Glenugie CSG Blockade get Occupy Sydney support.

Please join us and STAND AS ONE AGAINST COAL SEAM GAS. It's time to gather for the 87% and for the future of Australia. Today some Occupy Sydney people are making the trek to join the Glenugie Anti CSG Blockade of the intended Metgasco CSG site in Glenugie near Grafton, More  Occupy Melbourne people are arriving at the Occupy Sydney Occupation en route to Glenugie. Getting There:  View Larger Mapx The land where Metgasco are working on preparing to drill is situated in the beautiful Coldstream Wetlands, in the Clarence Valley, just south of Grafton NSW. The property is owned by an 'absentee landholder' so the owner doesn't actually live/work on the property. Many of the surrounding land holders have Lock the Gate triangles up on their fences and so much of the community is outraged, and opposing Metgasco. Please join with us in solidarity at this peaceful protest. We are THE ONLY RESCUE TEAM. The mood is empowering, come and add your energy to this, history making event and if you cannot, then please nudge everyone else to. There is space on the roadside to park cars - on the strip between the tar road and the property fence lines. There is a safe camping area on private property about 800m away. BRING WATER, FOOD, ICE & SHADE. & PLEASE DRIVE SAFE. Please like & share. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-Action-Alliance/437742216274708 "Get amongst it ☮" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCst4q-x1NI

This motorcycle runs on air

Occupy Sydney Affordably Sustainable have an abiding interest in going beyond the Green / blue environmentally friendly low carbon footprint paradigm to the point where we have recurrent costs eliminated and economically compelling reasons to use these alternatives. Here is the first post in this series

This motorcycle runs on air

By Sarah Laskow

FastCoExist

The O2 Pursuit has a top speed of 87 mph and can go 62 miles on one standard SCUBA tank full of compressed air. In other words, it’s as fast as an electric motorbike, with a similar range, and you don’t have to wait hours for its batteries to charge....( read more )

Remember Remember OpNov5 OpVendetta

#OpNov5 #OpVendetta

invites Sydney citizens to air their grievances with their parliament.

When?November 5^th,2012

Where? Occupy Sydney, 

Martin Place

Time? Snap Actions 11am - late

Why? Because there Is something terribly wrong with this country...

#NationalSecurityMeasures #BudgetCuts #LimitedFreeSpeech #HumanRightsAbuses #UraniumSalesToIndia #CoalSeamGas #Corruption * Today, let us be loud and clear. CHANGE is coming...

HouseO charge Tenant 50% of Gross Income as Rent #SaveLibby

Occupy Sydney participants are flabbergasted but unsurprised as the now DOCS run State Government social housing provider Housing NSW -the largest landlord in NSW - tries to evict 19 year tenant , single parent Libby Ciesiolka from her home. Why?? Because she objects to their extortionate demand that Libby pay 50% of her gross income in rent. Despite several calls to Housing NSW and Minister Pru Gowards Office, Housing NSW or the NSW Government refuse to comment on this case or answer how many similar draconian cases are on Housing NSWs books.

 Libby is a dedicated drug free single mum who has dedicated much of her past 20 years to the challenging task of raising 2 beautifully raised children in the oft challenging environment of a NSW HouseO Estate. She has been a sometimes outspoken advocate for educational and other local issues which affect her community. 

 At Occupy Sydney we strongly suspect that it is her outspokenness which causes her landlord to curiously dismiss her clearly relevant income documentation in favour of its own version of her income as more government departments act to terrorise the population into silence.

 According to NSW Housing, these government generated statements are rejected evidence of income:

• First Employment Income Details: This document was rejected as incomplete by CSO Nik on 7 August 2012 because it did not state income per week and was not marked with a Company Seal.

• Second Employment Income Details: stating income per week as $385.58 and marked with the Company Seal 

• Letter from Child Support Agency stating that entitlement to Child Support would cease on 18 November 2011.

• Child Support Agency Certificate under ss.116(2) of the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988 (Cth): showing that child support remains unpaid. 

• Centrelink Income Statement: 7 August stating eligibility for Family Assistance but that no income is received fortnightly it is received as a lump sum at the end of the financial year. 

Libby’s son:
• PAYG income tax statement 2012 and 2011 with 2012 showing that Libby’s son’s income averages $71.83 per week. 

Libby contends (and we agree that this is a fair minded viewpoint. Libby & the People demand that Housing NSW apply common sense , not draconian tyranny in its dealings with tenants.

1. The amount assessed as $423.41 appears to be calculated from the rejected First Employment Income Details and therefore rejects the Second Employment Income Details stating income per week as $385.58.

2. The assessment fails to accept Child Support documentation that shows that child support ceased on 18 November 2011 when Libby’s youngest son finished school and that the child support remains unpaid as the payer has withheld payments and cannot be located. This issue was discussed with CSO Nik who said that HNSW must continue to charge rent on Child Support until a letter stating that no Child Support is owed is provided. Libby expressed concern about being charged rent on unpaid child support and Nik said “you have nothing to worry about because Housing NSW is ‘not for profit’”. Libby contacted the Child Support Agency but they could not provide such a letter because money is still owed. Housing NSW continues to charge rent on Child Support and Libby has already paid 50% of that Child Support to Housing NSW.

3. No account was taken of Libby’s son’s income from paid employment. Instead the assessment charges rent on Newstart but he is not eligible for Newstart as he is only 21. Libby’s son is not eligible for a payment from Centrelink because Libby receives Family Assistance for him. Nor is he eligible for both Family Assistance and Youth Allowance as previously assessed by Housing NSW.

YOUR ACTION CAN SAVE LIBBY

•  We urge all fair minded citizens to join the #SaveLibby Campaign as it rolls out on Sydneys streets.
•        SIGN the PETITION HERE 10,000 signatures needed to be presented to Parliament http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-libby.html#fbbo

New Report on Legality of Occupy Melbourne Eviction

  Occupy Sydney express our solidarity with Occupy Melbourne and continue with our joint Constitutional challenge against the use by the State of Police as an instrument to suppress political dissent.

A report by the Occupy Melbourne Legal Support Team (OMLST) which looks at the eviction of the Occupy Melbourne protest from the City Square 1 year ago.

New Report Discusses the Effects and Legality of the Occupy Melbourne Eviction from City Square on 21 October 2011

pinched from http://indymedia.org.au with gratitude

One year on from the controversial eviction of Occupy Melbourne from the City Square a qualitative Report, Occupy Policing: A Report into the Effects and Legality of the Eviction of Occupy Melbourne from City Square on 21 October 2011, documents protesters’ experiences of policing. The Report complements these eye-witness accounts with an account of the relevant laws.

The Report makes several key findings including:

• The policing of protesters had harmful and lasting psychological, physical and political effects on individual protestors as well as the right to political expression;
• The various justifications relied upon by Melbourne City Council and Victoria Police to authorise their actions raise serious and as yet unresolved questions of law. There appears to be a lack of legal basis for the actions to forcibly remove Occupy Melbourne protesters from City Square on the 21 October 2011;
• There was extensive use of force by police in arresting and policing protestors, including the use of chokeholds and 'snatch squads'; and
• The police arguably acted outside of their legitimate powers and internal guidelines in detaining approximately 100 people pursuant to 'breach of the peace' powers. The place, conditions and length of detention varied, and protester statements attest to their disorientating and distressing effects.

The Report’s recommendations reiterate previous calls for an Independent Inquiry into the forcible removal of Occupy Melbourne.

The Report is published by the Occupy Melbourne Legal Support Team and is endorsed by Flemington and Kensington Community Legal Centre, and the National Police Accountability Project. It includes forewords from Cr Cathy Oke (Melbourne City Council) and Tamar Hopkins (Principal Solicitor, Flemington and Kensington Community Legal Centre).

‘The level of police violence on the 21 October 2011 shocked the national and international community. The experiences documented in this Report speak to excessive and unnecessary levels of violence,’ said Rhys Aconley-Jones, Report co-author.  

‘The widespread and public inquiry called for by the Occupy Melbourne Legal Support Team to look at all levels of decision-making into the policing of the protest is not only necessary to restore the community's faith that the rule of law still operates in Victoria, but is required under international human rights law where allegations of human rights abuses have been made,’ Tamar Hopkins writes.

The Report is also available at: www.occupypolicing.org

Brazil: Agri Business in drivers seat on FOREST CODE - indigenous out in cold

Rousseff takes the last step in the process of the Forest Code, and with partial vetoes, consolidates legislation that has little protection and a lot of devastation. Civil society is mobilized by popular zero deforestation law.

As the lights went out on Wednesday, the federal government announced the partial veto the Provisional Forest Code, closing another chapter to disassemble the Brazilian environmental legislation and passing a clear message to those who deforest our forests for years and are committed to impunity: crime was worth it.

Even with the vetoes, the law maintains the amnesty.Forgiveness who illegally deforested remains to establish lower limits recovery to those who overthrew forest by 2008.Moreover, with the new law the legal uncertainty in the field will continue. The standard will address how uneven owners who have the same conditions, which can cause questions in court. Unfortunately, even with vetoes, the new Forest Code ceases to be a law of forests to be a law that consolidates illegal deforestation.

"Despite warnings from scientists and scholars on the subject, and the clear opposition of several different sectors of society, Dilma chose the path of retreat ruralista. Throughout the process of dismantling of environmental law, the government was negligent or was colluding with the proposal of what is latest in agribusiness, "says Marcio Astrini, Greenpeace Amazon campaign.

Henceforth, the country no longer has one of the most modern forestry legislation in the world to make way for a law tailored to the interests of agribusiness eager to expand on forest areas. The legislation became a patchwork in which agribusiness - not the forest - is the central issue. Besides the amnesty to illegal loggers, the new law brings benefits large estates and legal loopholes for more devastation purposely left in the new law.

"The environmental issue live one of his worst moments under the tutelage of the current government. Never seen so much bad news out of the Plateau in so little time management, "says Astrini.

In the past two months, deforestation in the Amazon, the largest rainforest in the world, is growing again, compared with the same period last year. In August, an increase of over 200% in overturned. Over the past 50 years, Amazon has already lost more than 720 000 km2, an area equal to the sum of the states of Rio de Janeiro, Espirito Santo, Rio Grande do Sul, Paraná and Santa Catarina.

The problems regarding offensive deforestation on forests are just beginning. The caucus has also attacks the protected areas, indigenous lands and Maroons and the revision of rates of land reform. The increased use of pesticides, expanding the boundaries for the purchase of land by foreigners in the country and even the weakening of labor laws in the country are also in the sights of agribusiness. "The agenda ruralista always been clear. The difference is that now found a government willing to bargain with that agenda, "says Astrini.

Forests are essential to ensure the balance of climate, biodiversity conservation and livelihoods of millions of people who directly depend on it to survive. In Brazil, this vegetation is responsible for much of the rains that irrigate our crops and that supply our water tanks. Moreover, what we have currently open land, we can double our food production without having to stop any more hectare of forest. There are currently more than 30 million hectares of degraded land by livestock only unproductive.

To ensure the protection of our forests is urgent that Brazil has a law of zero deforestation. This law of popular initiative already has the support of nearly 600 thousand people who signed the petition. "The text written by landowners and approved by Plateau brings no rules to improve environmental protection or combat deforestation. They made a law for the deforester. We will make a law through the forests. "

originally published in Brasil (Portuguese) here  http://oplanetaemmovimentojanetemelo.blogspot.com.au/

Subscribe:  Help protect our forests.

The video #Monsanto does not want you to see.

Aboriginals discuss escalating rent strike into Occupation

  A long festering dispute between the Bourke area Nulla Nulla Land Council and its tenants may escalate from the rent strike many Alice Edwards Village aboriginal community tenants  have maintained for in some cases years to become an Occupation for Tenant Control. Tenant representatives travelled to Sydney and tonight are holding a marathon meeting to strategise the possibility of Occupy protesters joining their community to demand properties neglected for years by the Council be passed to tenant control. 
 Tenant representatives report that the Land Council has at best been tardy with maintenance. Snake infestation of homes is common and control a landlord responsibility, yet despite a young child requiring hospitalisation some time ago for potentially deadly snakebite the snakes remain. Lack of maintenance of electrical systems has left many homes dangerously wired.The council says severa; homes sholud be demolished.There are families who are fearful that they will be left homeless by the heartless actions of the local Land Council.

 A group of Occupy Sydney occupiers are readying to join the residents should residents request our participation as protesters.

related (abc)  

Family: The basic building block of Community, Society

Why do successive Australian and international governments act eyes wide shut to the plight of Families??Why are children and parents who want to be together forcibly separated by self serving government departments?? Why are politicians deaf to the pleas of distraught parents robbed of their right to raise and rear their families in peace? Why do governments not work with families when issues are evident within them instead of invasively stealing children to feed the Government - Sector Australian Child Gulag in their quest for profits??

 Within the Occupy Sydney community are a strong resilient alliance of participants who believe that Family is the basic building block of society is FAMILY.- and that government wilfully colludes with unelected interests to weaken and undermine family thereby weakening community and ultimately societys capacity to resist or reject control of people by increasingly tyrannical government. "The people should never be afraid of their government - but government should always be afraid of its people"

Heres Jordans Story 

being denied a hearing by 

Prime Minister Julia Gillard

for more info heres Jennifer Nash on Facebook

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Food Mythbusters

Exploding the myths about food and GMO

Steve Keen :Euro Crisis ...forgive debt & reboot?

Talking Economics (today with Professor Steve Keen)



Economics Prof Steve Keen from http://debtdeflation.com & University of Western Sydney

and below at Occupy Sydney Anniversary October 13



Talking Economics aims to be a daily Occupy Sydney Post .To submit relevant video or written content please post to occupysydney@gmail.com with an accurate description 

Occupy Sydney Moves Forward-GA Monday Oct 22 5-30pm

Please Note: Monday 22 October GA will proceed regardless of numbers.

Input on the Wiki here

  As the Southern Summer 2012 brings warmer climes to Sydney and our First Anniversary is passed , Occupy Sydney remain one of the few Occupations worldwide to have maintained a 24 hour 7 Day Occupation -and the only Occupation to do so in the centre of their country's recognised financial district. Martin Place is of course Sydney's (if not Australia's) Wall Street.

  Occupy Sydney's First post anniversary General Assembly will be held from 5-30 pm Monday 22nd October at the Occupation Site (corner Martin Place & Elizabeth St) near Channel 7. This General Assembly will formulate a roadmap to advance Occupy Sydney as a movement for change reflecting the international values of the Occupy Movement while factoring in unique local issues paramaters and conditions.

  The Occupy Sydney of October 2012 is quite different from the vehicle which roared into life on October 15th 2011. It has shed those who came to sell their isms convinced that their leadership alone was what the world so desperately needed. Gone are the polarising idioms and images. In place today is the basis of a movement capable of genuinely accomodating the aspirations of the 99%. In place today is an open platform where the common aim is people driven ,people controlled change. On the table are discussions about issues affecting us locally and Globally. Your ideas for people driven people controlled change are welcome. We aim to make a better world possible






 This Weeks General Assembly is about

1. AGENDA ITEM:  identifying issues within Occupy Sydney structurally -and addressing those issues by putting in place appropriate Groups and strategies to facilitate effective delivery. (replacing those which have ceased to function). These 
2. AGENDA ITEM: Identifying Core and empathy issues locally  nationally and globally which Occupy Sydney will invest resources in working for. This issue may at the discretion of the meeting be notified and implemented at a later meeting.
3. AGENDA ITEM: CONSENSUS & the OSYD GA decision making process: a) What is consensus?? b) What type of decisions require consensus? c) What other decision making process can we adopt for urgent (such as time sensitive) decisions?
4. Proposal: That the Hand signals shown at right be adopted.
5. Proposal: That with the exception of Knitting, Media ,Occupy My Mind, Free School and Legals all other current working groups be declared vacated.
6. Proposal: That Working Groups become the appropriate place to discuss related issues and that Working Groups have full autonomy to develop their sphere of operations as they see fit.
7. Proposal.That Working Groups decide and enact their own decision making process as they see fit.
8. Proposal: That a new Statement of solidarity with the 99% be formulated replacing the current GA statement .
9. Proposal: That all online Occupy Sydney entities current and future be recognised as part of the Occupy Sydney discussion with equal standing, provided they are within the core values of the International Occupy Movement AND not disendorsed by Occupy Sydney GA.
10. Motion of Support for Scarlet Alliance and condemnation of NSW Governments attempts to license or criminalise sex workers. ( https://www.facebook.com/iwwsydney/posts/427474487302551 )
11. Notification: Discussion Days: Each Day at the Occupation will Focus on discussions about a specific issue. SUNDAY: DoCS out of Families Day-by Docsbusters,Family Name and Shame File and Ride Against DOCS. MONDAY:?? - 5-30pm GA TUESDAY: ?? WEDNESDAY ?? THURSDAY ??? FRIDAY(night movies??) ??? SATURDAY ??? Free School. Examples could be ECONOMICS - HOUSING  & AFFORDABILITY - SOCIAL JUSTICE - HUMAN RIGHTS - CORPORATE PARASITES. 
12. Notification: Stand up for the Burrup Action December 2nd -Occupy Sydney to Occupy Sydney Barracks as part of 100 World Heritage Sites Campaign.
13. Notification: That an Occupation working group will form consisting of Occupiers and regular Occupation participants.  Requirement for this Group are that participants be Overnight Occupiers OR participate at the Occupation for a minimum of eight hours per week OR be specifically invited to join the working group by a majority of Occupiers.
14. Notification: 
15. Notification: Occupy Sydney Protest Commonwealth Bank 9am 30 October at Convention Centre Darling Harbour. Working Group forming, meeting after GA.
16. Notification: Occupy Sydney Vigil Tuesday October 23rd : Join Facebook Event  .

1. I know I'll never forget 5am October the 23rd, 2011. Is anyone interested in doing a Vigil for our One Year since the violent & illegal eviction from Martin Place by 120 Riot Police ? The time and place is changeable, I suggest either the Rocks Police Station or perhaps Surry Hills Police Station, other suggestions of course are welcome. Maybe a Silent Vigil with a banner, or a mic check or even a re-enactment if people are up for it

Ecocide at James Price Point

The Western Australian Government, Woodside, Shell, BHP Billiton, BP, MIMI are all planning to commit Ecocide at James Price Point/ Walmadan. They are driven to providing returns to shareholders above the protection of the environment.

 For a few years of profit they are prepared to risk irrepairable harm to the pristine yet fragile ecosystem. Don't consent to these actions. 

 Occupy Sydney are in solidarity and fully support the Campaign Against a Gas Hub at Walmadan / james Price Point . Please support here:

Broome Community No Gas Campaign

Save James Price Point (Broome WA )

Free Marian Price

reblogged from http://ireland-irishblog.blogspot.com.au/

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012

Secret British Drug Experiments on Politically Interned Marian Price

#FreeMarianPrice, #freemarianprice, #MarianPrice

New evidence is emerging that Marian Price was drugged involuntarily and secretly, without her knowledge, with a substance that has a long history as a truth serum. Scopolamine was also administered to several other interned Irish internees in British Occupied Ireland, who are referred to as the Guineapigs because of the many British experiments carried out on Irish political prisoners.

Documents on British operating procedures for experiments were obtained by the independent mediacl monitors investigatiing Marian Price's and other Irish political prisoner's bad health which reveal that several drug's used on Irish internees are primarily experimental. Experts have said that one of the drugs scopolamine is not recommended, because of the severe side effects which is currently causing considerable a serious medical condition, distress and agony for Marian Price, who has been reported as close to death, on several occasions after British torture and experiments which are primarily about sensory deprivation.

The British government has not responded to accusation and evidence of drugs being secretly given involuntarily to Marian Price and other  Irish  political internees. Irish internees along with Marian Price were drugged without their knowledge, with unknown substances used for experiments on them and several internee medical records are incomplete, with names and drug dosage removed. Details of the mistreatment of Marian Price are about to emerge publicly.

Details and evidence about the use of scopolamine and other mind altering drugs are emerging, that leave Irish political prisoners of conscience, drowsy, disoriented and sometimes as with Marian Price in considerable pain. It is believed that Marian's sister Dolours who was also tortured by the British, was used as a guineapig for British drugs without her knowledge. The CIA, because of its many undesirable side effects, stopped using scopolamine as a truth drug, because of the seriously harmful side effects. which include, death, hallucinations, faulty perception, headaches, heart attacks and blurred vision.

Read more:

Marian Price Britain's Tortured Political Guineapig

#OpJubilee

On 5 NOVEMBER 2012 ANONYMOUS CALL FOR THE CANCELLATION OF ALL DEBT AN END TO ALL WARS REDISTRIBUTION OF THE LAND AND ELIMINATION OF POVERTY

. @austingmackell Yes, #Anonymous has been in touch. Will be interesting to see what develops on #OpJubilee
— Steve Keen (@ProfSteveKeen) October 19, 2012

#OpJubilee

Remember Remember the 5th of November.....

David Hicks, GITMO Torture and the potential fate of Julian Assange

WACA (Wikileaks Australian Citizens Alliance) sat down with Aloysia Brooks, the founder of The Justice Campaign to talk about David Hicks, GITMO Torture and the potential fate of Julian Assange, if extradited to the USA.

Aloysia is a human rights and social justice advocate who campaigns for thepromotion and protection of human rights in the increased security environment. ...

reported by @TheJusticeCampaign

Helen Caldicott & David Freeman Nuclear Power: Life & Death

Veteran Australian based Global anti-nuclear campaigner Dr Helen Caldicott (credited with persuading then NZ Prime Minister David Lange to implement anti nuclear policy) speaks with David Freeman

reported by Citizen News Network

The Story of Your Enslavement

We can only be kept in the cages we do not see. A brief history of human enslavement - up to and including your own. From Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy conversation in the world.

reported by Citizen News Network 

They're Killing Protesters in Bahrain Right Now

They are killing protesters in Bahrain right now. Town of Duraz
Bahrain 45 National Guard troops involved the suppression of the Nuwaidrat 19/10/2012

UPDATED:: 

Diraz Media Network
7 minutes ago via Twitter
URGENT: Most areas of Bahrain and its towns out into the street and convulsed strongly condemned the strict siege on the town proud Aker

(Reports I have read say they are using shotguns and tear gas, chasing people down and going door to door beating people)

شبكة الدراز الاعلامية

هدافنا : كسر حاجز التعتيم الاعلامي على ثورة شعب البحرين نقل اخبار الثورة بكل مصداقية فور حدوثها من قلب الحدث

reported by Jenny Baker

Occupy Sydney connecting with Sydney Homeless

 Since its inception, Occupy Sydney has engaged at one level or another with elements of the homeless community. In fact Occupy has almost continuously had direct participation from at least some of the local homeless community. 

 These connections have been less than accidental. There was for example nothing accidental about the decision to locate the Occupation in Martin Place in close proximity Sydneys main ad hoc and organised homeless services venue. 

  Occupy Sydney are now a resource for genuinely Homeless people in Sydney.Leveraging partnerships with skilled non government/ngo affiliates the Occupation has become a regular point of contact and inquiry for the City's Homeless.

 Through partnerships Occupy Sydney has become the sole defacto 24-7 contact point for Sydney Homeless people requiring blankets and advice on resources. 

 From today the partnership will grow further as The @SydneyHomeless Project and Occupy Sydney begin flowing out the following services:

1. Managed Removals Solutions (available now)
2. Removalists Prepacking Service
3. Casual Labour Hire - CBD specialists 24-7 removals, logistics 
4. Street Promotions Casuals
5. On Street Advertising
6. Ambush Marketing
7. Logistics Solutions.
8. Commercial Power-Saver Solutions
9. Electrical Services 
10. Social Media Management  Strategies & Consulting
11. Events Photography & Video Production (including Livestreaming options) 
12. Commercial Film Production

Call 0410 722 000 24-7

You can also Contact @occupySYDNEY or on Facebook