LL:DDV: 1999 Viva Cuba! Fiesta
You are invited to A Latin American Fiesta to celebrate 40 years of inspiration. The Cuba Solidarity Coalition presents: 1999 VIVA CUBA! FIESTA featuring Guararey, authentic Cuban Salsa Espiritu Latino, Latin American Orchestra Saturday, 24 July 7.00 pm - 1.00 am North Melbourne Town Hall (cnr Errol and Queensberry Sts, North Melbourne) Tickets; $12/$10 concession For tickets, phone: Andrea 9376 8840, Adam or Sharryn 9416 8812, Marita 9306 3312, Brenda (03) 5253 3373 (Geelong) All proceeds to aid projects in Cuba: Australian Conservation Foundation Green Team -- Urban Permaculture Project Committee in Solidarity with Latin America and the Caribbean -- Children's Asthma Clinic in Havana Radical Women -- July 2000 Australian Tour of the Federation of Cuban Women ENDORSEMENTS ARE WELCOME To endorse the 1999 Viva Cuba! Fiesta: Send your endorsement (indicating whether as an individual or an organisation) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or radical.women.melb @ bigpond.com Or phone 9416 8812 If you can help with publicity, please let us know. VIVA CUBA! HELP BREAK THE ECONOMIC BLOCKADE AGAINST CUBA! LL.VG -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:URL: thehungersite.com
http://thehungersite.com/index.html Click the "donate free food" button on the site-- and site sponsors pay for food, donated to the hungry via international relief agencies. You can make one donation of food per day-- so visit daily! -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:ART: California Consumers Deceived by Green Electricity
GREEN ELECTRCITY AND COMPETITION FROM ANDREA SHARAM, eag Oct. 22, 1998 New Report Shows California Consumers Deceived by "Green" Electricity Marketing Claims Ratepayers Pay Extra Dollars for Sham Benefits WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A ground-breaking new study released today by Public Citizen shows that the marketing of "green" electricity in California's newly deregulated utility market is largely a hoax on consumers and results in little or no benefit to the environment. "The electric utility industry is justifying deregulation by claiming there are environmental benefits, such as the marketing of green electricity, but in fact the 'green' is going mostly into the pockets of marketers," said Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook. According to the report, consumers who choose green electricity pay an average of $10 extra per month for it. An estimated 75-95 percent of that cost goes toward covering marketing and overhead and does not result in an expansion of renewable energy generation. Green electricity is generated from wind, geothermal, solar and other sustainable, non-polluting power sources. "Most marketers are making renewable energy the 'boutique option' and taking advantage of people who want to do the right thing," said Wenonah Hauter, director of Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project. "They are deceiving ratepayers into believing the extra dollars they pay for 'green' electricity are actually promoting the greater use of clean, renewable energy sources, when that is clearly not the case." The report, Green Buyers Beware: A Critical Review of "Green Electricity" Products, reviews the content and cost of green power products being offered in California and analyzes the claims being made about them. California is one of the first states to open its electric utility market to retail competition. A number of states are following suit. The green electricity bought by California consumers comes largely from renewable energy sources controlled by utilities and is already being paid for by those utilities' customers. The electricity is simply being repackaged and sold at higher prices. The result of a consumer's purchase of green electricity can in some cases lead to the extended operation of fossil fuel plants and greater pollution. "The message in this is that consumers should look very carefully at claims dealing with green energy, and they should demand policy changes that result in real gains, not bogus claims," Hauter said. "We will encourage the California State Attorney General's Office to look into this situation." The report, written by energy consultant Nancy Rader of Berkeley, Calif., found that only one marketer of green electricity exclusively sells power that is not repackaged from existing utility resources. "The bottom line is, reselling utility resources does not result in any additional generation of renewable energy, such as wind or biomass power, and so it makes no difference to the environment," said Rader. "Clearly, consumers are being deceived by claims that they are helping the planet by purchasing these so-called green products." Other major findings include: Promised "new" renewable energy content comprises only a small fraction of the products on the market. The resale of utility-controlled resources to green consumers cannot make a difference in the West because the supply of these resources already greatly exceeds any realistic projection of green demand. Largely because of high retail marketing costs, public subsidies are required to support green marketing. More than $75 million in direct public subsidies will support such ventures in California through 2001. Green product claims cannot be verified without a regionwide tracking system, which does not exist. False or misleading green product claims are common. Some marketers, for instance, falsely give the impression that their products contain solar or wind power. Green marketing is unlikely to reverse the current decline in renewable energy production or significantly diversify electric system resources. Most green marketers are affiliated with polluting companies and are not advocates of renewable energy policy. Consumers have no way of distinguishing between renewable energy that is merely resold and renewable energy that truly needs support. Significant policy changes are needed to make green electricity a larger part of our energy future, Hauter said. For example, consumers need to have the right to work with their local governments or purchasing agent to buy green power directly from producers on behalf of all citizens in the community, making green power both affordable and meaningful. Currently, this "community choice" is impossible under California's utility restructuring legislation. -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's N
LL:PR: earth matters
EARTH MATTERS can be heard on 3CR in Melbourne Sunday 11am, 2XX Canberra Tuesday 10am, 8CCC Alice Springs Sundays between 8-9pm, 2NCR Lismore Friday 10am, 5UV Adelaide Thursday 2pm, 7LTN Launceston Monday 7:30pm, 2VOX Wollongong between 9-10am & much more!! Earth Matters Programme 77b Juliet Fox 3CR Community Radio 03 9419 8377 ComRadSat Programme 2/7/1999 CUE SHEET INTRO : "Hello and welcome to ..." OUTRO : "... see you later." DURATION : 24'45" (frogs til around 26'00) Oil spill in St Vincent's Gulf in South Australia Today on Earth Matters we discuss the recent oil spill in Adelaide's St Vincent's Gulf in South Australia which occurred on Monday Juine 28th. Margi Prideaux, National Marine campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation, joins us to describe the details of the spill and her concerns about the not only the incident but the ongoing danger the petroleum industry poses to the ecology. Margi also expresses concern about the clean up process and what effect that can have on the marine wildlife. Broader issues surrounding the presence of the petroleum industry in the Great Australian Bight are also raised, with a marine park for that region currently under negotiation. Students and Sustainability 1999 - `Making it Happen' Students and Sustainability Conference is the largest student conference held in Australia. Just a brief information piece for listeners about the up and coming Students and Sustainability Conference to be held at the University of Western Sydney from July 12th to 16th. This year's focus is "Making it Happen" and there'll be an array of speakers, workshops and filed trips on this theme. For more information about the conference call the Students and Sustainability Conference office on 02 4578 1210 or see their website www.ss99conf.has.org.au. Forestry Tasmania sells 50% of its softwood plantations Just recently Forestry Tasmania sold half of its northern softwood plantations to an United States based company called GMO Renewable Resources. The part privatisation of these public assets has riased many concerns about the ever-expanding pine plantations and just who takes responsibility for ecosystems and waterchatchments when a private overseas based company owns the resource. Today we speak with Greens parliamentarian Peg Putt in Tasmania, who recently voiced many of these concerns. -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:PR: This Week on BB
THIS WEEK On ABC Radio National's Background Briefing Program: --- Sunday, July 4, 9.10am Repeated Tuesday, July 6, 7.10pm - SPOOKING THE SPIES Produced by Chris Bullock - ON-AIR PROMO: It used to be easy - find the Red under the bed. Now the enemy can be an unpredictable dictator, or a terrorist with some plutonium, or gangs of crazed thugs killing in the name of god. Satellites scan the earth, like huge orbiting eyes. And mobile phones, videos, laptops and the world wide web never cease. What's spooking the spies is how to turn all that information into 'Intelligence". Background Briefing, this Sunday morning after the news at 9. --- PRODUCER's SUPPLEMENT: At the end of the 20th Century the spies have come in from the Cold War. The enemy has changed =85 and the once exclusive domain of the intelligence agent is now a space occupied by any number of academics, analysts and other desk jockeys, the information hunter-gatherers of the world wide web. The war behind every war is the information war, and the business of gathering and keeping secrets is getting harder and harder under a deluge of publicly available information. This changing landscape makes it increasingly difficult for the aid organisations you'll find at wars and natural disasters. When they are no longer perceived as neutral humanitarians, their work may be compromised and their lives placed in danger. They all have their hands full, this week on Background Briefing. - LAST WEEK: Transcripts now available on-line: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing - THE STARVATION OF SUSTENANCE Produced by Paul Barclay BB 27/06/99 - The introduction of live streaming audio of Background Briefing programs is scheduled to premiere on July 18. .. Background Briefing on ABC Radio National GPO Box 9994 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Fax: +61-2-9333-1400 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. Subscribe weekly program announcements: SUBSCRIBE BBANNOUNCE (in body of message) email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. Transcripts: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing Tuning: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/freq/map.htm -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: Solidarity with Solomon Island workers
Solidarity with Solomon Island workers A solidarity fundraiser will be held at the Comrades Bar, 514 Swanston Street, Carlton on Monday 5 July at 5pm for the Solomon Islands National Union of Workers (SINUW) Workers members of SINUW have been picketing the Malaysian logging company Earthmovers (Solomans) Limited since October 1997, when 412 workers were sacked after taking legal strike action. The workers have refused to leave company housing and have submitted the dispute to the Trades Disputes Panel. A ruling in favour of the workers was made, and was upheld by the High Court in June 1998. The company has refused to reinstae the workers and continues to use legal procceedings to delay a settlement. SINUW called a rally in support of their demands in March 1999, but this was cancelled by the Commissioner of Police. It is clear that the company is trying to use its resources and keep the case tied up with legal action to avoid reinstating or compensating the workers. As a result of the protracted legal action the union is asking for assistance to support the sacked workes and their families. David Tuhanuku, President of SINUW, will be speaking at the solidarity fundraiser. Please send messages of support to: Solomon Islands National Union of Workers Fax: 677 23 110 Source: Soloman Islands National Union of Workers (SINUW) Construction Forestry Mining & Energy Union (CFMEU) Australia International Federation of Building and Wood Workers (IFBWW) *** Australia Asia Worker Links PO Box 264 Fitzroy Victoria 3065 Australia Tel: 03 9419 5045 Fax: 03 9416 2746 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LL.VG -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
