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FoEA News March 2022
March News and Events from across our federation, the flood frontlines, Ukraine, WOTCH Court Case, School Strike 4 Climate and much more...
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FoEA News February 2022
It's a pleasure to bring you the first news of the year with a big update from Friends of the Earth this month.
There's always a heap of action for you to get involved in - feel free to get it touch and ask how!
If you are fresh to FoE we have a new 'Who We Are' Page on our website which gives a little look over how our federation works.
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We need to be looking at the bigger picture
This article was written for Chain Reaction magazine by anti-capitalist pro-utopia activist, Anisa Rogers.
What if many of our activist campaigns are an unachievable dream, that will ultimately have little impact on transforming the human destruction of the planet? Myself, and many others, feel this is the case; that we need to be looking at the bigger picture – consumption and economic growth.
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War = peak toxic masculinity: Feminist action in the Disrupt Land Forces campaign
Activist, Zelda Grimshaw, writes a recount of the Disrupt Land Forces event that happened in June 2021 in Meanjin / Brisbane for Chain Reaction magazine.
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ANZ climate complaint ruling highlights need for Australia to follow other countries and pass new climate finance laws
After almost two years, the Australian National Contact Point has made a determination on the international climate complaint by Bushfire survivors and Friends of the Earth Australia. The complainants express their disappointment that the determination finds ANZ’s practices are ‘consistent’ with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises.
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Statement on Treatment of Climate Protestors by Law Enforcement
On Monday November 22, Eric (Sergeio) Herbert, 22, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, 6 months no parole, for taking nonviolent direct action as part of the Blockade Australia mobilisation in Muloobinba / Newcastle. In the last two weeks, climate activists have been given charges that can carry 25 year sentences, and a local community environment centre, completely unconnected to the protest activity, has been raided by police.
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No one is safe until we are all safe. Vigil to demand global vaccine justice!
With the new Omicron strain of the COVID virus threatening the world and other ongoing COVID outbreaks, the need to end the global vaccine apartheid is more urgent than ever.
Less than 5% of people in most low-income countries have received COVID-19 vaccines, while rich countries are reaching 80% or more. Millions are dying while new more infectious strains of the virus develop.
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Queering the Earth, and Earthing the Queer: a radical conversation
This radical conversation was recorded and transcribed for Chain Reaction magazine between two radical, queer activists, facilitators and all round awesome folks who are part of the Friends of the Earth community.
We will call them M & Z and use they/them pronouns for them both.
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Senate Backed Forced Labour Import Bill a Good First Step
The shoes, electronics and products we buy often contain slavery or environmental destruction in their global supply chains. Some of Australia’s biggest mining and banking companies are implicated in abuses overseas and at home, yet these crimes go unpunished. However, momentum is building nationally and globally to hold companies accountable.
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Earthworker Newsletter - September 2021
As 2021 rolls on, news headlines continue to unmask the horrendous failures of our global power structures in providing safety and longevity for our species and the ecosystem to which we owe our existence.