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Protests Start APEC Meeting in Sydney

Written by INDY Media
Tuesday, 04 September 2007
Climate Change Protests Start APEC meeting in Sydney by IndyMedia 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 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. Sydney Indymedia \| Climate IMC \| Perth Indymedia \| Real Action on Climate Change \| Greenpeace on APEC source Set as favorite Bookmark Email This Hits: 684 Facebook del.icio.us Digg Furl Yahoo! My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati reddit We are sorry, for registered members only. Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Write comment Name Website Title Comment smaller \| bigger Subscribe via email (Registered users only) I have read and agree to the Terms of Usage.