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Katie happened to be at the same Convention Centre as the IMARC (International Mining and Resources Conference) conference as she was at a union health and safety event. She gives a first-hand account of the #BlockadeIMARC actions protesting those attending the conference and profiting from the destruction of the environment.
For more on this action, check out that hashtag, our tweets @ProgPodcast and the links below:
- Melbourne Activist Legal Support – Preliminary Statement of Concern: International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC) Protest event.
- Article published in Nature on the necessity of keeping 80% of coal in the ground, plus an article by 350.org founder Bill McKibben on this study.
- Article on the Victorian state government giving $900,000 to the animal agricultural industry to get their message out.
Clips:
Lagwagon ‘Cog in the Machine’, NOFX ‘Generation Z’.
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