Australia and Oceania
Indonesia 'bans' film on journalists' deaths in East Timor
Submitted by rick on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 17:16.
The Balibo five were Malcolm Rennie, Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham, Brian Peters and Tony Stewart
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Indonesia has banned the film Balibo,
which depicts the deaths of six foreign journalists in East Timor, the read more »
Police move in on Tasmanian forest protest
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 01:43.
ABC - May 4, 2009
Police have launched a major operation at a forest protest camp in the Upper Florentine Valley in southern Tasmania .
The group Still threatened Still Wild says one of its members has been arrested.
Police have set up a command post in the exclusion zone where Forestry Tasmania contractors are working. read more »
Protest ship rams Japan whaling vessel
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 18:00.
7th February 2009 The Daily
Japanese whalers have accused anti-whaling protest ship the Steve Irwin of ramming their fleet a second time.
The Sea Shepherd ship had rammed the Yushin Maru 3 as the Japanese vessel tried to transfer its catch to the mother ship, Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research said in a statement on Friday night.
The Steve Irwin earlier rammed the stern of Yushin Maru 2 as it was hauling on board a minke whale. read more »
27 arrests so far over Florentine protest
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 22:57.
Jan. 21, 2009 Examiner
POLICE have now arrested 27 protesters in the Upper Florentine Valley and more people are likely to be charged after Sunday's protest rally in the forestry area.
A 27-year-old man from New Zealand was arrested yesterday for two counts of trespassing within the area of an exclusion zone in the Upper Florentine Valley.
Insp. Glen Woolley said the man was initially located within a tree-sit location but after some negotiation with police left the tree of his own volitation and was arrested. read more »
Anti-terror squad spies on protest groups
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 22:21.
By NICKY HAGER and ANTHONY HUBBARD - Sunday Star Times | Sunday, 14 December 2008
Police teams set up to identify terrorism threats and risks to national security are spying on protest and community groups, including Greenpeace, animal rights and climate change campaigners, and Iraq war protesters.
Police officers from the Special Investigation Group (SIG) have carried out surveillance and used a paid informer to gather information not just about planned protests but the personal lives and sexual relationships of group members. read more »
Parallel migration forum in Manila kicks off with protest
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 10/22/2008 - 11:18.Oct. 22, 2008 gmanews.tv
MANILA, Philippines- Foreign and local participants of the People’s Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights kicked of the event on Wednesday with a protest rally in Manila against the lack of protection for migrants worldwide.
A GMA News report aired over QTV’s Balitanghali said the
activists rallied at the Rajah Sulayman Park in Malate even as the
Manila City government revoked their permit to stage the event there.
With the theme,"Migrant workers are human beings, not commodities," the read more »
QC squatters protest eviction
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 23:49.
MANILA, Philippines -- Some 50 residents of a squatter colony trooped Monday to the Commission on Human Rights compound to protest their impending eviction from a government lot in Quezon City.
The protesters, all clad in black, sought the intervention of CHR commissioner Leila de Lima as the local inter-agency committee, headed by the Quezon City police district, gave them until Saturday to stay on the 1,500-square meter property. read more »
Transport strikes, protest marches outside Metro
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 12:11.
MANILA, Philippines—A Central Luzon-wide transport strike, effigy-burning and protest rallies in key urban centers outside Metro Manila erupted Monday, even before President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo could deliver her State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Congress. read more »
37 arrested at Australian climate protest
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 07/13/2008 - 12:44.
Sun Jul 13, 2008
SYDNEY (AFP) - Thirty-seven people were arrested at a climate change protest in Australia on Sunday when they blocked a railway line delivering coal, police said.
Organisers said as many as 1,000 people attended the protest march from Newcastle to the nearby Carrington coal terminal, where some demonstrators broke through a fence and chained themselves to a stationary coal train. read more »
8 arrested as Aborigines protest cull of kangaroos in Australia
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 05/21/2008 - 21:56.May 21, 2008
CANBERRA, Australia: (AP) Kangaroos and Tasmanian devils are beloved Australian icons that are tugging the nation's heartstrings for very different reasons. While authorities are cutting the population of the former, they are struggling to prevent the latter from dying out altogether.
The juxtaposition underscores Australia's challenges, failures and differences in opinion on caring for its unique fauna. read more »
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