farmers' rights

Resistance National Conference

An inspiring weekend of panels, workshops, discussion, debate, and planning for how we can change the world! Resistance is a socialist youth organisation, but all ages are welcome at the conference.

Sessions include equal marriage rights; defending Wikileaks; real climate action; fighting racism - freedom for refugees and ending the NT intervention; struggles in the Middle East; women's rights and feminism today; capitalism's global financial crisis; challenges for Latin America's revolutions; alternative media + much more. See web for full agenda details.

Event date: 
Sat, 07/05/2011 - 9:00am - Sun, 08/05/2011 - 5:00pm
Email: 
resistancenationaloffice@gmail.com
Website: 
http://www.resistance.org.au/conference2011/agenda
Phone: 
9690 1977; Ben 0400 878 322; Mel 0423 978 518

Gas rush prompts rural-city opposition

By Pip Hinman, Sydney

Coal seam gas exploration is becoming a key political issue in NSW. The Labor and Liberal parties are pushing for a huge expansion in gas mining, including coal seam gas.

But farmers, regional communities and city-dwellers are becoming increasingly worried about the health and environmental consequences of the gas rush.

The NSW government recently approved energy company AGL’s bid to drill 90 coal seam gas wells and build a pipeline and processing centre near Gloucester, north of Sydney.

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Forum: Cuba today - reform and the revolution, with guest Cuban speaker

(NOTE: Forum now MONDAY evening) Guest speaker Ezequiel Morales, brigadista on the Cuban Literacy Campaign in 1961; and director of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples, Granma province, Cuba, will speak on the current debate in Cuba around the economic reforms, and other aspects of the Cuban revolution today. Organised by Socialist Alliance and Green Left Weekly. All welcome.

Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale. Entry by donation, food and drinks avail from 6pm.

Event date: 
Mon, 18/04/2011 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Email: 
sydney@greenleft.org.au
Website: 
http://www.greenleft.org.au
Phone: 
9690 1977 or Paul 0410 629 088

Stand up to Monsanto!

A benefit concert for organic farmer Steve Marsh, who is battling Monsanto's contamination of his organic farm with genetically modified canola.

Featuring Emily Barker, Cilip and the Davs, Dom Coyote, Jacob from Dream State Circus, The Majik Trolls, Lydian's tilt, and Tribalive.

Tickets $28.50 in advance from flybynight.org or $30 on the door.

Fly By Night Musicians Club, 1 Holdsworth Street, Fremantle – Entrance off Parry Street.

Event date: 
Sat, 16/04/2011 - 6:00pm
Event time: 
Sat, 16/04/2011 - 6:00pm
Website: 
Steve Marsh Benefit Fund

Our energy future – state election forum

Gas mining in St Peters? New coal fired power stations for NSW? More cuts to renewable energy programs?

We have some important choices to make about our energy future this year. Come to this community forum and hear your local state election
candidate’s views.

Organised by Sydney Residents Against Coal Seam Gas and Climate Action Newtown

St Peters Town Hall, 39 Unwins Bridge Road, Sydenham

Event date: 
Mon, 14/03/2011 - 6:30pm
Email: 
climate.action.newtown@gmail.com

GM crops infect organic farms

By Duroyan Fertl

In December last year, Kojonup organic grain farmer Steve Marsh found genetically modified (GM) canola plants from a neighbouring farm had contaminated 293 hectares — 63% — of his property.

The farm in Western Australia’s Great Southern region is Australia’s first known case of GM canola contamination. Marsh has had his organic certification revoked as a result.

The Monsanto Round-Up Ready Canola was being grown on a neighbouring farm after a moratorium on growing GM crops was lifted a year ago by the WA Liberal government.

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Free open air screening of GASLAND

A free community screening to protest secretive plans for Coal Seam Gas exploration in St Peters, inner-western Sydney. Gasland is an award winning documentary that shows the devastating effects that Coal Seam Gas mining, especially "fracking", has had in the US - on health, safety and the environment. Now the corporate push is on to bring CSG into the heart of Sydney!

Enjoy a community BBQ from 7pm (BBQ and drinks avail, raising funds for the campaign), then the award winning Gasland film from sunset (8pm).

Event date: 
Sat, 05/02/2011 - 7:00pm
Email: 
info@nogasmininginsydney.com
Website: 
http://www.nogasmininginsydney.com
Phone: 
Phone Paul 0410 629 088 or Bron 0413 668 916

Floods, climate & social change - puting the pieces together

While no particular weather extreme can be attributed to climate change, the science is clear that our climate is changing and feeding the conditions to weather extremes such as the Qld & Vic floods. Once-a-century floods now occur every few decades. Recent years have been the hottest on record. Global sea temperatures have never been warmer - perfect conditions for flooding.

Event date: 
Tue, 01/02/2011 - 6:30pm
Email: 
sydney@socialist-alliance.org
Website: 
http://www.socialist-alliance.org/sydney/
Phone: 
Fred 0412 556 527 or Brianna 0439 694 505

Venezuela food sovereignty project launched

By Lisa Macdonald

“Nature is our home and is the system of which we form a part, and therefore it has infinite value, but it does not have a price and is not for sale” said a November 3-5 meeting of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) nations of Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador and Nicaragua.

The meeting rejected the privatisation of nature, in which “nature is seen as ‘capital’ for producing tradable environmental goods and services … and assigned a price so that they can be commercialised with the purpose of obtaining profits”.

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Murray murmurings: rethinking the Basin Plan

By Andrew Campbell

The launch of the community guide to the draft Murray Darling Basin Plan marks the latest step in the largely bipartisan process of water reform that started with the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) reforms of 1994.

It also graphically displays the risks inherent in the increasingly centralised, Commonwealth-driven approach to water planning that developed under the Howard government and has intensified since.

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