At the World People´s Summit on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, we met a different type of police, ´Ecological Police´. Intrigued, we asked them what is it that they do....
Part 5: John Pilger answers questions during a talk in Melbourne in April 2009. Subjects include:
Aboriginal Australia, the Northern Territory Intervention, Barack Obama, Israel/Palestine, Journalism and the Media, the Internet, the Financial Crisis and more...
Many thanks to SocialistAlternative who organised the event and provided a platform for Pilger as well as Barbara Shaw to speak. We will be uploading excerpts from Barbara Shaw's talk asap - stay tuned!
Venue: University of Melbourne, 09 April, 2009
Filmed & edited by: Sheryl, Felipe & Daniel - PlugInTV (www.plugintv.net)
A Rap News summary of the last week's remarkable events. The decade which opened with a ferocious attack upon the United States of America on September 11, 2001, closes with the announcement of the death of its greatest and most conveniently disney-like villain, Osama Bin Laden. In a decade which has been dominated by the Empire Strikes Back, our affable and dextrous host Robert Foster invites us to scrutinise the events shrouding the killing of this twentyfirst-century Goldstein. Joining him in this May retrospective are Rap News regulars, General Baxter, the Pentagon's most effusive spokesperson, attempting uncharacteristically to stay 'on message', and his counterpart from the world of alternative academia, the conspiracy industry's favourite son, Terrence Moonseed. What actually happened in Abbotabad? Do the public have a right to see evidence of this event? What is Terrence wearing on his head? Was justice really served? What next? History is happening.
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BEAT: Hats off to The Alchemist for "Horrified Nights" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOJD3c...
CAPTIONS: Many thanks to our French friends, Koolfy and Siltaar, for sync'ing English closed captions.
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civil disobedience: 22 people arrested and 500+ protesting at Hazelwood in direct action against the dirtiest and most harmful coal-powered station in the world.
HAZELWOOD POWER STATION - is one of the dirtiest power stations in the industrialised world, emitting 17megatonnes of CO2 annually. International Power Hazelwood employs 520 people.
Hazelwood was scheduled to be decommissioned by 2009 due to its excessive carbon dioxide emissions, however the State Government in 2005 extended its life until 2031.
The action is intended to show that the social licence to continue to burn coal and pollute has been revoked. We are declaring a Community Decommission Order on Hazelwood, to switch on the renewable energy transition.
Speakers included: Robbie Thorpe - representative of the Gunai/Kurnai - owners of the land in the La Trobe valley, Scott Ludlum, Green Senator for WA, and Dave Sweeney, Australian Conservation Foundation, ACF.
THE POLICE RESPONSE: HOW OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE SPENT. The policing operation was reported to have cost in excess of $200,000 with 250 officers present including horses, dogs, the helicopter and boats on the pondage. The visible presence was about 100 officers along the fence line. Police had constructed a temporary fence about 100 metres beyond the real perimeter of the plant. This allowed demonstrators to breach the first police line and be arrested without actually getting too close to the plant, something the police obviously intended. Police did appear to lose patience by about 3 PM as the protestors held a final spokes council to decide on how to end the day. The meeting was buzzed low by the police helicopter and police liason were told that any mass charge on the fence to finish the day would be met with the use of capsicum foam. That was their subtle way of saying, it was time to go home.
Arrestees were charged with Trespass and were told they will be charged on summons to appear in the Morewell Courts at a later date. They were processed on site. One protestor was charged with assaulting police after allegedly colliding with a police officer after jumping the fence. Organisers have pledged legal support and solidarity fundraising will occur for all those arrested.
Want to know when these events are taking place? Google 'Friends of the Earth' and subscribe to the mailing list for FoE in your city.
for more information visit:
http://www.switchoffhazelwood.org/
Excerpts taken from Indymendia:
http://indymedia.org.au/2009/09/09/switch-off-hazelwood-coverage
Pauline Hanson, Australia's answer to Donald Trump, is back on the political stage - this time as a Senator.
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Written by Giordano with help from Juice mates - Mantra, Ellen, Lucy, Louis, Jake & Adso
Pauline Hanson performed by Ellen
Hypes / reporter voice by Ming
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Part 3: Robbie Thorpe, of the Gunai people in S/E Victoria, giving a talk to Law students at Deakin University (Geelong, Australia) on 15 May 2009. **IN 5 Parts**
Subjects include:
1. The Legal questions of GENOCIDE and JURISDICTION. Do Australian courts have the jurisdiction to charge Aborigines in Australia? Under what jurisdiction? What is the real LAW of the LAND?
2. Climate change and Environmental Sustainability. Indigenous culture managed to sustain their way of life for 60,000+ years; European colonizers have almost destroyed the Australian ecosystem after barely 200 years of settlement. Is the ecocide fundamentally connected to the genocide and to European colonization and its industrial revolution?
3. Thoughts on the Native Title process, of which Robbie has recently started collaborating in preparing the Gunai/Kurnai claim for his mob. STAY TUNED to TheJuiceMedia for updates on this claim!
4. An overview of Aboriginal Activism and HISTORY key people tied to the topics of Sovereignty, Treaty, Terra Nullius the Aboriginal Embassy.
An interview with Alice Springs Town Camp Resident, Barbara Shaw, speaking about what has been happening with the court case and the injunction brought up against Jenny Macklin (Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs).
Shaw also talks about her personal experiences of the court environment, the continual suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act, UN Special Rapporteur James Anaya's recent visit to the Northern Territory and how she stays strong and afloat in the continuing struggle against oppression and injustice.
Al Gore finally accepts Lord Monckton's challenge to a highly uncivilized debate over the issue of anthropogenic climate change, as we count down to the Copenhagen Climate Conference - aka COP15 - in a special extended edition of ~RapNews, .
Is it all just a lie spread by the NWO so that Obama can sign a treaty to cede US sovereignty and usher in a one-world government to Cap-&-Trade tax innocent carbon emitters and SUV drivers like you and me? Or are we truly fucked, as the latest science seems to suggest, and feedback loops will bring about environmental, social and economic meltdown and collapse before the next season of Sex and the City? Explore these issues, and more, with your charming host - Robert Foster.
Addendum re Climate-gate: this vid was posted a few days before this incident took place - which is why no mention of it is made (no conspiracy of silence here!). As several viewers have rightly brought this up; but here is what we think: The 'conspiracy' is right in front of our eyes, not hidden in emails and behind firewalls.
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LINKS:
Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change - Anchorage, Alaska (April 2009): http://www.indigenoussummit.com/servlet/content/declaration.html
Monckton's 'Treaty' (aka 'UN Framework Convention on Climate Change' Work in Progress Paper). Lord Monckton urges you to read this, because it contains the word 'government': http://assets.panda.org/downloads/final_treaty_legal_text_with_cover.pdf
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BACKING BEAT: "Queens get the Money" by All Natural http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbg1naOOUWE
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It is a period of corporate war. Without an honest media Is an honest media the people Planet Earth are kept misinformed and in perpetual conflict and competition. But is there a Force than can restore peace and balance to the Galaxy? To find out, we consult two of journalism's most influential and inflammatory figures: Rebel journalist, enfant terrible, Julian Assange, who awaits a verdict in London which could see him 'Sextradited' to Sweden. And, on the opposite end of the journalistic spectrum, Rupert Murdoch, head of the mighty NewsCorp media Empire, embroiled in legal scandals that go to the highest and lowest levels of celebrity in Britain. In the manichean manner of some ancient laser sword and forcery epic, join the most retro news-anchor in the Galaxy, Robert Foster, as he attempts to wrangle these two figures together for a rap-debate. Will the light or the dark side prevail - and is it really that easy to know which is which? How many Bothans died to bring us this information? Is the Force Estate with Robert? Will we see THE RETURN OF THE JOURNALI before the EMPIRE EXTRADITES BACK? For answers to all these questions and more, pull down your blast shields, switch off your on-board computer and feel the Force in this latest episode of Juice Rap News... or click play.
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- ORIGINAL MUSIC: Main Beat: "The Golden Era" - by The GOAT, ILL Beat Constructor: http://www.thegoatbeats.com
- ORIGINAL RAP-WARS theme music composed by Adrian Sergovich.
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- Many thanks to the following humans for lending their time and talent to the making of this episode: Ellen (Brianna Manning and SwededTrooper_1) and Zoe (SwedeTrooper_2); Lucy for voiceovers (Admiral Gillard, Manning & SwedeTroopers); Rosie Dunlop for make-up magick; Dave Abbott for tech & video advice. And finally, to Kristinn Hrafnsson of WikiLeaks for his debut kameo.
CAPTIONS: Thanks Koolfy & Siltaar at La Quadrature du Net for English captions.
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BONUS: LIVE version of RN13 - 1st July 2012, Melbourne: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lob8dzXs52Q
Before there was #OccupyWallStreet there was #OccupyWisconsin. It's 2011 and amid a flurry of political leaks and revelations, revolutions have rolled across North Africa and The Middle East. Join your host Robert Foster for long overdue analysis of these events, asking the question that's on everyone's lips -- where will revolution spark next? How will the world treat the latest courageous country to throw off the yoke of oppression? Is any cow sacred in this time of massive upheaval? Can there be any doubt that History Is Happening?
Juice Rap News: co-written by Giordano Nanni & Hugo Farrant. Created by Farrant & Nanni in a back-yard studio in suburban Melbourne.
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BEAT: 'Stand Clear' by M.O.P. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDxbKk-YNcE
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