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FoEA News May 2021
Welcome to our May newsletter, full of radical news, updates and events from the many faces of FoE.
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Australia should not be looking for another war
Friends of the Earth join the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network in condemning the frightening indications that the Australian Government is preparing to follow the US into a war with China.
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No more violence, no more silence!
Friends of the Earth International’s commitment to preventing violence and sexual harassment in our federation.
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Victorian cash for containers scheme announced
Friends of the Earth - a proud member of the Boomerang Alliance - welcome the decision to implement a cash for containers scheme in Victoria.
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Big banks snub local farmers concerned about Whitehaven Coal
Whitehaven Coal is one of the biggest coal mining corporations on the Australian share market and some of the world’s biggest banks, including Westpac, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, played a key role in lending $1 billion to the company in 2020.
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FoEA News April 2021
Welcome to our April newsletter, full of radical news, updates and events from the many faces of FoE.
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Engaging the Resistance with Cooperatives - NENA Conference 2020
Earthworker Cooperative's Katherine Cunningham presented at the New Economy Network Australia (NENA) conference in 2020 looking at the the power and resistance of cooperatives - particularly for workers to own the means of production.
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FoEA News and Events: March
Catch up on the latest newsletter of radical news, events and ways to take action for social and environmental justice.
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QBE kicks climate can down the road & keeps supporting oil and gas expansions despite massive loss
Together with the announcement of a massive A$2b loss due in part to ever-worsening extreme weather, fuelled by the burning of oil and gas, QBE’s updated Environmental and Social Risk Framework, released today, includes oil and gas targets which ignore the urgency of the climate crisis and are out of line with the Paris Agreement goal of keeping warming to 1.5 degrees.
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Nigerian farmers & Friends of the Earth Netherlands win Shell oil pollution case
The Court of Appeal in The Hague has today ( 29 January 2021 ) ruled in favour of Friends of the Earth Netherlands/Milieudefensie and four Nigerians on most points in an oil pollution case that was first brought against Shell in 2008.