Councillor Chris Harris

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Will the City of Sydney Council stand up for its citizens or will it standby and say nothing while its people are caged in, water cannoned and not allowed to cross the streets? Chris Harris wants council to take a stand and has put forward a motion calling on council to erect a banner on the Sydney Town Hall – ‘Cage Bush. Not Sydney’.

“The banner acknowledges that we need to protect Bush – and let’s be honest that’s what this security is all about – but not at the expense of caging in Sydney. As the council responsible for the city it is up to us to let the people of Sydney know where we stand on the closing down of their city. I think a banner erected on the Town Hall would identify that stand,” said Cr Harris. Read the rest of this entry »

These St Patrick’s Day revellers loved the Green connection when they happened on our stall in Oxford St yesterday. They asked to be photographed and put on a website. Happy to oblige!

Click on the image to enlarge.

Then click on to see another green street scene… Read the rest of this entry »

Those who are sick of living with a conga line of army helicopters flying around Sydney streets because of Dick Cheney’s visit will be pleased to know that authorities are now locking off Post boxes in the city centre.

Australia Post advises that indeed this is because of Mr Cheney. People wanting to post letters can still go down to the GPO in Martin Place.

On top of that, police are advising people to avoid the city from Thursday night until Sunday when the world’s foremost neo-con and architect of the
Iraq disaster leaves our shores.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald:

“The traffic problems will begin at 5.30pm (Thursday) when protesters from the Stop the War Coalition will march from Town Hall and move down George Street.

“The protesters will also demonstrate on Friday morning at the Shangri-la Hotel in The Rocks, where Mr Cheney is scheduled to speak to the Australian American Association.

“Cumberland, Gloucester and Essex Streets in the Rocks will be closed due to the visit until Sunday morning.”

Consider that an invitation to join the demonstrations.

The Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has made headlines by concluding there is a 90% chance that human activities are the main driver of global warming. The conservative report is laced with terms such as ‘likely’, ‘more than likely’ and ‘very likely’ when assessing the known global indicators such as hurricane intensity, temperature rise and sea levels.

Yet if the blogs of major newspapers are any indication, most advocates of the old fossil fuel economy have not read the report and are still trotting out anti-greenhouse arguments based on pseudo-scientific ‘factoids’.

The report is also conservative because it deliberately does not take into account much of the ice sheet melt now taking place, mainly because the data are insufficient for strict scientific evidence.

But Australian of the Year Tim Flannery has pointed out that the IPCC stopped its data collection at 2005. Since then, ice sheet melt had accelerated alarmingly. Read the rest of this entry »