Beyond Mining Series

Beyond Mining - Protecting land, water & life.

This podcast series was recorded from a number of talks, panel discussion & workshops held between the 22nd-29th November 2020 at the Beyond Mining Counter Conference. This counter conference was organised by Blockade IMARC. Blockade IMARC is made up of an alliance of organisations that have been protesting the International Mining & Resources Conference held annually in so-called Melbourne, Australia on unceded Wurunjeri & Boon Wurrung country. Content Topics: First Nations' Sovereignty, Capitalism, Colonialism, Extractivism, Activism

Beyond Mining - Protecting land, water & life.

This podcast series was recorded from a number of talks, panel discussion & workshops held between the 22nd-29th November 2020 at the Beyond Mining Counter Conference. This counter conference was organised by Blockade IMARC. Blockade IMARC is made up of an alliance of organisations that have been protesting the International Mining & Resources Conference held annually in so-called Melbourne, Australia on unceded Wurunjeri & Boon Wurrung country. Content Topics: First Nations' Sovereignty, Capitalism, Colonialism, Extractivism, Activism

This session talks to Extractivism from different perspectives including Africa, Melanesia and so-called Australia

MODERATOR Nat Lowrey is an activist who has organised, campaigned and advocated on human rights and global justice issues for over 20 years with a focus on exposing extractivist industries and their impacts.

PANELISTS

Richard Spoor is a South African activist and human rights attorney based in White River Mpumalanga who has more than 25 years of experience in complex litigation. A pioneer throughout the past 20 years in the fight for workers’ rights and safety, Spoor has become what The American Lawyer called the “bête noir” of the South Africa Mining Industry because of his unwavering commitment to holding mining companies accountable for their alleged ill-treatment of workers, who are some of the country’s most underprivileged citizens.

Beyond Mining - Protecting land, water & life.

This podcast series was recorded from a number of talks, panel discussion & workshops held between the 22nd-29th November 2020 at the Beyond Mining Counter Conference. This counter conference was organised by Blockade IMARC. Blockade IMARC is made up of an alliance of organisations that have been protesting the International Mining & Resources Conference held annually in so-called Melbourne, Australia on unceded Wurunjeri & Boon Wurrung country. Content Topics: First Nations' Sovereignty, Capitalism, Colonialism, Extractivism, Activism

ALTERNATIVES & VISIONING: FOR OUR FUTURES

For the last online session of the Blockade IMARC Beyond Mining counter conference, we will hear visions for a better future and have space to dream and discuss each of our visions.

Speakers:

Professor Yin Paradies – Wakaya man and expert in cultural competency and Indigenous knowledges.

Marianna – a Latin American feminist perspective of alternatives to extractivism (pre-record)

Dandara – Landless Workers Movement, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, MST

Brasil Dani (they/them) – Izquierda Guevarista of Chile, working with the Chilean popular movement.

Ron Guy – Convenor for Vic Australian Western Sahara Association

… Many more to be announced!

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Beyond Mining - Protecting land, water & life.

This podcast series was recorded from a number of talks, panel discussion & workshops held between the 22nd-29th November 2020 at the Beyond Mining Counter Conference. This counter conference was organised by Blockade IMARC. Blockade IMARC is made up of an alliance of organisations that have been protesting the International Mining & Resources Conference held annually in so-called Melbourne, Australia on unceded Wurunjeri & Boon Wurrung country. Content Topics: First Nations' Sovereignty, Capitalism, Colonialism, Extractivism, Activism

Hear from some of the incredible grassroots community protectors that are putting themselves in the way of coal mines, gold mines, logging and more. Our presenters will tell some stories of their resistance so you can get ideas for your own projects and learn how to get involved.

PANELISTS

This session will explore the Rights of Nature through the milestone cases of Ecuador and the movement for Rights of Nature in Australian and internationally.

POLICING 101: WHY POLICE ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS
Facilitated panel discussion and Q&A to explore the violent history and structure of police and the prison industrial complex in so-called Australia. Important discussion about how police and prisons uphold settler colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy and other systems of oppression and how this relates to our organising and movements for environmental and climate justice.

CO-FACILITATORS:

Peta Malins – Settler on Unceded Land, Senior Lecturer, Criminology and Justice Studies RMIT University

Marian Hart – settler, organiser, Latin American Solidarity Network, Australian Student Environment Network

PANELLISTS

Meriki Onus – Gunnai and Gunditjmara organiser and co-founder Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance

Tim Buchanan – Wiradjuri activist & artist, Australian Student Environment Network

Anne-lise Ah-fat – settler, organiser and co-founder Undercurrent Community Education Project, Transformative Justice Network, IRL Infoshop, IRL Prisoner Letter-Writing group
More TBC

This panel discussion aims to consider how environmental campaigners can decolonise our minds when addressing colonialism, extractivism and environmental destruction. At the panel discussion, we will unpack how decolonising requires non-indigenous activists to critically examine our power structures, our governance, our social values and our ways of thinking, and identify assumptions that are fundamentally colonialist so that we can weed them out, making us more receptive to listening to and cantering the voices of First Nations Peoples both here in Australia and around the world.

MODERATOR: Apsara Sabaratnam teaches in the areas of Organisation Behaviour and Managing Diversity at University. She is the Secretary of Multicultural Greens Victoria, a member of Stand Together Against Racism and one of the organisers of Blockade IMARC.  Apsara is an intersectional feminist and a climate activist who has worked in the community as a tireless and fearless advocate for environmental and social justice causes. She believes movements for change can only occur when we build coalitions between unions, migrant communities and climate and social justice groups.

PANELISTS

Jessie Ferrari (They/Them) is a proud Trans and Queer Yorta Yorta person, living on sovereign and stolen Wurundjeri land. They are an ecologist and activist, who does research around Indigenous (particularly Koorie) scientific knowledge and how it can be used to care for country and help to decolonize science

Lungol Wekina is a writer, performer, podcaster, and activist living on stolen Bedegal land. His portfolio includes poetry, prose, podcasts, short stories, and essays. Wekina’s work centres his indigenous, Black, and queer identities and is primarily about decolonisation, social justice, and environmental protection. You can typically find him at [redacted]. He is also an Aries.

Ruchira Talukdar is a doctoral candidate in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney. Her PhD thesis compares coal conflicts and protest movements in India and Australia. Ruchira has worked within the environmental movement in India, with Greenpeace, and Australia, with Greenpeace and the Australian Conservation Foundation. She is a regular contributor to environmental politics at New Matilda and Newsclick (in India).

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Beyond Mining - Protecting land, water & life.

This podcast series was recorded from a number of talks, panel discussion & workshops held between the 22nd-29th November 2020 at the Beyond Mining Counter Conference. This counter conference was organised by Blockade IMARC. Blockade IMARC is made up of an alliance of organisations that have been protesting the International Mining & Resources Conference held annually in so-called Melbourne, Australia on unceded Wurunjeri & Boon Wurrung country. Content Topics: First Nations' Sovereignty, Capitalism, Colonialism, Extractivism, Activism

EXTRACTIVISM IS NOT DEVELOPMENT!
The first part of this panel will explore the political and historical context of extractivism, discussing the consequences of this capitalist framework that allows mining exploitation on our planet, visiting the realities of Latin American and their relationship with the world.

10:30 am – 11:30 am Political and historical context
Speakers:
-MST-Brazil (Landless rural-peasants workers movement) the largest social movement in Latin America, more than a million members)
-Critical Studies Institute from Chile
(The neoliberalism started in Chile and will die in Chile)

Mining is a form of Extractivism which exploits natural resources on a massive scale. It is a short-sighted model of development pushed by states, institutions and corporations around the globe. With the massive appropriation of extracted natural resources comes violence that tramples Indigenous and human rights, and natures right to life,

This session talks to Extractivism from a Latin American perspective. There will be a Q&A session at the end

MODERATOR

Marisol Salinas, Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET)

PANELISTS

Marianna, a Latin American feminist perspective of extractivism (pre-record)

Landless Workers Movement, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, MST (TBC)

Naira Chalan, Vice-Convenor of ECUARUNARI (with translator)

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Beyond Mining - Protecting land, water & life.

This podcast series was recorded from a number of talks, panel discussion & workshops held between the 22nd-29th November 2020 at the Beyond Mining Counter Conference. This counter conference was organised by Blockade IMARC. Blockade IMARC is made up of an alliance of organisations that have been protesting the International Mining & Resources Conference held annually in so-called Melbourne, Australia on unceded Wurunjeri & Boon Wurrung country. Content Topics: First Nations' Sovereignty, Capitalism, Colonialism, Extractivism, Activism

Beyond Mining - Protecting land, water & life.

This podcast series was recorded from a number of talks, panel discussion & workshops held between the 22nd-29th November 2020 at the Beyond Mining Counter Conference. This counter conference was organised by Blockade IMARC. Blockade IMARC is made up of an alliance of organisations that have been protesting the International Mining & Resources Conference held annually in so-called Melbourne, Australia on unceded Wurunjeri & Boon Wurrung country. Content Topics: First Nations' Sovereignty, Capitalism, Colonialism, Extractivism, Activism

PROTECTING COUNTRY FROM GAS & FRACKING IN SO-CALLED AUSTRALIA

Rio Tinto’s Panguna mine poisoned land and water in Bougainville from 1972 until the late 80s. The mine was the catalyst for a civil war that saw an estimated 20,000 people killed between 1988 and 1997. Rio Tinto and the Australian and Papua New Guinean (PNG) government were complicit in the civil war.

Today, the autonomous region of Bougainville is fighting for full independence from PNG. However, mining companies including Australian linked RTG are trying to reopen the Panguna mine.

Join us as we talk with newly appointed Bougainvillean parliamentarian, Theonila Matbob. She will talk to the importance of protecting her people and the environment from Panguna’s ongoing impacts on human health and the land.

MODERATOR: Kim Croxford

PANELISTS

Theonila Matbob, a Bougainvillian politician and Cabinet Minister contested the seat of Ioro in the 2020 Bougainvillian General Election. She beat 15 men to win the seat. Growing up through the civil war she is one of a group of Boungainvillean villagers who filed an OECD complaint against Rio Tinto over environmental degradation caused by the Panguna mine.

We’ll also hear from Keren Adams from the Human Rights Law Centre about the impacts of Australian linked companies in Bougainville.

Beyond Mining - Protecting land, water & life.

This podcast series was recorded from a number of talks, panel discussion & workshops held between the 22nd-29th November 2020 at the Beyond Mining Counter Conference. This counter conference was organised by Blockade IMARC. Blockade IMARC is made up of an alliance of organisations that have been protesting the International Mining & Resources Conference held annually in so-called Melbourne, Australia on unceded Wurunjeri & Boon Wurrung country. Content Topics: First Nations' Sovereignty, Capitalism, Colonialism, Extractivism, Activism