FoE relaunched in Adelaide

Jim Green, Adelaide

Friends of the Earth (FoE) is being relaunched in South Australia with a focus on promoting sustainable, socially and ecologically conscious technologies as an alternative to the nuclear industry.

FoE Adelaide will also be linking up with local and national groups to support Indigenous communities adversely affected by the uranium industry, as well as continuing to raise public awareness around nuclear issues and monitoring the activities of the nuclear industry.

"Back in 1972, Adelaide was the first city in Australia to form a FoE group. It's been wonderful how many people have thrown their support behind the organisation becoming active in South Australia again", FoE Adelaide campaigner Sophie Green told Green Left Weekly.

In recent years FoE has worked with the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta — a senior Indigenous women's council — to halt the proposed national radioactive waste dump in northern SA, and supported the Mirrar in their campaign against the Jabiluka uranium mine. Nationally, FoE's Climate Justice campaign has been crucial in raising awareness about the growing human cost of climate change.

Adelaide's Campaign Against Nuclear Dumping has decided to become an affiliate group of FoE Adelaide and is now called the Clean Futures Collective.

To contact FoE Adelaide, phone Sophie Green on 0422 487 219 or Joel Catchlove on 0403 886 951. The Clean Futures Collective meets each Tuesday, 5.30pm, at the Conservation Centre, 120 Wakefield Street.

From Green Left Weekly, February 8, 2006.

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From GLW issue 655