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Lessons for Shannon from the Successful Campaign to Close Jabiluka Uranium Mine

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Thursday June 03, 2004 15:05

by Ciaron - Dublin Catholic Worker

83 Corrib Rd. Kimmage D6W (intersects with Lwr. Kimmage Rd.)

087 918 4552

Video Screening (45 mins) & Short Reflection by Blockader

VIDEO SCREENING AND REFLECTIONS ON THE NONVIOLENT CAMPAIGN TO CLOSE THE JABILUK URANIUM MINE (NT Australia)
LESSONS TO BE LEARNT FOR THE SHANNON CAMPAIGN!

ON SUNDAY EVENING (june 6th.) 7.30 PM there will be a screening of "Minds and Energy" a video dealing with the successful nonviolent direct action campaign that closed the Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Ciaron O'Reilly of the Jabiluka Ploughshares will also share reflections on the campaign that closed the mine in the traditional homeland of the Mirrar people & beautiful wetlands of the Kakudu National Park.

The 1998 blockade deals with the creative nonviolent direct action, the action camp and tensions between activists, movement bureaucrats, symapthetic clebs and the most authoritarian/racist police force in Australia.

Most activists travelled 4,000 (Brisbane) 5,000 (Sydney) & 6,000 (Melbourne) miles roundtrtip to camp in an unfamiliar environment - one tap for 500 blockaders at one point.

ERA announced this year that they are filling in the mine shaft. Lessons can be drawn for the nonviolent direct action to demilitarise Shannon Airport in Ireland.

VENUE - 83 Corrib Rd. Kimmage, 19A to Lower Kimmage which intersects with Corrib
More Info 087 918 4552

(Take 19A to Lower Kimmage Rd. Get off at bus stop after 2 petrol stations, turn left into Corrib, house is to the right of the roundabout park in Corrib)

**These evening are part of the Dublin Catholic Worker open house evenings. They are preceeded by
7 pm - Soup
6 pm - Catholic Worker liturgy
*Feel free to come to what ever part of the evening you feel comfortable with!
RSVP for soup quantity would be helpful but not essential text 087 918 4552, email dublincatholicworker@yahoo.co.uk

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Jabiluka Ploughsares Link

by Ciaron - Jabiluka Ploughshares

Fri Jun 04, 2004 01:28

http://www.plowsharesactions.org/webpages/JABILUKAPLOWSHARES.htm

Traditional owners get Jabiluka veto

by AAP

Fri Jun 04, 2004 03:23

Thursday April 22, 08:04 PM
Traditional owners get Jabiluka veto
AAP

Traditional Aboriginal owners signed off on a historic agreement ending
their long struggle against the controversial Jabiluka uranium mine.

The landmark deal gives the owners the right to veto the future
development of the site in the heart of Kakadu National Park in the
Northern Territory.

The Northern Land Council (NLC), acting on behalf of traditional
owners, voted unanimously at its full council meeting to ratify the
agreement with the mine owner, resources giant Rio Tinto's Energy
Resources of Australia (ERA).

The long-awaited deal was flagged last July but delayed until now to
give more time for consultation with traditional owners.

The Jabiluka mine had been the focus of years of bitter and violent
protests, which culminated in the late 1990s when ERA finally won
approval to extract uranium from the site.

Thousands of protesters rallied across Australia against the mine, with
hundreds arrested in demonstrations.

Extracted uranium ore was never processed and sat in a stockpile at the
site until late last year when it was put back in the mine as part of
the deal.

Gundjehmi Aboriginal Corporation, which represents the Mirrar people,
said that under the deal ERA had pledged not to carry out any mining
activity on the Jabiluka Mineral Lease without the written consent of
the Mirrar people.

The Jabiluka mine decline was backfilled and the site cleaned up late
last year.

Some of ERA's financial obligations will also be waived under the deal.

ERA has paid out more than $7.5 million to the Northern Land Council
since 1998 as part of an agreement signed with the previous mine owners
Pan Continental.

"We heartily welcome the NLC's ratification of the agreement,"
Gundjehmi executive officer Andy Ralph said.

"While it has taken many months for the NLC to finally arrive at this
point, we are happy that there is now Aboriginal consensus on giving
Mirrar traditional owners true control over their destiny in relation
to uranium mining.

"This agreement will see the Mirrar people in the driving seat, for the
first time in 30 years, of mining activity on their country."

ERA welcomed the decision and thanked the Mirrar people for their
"strong leadership".

"This agreement comes after more than 18 months of negotiations between
the company and the Mirrar traditional owners through the Gundjehmi
Aboriginal Corporation and the NLC," an ERA spokeswoman said.

"ERA believes this agreement is beneficial for social, economic and
environmental reasons."

The agreement must now be approved by Indigenous Affairs Minister
Amanda Vanstone prior to it coming into force, Mr Ralph said.

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