“I visited the shrine at Hiroshima. I know the history of Maralinga. And I’ve witnessed the struggle at Jabiluka. I have long been opposed to uranium mining, and I remain opposed to it. I am unapologetic about this. In fact, I am proud of it.” ~ Peter Garrett, debate on uranium, 2007 ALP National Conference, July 31–August 2 | Lessons of Peter Garrett’s evolution: from radical activist to Australian Labor politician, James Cogan (SEP candidate for Kingsford Smith [214 votes (0.3%) ~versus~ Garrett: 36,565 votes (49.6%)]), wsws.org, October 5, 2004.
“Brighter Than a Thousand Suns”
We are not the sons of God
We are not His chosen people now
We have crossed the path He trod
We will feel the pain of His beginning
Shadow fingers rise above
Iron fingers stab the desert sky
Oh behold the power of man
On its tower ready for the fall
Knocking heads together well
Raise a city build a living hell
Join the race to suicide
Listen for the tolling of the bell
Out of the universe, a strange love is born
Unholy union, trinity reformed
Yellow sun its evil twin
In the black the winds deliver him
We will split our souls within
Atom seed to nuclear dust is riven
Out of the universe, a strange light is born
Unholy union, trinity reformed
Out of the darkness
Brighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darkness
Brighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darkness
Brighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darkness
Brighter than a thousand suns
Bury your problems and bury your dead
Bury your head in the sand
E=MC squared you can relate
How we made God with our hands
Whatever would Robert have said to his God
About how we made war with the Sun
E=MC squared you can relate
How we made God with our hands
All nations are rising
Through acid veils of love and hate
Chain letters of Satan
Uncertainty led us all to this
All nations are rising
Through acid veils of love and hate
Cold fusion and fury
Divide and conquer while ye may
Others preach and others fall and pray
In the bunkers where we’ll die
Where the executioners they lie
Bombers launch with no recall
Minute warning of the missile fall
Take a look at your last sky
Guessing you won’t have the time to cry
Out of the universe, a strange light is born
Unholy union, trinity reformed
Out of the darkness
Out of the darkness
Out of the darkness
Brighter than a thousands suns
Out of the darkness
Brighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darkness
Brighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darkness
Brighter than a thousand suns
Out of the darkness
Brighter than a thousand suns
Holy Father we have sinned
The Death of Ilya Borodaenko Commemorated in Several Russian Cities
COBA / SOVA
July 22, 2008
Exactly one year ago yesterday, activist Ilya Borodaenko was murdered during an attack by a group of Nazi skinheads on a ecology protest action to which he was taking part. In his memory, groups of people gathered in several Russian towns, among which Irkutsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Samara.
On July 21, 2007, a group of ecologists in Angarsk (Irkutsk region) had gathered to protest against the development of nuclear energy undertaken by the Russian government, the unsafe storage of radioactive waste, and the growth in capacity of the uranium enrichment enterprise in the town. At 5 a.m., a time when the protesters were sleeping in their tents, about 25 people screaming slogans reported as characteristic of Nazi-skinhead movements, attacked the camp armed with compressed air guns, baseball bats, knives, and iron rods. More than 20 people were arrested in the following few days, but the investigation is not yet over (the underage attackers are not allowed to leave the locality, while the adults are in custody).
In Novosibirsk, people gathered in the evening in the Pervamaiscaya (First of May) Square; they lit candles underneath Ilya’s portrait, and displayed banners with the slogan “Radiation kills nature, Nazism kills people”.
In Moscow, close to 30 people gathered on the Mal. Ordynka Street, in front of the administrative building of ROSATOM – the company against the uranium enrichment projects of which Ilya and his group were protesting. The participants lit candles and declared that “Today we grieve, but tomorrow we will continue our fight […] against the fascist plague and the atomic mafia”.
In Irkutsk, about 20 people gathered to honor Ilya’s memory. Three participants, climbed on an apartment building displayed a banner with the inscription “On July 21, 2007, Ilya Borodaenko was killed by neo-Nazis. We will not forget, we will not forgive!”; the others stood below holding photographs of the activist. However, within half an hour from the commencement of the memorial action, four participants, including an elderly woman, were arrested by the police. According to the officers, the four are accused of “breaking the rules of conducting meetings, mass actions, and protests” (Article 20, Paragraph 2 of the Russian Penal Code).
See also : New Nukes First Casualty, Michael Steinberg, Z Magazine, October 2007.
Uranium mine linked to US arms dealer
Ben Cubby
The Age
July 16, 2009
THE new uranium mine approved by Environment Minister Peter Garrett will be owned by a subsidiary of one of the world’s biggest arms dealers. A colourful but reclusive billionaire named James Neal Blue, who helped devise the Predator unmanned aircraft being used in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, is a director of Quasar Resources, the company that will control the Four Mile mine. Quasar Resources is an affiliate of General Atomics, a US weapons and nuclear energy corporation that is chaired by Mr Blue, and reportedly holds $US700 million ($A877 million) in Pentagon contracts. Mr Blue first came to prominence during the 1980s as a self-described “enthusiastic supporter” of US involvement in a covert war against the left-wing government in Nicaragua. Next to the new Four Mile mine is the Beverley uranium mine, which is owned by Heathgate Resources, also affiliated to Mr Blue’s General Atomics…
