Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

February 10, 2011

Western Australia: Walk Away From Uranium Mining

Walk away from uranium mining
Time Sunday, August 21 at 9:00am - October 30 at 4:30pm
Location Wiluna, Western Australia
This event is a walk from Wiluna, Western Australia to Perth from August 22nd, 2011 to October 30th, 2011. The walk will be aimed at connecting with and supporting Aboriginal people who are opposing the new proposed uranium mines in Western Australia.
Footprints for Peace invites you to become involved in this and there are many ways that you can actively participate in this project.
We would like to invite you to come to Western Australia and walk with us. For a day, a week or for the entire 10 weeks.
Registration form is available at
http://footprints.footprintsforpeace.net/nffcampaign/upload/files/Australian_registration_form_distributed.pdf If you are unable to join us, then please let all your friends know about it. You never know who may take up this opportunity and join us.
Please forward this article or email onto any friends, media or newsletters to help us get the word out.
http://footprints.footprintsforpeace.net/nffcampaign/upload/files/WA_Walk_2011_Media_Article.pdf

Native Concert: Stop Uranium Mining at the Grand Canyon

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February 9, 2011

Internet's New Highway: Writing for free takes a detour

Huffington Post slam-dunks writers, as journalists search for higher ground
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Just when you thought you knew your way around the Internet, everything changes. This includes three areas: Who you can trust, the danger of ignoring copyrights and giving your carefully-penned word songs away for free, for the sake of the cause, any cause. Although Wikileaks claims most headlines these days, the sale of Huffington Post, made popular by writers working without pay, and new copyright lawsuits for posting news stories on blogs without permission, are important developments for writers, bloggers and everyone on the web. Writing for free quickly became known this week as the way to get duped by big business on the Internet, as AOL announced the purchase of Huffington Post. Read column:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2011/02/internets-new-highway-writing-for-free.html

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