Coal, Climate & Environmental Racism - Grassroots Resistance talks!
Keep coal in the ground | 08.01.2008 10:40 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Social Struggles | Sheffield
5 - 6 pm Popular Education Training for Trainers
Exercises & Games around climate change & environmental justice developed touring over four months and 40 cities in the North America (many inspired by Trapese)
7:30 - Vegan Food for donations
8pm - 9ish Photo Stories of grassroots & indigenous resistance
* Blockading coal ships and coal infrastructure at the largest coal port in the world in Australia.
* Local resistance to the devastation of 'Mountain Top Removal' coal mining in Appalachia, USA
* The Navajo resisting relocation for coal mining in Arizona, USA.
* Land occupations in the remote threatened alpine wetlands of New Zealand under threat of open cast mining & supporting rail blockades and lock-downs.
* Plus.. Nukes not an solution.. the parallels of coal with
Uranium mining on aboriginal lands in the Australian red centre
http://risingtide.org.uk/pdfs/coalresist.pdf
And check out:
http://risingtide.org.au
http://risingtidenorthamerica.org
http://www.savehappyvalley.org.nz
http://www.blackmesais.org/
http://www.foe.org.au/indigenous
http://ilovemountains.org/
Exercises & Games around climate change & environmental justice developed touring over four months and 40 cities in the North America (many inspired by Trapese)
7:30 - Vegan Food for donations
8pm - 9ish Photo Stories of grassroots & indigenous resistance
* Blockading coal ships and coal infrastructure at the largest coal port in the world in Australia.
* Local resistance to the devastation of 'Mountain Top Removal' coal mining in Appalachia, USA
* The Navajo resisting relocation for coal mining in Arizona, USA.
* Land occupations in the remote threatened alpine wetlands of New Zealand under threat of open cast mining & supporting rail blockades and lock-downs.
* Plus.. Nukes not an solution.. the parallels of coal with
Uranium mining on aboriginal lands in the Australian red centre
http://risingtide.org.uk/pdfs/coalresist.pdf
And check out:
http://risingtide.org.au
http://risingtidenorthamerica.org
http://www.savehappyvalley.org.nz
http://www.blackmesais.org/
http://www.foe.org.au/indigenous
http://ilovemountains.org/
Keep coal in the ground
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correction
08.01.2008 13:16
This is not actually a film showing - sorry! It is a talk with photos - should be good though!
sooty
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