Letters Support for ơſĹ&#x;ŕȞơĹ&#x;Ć–Ć?IJ If, like me, you are inspired by the Student Strikes for Climate Action, then please accept their invitation to join them on September 20. Byron Shire students have held three rallies and shown their passion and commitment for action on climate change. Let’s show them we support them and that we, their community, care about their future. Meet at Byron Recreation Ground at 10am on Friday 20 September. Jan Barham Broken Head
!Ĺ?ĜŔÍĆ?Ä• ÄˆÄ˛ĂŤĹ•ÄŤÄ• With the Amazon burning, I can imagine what the author and journalist Dahr Jamal is feeling. Dahr Jamal’s book The end of ice is an amazing read, written with passion, wisdom, and honesty. Dahr through his adventures bears witness to our world, a living system that is dying. Anthropogenic climate disruption is causing the destruction on the balances of earth’s eco-systems and biosphere that enable and maintain life on this planet. The earth was our first teacher. Did we learn? It is now time for us all to stand up for, love, and connect
Cartoon by Holly English – www.hollyenglish.com with, and understand our natural world while we can. To get from our heads to our hearts I recommend this book to everyone. Eleanor Ashworth Lennox Head
ſĕ ƹĕ Ĺ?ĜưĜŕč Ĝŕ ÄŞÄ•ĂŤĹżČƒ The American FBI now states that: anti-government, fringe political ‘conspiracy theories’ very likely motivate some domestic extremists to commit criminal and sometimes violent activity. Yet, president Harry S Truman wrote: ‘Once a
government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.’ Peter Olson Goonengerry
LÄ•ĂŤĹżĆ?ÄŞÄ•Ĺ?Ć? Ć?IJÍŕŊƆ Heartfelt thanks to Meyrick Gilchrist for his message [Echo 9/4] urging us all to support the Uluru
Statement from the Heart. That 300 people rose as one in a standing ovation for Thomas Mayor’s eloquent presentation the previous week at Politics in the Pub presumes that many will write a submission to the current Senate Inquiry (closing date 9/4) expressing their individual support. IVoiceUluru provides a submission format for guidance. Australia has much to gain from constitutional change enshrining a Voice to Parliament for First Nations People through a future referendum, social cohesiveness, cultural enrichment, and longoverdue parity with other Commonwealth countries come to mind. Jill Keogh Ocean Shores
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