Thirty Years of Creative Resistance - Friends of the Earth Australia

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FoE Maryborough began on the mid north coast of Queensland in 1991 and continues to monitor threats to Fraser Island and the broader region. Although a number of green groups have laid claim to ‘saving’ Fraser Island, the role of FoE Maryborough has not yet received the recognition it deserves in the successful campaign to end logging on Fraser, the world’s largest sand island. Activists Ross and Karen Daniel and Zephyr L’Green were pivotal in the group that kept the base camp on the Island running for a whole year of blockading. Without the blockades, there would have been far less pressure on the state and Federal Governments to end logging on the island. Following the death of a young boy on Fraser Island as the result of a dingo attack in 2001, a State Government program to cull dingoes nearly eradicated the entire population. FoE Maryborough carried out a census of animals, lobbied State Government departments and worked with local traditional owners of the Island to ensure greater recognition of Indigenous rights to control and manage the island’s natural ecosystems. FoE 30 Years 104
Melia Bugeja, FoE Melbourne Food Co-op. The largest FoE group in Australia is based in Melbourne and was set up in 1973. FoEM (Melbourne) or FoEM has always been physically located in the city’s inner north, moving through six offices over this time. The group changed its name many times to better reflect the geographical coverage of its campaign activity. It started as FoEM Carlton, then changed to Collingwood, then Fitzroy and finally FoEM in 2000. It also moved offices many times, starting in McArthur Place in Carlton, then Nicholson Street and 366 Smith Street in Collingwood. ................................................................................................................................................................................................... Over that period, FoEM has been active in an extensive range of campaigns: on hazardous chemicals and community Right to Know legislation, brown coal development in the Latrobe Valley, genetic engineering, solidarity with the East Timorese struggle, food irradiation, antimilitarism, public transport and renewable energy, to name a few. In the 1980s, FoEM groups in Melbourne and elsewhere pioneered national work on recycling, waste minimisation and deposit legislation. FoEM has run a food co-operative since 1975. Originally a ‘dry foods’ co-op, this is now the largest and one of the longest running co-ops of its type in Australia. It stocks minimally processed food, where shoppers bring their own containers, food is organic and locally grown wherever possible, and fairly traded. It now also includes an organic vegetarian café. The FoEM co-op is a bold and well regarded venture that feeds both body and spirit and Beth Cameron and Leanne McLean have been involved in its co-ordination for over a decade. Bookshop, FoE Melbourne. FoE 30 Years 105
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Up to a few decades ago, many peopl
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It seemed like a simple idea: to pr
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The optimism, courage and creativit
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Over thirty years, FoE has develope
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decades. In Australia, FoE is commi
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This group acted as an inspiration
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In the 1970s, a handful of key issu
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In the mid ‘70s I was studying en
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In 1976, there was a strong campaig
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egan to jostle for access to Antarc
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Keith Suter The future is never as
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I first became aware of FoE via Pet
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I remember the attempts of the nucl
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I grew up with the threat of global
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In late 1980 a couple of people who
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The Australian Mining Journal noted
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