In the Northern Territory: intervention but no prevention asserts Ros Pierce
Received through the Women for Wik and the Working Group on Aboriginal Rights (Australia) about the NT Intervention:Hi my name is Ros Pierce. I am a Ngarrindjeri woman and my people are the traditional owners of the land around the Co

Thrills and spills: communities winning and losing their battles
The Coal Ash Spill into the Clinch River under the governance of the Tennessee Valley Authority is one of the greatest environmental disasters ever.  The spill is nearly 50 times as big as the famous 1989 Exxon-Valdez spill in Alaska. It occurred around 1am on December 22nd when a wall holding back 80 acres of sludge from the TVA’s Fossil Plant gave way. Eight days later, the TVA has yet to release sampling data from the ash pile, and they’re

A PRIVATISED UTILITY SEEMS TO BE GOING BAD: TRUENERGY DOWN THE TUBES?
A couple of missives have landed in Miss Eagle's mailbox which make her wonder if there's something rotten in the state of Denmark or, to be more precise, the land of privatised utility corporations.The first one, dear Networkers, to come across the desk was from those avid Networkers doing their best to sa

Australia allows Islamic ritual slaughter of animals without stunning. Shame!
I posted recently on the animal cruelty mindset in Australia that has allowed ministers in Australian governments to permit, for Islamic religious reasons, the slaughter of animals for export without the usual pre-slaughter stunning which has been traditional to the Australian slaughter of

Aboriginal dispossession and the eleventh hour of the eleventh month
To-day is Armistice Day. This is a memory embedded in the history of European nations and their allies who participated in World War 1.  There are other memories, which Richard Frankland and Peter Lewis of