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9/3: Climate Change protests start APEC meeting in Sydney 
[Independent Media Center] Climate Protests in Newcastle and regional Victoria have kicked off the 2007 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum meeting being hosted by conservative Australian Prime Minister John Howard in Sydney 2-9 September 2007, and being attended by USA President George Bush, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Hu Jintao and other Pacific rim leaders. Much of the northern CBD of Sydney including the famed Opera House has been contained by a nine foot high concrete and wire security fence, dubbed unofficially the Great Wall of APEC and signals the rise of military urbanism in Australia.
An initial protest by Greenpeace in the world's biggest coal port of Newcastle has highlighted the Australian Government addiction to the coal lobby which is behind its spoiler role in international negotiations on climate change. A second action in the State of Victoria shut down the Loy Yang Coal Power plant (Video) for 5 hours on Monday as a direct action message to the leaders of APEC to take concrete action on climate change. An Aboriginal Tent Embassy has been established to highlight the genocidal policies of succeeding Australian Governments. Further protests are set to occurr over the next week.
8/26: Greece is on fire: Statists, capitalists, murderers!
 [Independent Media Center] Only a few days after the most recent wave of fires, remaining forests fell prey to yet more of them, once again set by arsonists. The country is heading to a snap election and the government's proclamations of de-commissioning forest areas (thus allowing for building construction to take place) gave a golden opportunity to private capital and its arsonists to burn whole areas down to the last leaf.
This frenzy of burned forests has already left 62 dead, tens injured, missing, homeless; hundreds of thousands of burnt acres of land in the Peloponnese, Western Greece alone. The prefectures of Ilia, Arkadia and Messinia are still being destroyed by the fire. Up to this moment there are many still raging fires in the prefectures of Korinthia, Lakonia and Evoia.
The already extremely limited and hence priceless patches of green of Attica did not escape these "accidental" fires (including the neighborhoods of Cholargos, Papagou and Galatsi). Satellite image by NASA.
For more information, see Athens IMC in English
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