Walkout planned against Jabiluka

By Jacqui Moon

MELBOURNE — People in white radiation suits and with green faces will be appearing at high schools as part of a street theatre organised by Resistance to show the dangers of the nuclear industry. High school students will walk out of school on April 29 to stage a mock nuclear spill. This will be part of a national day of action against the Jabiluka uranium mine called by the National Union of Students.

An organiser of the walkout, Reuben Endean, told Resistance: "Students, especially high school students, are immensely angry at the development of the environmentally disastrous Jabiluka mine and the denial of the Mirrar people's land rights. One of the key demands of the mass high school walkouts last year, which mobilised 14,000 young people, was a halt to the Jabiluka mine.

"But the Howard government is still supporting the mine, so we are organising again to stop this nuclear madness."

High school students will gather at the Melbourne GPO at 1pm before marching to the State Library to join university students in a united anti-nuclear action.

From GLW issue 355