Galilee Basin” to provide investment opportunities, exports, and employment. “This coal is not for Australia, it's for our region.” On last week's Uluru statement calling for an Indigenous body to be enshrined in the constitution Canavan says he's concerned about creating another organisation, especially if it were to be based on different racial definitions. He says options should be explored for greater recognition of Indigenous people in the political process without “necessarily making changes to the constitution”. On the coming Queensland election - with polling close - he says either side's for the taking. “The Queensland Labor government has had a pretty rough time in the last week but I pick up a lot of frustration in North Quensland and I think they've got a lot of work to pick up trust.”

Labor has come under fire for some of its budget responses, including its opposition to the schools package, and only partial support for the Medicare levy increase. Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen rejects the government's argument about the schools plan being more “needs based” than present arrangements, telling The Conversation its “one-size fits all” approach will put pressure on families and the public system. “Being needs-based is a bit like being pregnant, isn't it? You either are or you aren't.” Bowen defends targeting the Medicare levy rise only at higher income earners by saying Australia's low wage growth and other factors mean the circumstances are different from when Julia Gillard raised the levy across the board. Small and medium-sized businesses – with a turnover up to $50 million - are waiting to find out whether a Labor government would cancel their legislated tax cut. Labor is “taking a bit of time” before announcing its position, Bowen says, to look at “all the implications.” He's commissioned work from the Parliamentary Budget Office. “There's all sorts of stuff on the public record that I carefully sift through so that when I make a recommendation to shadow cabinet it'll be a good one and a firm one and enable a good discussion.” On the controversial Adani Carmichael coal mine, which is dividing Queensland Labor and is publicly opposed by several federal ALP MPs, Bowen stresses the project's future must rest squarely on its own merits, without government subsidy. “If it stacks up, it stacks up.”

We talk with environmental lawyer Ariane Wilkinson about what's so bad with the proposed Adani Carmichael coal mine. In summary it's really extraordinarily bad on a both economic and environmental levels. This is a clench your fists episode.

 Jacob and Zane discuss the union backed teachers for refugees action coming on monday 12/12/16, and victory for the Carlton United #CUB55campaign as brewery workers are offered their jobs back on full pay. Discussion of partial victory for #noDAPL standing rock campaign, and of the Victorian Andrews government Law and order campaign and new push for DNA profiling of suspects without a warrant. Discussion of new wave of protest in South Korea looking at Green Left Weekly article by Yongsu Won “South Korea Shaken by government scandals and new civic revolution”. Discussion of Syrian conflict looking at Green Left article by Tony Iltis “Syria:Is the multi sided conflict at a turning point?”. An analysis of the different geopolitical and imperial interests fighting one another and touching on the role of climate change in the conflict.  Jacob and Zane interview Moira Williams, community organiser with 350.org, about the latest in the campaign to stop the mammoth Adani Carmichaelcoal mine from being built in remote Queensland. Moira reports widespread outrage at the announcement that a federally funded body, the North Australia Infrastructure Fund (NAIF) may fund construction of the 300km rail line connecting the mine site to port and says lots of people have been getting in touch with 350.org angry at the announcement and keen to help stop the mine. A key focus of 350.org's campaign in coming months will be pressuring the Federal Government not to fund the project and pressuring ANZ, Commbank and Westpac to join NAB in ruling out finance for the project. Listen here. A brief congratulations to Zebedee Parkes whose short film “For myfriends in detention” has won the most Unexceptional documentarycategory in the short films section at the Sydney indie filmfest, and is being played at various short film and activist film festivals internationally.  

Australian News:Hanson doesn't speak for me; https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/hanson-doesnt-speak-meTreaty candidate takes seat of Nhulunbuy; https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/treaty-candidate-takes-seat-nhulunbuySA power crisis: nuclear is no answer; https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/sa-power-crisis-nuclear-no-answerAboriginal people file class action for stolen wages; https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/aboriginal-people-file-class-action-stolen-wages International News:Sri Lanka: Tamils demand return of occupied land; https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/sri-lanka-tamils-demand-return-occupied-landSouth Korea: Farmers fight planned US missile base; https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/south-korea-farmers-fight-planned-us-missile-baseChelsea Manning ends hunger strike after winning key demand for gender surgery; https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/chelsea-manning-ends-hunger-strike-after-winning-key-demand-gender-surgery Interviews:Steve Jolly, councillor for the city of Yarra in Melbourne, talks about his campaign for the upcoming state council elections. Listen here.Jonathan La Nauze, Healthy Equal System manager from Australian Conservation Foundation discusses the case against Adani Carmichael coalmine. Listen here.Shay, occupier from the Campaign to keep the Sydney College of the Arts to keep it in Callum Park. Listen here.

On October 16th, the Federal Government re-approved the Adani Carmichael coal and railway project. Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt, or Minister for Coal, released a statement of reasons for the approval. The Australian Conservation Foundation launched a Federal Court challenge to the Environment Minister Greg Hunt's, arguing that the mine's emissions would contribute to climate change and effect the Great Barrier Reef.Basha Stasak talks about the Federal Court challenge that the Australian Conservation Foundation launched, and Patricia Julian speaks on behalf of the Mackay Conservation Group who initially challenged the mine in a judicial review in January this year.