Ani DiFranco, one of the most inspirational singer-songwriters in the US, toured Australia in January and February.
Carmel McGlinchey
聯We need a genuine people聮s movement like this planet has never seen聰, Friends of the Earth聮s Dr John Mackenzie told the launch of Climate Emergency Week at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) on September 22. 聯We need a global movement that will make the sixties look like a rehearsal!聰
My cows can鈥檛 swim!鈥, protested one farmer鈥檚 sign, with a marker to indicate just how high the water would rise. 鈥淎ct now or be dammed!鈥, advised another, echoing the overall theme of the 500-strong Save the Mary River rally on September 6 at the Traveston Crossing bridge in south-east Queensland.
聯Queensland is the biggest coal producing state in the biggest coal producing country in the world聰, John MacKenzie of Friends of the Earth told an August 6 Socialist Alliance forum.
鈥淔irst World countries are the leaders in carbon emissions, and it is the Third World who faces the consequences鈥, Bangladeshi Professor Anu Muhammad told a crowd of 50 at public forum on May 14. 鈥淎 one-metre rise in sea level would displace 40 million people and would submerge 30% of our country.鈥