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The Latest on GM Free Campaigns * Sat Feb 10th

February 9, 2018

GM-Free Australia Alliance
invites you to network with
SA and interstate GM-free campaigners

Saturday 10th February, 3-5pm at the Joinery, 111 Franklin St, Adelaide SA 5000
  • Threats of new GM techniques and products: with Louise Sales, FoE
  • GM-free SA successes: where to from here? Bring your ideas!
  • Promote local GM-free farms and foods, for local, Australian and export markets
  • Network with allies in seed saving/food/environment organisations

Adelaide FoE Notes, FoE, Food

SA GM-free Election Forum — Mon 12 Feb

February 9, 2018

Bob Phelps writes:
Hello all SA GM-free supporters:
Please come to hear your politicians speak and answer your questions on GM-free before the election. 
Please also share this message with your family and friends. We really need a full house!!
   Candidates pitch their policies on GM-free SA and GM generally.
        You quiz them on the actions their Parties will take after the election.

Where:    Carl Linger Hall
Level 1, The German Club

223 Flinders Street, Adelaide, SA 5000

When:   6.45pm for a 7pm start on Monday February 12, 2018
How:    7 pm  The moderator introduces the evening.
7.10   Each candidate has 10 minutes to explain policy on SA GM-free.

7.50   Audience and moderator Q&A.

8.45   Summations, closing remarks and thanks.

Speakers:
Ag Minister Leon Bignell (ALP),
David Ridgway (Libs),
Mark Parnell (Greens),
Nick Xenophon (SA Best).

Make your free bookings here to secure a seat:

Adelaide FoE Notes, Food

Stinging critique of NEG

February 4, 2018

In a stinging critique of the NEG prepared for the Australian Conservation Foundation, energy economics consultancy CME says the NEG – the detail of which remains scant – would deliver an inefficient and opaque electricity market that deliberately hides emission prices and undermines competition in wholesale and retail markets.

The report – co-authored by CME director Bruce Mountain, who has been vocal in his concerns about the NEG – also argues that the policy would deliver outcomes to protect coal generators from competition from increasingly cheap wind, solar and battery storage.

The “ultimate cost” of this inefficiency, the report warns, “will be borne by consumers in the form of higher electricity prices, in emission reductions that are more expensive and in a less secure power system.”

— Sophie Vorrath, reporting in renewEconomy on Feb 2nd

Adelaide FoE Notes, Climate, Renewables

Making Waves in Adelaide: Jan 29th

January 26, 2018

Making Waves features the powerful tales of nuclear survivors from Japan and Australia, travelling aboard Peace Boat’s voyage to Australia from 24 January – 6 February 2018.

The Governments of both countries have not yet signed the new nuclear weapons ban treaty. Inspiring civil society movements are demanding their leaders reject these weapons of mass destruction and abide by the new international legal norm.

Join the discussion.

Speakers include:
  • Miyake Nobuo, survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
  • Hasegawa Hanako and Hasegawa Kenichi, former dairy farmers evacuated from Itate village, Fukushima
  • Karina Lester, Yankunytjatjara-Anangu second-generation nuclear test survivor
  • Scott Ludlam, former federal Senator and ICAN Ambassador

Hosted by Peace Boat, the Conservation Council of South Australia and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

On Monday 29 January 2018 at 6:00pm 

LOCATION

Gallery Yampu
1 Jenkins St, Birkenhead, Port Adelaide, SA

Adelaide FoE Notes, Weapons proliferation

Davos: “Zombie” TPP trade deal threatens our fractured world

January 26, 2018

Amsterdam, 24 January 2018:  Friends of the Earth International has warned that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal could threaten people and planet if signed and ratified by national parliaments in March this year.

The remarks came as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Australian Trade Minister and other leaders meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos (23-26 January) celebrated the conclusion of the deal between 11 countries countries in Asia-Pacific.

Sam Cossar-Gilbert, Friends of the Earth International trade campaigner, said:

“It is no wonder the corporate elite at Davos are celebrating this zombie TPP deal. It enables foreign companies to sue governments in secret trade tribunals for almost any measure that harms their expected profits.”

The topic of this year’s World Economic Forum “Creating a shared future in a fractured world”.

Cossar-Gilbert added:

“The TPP threatens ‘our fractured world’ and the UN Sustainable Development Goals by undermining regulation on food safety, access to medicine, chemical use and climate change. Sadly, world leaders at Davos remain addicted to failed neoliberal policies. When leaders and trade officials leave the comfort of the Davos ski resort, environmentalists, trade unions and farmers will be there to stop the zombie TPP deal and other corporate trade deals.”

ENDS

More info:

  • Neoliberalism: A form of free market fundamentalism that has been the dominant global economic ideology for the last 30 years which profit and “efficiency” are the central goals of society.  It is a framework focused on reducing the role of the state and taxation, while promoting privatization, deregulation and corporate trade deals. According to Friends of the Earth International, this has led to soaring inequality, whereby just 8 people have the same wealth as half the world’s population and an environmental crisis in the form of unprecedented species loss and dangerous climate change. Find out more: http://www.foei.org/what-we-do/economic-justice-resisting-neoliberalism

Adelaide FoE Notes, Sustainability, trade