A Critical Conversation on Carbon Trading presented by the Climate
Justice Chicago Coalition

http://links.org.au/node/311#comment-274

Subscribe free to /Links - International Journal of Socialist Renewal/
   - at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373

Climate Change Is a Wake-Up Call to Radically Reform the US Economy ...

http://www.alternet.org/environment/80728/

Peter Bright
Huonville
Tasmania


Quiet Tasmania:
http://www.quietas.net

Dog-free Communities -
A petition for peace and quiet:
http://gopetition.com/online/17921.html

Thank you for including me on your art activist web site.

I will send this email onto other Activist Artists I know and helped.

Yours Benny Zable



From: kathleen.paul@...: bennyzable@...: Cross
PromoDate: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:53:51 +1000



Hi Benny,

I hope you didn't mind but I have used your wonderful protest piece as a prime
example of awesome activist art... of course I linked it straight back here...

http://www.redbubble.com/groups/art-action-without-violence/forums/1418/topics/1\
2324-art-action-union?page=1#posts-183214

I was wondering if you would be interested in somehow being involved?  We
coordinate online protests and stuff...

Have a look if you get time...

Kind Regards

Kathleen Cameron
ART ACTION UNION
REDBUBBLE.COM
_________________________________________________________________
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archHotmailTagline&URL=http://lifestyle.ninemsn.com.au/?ocid=T003HOT40A0710G

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i turned off everything at 8.

we went for a walk down to the beach.
i looked at all the lights across the channel to townsville.

behind me were street lights,
and house lights... and human noise

in front of me were ripples on the ocean, and a gentle surf.
much sand has migrated somewhere from the beach?
coconut roots are ready to cave...

i looked at the ocean,
at the pretty and sadly disused jetty...
lit up brightly...

i feal very little, and very alone
:-(


--- In ClimateChangeAction@..., "Anne" <gcca@...>
wrote:
>
> Saturday March 29- Please turn off all your power...
> at 8:00 pm
> One hour... for the earth...
> http://earthhour.org
> Anne
>

Thanks Greg,
will post this (as comment) on the website :-)
cheers
a

--- In ClimateChangeAction@..., greg hopwood
<ghoppy9@...> wrote:
>
> This one's not a bad rebuff to the Climate Change Skeptics ...
>
> [b]Climate change: A guide for the perplexed[/b]
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462?DCMP=NLC-
nletter&nsref
>
> With so much at stake, it is right that climate science is
subjected to the most intense scrutiny. What does not help is for the
real issues to be muddied by discredited arguments or wild theories.
>
> So for those who are not sure what to believe, here is our round-up
of the 26 most common climate myths and misconceptions.
>
> There is also a guide to assessing the evidence. In the articles
we've included lots of links to primary research and major reports
for those who want to follow through to the original sources.
>
> [b]Can we trust the science?[/b]
>
> • Chaotic systems are not predictable
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11641
>
> • We can't trust computer models of climate
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11649
>
> • Many leading scientists question climate change
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11654
>
> • It's all a conspiracy
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11653
>
> • They predicted global cooling in the 1970s
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11643
>
> [b]Is the sun to blame?[/b]
>
> • Global warming is down to the Sun, not humans
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11650
>
> • It's all down to cosmic rays
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11651
>
> [b]Does CO2 cause warming?[/b]
>
> • Human CO2 emissions are too tiny to matter
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11638
>
> • CO2 isn't the most important greenhouse gas
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11652
>
> • Ice cores show CO2 increases lag behind temperature rises,
disproving the link to global warming
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11659
>
> • Ice cores show CO2 rising as temperatures fell
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11640
>
> • The cooling after 1940 shows CO2 does not cause warming
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11639
>
> [b]What happened in the past?[/b]
>
> • The 'hockey stick' graph has been proven wrong
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11646
>
> • It's been far warmer in the past, what's the big deal?
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11647
>
> • It was warmer during the Medieval period, with vineyards in
England
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11644
>
> • We are simply recovering from the Little Ice Age
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11645
>
> [b]What is happening now?[/b]
>
> • Mars and Pluto are warming too
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11642
>
> • Antarctica is getting cooler, not warmer, disproving global
warming
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11648
>
> • Polar bear numbers are increasing
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11656
>
> • The lower atmosphere is cooling, not warming
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11660
>
> • The oceans are cooling
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11664
>
> [b]What is going to happen?[/b]
>
> • Warming will cause an ice age in Europe
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11838
>
> • Higher CO2 levels will boost plant growth and food production
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11655
>
> • Hurricane Katrina was caused by global warming
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11661
>
> [b]Why should I worry?[/b]
>
> • It's too cold where I live - warming will be great
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11657
>
> • We can't do anything about climate change
> http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-
change/dn11658
>
> Anne <gcca@...> wrote:
>  At Greenpeace USA:
>  Blog:
>  http://members.greenpeace.org/gpblog/
>  Forum:
>  http://members.greenpeace.org/phpBB2/
>  free registration required
>
>  Collection posted to my blog from GCCA:
>
>  Join the nuclear industry dots
>  http://globalclimatechangeaction.org/AusUSA_NSP
>
>  Nuclear Waste Dump on Magnetic Island
>  http://globalclimatechangeaction.org/smokedetector
>
>  to Climate Change Skeptics
>  http://globalclimatechangeaction.org/2CCS
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> Get the name you always wanted with the new y7mail email address.
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

This one's not a bad rebuff to the Climate Change Skeptics ...

[b]Climate change: A guide for the perplexed[/b]
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref

With so much at stake, it is right that climate science is subjected to the most
intense scrutiny. What does not help is for the real issues to be muddied by
discredited arguments or wild theories.

So for those who are not sure what to believe, here is our round-up of the 26
most common climate myths and misconceptions.

There is also a guide to assessing the evidence. In the articles we've included
lots of links to primary research and major reports for those who want to follow
through to the original sources.

[b]Can we trust the science?[/b]

• Chaotic systems are not predictable
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11641

• We can't trust computer models of climate
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11649

• Many leading scientists question climate change
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11654

• It's all a conspiracy
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11653

• They predicted global cooling in the 1970s
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11643

[b]Is the sun to blame?[/b]

• Global warming is down to the Sun, not humans
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11650

• It’s all down to cosmic rays
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11651

[b]Does CO2 cause warming?[/b]

• Human CO2 emissions are too tiny to matter
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11638

• CO2 isn't the most important greenhouse gas
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11652

• Ice cores show CO2 increases lag behind temperature rises, disproving the link
to global warming
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11659

• Ice cores show CO2 rising as temperatures fell
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11640

• The cooling after 1940 shows CO2 does not cause warming
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11639

[b]What happened in the past?[/b]

• The 'hockey stick' graph has been proven wrong
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11646

• It's been far warmer in the past, what's the big deal?
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11647

• It was warmer during the Medieval period, with vineyards in England
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11644

• We are simply recovering from the Little Ice Age
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11645

[b]What is happening now?[/b]

• Mars and Pluto are warming too
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11642

• Antarctica is getting cooler, not warmer, disproving global warming
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11648

• Polar bear numbers are increasing
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11656

• The lower atmosphere is cooling, not warming
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11660

• The oceans are cooling
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11664

[b]What is going to happen?[/b]

• Warming will cause an ice age in Europe
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11838

• Higher CO2 levels will boost plant growth and food production
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11655

• Hurricane Katrina was caused by global warming
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11661

[b]Why should I worry?[/b]

• It's too cold where I live - warming will be great
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11657

• We can't do anything about climate change
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11658

Anne <gcca@...> wrote:
  At Greenpeace USA:
  Blog:
  http://members.greenpeace.org/gpblog/
  Forum:
  http://members.greenpeace.org/phpBB2/
  free registration required

  Collection posted to my blog from GCCA:

  Join the nuclear industry dots
  http://globalclimatechangeaction.org/AusUSA_NSP

  Nuclear Waste Dump on Magnetic Island
  http://globalclimatechangeaction.org/smokedetector

  to Climate Change Skeptics
  http://globalclimatechangeaction.org/2CCS






---------------------------------
Get the name you always wanted with the new y7mail email address.

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At Greenpeace USA:
Blog:
http://members.greenpeace.org/gpblog/
Forum:
http://members.greenpeace.org/phpBB2/
free registration required

Collection posted to my blog from GCCA:

Join the nuclear industry dots
http://globalclimatechangeaction.org/AusUSA_NSP

Nuclear Waste Dump on Magnetic Island
http://globalclimatechangeaction.org/smokedetector

to Climate Change Skeptics
http://globalclimatechangeaction.org/2CCS

Hi all,

The agenda is out for Green Left's Climate Change | Social Change
conference! It looks like it's going to be an amazing conference, with an
unprecedented number of activists and speakers representing the diversity of
different environment-related campaigns in Australia. Below is the list of
confirmed speakers.

Those who saw Roberto Perez speak at Sydney Uni and UWS Bankstown last week
will also know that he's a fantastic speaker with some fascinating stories
to tell about Cuba's transition to a sustainable society!

Visit <www.greenleft.org.au/conference.php>, or to receive updates
email  <climatechange_socialchangeconf_announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com>.
If you would like to register for the conference email
climateconf@....

Lauren.


=============

    - *John Bellamy Foster<http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/foster.php>
    * — author of *Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature*; editor of *Monthly
    Review*.
    - *Patrick Bond <http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?10,24,8,55>* —
    director of the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South
    Africa; editor of *Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society*.
    - *Roberto Perez* — Cuban permaculturalist (featured in *The Power of
    Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil<http://www.powerofcommunity.org/>
    *).

Speakers from Australia speakers include:

    - *Matt Thistlethwaite* — Unions NSW deputy assistant secretary
    - *John Kaye* — Greens NSW MLC
    - *Stephanie Long* — Friends of the Earth Australia's international
    climate justice spokesperson; works on FoE International's climate change
    campaign
    - *Dr Mark Diesendorf* — Institute of Environmental Studies,
    University of NSW
    - *Tim Anderson* — senior lecturer political economy, Sydney
    University
    - *David Spratt * — co-editor, *Climate Code Red*
    - *Marlene Obeid* — solidarity activist
    - *Dr Jim Green* — Friends of the Earth anti-nuclear campaigner
    - *Dick Nichols* — author of *Environment, Capitalism and Socialism*
    - *Renfrey Clarke* — *Green Left Weekly* environment correspondent
    - *Cam Walker* — Friends of the Earth, Melbourne
    - *John Rice* — Adelaide Ecosocialist Network
    - *Adrian Whitehead* — Zero Emissions Network
    - *Pat Eatock* — elder from the Kairie community in central Queensland
    and secretary of the National Aboriginal Alliance
    - *Stuart Rosewarne* — co-editor of *Journal of Australian Political
    Economy* and *Capitalism, Nature, Socialism*
    - *Donna Jackson* — Larrakia/Wulna woman who helped establish the Top
    End Aboriginal Conservation Alliance
    - *James Goodman* — researcher on social movements at the University
    of Technology Sydney writer on Southern responses to global warming


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** Please forward to all who are concerned about the health of the planet **


International day of action on climate change
*FOSSIL FOOLS DAY - TUES APRIL 1
Gather 330pm @ Cathedral Square, Cnr Ann & Wharf Sts, City
Tour of the "Fossil Fools" begins 4pm*
(Optional: dress as clowns to mock some of the world's biggest fossil
fools!)
Demand action on climate change - renewables not nuclear or 'clean coal'
Supported by NUSA; Australian Student Enviro Network; Resistance;
Friends of the Earth; Aust Youth Climate Coalition; Rising Tide
Ph: 0401 234 610, 3846 5793, Email: fossilfoolsbrisbane@...






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Saturday March 29- Please turn off all your power...
at 8:00 pm
One hour... for the earth...
http://earthhour.org
Anne

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: [BooksNotBombs] Want action on climate change? Come to FOSSIL
FOOLS DAY!
From:    "Brisbane Activist Centre" <brisbane@...>
Date:    Wed, March 26, 2008 10:15 pm
To:      undisclosed-recipients:;
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** Please forward to all who are concerned about the health of the planet **


International day of action on climate change
*FOSSIL FOOLS DAY - TUES APRIL 1
Gather 330pm @ Cathedral Square, Cnr Ann & Wharf Sts, City
Tour of the "Fossil Fools" begins 4pm*
(Optional: dress as clowns to mock some of the world's biggest fossil
fools!)
Demand action on climate change - renewables not nuclear or 'clean coal'
Supported by NUSA; Australian Student Enviro Network; Resistance;
Friends of the Earth; Aust Youth Climate Coalition; Rising Tide
Ph: 0401 234 610, 3846 5793, Email: fossilfoolsbrisbane@...

--

*Brisbane Activist Centre, 74b Wickham St, Fortitude Valley*

Home of Socialist Alliance, Green Left Weekly, Resistance + books,
badges, t-shirts, more!

Ph: (07) 3831 2644 Mob: 0410 629 088 Email: brisbane@...
<mailto:brisbane@...> Web: www.greenleft.org.au


   Howard is history! Now let's stand up for our rights


   www. socialist-alliance.org <http://socialistalliance.freeforums.org/>






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---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: International Fossil Fools Day -- 1 April
From:    "Fossil Fools 08" <fossilfools08@...>
Date:    Tue, March 25, 2008 12:49 pm
To:      "Anne Goddard" <anne@...>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Friends,

Please consider organizing an event in your community for April
1st, the International Fossil Fools Day of Action, and pass on
this call to action to your family, friends, neighbors and
coworkers. Happy Fossil Fools Day!

We Are Fed Up

We have had enough of fossil fuel tomfoolery - empty promises and
lackluster leadership from our governments and dirty energy
companies. We have had enough of coal companies that destroy
communities, poison our air, and spew global warming pollution.
We are sick of oil and car companies keeping us dangerously
addicted to oil. And we will kick every politician out of office
who refuses to show bold, political leadership in fighting
climate change. Join us in making April 1 a day the fossil fuel
industry never forgets! Sign-up for an action in your community
today.

[http://fossilfools08.org]

We Are Hopeful

Climate change is our generation's biggest challenge, but also
our biggest opportunity. We can make sure that as we move away
from dangerous fossil fuels we are building not only a cleaner,
but also a more just future. We will help ensure that the clean
energy revolution leaves no one behind, creates hundreds of
thousands of new, green jobs and promotes sustainable
development. Join us in building a more just future. Plan an
action to spur green jobs and development in your community
today.

[http://fossilfools08.org]

We Are Powerful

Together we can build a more just and sustainable future. We are
calling on communities across the globe to show the fossil fuel
industry and bad politicians that we mean business by organizing
a Fossil Fools Day action today. Ideas include, but are by no
means limited to: rallies at gas stations or representative
offices, Critical Mass bike rides, office occupations,
Billionaire's for Tar Sands/Coal/Oil demonstrations, spank the
bank visits, high-powered projections of solutions on the side
of dirty energy factories, Board of Trustees meeting take-overs
at your college or university, holding a clean energy camp at a
dirty energy site, solar installations, making spoof videos and
websites, offering alternative, clean energy bus rides, doing
some coal mining of your own at a coal company's headquarters...

This April 1st join with people around the world to end the
fossil fuel age and stand up for a new energy future. Get more
information by visiting the website now.

[http://fossilfools08.org]

Deutsch --
[http://energyactioncoalition.org/fossilfools/international/german]

EspaΓ±ol --
[http://energyactioncoalition.org/fossilfools/international/spanish]

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[http://energyactioncoalition.org/fossilfools/international/french]

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[http://energyactioncoalition.org/fossilfools/international/arabic]

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[http://energyactioncoalition.org/fossilfools/international/hebrew]

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---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Exciting New Climate Campaign
From:    "Meg Ivory" <Meg.Ivory@...>
Date:    Tue, March 25, 2008 1:42 am
To:      undisclosed-recipients:;
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Climate Action Groups,

I am writing to offer your group the chance to get involved in our
exciting new campaign. We are currently calling on the Rudd Government
to use their first budget as a chance to put their money where their
mouth is and act on climate change.

We have an online petition which you can sign here

www.stop-fueling-climate-change.org

At the moment for every $1 the federal government spends on subsidies
for renewable energy and energy efficiency $28 goes to subsidising
fossil fuels. We need to act now to end this imbalance.

We are focussing specifically on the $308 million a year that currently
goes to the coal industry as a fuels rebate, and calling on the Federal
Government to instead put this money into towards renewable energy and
energy efficiency.

You can sign our petition here

www.stop-fueling-climate-change.org

Please sign the petition and send it onto your networks.

If you are interested in getting more involved please contact me. We
have a kit we can send to you with petition postcards, fact sheets,
copies of our budget submission (summary) and other materials about the
campaign. These kits can also be downloaded from the petition website.

I have attached a document that outlines the ways local climate and
environment groups can get involved in the campaign.

Thanks for your hard work

Regards

Meg

Meg Ivory
Local Communities Organiser
Greenpeace Australia Pacific
(02) 9263 0379
0437 869 904



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Climate Conf 11-13 Apr 08 Ph 02 9690 1230
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/conference.php>*PLEASE ATTEND, IF YOU
CAN'T, PLEASE FORWARD OR PUBLICISE*
Climate Change | Social Change

*/A conference to strengthen radical social action to stop climate change/*

*April 11-13, 2008**, **Sydney**, **Australia*

*Redfern Community Centre*, 29 Hugo St, Redfern, day sessions Friday
April 11;

*Sydney Girls High School*, Anzac Pde, Surry Hills, Friday night, April
11 -- Sunday April 13

* [See attached agenda and registration form]*

  The world is teetering on the brink of unstoppable climate change. Many
now recognise the need for serious change in the way we produce and use
energy, our transport systems, food production, urban design and
forestry practices. Yet politicians are still mouthing platitudes while
allowing corporations to continue to profit from polluting our
atmosphere and destroying our ecosystem.



The need for social change has become an urgent part of preventing
catastrophic climate change. Can the market fix the problem? What is the
real record of carbon trading? How can we build a social movement
capable of averting this disaster? What models and experiences can offer
real solutions?

To strengthen the exchange of ideas and contribute towards that urgent
action /Green Left Weekly/ is organising the Climate Change | Social
Change conference from April 11-13, 2008, in Sydney.



Featuring:

     * *John Bellamy Foster
       <http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/foster.php>* --- author of
       /Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature/; editor of /Monthly Review/.
     * *Patrick Bond <http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?10,24,8,55>*
       --- director of the Centre for Civil Society, University of
       KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; editor of /Climate Change, Carbon
       Trading and Civil Society/.
     * *Roberto Perez* --- Cuban permaculturalist (featured in */The
       Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
       <http://www.powerofcommunity.org>/*).



Speakers from Australia include:

     * *Matt Thistlethwaite* --- Unions NSW deputy assistant secretary
     * *John Kaye* --- Greens NSW MLC
     * *Stephanie Long* --- Friends of the Earth Australia's
       international climate justice spokesperson; works on FoE
       International's climate change campaign
     * *Mark Diesendorf* --- Institute of Environmental Studies,
       University of NSW
     * *Tim Anderson* --- senior lecturer political economy, Sydney
       University
     * *David Spratt *--- co-editor, /Climate Code Red/
     * *Marlene Obeid* --- solidarity activist
     * *Jim Green* --- Friends of the Earth anti-nuclear campaigner
     * *Dick Nichols* --- author of /Environment, Capitalism and Socialism/
     * *Renfrey Clarke* --- /Green Left Weekly/ environment correspondent
     * *Cam** **Walker* --- Friends of the Earth, Melbourne
     * *John Rice* --- Adelaide Ecosocialist Network
     * *Sam Watson *--- Biri Gubba, Munnejarl man from the Brisbane Murri
       community
     * *Adrian Whitehead* --- Zero Emissions Network
     * *Pat Eatock* --- elder from the Kairie community in central
       Queensland and secretary of the National Aboriginal Alliance
     * *Stuart Rosewarne* --- co-editor of /Journal of Australian
       Political Economy/ and /Capitalism, Nature, Socialism/
     * *James Goodman* --- researcher on social movements at the
       University of Technology Sydney writer on Southern responses to
       global warming



To receive updates about the conference, send an email to *
climatechange_socialchangeconf_announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:climatechange_socialchangeconf_announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com>*.



*Child care* will be available on Saturday April 12 and Sunday April 13
during conference session times. To allow us to have sufficient staff,
please let us know by Friday March 28 (email
*climateconf@... <mailto:climateconf@...>* )if
you will require child care.







AGENDA: major sessions

(Concurrent workshop agenda to be advised)



Friday 11^th April

*Redfern Community Centre*



10 -- 10.30 am                       conference registration



10.30 am -- 12 noon             *Indigenous communities, climate change
and the struggle for country*

Sam Watson, Biri Gubba, Munnejarl man from the Brisbane Murri community;
activist since high school.

Pat Eatock, Kairie community elder, Aboriginal Rights Coalition, Sydney,
secretary National Aboriginal Alliance



12 noon -- 1pm                      Lunch break



1 -- 2.30 pm                           *Nuclear is still not the answer*

Jim Green, FoE anti-nuclear campaigner

Wenny Theresia, Australian Student Environment Network



2.45 -- 4.15pm                       Concurrent workshops



*Sydney** **Girls** **High School*



6 for 6.30pm                          *Public meeting *

* Climate change and its social roots*

/Doc Fruit from Dhopec performs "the Zombie plankton trilogy"
(eco-socialist hip hop)/

*John Bellamy Foster*, editor of /Monthly Review/; author of /Marx's
Ecology: Materialism and Nature/* *

*Patrick Bond*, University of KwaZulu-Natal; editor of /Climate Change,
Carbon Trading and Civil Society/* *

*David Spratt*, Carbon Equity, co-author Climate Code Red* *

*            James Goodman*, social researcher, University of Technology
in Sydney



Saturday 12^th April

*Sydney** **Girls** **High School*



8.30 -- 9.15 am                      Registration



9.15 am                                  Welcome to country & conference
opening



9.30 -- 11am*                          Plenary*

*Climate change solutions: what role for the market?*

*Patrick Bond*

Sylvia Hale, Greens NSW MLC

Stuart Rosewarne, co-editor of /Journal of Australian Political
Economy/, and /Capitalism, Nature, Socialism/

Nelson Davila, Venezuelan /Chargι d'Affaires/, tbc

* *

11.15am -- 12.45 pm            *Major workshop*

*Protecting jobs and the environment*

Tim Gooden, Geelong Trades and Labour Council

Ben Courtice, AMWU environment group

Cam Walker, Friends of the Earth Melbourne

Steve Phillips, Rising Tide

Chris Cain, Maritime Union of Australia, tbc

* *

12.45 -- 1.45 pm                    Lunch break



1.45 -- 3.15 pm                      *Plenary*

*Ecology, capitalism and socialism*

*John Bellamy Foster *

* *

3.30 -- 5pm                            *Major workshop*

*Cuba**: reducing reliance on fossil fuels*

*Roberto Perez, Cuban permaculturalist, featured in **/The Power of
Community: how Cuba survived peak oil <http://www.powerofcommunity.org/>/*



6pm                                        *Dinner*

*Keynote address*

*Sustainability -- the Cuban experience*

*            Roberto Perez*





Sunday 13^th April



9 -- 10.30 am                         *Plenary*

*Transitions to sustainability*

*Mark Diesendorf,* Institute of Environmental Studies, University of NSW

Adrian Whitehead, Zero Emission Network

Stephanie Long, FoE Australia's international climate justice spokesperson

Roberto Perez



10.45 am -- 12.15pm            *Major workshop*

*Sustainable energy solutions*

Mark Diesendorf



12.15 -- 1.15 pm                     Lunch break



1.15 -- 2.45 pm                      *Major workshop*

*Radicalising the Australian climate change movement*

Simon Cunich, Resistance

Vanessa Bowden, Climate camp

Mel Barnes, Students Against the Pulp Mill

Ben Courtice, World Environment Day, Melbourne



3 -- 4.45 pm                           *Plenary & resolutions*

*Strategies for winning*

John Bellamy Foster

Dick Nichols, author /Capitalism, Nature and Socialism/

John Rice, Adelaide Ecosocialist Network

Patrick Bond



4.45 -- 5pm                            *Conference close*



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*Fossil Fools Day 2008 April 1st!
PROTEST 3PM STATE PARLIAMENT
Expose the Fossil Fools and take action against dangerous climate change *

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVEsjlvpJEc

Confronted with melting ice caps, droughts, unprecedented species extinction
and extreme weather, from extraction to combustion the fossil fuels industry
is ruining the climate and fooling with our lives. At the head of the
empire, Fossil Fools continue to plunder the earth, with the governments as
willing court jesters at their side.

On Tuesday April 1 2008, we're going to unmask these dangerous jesters. See
the clowns investing in coal? The carbon offset contortionist or the
corporate strong man promoting Earth Hour? Target a local fossil fool – grab
a bunch of friends (or in your enviro collective/climate action group), find
a fossil fool in your community and pull a prank that packs a punch! Don't
forget to tell the media as you oust the fools! We know we need to act in a
way that meets the seriousness of the problem - so step right up to the good
fight for a Clean Energy Future!

Ideas for pranks include (but are definitely not limited to!): - actions at
petrol stations: bike/carbon police; polar bears; cost per litre: the earth
- mock award ceremonies, eg http://energyactioncoalition.org/foolies/ - bike
blockades, critical mass: http://www.criticalmass.org.au/ - urban parks, eg
http://www.parkingday.org/ - ratbag tours of your local city - court jester
street theatre - banner drops - culture-jamming - spank the bank visits -
office occupations - projections of solutions onto buildings - guerrilla
efficiency - spoof videos and websites - rallies at representative offices

For more information, or support for your action, feel free to contact Tessa
on 0424 808 639 or at tessa.dowdell@...

Check out http://fossilfoolsdayoz.wordpress.com and
http://energyactioncoalition.org/fossilfools, and come with your friends to
www.climatecamp.org.au

Groups participating in Fossil Fools Day around the world include the
Australian Student Environment Network, Australian Youth Climate Coalition,
Resistance, Rising Tide Australia, Rising Tide UK, Rising Tide North
America, Energy Action Coalition, and Canadian Youth Climate Coalition.

*Can you volunteer some time this week to help build FFDay in the following
ways?*
Mass leafletting sessions:
Wednesday, 7.30am, Eddy Ave
Friday, 7.30am, Eddy Ave
Monday 8.30am, Redfern Station

Or, put up posters in your area/uni/high school - call Tessa on 0424 808 639
or Lauren on 0403 767 253 to help out.




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Hi Anne,

Apologies for causing some upset.

As you are the founder of this good group,
I will unsubscribe after posting this.

Have you heard of the HAARP facility in Alaska?

Quite a large number of people, including some
scientists believe that HAARP and other technologies
are being used to manipulate weather patterns.

I think there are more HAARP-like facilites being
planned to be built quite soon. In Norway, etc.

So if you don't know about HAARP, some
background reading may well be worth the effort.

HAARP is mentioned in the post you responded to:

<< ... the large-scale weather and mind manipulations
of technologies such as HAARP ... >>

I thought it was a bit daring to include 'mind
manipulations', but that is what many people are
claiming for HAARP working in conjubction with the
massive 'Chemtrail' spraying programme.

Certainly, if the technicians at HAARP are indeed
moving weather patterns around, they will at least
be affecting people's mood.

Keep up the good work.

Michael

The Big World Gathering
http://worldgathering.net


--- In ClimateChangeAction@...,
"Anne" <gcca@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Members of the Climate Change Action Group
>
> I consider the last two messages from worldgathering to be off the
> topic of this list "Actions for Climate Change Mitigation" and
> propose to members that if these floods of spam continue that this
> member be moderated and/or his posts removed from the list.
>
> Anne Goddard
> Founder and co-moderator
>

Dear Members of the Climate Change Action Group

I consider the last two messages from worldgathering to be off the
topic of this list "Actions for Climate Change Mitigation" and
propose to members that if these floods of spam continue that this
member be moderated and/or his posts removed from the list.

Anne Goddard
Founder and co-moderator


- In ClimateChangeAction@..., <worldgathering@...>
wrote:
>
> Make My People Live ~ The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope
> http://worldgathering.net/vision.html
>
> If you like this ~~~ please email it to friends.
> A plain version for copying into emails is here:
> http://worldgathering.net/rdvplain.html
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Black Elk ~ I did not know then how much was ended.
> When I look back now from the high hill of my old age,
> I can still see the butchered women lying heaped and
> scattered all along the crooked gulch. And I can see that
> something else died there in the bloody mud and was
> buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there.
> It was a beautiful dream. ~ Hear me in my sorrow,
> for I may never call again. O make my people live!
> ~ MAKE MY PEOPLE LIVE
> ~~~~~~~~~
>
> The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope
> The Twenty Count: 1993-2012
>
> 2008: The new race of humans will begin to design
> their new reality of life on this planet as they intended
> it to be when they first came here from the Stars.
>
> http://worldgathering.net/vision.html
> http://worldgathering.net/rdvplain.html
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> This vision of hope inspired millions of people in the
> 1980s and 1990s, but since then, something has gone
> wrong, or has it? The start is correct, 'keys and wheels'
> were often seen in Crop Patterns in the early 1990s,
> before the patterns were fully taken over by NWO
> technology. But since the year 2001 (the year when
> the NWO carried out 9-11, launched their deceitful
> 'War On Terror' and 'Chemtrail' spraying became
> severe), some of the events and changes described
> in the Rainbow Dream Vision as quite possible for
> humanity, have not yet happened. What went wrong
> or right? Who held up our Vision? Is now the time
> to take our vision back and make a quantum leap
> forwards?
> The Rainbow dream was delayed until
> enough people are awake: See 2008 onwards
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope
>
> Make copies of the Rainbow prophecy, and give or
> send them to people anywhere on the planet. Then let
> them be guided by their hearts to do the same until all
> planetary citizens are brought to life in the Rainbow
> dream, so that we may dream and work together
> for true peace.  Love, Thunder Woman
>
> Introduction by Aleran ~~
>
> Throughout the ages humanity has sought out the
> prophecies of the spiritually gifted to instil a clear hope
> and vision into life. During this time many prophecies
> come to us trying to lead us in many different directions.
>
> Some prophecy points to disaster, hopelessness
> and the annihilation of mankind. But other prophecies
> create a vision of joyful transformation through
> quantum leaps into love and light.
>
> As things stand now, the human race is dreaming a hell.
>
> But as individuals and as a collective humanity it is our
> potential to dream of paradise and to create the kingdom
> of heaven on our Mother Earth.
>
> Could it be that the pain in our hearts caused by the
> hell we have created will spur us on into visions and
> creations of a world formed in love?
>
> It is my prayer and dream, along with a multitude of
> others who have taught me to dream the Rainbow dream,
> that each and every one of you learn to dream both while
> awake and sleeping, the dream of unity and love through
> divine transformation.
>
> This prophecy is a dream and vision that is a potential
> reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours
> to behold and to create if we only dare to dream it together.
>
> ~~~~~
>
> The Rainbow Dream Vision of Turtle Island
> Prophecies of The Native Americans
>
> 1993: The year of the creation of the teachings of the
> Eight Great Powers and the introduction and the giving
> back to humanity of the Twenty Count. The Starmaiden
> Circle and the Flowering Tree teachings which began
> the evolution of the distribution of the wheels and keys
> of the esoteric teachings of the North American Indians
> of Turtle Island. It was the year that the major beginning
> keys and wheels were given away.
>
> 1994: The year of the planting of the light seeds of the
> Hokseda, the higher self. Many teachers of the Eight
> Great Powers began to plant their seeds of light about
> the development of the higher self and began to open
> the teachings of the rainbow people, also known as
> the Meti, mixed blood, the Rainbow People.
>
> 1995: The year of fertilisation, the year of planting,
> the year of going within these seeds of light in order
> to see the potentiality, the road map that a person
> can use. In the Turtle Island lore we say it is the year
> of finding one's path with heart.
>
> 1996: The year of fruition, the year of seeking perfection,
> growth and development. Most importantly this is the
> year of trust and innocence as being totally open, when
> people are listening and teachers are talking to teachers.
> When mythologies of the world and all eight Great
> Powers are finally revealing secrets and the teachings
> within the mythologies are brought out into the open.
>
> 1997: The critical time. The time of the animal.
> The time of Tuwalananie, the Dark Force. The reason
> for this is that for three years seeds of light have been
> planted and we are starting to grow and the teachings
> are starting to come out and all those ones inside each
> of the Eight Great Powers who have taught partial truths,
> who have taught deliberate lies in history, who have
> used their power to gain followers, to gain disciples,
> to gain devotees, are going to be threatened by the
> awakening of the Rainbow People because the Rainbow
> People exist in every country, in every nation, in every
> land.
>
> The Dark Forces will be threatened and they will use
> their power and their power exists in technology.
> We are going to see some of the most strong techno-
> logical advances known to humanity occurring at this
> time and these very technological advances are going
> to be a tremendous threat as well as a blessing to
> the survival of humanity.
>
> We must exert our influence, the sun dancers, the
> rainbow people, by gathering together and sharing our
> ideas and plans for alternative power and for world
> peace. If we put a double amount of energy with what
> we are for, we can change it. We can change it.
>
> 1998: The time of human to human communication.
> The time the human family finally starts to become
> human, if we get through 1997. Then there will be more
> information brought out into open format than has ever
> been seen on this planet in the first fifty thousand years.
> Because soon we will re-establish contact in a very
> knowledgeable way with our ancestors from the stars.
> So mark that down because it will happen. The first
> wave will come from the Pleiades and will be totally
> acknowledged and will be known to all the world
> powers. The second wave will come from Sirius.
>
> 1999: When tagashala and the enlightened teachers
> begin to open the veil of the crack between the worlds,
> we will see our memory circles. All kivas and sacred
> power spots will come alive in 1999 and be totally
> awakened. The inner room of the great pyramid will be
> opened. Many of the teachers, leaders and ceremonialists
> that are so-called traditional, but are trying to keep us
> locked in the past, will not function today, will fall.
> Many teachers and wise people will be seen for who
> they are and they will be the farmers, the labourers and
> the gas station attendants because the tagashala will
> be fully awakened.
>
> 2000: People will begin to open their eyes. In 2000,
> 144,000 enlightened souls will sit down in Gathering
> Together Circles. Many of these will be the so-called '
> common people' and not the teachers you see up there
> now. On August 17, 2000, the various winged serpent
> wheels will begin to turn, to dance once again and
> when they do the rainbow lights will be seen in dreams
> all over the world and these rainbow light dreams
> will help awaken the rest of humanity.
>
> ~~ On August 17, 2000, 'The Start of The World
> Gathering For Truth' was held, and some great things
> happened:
> http://worldgathering.net/world/gathering1.html
> http://worldgathering.net/world/gathering2.html
>
> ~~ Our Vision was delayed until the time was right:
> 2008 onwards
>
> Editor: Some of the following changes have been held up
> by the plans of those who are behind the global Chemtrail
> spraying; the 9-11 fake attack and false War On Terror;
> the large-scale weather and mind manipulations of techno-
> logies such as HAARP, etc. 1997 states: 'The Dark Forces
> will be threatened and they will use their power and their
> power exists in technology'.  1997 also states: 'If we put
> a DOUBLE AMOUNT of energy with what we are for,
> we CAN change it.' ~ See year 2008 onwards
>
> ~~ Events for 2001 to 2007 have been
> held up until enough people are awake ....
>
> 2001: We will sit in a new circle of law. Civil and social
> law will tumble. All civil and social laws will have to be
> in conformity with natural laws or the people will not
> accept them and they will have the enlightenment necessary
> to reject those laws. Science will once again become
> metaphysics. They will discover four laws that will help
> them jump to universal law and transcend the time-space
> continuum which is the limitation of the age and once
> again we will begin to take our power and to work
> with rules and laws that are cosmic laws.
>
> 2002: We will once again see the way to continue a
> new dream. We will be given the road map back to the
> stars and we will see the star people come out of the
> illusion of their two-legged form and into their actual
> great sleeper-dreamer form. And so you will soon
> meet some really great people.  [Editor: Well they're
> flying around the sky in their great craft at least.]
>
> 2003: A powerful year and its really hard for me to talk
> about it. I am a great dreamer but I don't know if I dream
> that large. We will see a real shift in planetary consciousness.
> Many of the enemies of the humans will begin to die away.
>
> 2004: We will totally gain the light of the great light
> wheel. There will be one humanity, one planet composed
> of all the different ways of dancing in complete harmony
> in The Great Gathering Together Circle. In 2004 all
> the seeds will be planted.
>
> 2005: The Earth will have its true reality formed. It will join
> the sisterhood of planets, the daughters of Copperwoman
> and it will create within itself all forms of all things in
> harmony with the everything.
>
> 2006: We will see a whole new way of perfection. There
> will be plants on this grandmother earth that will give life
> and sustenance as never before seen. Starvation on the
> earth, all those things will be gone.
>
> 2007: There will be total balance and harmony. All humans
> will be balanced fives, or enlightened fives, a six. And they
> will still be in their physical bodies.
>
> 2008: THE NEW RACE OF HUMANS WILL BEGIN
> TO DESIGN THEIR NEW REALITY OF LIFE ON
> THIS PLANET AS THEY INTENDED IT TO BE WHEN
> THEY FIRST CAME HERE FROM THE STARS.
>
> 2009: We will begin to establish this planet and use the
> collective consciousness to hold the power of this space
> in harmony with the Great Circle of Twelve and all the
> planets. There is a whole lot I don't even know.
> There is more that I am not supposed to talk about yet.
>
> 2010: The dream will be actualised and this planet will
> hold its space in the great council of planets and become
> a part of the universal enlightened sisterhood and
> brotherhood of humanity and keepers of the light circles.
> It's happened on many planets and it's expected to
> happen on a lot of other planets.
>
> 2011: There will be a moment in 2011 when the population
> will be 'The Population', and something big will happen.
>
> 2012: This planet will have its design of energy
> movement guided by all of humanity living here.
>
> 2013: In the year 2013 the Great Spirit will have left
> its seed and the egg of everything here on this planet
> and it will create itself 20 times over at the speed of
> light and this prophecy ends as I have been given
> it by the Grandmothers that I share with you now.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Put a double amount of energy with
> what we are for. We can change it.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> "MAKE MY PEOPLE LIVE"
>
> This prophecy is a dream and vision that is a potential
> reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours
> to behold and to create if we only dare to dream it together.
>
> Please network the Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope
>
> http://worldgathering.net/vision.html
> http://worldgathering.net/rdvplain.html
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Black Elk: ~ I did not know then how much was ended.
> When I look back now from the high hill of my old age,
> I can still see the butchered women lying heaped and
> scattered all along the crooked gulch. And I can see that
> something else died there in the bloody mud and was
> buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there.
> It was a beautiful dream. ... Hear me in my sorrow,
> for I may never call again. O make my people live!
> ~ MAKE MY PEOPLE LIVE
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> If you like this ~~~ please email it to friends.
> A plain version for copying into emails is here:
> http://worldgathering.net/rdvplain.html
>

Make My People Live ~ The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope
http://worldgathering.net/vision.html

If you like this ~~~ please email it to friends.
A plain version for copying into emails is here:
http://worldgathering.net/rdvplain.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Black Elk ~ I did not know then how much was ended.
When I look back now from the high hill of my old age,
I can still see the butchered women lying heaped and
scattered all along the crooked gulch. And I can see that
something else died there in the bloody mud and was
buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there.
It was a beautiful dream. ~ Hear me in my sorrow,
for I may never call again. O make my people live!
~ MAKE MY PEOPLE LIVE
~~~~~~~~~

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope
The Twenty Count: 1993-2012

2008: The new race of humans will begin to design
their new reality of life on this planet as they intended
it to be when they first came here from the Stars.

http://worldgathering.net/vision.html
http://worldgathering.net/rdvplain.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This vision of hope inspired millions of people in the
1980s and 1990s, but since then, something has gone
wrong, or has it? The start is correct, 'keys and wheels'
were often seen in Crop Patterns in the early 1990s,
before the patterns were fully taken over by NWO
technology. But since the year 2001 (the year when
the NWO carried out 9-11, launched their deceitful
'War On Terror' and 'Chemtrail' spraying became
severe), some of the events and changes described
in the Rainbow Dream Vision as quite possible for
humanity, have not yet happened. What went wrong
or right? Who held up our Vision? Is now the time
to take our vision back and make a quantum leap
forwards?
The Rainbow dream was delayed until
enough people are awake: See 2008 onwards
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope

Make copies of the Rainbow prophecy, and give or
send them to people anywhere on the planet. Then let
them be guided by their hearts to do the same until all
planetary citizens are brought to life in the Rainbow
dream, so that we may dream and work together
for true peace.  Love, Thunder Woman

Introduction by Aleran ~~

Throughout the ages humanity has sought out the
prophecies of the spiritually gifted to instil a clear hope
and vision into life. During this time many prophecies
come to us trying to lead us in many different directions.

Some prophecy points to disaster, hopelessness
and the annihilation of mankind. But other prophecies
create a vision of joyful transformation through
quantum leaps into love and light.

As things stand now, the human race is dreaming a hell.

But as individuals and as a collective humanity it is our
potential to dream of paradise and to create the kingdom
of heaven on our Mother Earth.

Could it be that the pain in our hearts caused by the
hell we have created will spur us on into visions and
creations of a world formed in love?

It is my prayer and dream, along with a multitude of
others who have taught me to dream the Rainbow dream,
that each and every one of you learn to dream both while
awake and sleeping, the dream of unity and love through
divine transformation.

This prophecy is a dream and vision that is a potential
reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours
to behold and to create if we only dare to dream it together.

~~~~~

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Turtle Island
Prophecies of The Native Americans

1993: The year of the creation of the teachings of the
Eight Great Powers and the introduction and the giving
back to humanity of the Twenty Count. The Starmaiden
Circle and the Flowering Tree teachings which began
the evolution of the distribution of the wheels and keys
of the esoteric teachings of the North American Indians
of Turtle Island. It was the year that the major beginning
keys and wheels were given away.

1994: The year of the planting of the light seeds of the
Hokseda, the higher self. Many teachers of the Eight
Great Powers began to plant their seeds of light about
the development of the higher self and began to open
the teachings of the rainbow people, also known as
the Meti, mixed blood, the Rainbow People.

1995: The year of fertilisation, the year of planting,
the year of going within these seeds of light in order
to see the potentiality, the road map that a person
can use. In the Turtle Island lore we say it is the year
of finding one's path with heart.

1996: The year of fruition, the year of seeking perfection,
growth and development. Most importantly this is the
year of trust and innocence as being totally open, when
people are listening and teachers are talking to teachers.
When mythologies of the world and all eight Great
Powers are finally revealing secrets and the teachings
within the mythologies are brought out into the open.

1997: The critical time. The time of the animal.
The time of Tuwalananie, the Dark Force. The reason
for this is that for three years seeds of light have been
planted and we are starting to grow and the teachings
are starting to come out and all those ones inside each
of the Eight Great Powers who have taught partial truths,
who have taught deliberate lies in history, who have
used their power to gain followers, to gain disciples,
to gain devotees, are going to be threatened by the
awakening of the Rainbow People because the Rainbow
People exist in every country, in every nation, in every
land.

The Dark Forces will be threatened and they will use
their power and their power exists in technology.
We are going to see some of the most strong techno-
logical advances known to humanity occurring at this
time and these very technological advances are going
to be a tremendous threat as well as a blessing to
the survival of humanity.

We must exert our influence, the sun dancers, the
rainbow people, by gathering together and sharing our
ideas and plans for alternative power and for world
peace. If we put a double amount of energy with what
we are for, we can change it. We can change it.

1998: The time of human to human communication.
The time the human family finally starts to become
human, if we get through 1997. Then there will be more
information brought out into open format than has ever
been seen on this planet in the first fifty thousand years.
Because soon we will re-establish contact in a very
knowledgeable way with our ancestors from the stars.
So mark that down because it will happen. The first
wave will come from the Pleiades and will be totally
acknowledged and will be known to all the world
powers. The second wave will come from Sirius.

1999: When tagashala and the enlightened teachers
begin to open the veil of the crack between the worlds,
we will see our memory circles. All kivas and sacred
power spots will come alive in 1999 and be totally
awakened. The inner room of the great pyramid will be
opened. Many of the teachers, leaders and ceremonialists
that are so-called traditional, but are trying to keep us
locked in the past, will not function today, will fall.
Many teachers and wise people will be seen for who
they are and they will be the farmers, the labourers and
the gas station attendants because the tagashala will
be fully awakened.

2000: People will begin to open their eyes. In 2000,
144,000 enlightened souls will sit down in Gathering
Together Circles. Many of these will be the so-called '
common people' and not the teachers you see up there
now. On August 17, 2000, the various winged serpent
wheels will begin to turn, to dance once again and
when they do the rainbow lights will be seen in dreams
all over the world and these rainbow light dreams
will help awaken the rest of humanity.

~~ On August 17, 2000, 'The Start of The World
Gathering For Truth' was held, and some great things
happened:
http://worldgathering.net/world/gathering1.html
http://worldgathering.net/world/gathering2.html

~~ Our Vision was delayed until the time was right:
2008 onwards

Editor: Some of the following changes have been held up
by the plans of those who are behind the global Chemtrail
spraying; the 9-11 fake attack and false War On Terror;
the large-scale weather and mind manipulations of techno-
logies such as HAARP, etc. 1997 states: 'The Dark Forces
will be threatened and they will use their power and their
power exists in technology'.  1997 also states: 'If we put
a DOUBLE AMOUNT of energy with what we are for,
we CAN change it.' ~ See year 2008 onwards

~~ Events for 2001 to 2007 have been
held up until enough people are awake ....

2001: We will sit in a new circle of law. Civil and social
law will tumble. All civil and social laws will have to be
in conformity with natural laws or the people will not
accept them and they will have the enlightenment necessary
to reject those laws. Science will once again become
metaphysics. They will discover four laws that will help
them jump to universal law and transcend the time-space
continuum which is the limitation of the age and once
again we will begin to take our power and to work
with rules and laws that are cosmic laws.

2002: We will once again see the way to continue a
new dream. We will be given the road map back to the
stars and we will see the star people come out of the
illusion of their two-legged form and into their actual
great sleeper-dreamer form. And so you will soon
meet some really great people.  [Editor: Well they're
flying around the sky in their great craft at least.]

2003: A powerful year and its really hard for me to talk
about it. I am a great dreamer but I don't know if I dream
that large. We will see a real shift in planetary consciousness.
Many of the enemies of the humans will begin to die away.

2004: We will totally gain the light of the great light
wheel. There will be one humanity, one planet composed
of all the different ways of dancing in complete harmony
in The Great Gathering Together Circle. In 2004 all
the seeds will be planted.

2005: The Earth will have its true reality formed. It will join
the sisterhood of planets, the daughters of Copperwoman
and it will create within itself all forms of all things in
harmony with the everything.

2006: We will see a whole new way of perfection. There
will be plants on this grandmother earth that will give life
and sustenance as never before seen. Starvation on the
earth, all those things will be gone.

2007: There will be total balance and harmony. All humans
will be balanced fives, or enlightened fives, a six. And they
will still be in their physical bodies.

2008: THE NEW RACE OF HUMANS WILL BEGIN
TO DESIGN THEIR NEW REALITY OF LIFE ON
THIS PLANET AS THEY INTENDED IT TO BE WHEN
THEY FIRST CAME HERE FROM THE STARS.

2009: We will begin to establish this planet and use the
collective consciousness to hold the power of this space
in harmony with the Great Circle of Twelve and all the
planets. There is a whole lot I don't even know.
There is more that I am not supposed to talk about yet.

2010: The dream will be actualised and this planet will
hold its space in the great council of planets and become
a part of the universal enlightened sisterhood and
brotherhood of humanity and keepers of the light circles.
It's happened on many planets and it's expected to
happen on a lot of other planets.

2011: There will be a moment in 2011 when the population
will be 'The Population', and something big will happen.

2012: This planet will have its design of energy
movement guided by all of humanity living here.

2013: In the year 2013 the Great Spirit will have left
its seed and the egg of everything here on this planet
and it will create itself 20 times over at the speed of
light and this prophecy ends as I have been given
it by the Grandmothers that I share with you now.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Put a double amount of energy with
what we are for. We can change it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"MAKE MY PEOPLE LIVE"

This prophecy is a dream and vision that is a potential
reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours
to behold and to create if we only dare to dream it together.

Please network the Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope

http://worldgathering.net/vision.html
http://worldgathering.net/rdvplain.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Black Elk: ~ I did not know then how much was ended.
When I look back now from the high hill of my old age,
I can still see the butchered women lying heaped and
scattered all along the crooked gulch. And I can see that
something else died there in the bloody mud and was
buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there.
It was a beautiful dream. ... Hear me in my sorrow,
for I may never call again. O make my people live!
~ MAKE MY PEOPLE LIVE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If you like this ~~~ please email it to friends.
A plain version for copying into emails is here:
http://worldgathering.net/rdvplain.html

If you like the Rainbow dream please email it to friends.
A plain version for copying into emails is here:
http://worldgathering.net/rdvplain.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Make My People Live ~ The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope

Black Elk ~ I did not know then how much was ended.
When I look back now from the high hill of my old age,
I can still see the butchered women lying heaped and
scattered all along the crooked gulch. And I can see
that something else died there in the bloody mud and
was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there.
It was a beautiful dream. ~ Hear me in my sorrow,
for I may never call again. O make my people live!
~ MAKE MY PEOPLE LIVE

~~~~~~~~~

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope
The Twenty Count: 1993-2012

2008: The new race of humans will begin to design
their new reality of life on this planet as they intended
it to be when they first came here from the Stars.

http://worldgathering.net/vision.html
http://worldgathering.net/rdvplain.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This vision of hope inspired millions of people in the
1980s and 1990s, but since then, something has gone
wrong, or has it? The start is correct, 'keys and wheels'
were often seen in Crop Patterns in the early 1990s,
before the patterns were fully taken over by NWO
technology. But since the year 2001 (the year when the
NWO carried out 9-11, launched their deceitful 'War
On Terror' and 'Chemtrail' spraying became severe),
some of the events and changes described in the
Rainbow Dream Vision as quite possible for humanity,
have not yet happened. What went wrong or right?
Who held up our Vision? Is now the time to take
our vision back and make a quantum leap forwards?
The Rainbow dream was delayed until enough people
are awake: See 2008 onwards
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope

Make copies of the Rainbow prophecy, and give or
send them to people anywhere on the planet. Then let
them be guided by their hearts to do the same until
all planetary citizens are brought to life in the Rainbow
dream, so that we may dream and work together
for true peace.  Love, Thunder Woman

Introduction by Aleran ~~

Throughout the ages humanity has sought out the
prophecies of the spiritually gifted to instil a clear hope
and vision into life. During this time many prophecies
come to us trying to lead us in many different directions.

Some prophecy points to disaster, hopelessness
and the annihilation of mankind. But other prophecies
create a vision of joyful transformation through quantum
leaps into love and light.

As things stand now, the human race is dreaming a hell.

But as individuals and as a collective humanity it is our
potential to dream of paradise and to create the kingdom
of heaven on our Mother Earth.

Could it be that the pain in our hearts caused by the
hell we have created will spur us on into visions and
creations of a world formed in love?

It is my prayer and dream, along with a multitude of
others who have taught me to dream the Rainbow dream,
that each and every one of you learn to dream both while
awake and sleeping, the dream of unity and love through
divine transformation.

This prophecy is a dream and vision that is a potential
reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours
to behold and to create if we only dare to dream it
together.

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Turtle Island
'Prophecies of The Native Americans'

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Put a double amount of energy with
what we are for. We can change it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

For the year-by-year '20 Count' Rainbow Dream
Vision of Hope, please go to either of these pages:

Main version of Rainbow Dream Vision:
http://worldgathering.net/vision.html

Simple version for sending in emails:
http://worldgathering.net/rdvplain.html

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope

~~~~~~~~~

Dear Climate
Change Action-ers,
I'm attaching below for
your information the agenda for the major sessions of the Climate Change |
Social Change conference to be held in Sydney, April 11-13, 2008. The agenda for
the concurrent workshop sessions will be
available soon, and I'll post it out when it is completed. As you can see,
the conference is shaping up to be an exciting opportunity to discuss
issues and plan actions relevant to promoting the radical social changes
we'll need to make if we're serious about tackling climate change.As you would
understand, our budget for promoting the
conference is limited. If you would be able to forward this to people you
think would be interested, we'd be most grateful.Registration forms and more
info are available at www.greenleft.org.au/conference.php.In solidarity,Kamala
EmanuelCC|SC conference organising teamClimate
Change | Social Change

A conference to strengthen radical
social action to stop climate change

April
  11-13, 2008, Sydney, Australia

Redfern Community Centre, 29
Hugo St, Redfern, day
sessions Friday April 11;

Sydney Girls High School, Anzac Pde, Surry Hills,
Friday night, April 11
– Sunday April 13

 

AGENDA: major sessions

(Concurrent workshop
agenda to be
advised)

 

Friday
11th April

Redfern Community
Centre

 

10 – 10.30
am           conference
registration

 

10.30 am – 12 noon             Indigenous
communities, climate change and the struggle for country

Sam Watson, Biri Gubba, Munnejarl man
from the Brisbane Murri
community; activist since high school.

Pat Eatock, Kairie community elder,
Aboriginal Rights Coalition,
Sydney, secretary National Aboriginal Alliance

 

12 noon – 1pm                      Lunch
break

 

1 – 2.30
pm                           Nuclear is still not
the answer

Jim Green, FoE
anti-nuclear campaigner

Wenny Theresia,
Sydney Nuclear Free
Coalition

 

2.45 –
4.15pm                      
Concurrent workshops

 

 

Sydney
Girls
High
School

 

6 for 6.30pm                         
Public
meeting

Climate change and its
social roots

John Bellamy
Foster, editor of Monthly Review; author
of Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature

Patrick
Bond, University of
KwaZulu-Natal; editor of
Climate Change, Carbon
Trading and Civil Society

David
Spratt, Carbon Equity, co-author Climate Code
Red

           
James
Goodman, social researcher, University of        
Technology in
Sydney

  Saturday 12th
April SGHS

 

8.30 – 9.15
am          Registration

 

9.15 am                      Welcome
to country & conference opening

 

9.30 – 11am              Plenary

Climate change solutions: what role for the market?

Patrick Bond

Sylvia Hale, Greens
NSW MLC

Stuart Rosewarne, co-editor of Journal
of Australian
Political Economy, and Capitalism, Nature, Socialism

Nelson Davila,
Venezuelan Chargι d'Affaires,
tbc

 

11.15am – 12.45
pm            Major
workshop

Protecting jobs and the environment

Tim Gooden,
Geelong Trades and Labour
Council

Ben Courtice, AMWU
environment group

Cam Walker, Friends of the Earth
Melbourne

Steve Phillips,
Rising Tide

Chris Cain, Maritime
Union of Australia,
tbc

 

12.45 – 1.45
pm        Lunch break

 

1.45 – 3.15
pm          Plenary

Ecology, capitalism
and socialism

John Bellamy Foster

 

3.30 –
5pm                Major workshop

Cuba: reducing reliance
on fossil fuels

Roberto Perez, Cuban
permaculturalist, featured in The Power of
Community: how Cuba survived peak oil

 

6pm                           
Dinner

Keynote address

Sustainability – the Cuban experience

Roberto Perez

Sunday
13th April

 

9 – 10.30 am                        
Plenary

Transitions to
sustainability

Mark
Diesendorf, Institute
of Environmental Studies, University of NSW

Adrian Whitehead,
Zero Emission Network

Stephanie Long, FoE
Australia’s international
climate justice spokesperson

Roberto Perez

 

10.45 am –
12.15pm            Major
workshop

Sustainable energy solutions

Mark Diesendorf

 

12.15 – 1.15
pm                    Lunch break

 

1.15 – 2.45
pm                      Major
workshop

Radicalising the
Australian climate change movement

Simon Cunich,
Resistance

Vanessa Bowden,
Climate camp

Mel Barnes, Students
Against the Pulp
Mill

Ben Courtice, World
Environment Day,
Melbourne

 

3 – 4.45
pm                           Plenary &
resolutions

Strategies for winning

John Bellamy
Foster

Dick Nichols, author
Capitalism,
Nature and Socialism

John Rice,
Adelaide Ecosocialist
Network

Patrick Bond

 

4.45 – 5pm        
                   Conference close



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Dear All Sign and send around this petition. Benny Zable wrote; "Yes indeed it
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Tibetans are burying an unknown number of their dead from these recent protests
- the number is unknown because China is keeping out all international media and
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Media Release 18 March 2008


The Cyanide Gift - Stawell Gold Mines at the Crossroads


Cyanide Watch will be hosting a meeting of citizens concerned about the
environmental costs of Stawell Gold Mines operation


11.30 - 1.30 pm Wednesday 19 March 2008

Observation area, Stawell Gold Mines, Reef Road, Stawell.


Stawell Gold Mines Manager, Troy Cole, said he respected the rights of
citizens to express their concerns and would be available to answer
questions.


"Imagine 700 Olympic swimming pools, 50m long by 20m wide and 1m deep, lined
up side by side in the dry bed of Lake Lonsdale. That's a picture of the
amount of Grampians water that Stawell Gold Mine is presently using," said
Cyanide Watch organiser, Graeme Dunstan.


More difficult to imagine is 98,000 tonnes of CO2, but that's the amount the
Mine causes to be released into the atmosphere each year by way of diesel
burned and grid power used in excavating and milling rock.


Seven hundred tonnes of deadly sodium cyanide is also used by the Mine, a
lethal transport and environmental hazard on the road between Melbourne and
the Mine.


These figures were released by the General Manager of Stawell Gold Mines,
Troy Cole, in a meeting yesterday with Cyanide Watch organiser, Graeme
Dunstan.


Mr Cole made it clear that the Stawell Gold Mine is at a cross road and he
said he spent as much time attending meetings about closing the mine as he
did planning its expansion.


Expanding the mine meant digging deeper into hot rock and a big capital
investment in cooling systems. Test drilling had revealed plentiful low
grade ores at about 4 to 6 grams per tonne.


The rising cost of gold would make this an economically viable operation but
the environmental costs, of which Mr Cole was acutely aware, would continue
to be enormous and increasingly so.


"The question is whether the Stawell Gold Mine management and the Stawell
community in general is ready to bite the climate change bullet and act
responsibly with the consequences for future generations in mind," said Mr
Dunstan.


Cyanide Watch <http://www.peacebus.com/CyanideWatch/AboutCyanideWatch.html> is
a campaign to ban cyanide gold mining as too hazardous to transport in bulk
and too environmentally damaging in use.


Further information

Graeme Dunstan, Cyanide Watch, 0427 582 993

Troy Cole, General Manager, Stawell Gold Mines 0427 582 993


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Send it to landfill says Qld Health!

Cc Editor@...

Hon Stephen Robertson, MP
Member for Stretton
Minister for Health
Level 19, 147-149 Charlotte Street, BRISBANE QLD 4000
GPO Box 48, BRISBANE QLD 4001
Tel: (07) 3234 1191
Fax: (07) 3229 4731
E-mail:  health@...

Dear Mr Robertson

Recently I moved into rental accommodation on Magnetic Island. When I
took over the unit there was a broken smoke detector on the kitchen
bench between the living and eating areas.

I moved the broken smoke detector out onto my back veranda. I do not
know what model of smoke detector it is but it was not hard wired.
The battery has been removed. On the back panel are the words "return
to supplier or to the dept of health for disposal."

I have been advised by Craig Dunn of the EPA that the item is safe
for disposal into landfill, and the EPA has been advised by the Dpt
of Health to dispose of smoke detectors to land fill.

I am very concerned that I am one of a few thousand houses on
Magnetic Island, I would presume, all of these houses are duly fitted
(as per council regulations) with smoke detectors such as the one
which is now broken on my back veranda.
I am greatly concerned that these miniature nuclear reactors (when
broken) have been and continue to be indiscriminately buried into
local landfill with the Qld Health Department's full knowledge and
approval.

Creating concentrations of nuclear waste sites via land fill.

Mr Robertson will you live next door to such an establishment? Will
you personally come and remove this "perfectly safe" apparatus and
leave it on your back veranda?

I hope you will be able to provide me with the proper and adequate
advice on how to SAFELY dispose of this broken smoke detector. I do
not wish to touch it again. I will not dispose of it via my wheely
bin and I do not wish to send it anywhere via Australia Post.

Yours sincerely
Anne Goddard

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope
The Twenty Count: 1993-2012

http://worldgathering.net/vision.html

SOMEONE STOLE OUR VISION ~~~ This vision of hope inspired millions of people
in the 1980s, and 1990s, but since then, something has gone wrong. The start
is correct, 'keys and wheels' were often seen in Crop Patterns in the early
1990s, before the patterns were fully taken over by the NWO and their covert
technology. But since the year 2001 (the infamous year when the NWO carried
out 9-11, launched their mad 'War On Terror' and Chem Trail / Germ Trail
spraying became severe), the events and changes described in the Rainbow
Dream Vision as quite possible for humanity, have not happened. What went
wrong? Who stole our Vision?

Make copies of the Rainbow prophecy, and give or send them to people
anywhere on the planet. Then let them be guided by their hearts to do the
same until all planetary citizens are brought to life in the Rainbow dream,
so that we may dream and work together for true peace. Love, Thunder Woman

Introduction by Aleran: Throughout the ages humanity has sought out the
prophecies of the spiritually gifted to instil a clear hope and vision into
life. During this time many prophecies come to us trying to lead us in many
different directions. Some prophecy points to disaster, hopelessness and the
annihilation of mankind. But other prophecies create a vision of joyful
transformation through quantum leaps into love and light. We are dreamers
and we create physical reality through the thoughtforms we hold. As things
stand now, the human race is dreaming a hell. But as individuals and as a
collective humanity it is our potential to dream of paradise and to create
the kingdom of heaven on our Mother Earth. Could it be that the pain in our
hearts caused by the hell we have created will spur us on into visions and
creations of a world formed in love? It is my prayer and dream, along with a
multitude of others who have taught me to dream the Rainbow dream, that each
and every one of you learn to dream both while awake and sleeping, the dream
of unity and love through divine transformation. This prophecy on the
following pages is a dream and vision that is a potential reality for
mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours to behold and to create if
we only dare to dream it together.

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Turtle Island
'Prophecies of The Native Americans'
By Harley Swiftdeer, April 1983

1993: The year of the creation of the teachings of the Eight Great Powers
and the introduction and the giving back to humanity of the Twenty Count.
The Starmaiden Circle and the Flowering Tree teachings which began the
evolution of the distribution of the wheels and keys of the esoteric
teachings of the North American Indians of Turtle Island. It was the year
that the major beginning keys and wheels were given away.

1994: The year of the planting of the light seeds of the Hokseda, the higher
self. Many teachers of the Eight Great Powers began to plant their seeds of
light about the development of the higher self and began to open the
teachings of the rainbow people, also known as the Meti, mixed blood, the
Rainbow People.

1995: The year of fertilisation, the year of planting, the year of going
within these seeds of light in order to see the potentiality, the road map
that a person can use. In the Turtle Island lore we say it is the year of
finding one's path with heart.

1996: The year of fruition, the year of seeking perfection, growth and
development. Most importantly this is the year of trust and innocence as
being totally open, when people are listening and teachers are talking to
teachers. When mythologies of the world and all eight Great Powers are
finally revealing secrets and the teachings within the mythologies are
brought out into the open.

1997: The critical time. The time of the animal. The time of Tuwalananie,
the Dark Force. The reason for this is that for three years seeds of light
have been planted and we are starting to grow and the teachings are starting
to come out and all those ones inside each of the Eight Great Powers who
have taught partial truths, who have taught deliberate lies in history, who
have used their power to gain followers, to gain disciples, to gain
devotees, are going to be threatened by the awakening of the Rainbow People
because the Rainbow People exist in every country, in every nation, in every
land.

The Dark Forces will be threatened and they will use their power and their
power exists in technology. We are going to see some of the most strong
technological advances known to humanity occurring at this time and these
very technological advances are going to be a tremendous threat as well as a
blessing to the survival of humanity.

We must exert our influence, the sun dancers, the rainbow people, by
gathering together and sharing our ideas and plans for alternative power and
for world peace. If we put a double amount of energy with what we are for,
we can change it. We can change it.

1998: The time of human to human communication. The time the human family
finally starts to become human, if we get through 1997. Then there will be
more information brought out into open format than has ever been seen on
this planet in the first fifty thousand years. Because soon we will
re-establish contact in a very knowledgeable way with our ancestors from the
stars. So mark that down because it will happen. The first wave will come
from the Pleiades and will be totally acknowledged and will be known to all
the world powers. The second wave will come from Sirius.

1999: When tagashala and the enlightened teachers begin to open the veil of
the crack between the worlds, we will see our memory circles. All kivas and
sacred power spots will come alive in 1999 and be totally awakened. The
inner room of the great pyramid will be opened. Many of the teachers,
leaders and ceremonialists that are so-called traditional, but are trying to
keep us locked in the past, will not function today, will fall. Many
teachers and wise people will be seen for who they are and they will be the
farmers, the labourers and the gas station attendants because the tagashala
will be fully awakened.

2000: People will begin to open their eyes. In 2000, 144,000 enlightened
souls will sit down in Gathering Together Circles. Many of these will be the
so-called 'common people' and not the teachers you see up there now. On
August 17, 2000, the various winged serpent wheels will begin to turn, to
dance once again and when they do the rainbow lights will be seen in dreams
all over the world and these rainbow light dreams will help awaken the rest
of humanity. [On 17th August, 2000, 'The Start of The World Gathering For
Truth' was held, and some amazing things happened.]

Someone stole our Vision ....

Michael Irving: Have some or many of the following changes been held up by
the plans of those who are behind the global Chemtrail spraying; the 9-11
fake attack and false War On Terror; the large-scale weather and mind
manipulations of technologies such as HAARP, etc.? 1997 states: 'The Dark
Forces will be threatened and they will use their power and their power
exists in technology'. 1997 also states: 'If we put a DOUBLE AMOUNT of
energy with what we are for, we can change it. We CAN change it.'

2001: We will sit in a new circle of law. Civil and social law will tumble.
All civil and social laws will have to be in conformity with natural laws or
the people will not accept them and they will have the enlightenment
necessary to reject those laws. Science will once again become metaphysics.
They will discover four laws that will help them jump to universal law and
transcend the time-space continuum which is the limitation of the age and
once again we will begin to take our power and to work with rules and laws
that are cosmic laws.

2002: We will once again see the way to continue a new dream. We will be
given the road map back to the stars and we will see the star people come
out of the illusion of their two-legged form and into their actual great
sleeper-dreamer form. And so you will soon meet some really great people.

2003: A powerful year and its really hard for me to talk about it. I am a
great dreamer but I don't know if I dream that large. We will see a real
shift in planetary consciousness. Many of the enemies of the humans will
begin to die away.

2004: We will totally gain the light of the great light wheel. There will be
one humanity, one planet composed of all the different ways of dancing in
complete harmony in The Great Gathering Together Circle. In 2004 all the
seeds will be planted.

2005: The Earth will have its true reality formed. It will join the
sisterhood of planets, the daughters of Copperwoman and it will create
within itself all forms of all things in harmony with the everything.

2006: We will see a whole new way of perfection. There will be plants on
this grandmother earth that will give life and sustenance as never before
seen. Starvation on the earth, all those things will be gone.

2007: There will be total balance and harmony. All humans will be balanced
fives, or enlightened fives, a six. And they will still be in their physical
bodies.

2008: The new race of humans will begin to design their new reality of life
on this planet as they intended it to be when they first came here from the
Stars.

2009: We will begin to establish this planet and use the collective
consciousness to hold the power of this space in harmony with the Great
Circle of Twelve and all the planets. There is a whole lot I don't even
know. There is more that I am not supposed to talk about yet.

2010: The dream will be actualised and this planet will hold its space in
the great council of planets and become a part of the universal enlightened
sisterhood and brotherhood of humanity and keepers of the light circles.
It's happened on many planets and it's expected to happen on a lot of other
planets.

2011: There will be a moment in 2011 when the population will be 'The
Population', and something big will happen.

2012: This planet will have its design of energy movement guided by all of
humanity living here.

2013: In the year 2013 the Great Spirit will have left its seed and the egg
of everything here on this planet and it will create itself 20 times over at
the speed of light and this prophecy ends as I have been given it by the
Grandmothers that I share with you now.

Put a double amount of energy with what we are for. We can change it.

This prophecy is a dream and vision that is a potential reality for mankind.
It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours to behold and to create if we only
dare to dream it together. ~~~ Please network the Rainbow Dream Vision of
Hope

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[Greens-Media]
17 March 2008

Costa's power sell-off undermines carbon trading scheme

The national greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme is under threat
  from NSW Treasurer Michael Costa desperate attempts to prop up the
  sell-off of the state's electricity industry, according to Greens MP John
  Kaye.

Commenting on a story on page 1 of today's Sydney Morning Herald, Dr
  Kaye said: "Federal Climate Change Minister Senator Penny Wong made
  it clear she is already under intense pressure to issue free permits
to the
  energy sector.

"The NSW government has joined forces with the greenhouse mafia to
have coal-fired generators sheltered from the costs of carbon trading.

"If they don't get their way, the billions of dollars of annual costs
  to purchase permits to cover the 57 million tonnes of CO2 emitted by
  NSW's large power stations will make them much less profitable to
  potential purchasers.

"The Iemma government has driven the Labor party into a dead end.
  Either the electricity sector is exposed to the full costs of the
emissions
  trading scheme or Michael Costa can privatise the industry. It's one or
  the other but definitely not both.

"Exempting power stations which produce 35 percent of the state's
  emissions would completely destroy the integrity of the carbon trading
  scheme.

"Professor Ross Garnaut's February Interim Report for the Rudd
  government's Climate Change Review was very clear that the scheme
must include auctioning of permits for the energy sector.

"He emphatically dismissed industry arguments for protection.

"Michael Costa is already losing the privatisation debate in the face
  of growing opposition from the community, the union movement and the
ALP membership.

"Now he has to take on Professor Garnaut to undermine the carbon
  trading scheme.

"It's time for NSW Premier Morris Iemma to bring his Treasurer into
  line and let Senator Wong do her job," said Dr Kaye.


For more information: John Kaye 0407 195 455

Greens member of the NSW Parliament
phone: (02) 9230 2668
fax: (02) 9230 2586
mobile: 0407 195 455
email: john.kaye@...
web: www.johnkaye.org.au

mail: Parliament House, Macquarie St, Sydney NSW 2000

Video: Patrick Bond on the global fight for climate justice

On March 4, *Patrick Bond* addressed a meeting organised by /Climate and
Capialism/ <http://climateandcapitalism.com/> blog in Toronto, Canada,
and supported by Socialist Project in Canada
<http://www.socialistproject.ca/environment/patrick_bond.html> and
/Socialist Voice <http://www.socialistvoice.ca/>/, among others. Bond
will also be a featured speaker at the Climate Change l Social Change
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/conference.php> conference in Sydney,
Australia, April 11-13. Watch Patrick Bond's presentation below.

Patrick Bond is director of the Centre for Civil Society and professor
of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban,
South Africa. He is working with Climate Justice Now!, a coalition of
organizations that represent Third World communities, indigenous
peoples, women and peasant farmers, working together to improve
communication and intensify actions to prevent and respond to climate
change.

Videos at greenlhttp://links.org.au/node/311

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   Video: Patrick Bond on the global fight for climate justice

On March 4, *Patrick Bond* addressed a meeting organised by /Climate and
Capialism/ <http://climateandcapitalism.com/> blog in Toronto, Canada,
and supported by Socialist Project in Canada
<http://www.socialistproject.ca/environment/patrick_bond.html> and
/Socialist Voice <http://www.socialistvoice.ca/>/, among others. Bond
will also be a featured speaker at the Climate Change l Social Change
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/conference.php> conference in Sydney,
Australia, April 11-13. Watch Patrick Bond's presentation below.

Patrick Bond is director of the Centre for Civil Society and professor
of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban,
South Africa. He is working with Climate Justice Now!, a coalition of
organizations that represent Third World communities, indigenous
peoples, women and peasant farmers, working together to improve
communication and intensify actions to prevent and respond to climate
change.

Videos at http://links.org.au/node/311

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[b]Climate Change Report Buried by DOT; Author Blocked From Reporters[/b]
http://www.whistleblower.org/content/press_detail.cfm?press_id=1334
[quote]
(Washington, D.C.) – This past Wednesday, March 12, the U.S.
Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. Climate Change Science
Program quietly released a major assessment report on the likely
impacts of global climate disruption on a wide range of transportation
infrastructure in the Gulf Coast region. This report release was
buried by the DOT, and officials have been blocking journalists from
speaking with the report's lead author.

Specifically the report, Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on
Transportation Systems and Infrastructure: Gulf Coast Study, analyzes
how Gulf Coast roads and highways, transit services, oil and gas
pipelines, freight handling ports, transcontinental railroad networks,
waterway systems, and airports are likely to be harmed by heat waves,
extreme precipitation events, sea level rise, increased hurricane
intensity, and storm surge damage associated with climate change. The
report outlines why changes must be incorporated in transportation
planning now in order to avoid serious future problems.

Three hours after the report was posted online Wednesday, DOT issued
an uninformative and misleading press release on a separate Web site.
The press release lists only one contact – a DOT press official.
Reporters who have tried to interview the report's lead author,
Federal Highway Administration official Michael Savonis, have been
explicitly told by DOT officials that the author and the press cannot
communicate with each other.[/quote]



[Greens-Media]
13 March 2008

[b] Lake Macquarie climate change documents: Greens seek release via
parliament[/b]

Lake Macquarie climate change documents: Greens seek release via
parliament

Greens MP Lee Rhiannon said she would move to force the NSW Planning
Minister Frank Sartor to release secret documents showing the impact of
climate change on Lake Macquarie when NSW Parliament next sits.

The Iemma government has developed an unhealthy culture of secrecy
evidenced by its attempt to stymie these important documents from being
released to the Hunter community, Ms Rhiannon said.

Mr Sartor has made no case for why these documents should not be in
the public arena. The public interest in maintaining an embargo
seems very hard to justify.

Lee Rhiannon has been lobbying for reform of NSW Freedom of Information
laws since 2006, introducing a private members bill into NSW
  Parliament.

If this information on rising sea levels was considered fit to brief
Lake Macquarie City Councillors, it should also be available to the
community.

When NSW Parliament resumes I will instigate a call for
papers, an FOI type process available to MPs, to force the release
of these documents.

Information is a strong motivating factor in mobilising the public
to act. It appears Minister Sartor would rather the Lake Macquarie
community be kept in the dark.

The Iemma government has embarked upon the most massive expansion of
the coal industry in the Hunter of all time.

The climate change implications of this coal bonanza are substantial
for residents and it is imperative they are aware of potential impacts.

Putting embargo dates on documents like these is an insult to the
local community, Ms Rhiannon said.

For more information:  Lee Rhiannon - 9230 3551, 0427 861 568,


Alison Orme
Adviser, Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon (p/t Wed-Fri)
Macquarie St, Sydney 2000
Tel: +61-2-9230 3551 Fax: +61-2-9230 3550
Mobile: 0432 332 104
Email alison.orme@...
Web www.leerhiannon.org.au

Oh, and Happy, Happy Birthday Anne, and many happy returns! May it be a
productive, healthy and joy-filled year for you.

(Sorry I missed that bit of your last letter - my only excuse is that I
am really busy and distracted here at the moment)

Cheers again!

John Hill

John Hill wrote:
>
> Thanks, Anne. Good on ya!
>
> Have sent the petition on to a long list of contacts.
>
> Keep up the good work - and thanks again,
>
> John Hill
>
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> >
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> > to acknowledge the inspiration for this peition directly from the
> > members of this group.
> >
> > it is a very happy day for me today.
> > and it is also my birthday.
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > I hope they get wonderful numbers.
> > -------------------------------------
> > Please sign it and pass it around to all you know!
> >
> > FULL SUBMISSION AVAILABLE HERE:
> > http://www.stop-fueling-climate- <http://www.stop-fueling-climate->
> <http://www.stop-fueling-climate- <http://www.stop-fueling-climate->>
> > change.org/docs/GPE388.1_FebReport_V5.pd...
> >
> > SIGN GREENPEACE'S PETITION:
> > Sign Greenpeace's Petition:
> > http://www.stop-fueling-climate-change.org/?scr=em_O1
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> > of fossil fuels and its use is a
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> > gas emissions both in Australia
> > and overseas.
> >
> > Yet the coal industry was given a total
> > of $308 million in rebates for fuel excise in
> > 2005/6,4 an amount greater than
> > all federal funding for renewables.
> > Over the life of the Coalition
> > Government, these grants
> > contributed $1.9 billion to the coal
> > industry(5) at a time when their
> > profits grew hugely; rising from a
> > $5 billion pre-tax profit in 2004/5
> > to $10 billion in 2005/06.6
> >
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> > climate cannot afford to have it
> > continue...."
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Thanks, Anne. Good on ya!

Have sent the petition on to a long list of contacts.

Keep up the good work - and thanks again,

John Hill

Anne wrote:
>
> big things grow :-)
>
> i wanna give big KUDO's to US.
> especially those who joined us right in the very beginning...
>
> i want to say i am very happy with Greenpeace's petition. and i want
> to acknowledge the inspiration for this peition directly from the
> members of this group.
>
> it is a very happy day for me today.
> and it is also my birthday.
>
> :-)
>
> I hope they get wonderful numbers.
> -------------------------------------
> Please sign it and pass it around to all you know!
>
> FULL SUBMISSION AVAILABLE HERE:
> http://www.stop-fueling-climate- <http://www.stop-fueling-climate->
> change.org/docs/GPE388.1_FebReport_V5.pd...
>
> SIGN GREENPEACE'S PETITION:
> Sign Greenpeace's Petition:
> http://www.stop-fueling-climate-change.org/?scr=em_O1
> <http://www.stop-fueling-climate-change.org/?scr=em_O1>
>
> SUBMISSION SNIP:
>
> "...To subsidise coal is to subsidise
> climate change.
>
> Coal is the most carbon intensive
> of fossil fuels and its use is a
> major contributor to greenhouse
> gas emissions both in Australia
> and overseas.
>
> Yet the coal industry was given a total
> of $308 million in rebates for fuel excise in
> 2005/6,4 an amount greater than
> all federal funding for renewables.
> Over the life of the Coalition
> Government, these grants
> contributed $1.9 billion to the coal
> industry(5) at a time when their
> profits grew hugely; rising from a
> $5 billion pre-tax profit in 2004/5
> to $10 billion in 2005/06.6
>
> The coal industry can afford to
> have this subsidy removed; the
> climate cannot afford to have it
> continue...."
>
> Sign Greenpeace's Petition:
> http://www.stop-fueling-climate-change.org/?scr=em_O1
> <http://www.stop-fueling-climate-change.org/?scr=em_O1>
>
>
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