Mullumbimby Community Action Network

Originally published 12Feb2013

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KYOGLE support wanted: OS & BB SURVEY MEETINGS

Newsletter 123
12 February 2013

Greetings

For updates and alerts about current CSG activities/blockades please go to http://www.csgfreebyronshire.org and click on "contact us". For a blow-by-blow account of what's going on, subscribe to COAL SEAM GAS NEWS.


TOWN SURVEY MEETINGS

Please join in your community survey - the more volunteers to do this, the easier the job! And its good for your soul!

Ocean Shores: 3 pm Sat 16 Feb Ocean Shores Community Centre

Byron Bay: 2-5 pm Sat 23 Feb Byron new Sports and Cultural Complex



CSG SURVEY OF MULLUMBIMBY

Is nearing completion. Please ring 66843723 if you have been missed out. If there is anyone out there particularly good at data entry please contact me!





ACTION AT DOUBTFUL CREEK

Currently there is an alert for more people to go to Doubtful Creek, Kyogle, as Kyogle Council is threatening to dismantle the protest camp. People are requested to support the camp and/or write to council@kyogle.nsw.gov.au reminding them that they have a legal right to peacefully protest.


Here"s my offering:


FOR THE ATTENTION OF KYOGLE COUNCIL

Is Kyogle Council is violating Human Rights at Doubtful Creek?

The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#atop) states:

Article 13.

* (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

Therefore everyone has the right to be at Doubtful Creek and not moved on artbitrarily by the police and Kyogle Council.

See also:

Article 18.

* Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.


This surely means that protestors have the right to freedom of thought and conscience to be with others in a public place and manifestly practice their beliefs; ie blockade miners who ignore the Precautionary Principle and threaten the wellbeing of current and future generations through mining operations which are known to be contentious.

See also:

Article 19.

* Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Would you therefore please leave the protestors where they are to practice their Human Rights. Thank you.


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HELICOPTERS


For about 5 days there has been a helicopter flying up and down Main Arm & Mullum Creek Valleys and circling around like a blue-arsed fly on horse manure.

It is unmarked; ie presumably not police or lifesaving. Please send in your best conspiracy theory.


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On a personal note, I am not sending many newsletters currently as I am focussing on the Mullum survey and getting my hand-made recycled house & garden ready to sell; it"s on one acre 5 mins from Mullum. Also there are plenty of CSG messages available for your inbox (see below).



QUOTE: "When we make the effort to place soul at the centre of our concerns . . . values shift significantly. In every gathering of people, from business to politics, community would be considered more important than organisation, and friendship more valuable than productivity. If this idea seems anachronistic or impossible to live in our culture, then it is apparent how far we have to go to make our lives more soulful."
Thomas Moore

Cheers
Deb


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More Information:
• http://www.csgfreenorthernrivers.org/
• http://coalseamgasnews.org/
• http://www.keerronggassquad.org/
• http://www.gasileaks.com/
• http://lockthegate.org.au/
• http://www.stoppilligacoalseamgas.com.au/
• http://www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au/coal-mining-and-coal-seam-gas
• http://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/coal-seam-gas-by-the-numbers/
• http://stop-csg-illawarra.org/
• http://www.ccag.org.au/
• http://bimblebox.org/
• http://ntn.org.au/
• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=561260378#!/CsgFreeNorthernRivers
• http://www.youtube.com/user/csgfreenr/videos