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Climate Change Challenges: Building Bridges Through Community Radio

Thousands of people around Australia rallied for emergency action on Climate Change on June 13, calling for 100% renewable energy by 2020 and demanding that Australia must make the shift from fossil fuels to wind, solar and other available renewable technologies. The National Climate Emergency Rally was held in capital cities around Australia, with people siting down outside Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's city office in Sydney and a sitdown protest in front of the Melbourne Town Hall where the ruling Australian Labor Party were holding their State conference.

Nomad Green: Creating Environmental Awareness Using Citizen Media project launched in Mongolia. Nomad Green is a citizen media website dedicated to raise envirommental awareness of Mongolian citizens.
More information available at
http://www.nomadgreen.org/?lang=en
http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2009/04/21/nomad-green/

RESUMEN INFORMATIVO ESPECIAL
Observatorio Ciudadano, Temuco, Chile, Sábado 13 de junio de 2009
Resumen Completo

Entrevista exclusiva a director de radio clausurada por el gobierno peruano: "Han cerrado la radio porque hemos estado informando de la masacre de los indígenas"

DRM PRESS RELEASE
Date: 12.06.2009
source: http://www.drm.org/

DRM+ SUCCESSFULLY TRIALLED IN PARIS
Paris, 12th June 2009: The Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) technology for broadcast at higher frequencies was successfully trialled in Paris on Thursday. The DRM+ signal was broadcast on 64.5 MHz from Tour Pleyel, North of Paris, and was received at the office of Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA) which regulates the various electronic media in France. The CSA is located 10 km away from the transmitter but the signal strength was good with only 400 watts of radiating power.

World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 and is commemorated yearly on 5 June.

Leave comments here on what your organization is doing in the fight for the environment, what sort of organization your work for or what are you planning for Copenhaguen 2009.

Read More: WACC Statement on commemorating World Environment Day, 5 June 2009
Official website http://www.unep.org/wed/2009/english/

"No one can cover up historical facts forever, and the truth will eventually reveal itself."
- Zhu Rongji, Mayor of Shanghai (June 8, 1989)

OURMedia salutes activities commemorating the student protests on the 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square events in Beijing.

Tiananmen Square Twenty Years On Questions remain and debates continue, writes John Horvath for OhMyNews
http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=...

Call for Papers: "Culture, Media: Protest" Conference
September 3-5, 2009
Organised by the Research Project “Protest as Medium – Media of Protest”
Location: University of Lucerne (CH)

Keynote speakers include:

by Michelle Thomas — for EngageMedia, Australia
source - http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/Michelle/news/channel-31-in-melbourne...