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A Climate for Change THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE OF FRIENDS OF THE EARTH AUSTRALIA : : WWW.FOE.COM.AU ISSUE # 107 NOVEMBER 2009 RRP $5.50 A CLIMATE FOR CHANGE CLIMATE CAMPAIGNING AT COPENHAGEN AND BEYOND SWITCH OFF HAZELWOOD THE NEW CLIMATE WEDGE: FARMERS VS COAL MINING A NEW POLITICS OF MORAL PROTEST? HISTORY OF THE ALCOA ALUMINIUM SMELTER FOREST CARBON TRADING IN INDONESIA - PETER GARRETT’S U SKY MINING - NANOTECHNOLOGY LINKED TO DEATHS - RESISTING THE U.S - AUSTRALIAN WAR GAMES - FORESTRY TASMANIA’S FALSE CLAIMS Friends of the Earth Australia contacts: National website Pesticides: FoE SOUTHWEST WA Anthony Amis (Melbourne) PO Box 6177, South Bunbury, WA, 6230. www.foe.org.au <[email protected]> Ph Joan Jenkins (08) 9791 6621, 0428 389087. <[email protected]> Nanotechnology: National Liaison Officers Georgia Miller (Hobart) 0437 979402 FoE SYDNEY National Liaison Office: ph (03) 9419 <[email protected]> and Rye Adam Wolfenden 0401 045536 8700. 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Rye Senjen (Melbourne) <rye. kokathamula.auspics.org [email protected]> Edition #107 - November 2009 Publisher Friends of the Earth Australia, ABN 81600610421 contents Chain Reaction Team regular items other articles Jim Green, Cam Walker, Simeon Scott, Holly Creenaune, Daisy Barham, Hannah Elvery, Lilly Lowrey, Georgia Miller Earth News 2 Resisting Talisman Sabre military Layout & Design FoE Australia News 6 training exercises Lilly Lowrey FoE International News 8 - Jessica Morrison 30 FoE Australia Contacts Inside back cover Printing How to make trouble and influence Arena Printing and Publishing, Melbourne people: anti-nuclear action, 1958- 2006 Subscriptions a climate for change - Iain McIntyre 3 2 Four issues: $A22 (within Australia) Cheques, etc payable to Chain Reaction Angela Pamela cleans up at Alice Heading for Copenhagen and feeling show day Subscription Enquiries the heat - Ellie Rennie 34 Chain Reaction, PO Box 222, Fitzroy - Cam Walker, Wendy Flannery and Vic, 3065, Australia. Ph (03) 9419 8700, Hannah Elvery 10 Fax (03) 9416 2081 Email: <[email protected]> Peter Garrett’s U Sky Mining - Jim Green 36 ISSN: 0312 – 1372 Switch off Hazelwood, switch on renewables Nanoparticle exposure related to Copyright - Louise Morris 12 deaths of Chinese workers 38 Written material in Chain Reaction is free of copyright unless otherwise indicated, or where material has been Climate campaigning: where are we It’s on! NSW red gum assessment reprinted from another source. Please acknowledge Chain Reaction when reprinting. Permission to use going in 2010? kicks off graphic material must be obtained from the artist. - Cam Walker 14 - Carmel Flint 40 The opinions expressed in Chain Reaction are not The new climate wedge: farmers vs Exposing Forestry Tasmania’s false necessarily those of the publishers or any claims Friends of the Earth group. coal mining - Steve Skitmore 18 - Steve Leonard 42 Chain Reaction is indexed in the Alternative Press ndex. Climate movement: a new politics of Tall eucalypt forest: the missing piece Chain Reaction is published three times a year. of Tasmania’s Wilderness World moral protest? Heritage Area - Jenny Weber 20 - Steve Leonard 43 Research and action in the ‘movement CHAIN REACTION ADVISORY BOARD of movements’ - Climate Action Research Group, Sydney 22 Karen Alexander 44 -Biodiversity campaigner [Vic] reviews Greg Buckman The History of the Alcoa aluminium - Author/Researcher [Canberra] smelter in Portland Book Reviews Damian Grenfell - Climate Action: A campaign manual for greenhouse - Craig Horne 24 - Globalism Centre RMIT [Melbourne] solutions Jo Immig - This Little Kiddy Went to Market: The corporate - National Toxics Network [Bangalow, NSW] Are activists overdependent on capture of childhood Geoff Evans information technology? - Living Alongside the Animals - Anangu Way – Sustainability researcher/campaigner [Newcastle] - Rosalind Byass 27 -Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Binnie O’Dwyer Climate Crisis - FoE representative [Lismore] Forest carbon trading: promoting - Global Citizens: Australian Activists for Change Chris Richards business as usual in Indonesia’s - New Internationalist Magazine [Melbourne] DVD Reviews James Whelan forests - Humpbacks: From Fire to Ice - Co-director of the Change Agency [Brisbane] - Ellen Roberts 28 - Wild Earth DVD Collection The board provides big picture thematic and political advice to the CR editors, advice on themes for future editions, as Album Reviews well as helping to ensure that a broader range of sectors/ - Moonah – A Nice Beast constituencies are represented in the articles.The CR - Canned Heat – Future Blues editorial team are still responsible for content, editing and design and so any problems, omissions or other failures - Jello Biafra with DOA – Last Scream of the Missing are ours! Neighbors Chain Reaction is produced in Melbourne, Newcastle and Perth. We acknowledge the traditional owners of these lands and the fact that Aboriginal land has never been ceded. PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER seabirds, and a diverse array of fish all of which may be harmed by the oil spill. In September the federal government claimed to have found only four dead birds as a result of the spill, but the full extent of the destruction remains unknown. currently have almost no protection whilst The Greens claim the federal government oil and gas exploration is forging ahead. The has been too slow to act on the spill and that area is home to the world’s largest nursery monitoring has been insufficient. Senator area for humpback whales. Rachel Siewert
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