Chase the Commons/ To chase the commons had its genesis on the New South Wales North Coast and links to my Typepad blog set up to track North Coast labour history - because that was diminishing as workers' local institutions of labour closed down. Over time that blog, and so this, has become a smorgasbord of labour history, social justice, safety crimes and workplace, words on traveling. And what's that all about if not to guard our commons?
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Locking the Gate?
Dreadfully sad news in Australia's anti-fracking community this week - Queensland farmer George Bender, longterm frontline fighter against the CSG multinationals, has taken his life. Testimony to the terrible impact of the fight, against fracking, on people in the front line. This is a global front line of course and the story of government-sanctioned bullying by the miners takes one's breath away.
In response people are now holding vigils in the cities and the towns, remembering George Bender and expressing their anger at the actions of big mining and the complicit state. Please, read Drew Hutton's words about his friend.
http://www.lockthegate.org.au/never_again
#fracking #csg #lockthegate #GeorgeBender
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