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Coal, Climate & Environmental Racism - Grassroots Resistance talks!

Keep coal in the ground | 08.01.2008 10:40 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Social Struggles | Sheffield

WEDNESDAY 16th JAN - SUMAC CENTRE
245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham NG7 6HX 0845 458 9595

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/

Keep coal in the ground

Additions

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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  1. Peak Coal and the Fischer-Tropsch process — Chris
  2. POSTPONED! — Sumacian
  3. coal / fossils in poland — Ben