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Earth Matters

Local and global environmental issues from grassroots, activist perspectives with a strong social justice focus. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.

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Warm Belly, Cool Planet

Warm Belly, Cool Planet

Last year the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People ... Read more

13 Jan 2019

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Mauna Kea Struggle: Aloha, Not for Sale

Mauna Kea Struggle: Aloha, Not for Sale

Mauna Kea Struggle: Aloha, Not for SaleThis week on Earth Matters we hear from Kanaka Maoli activists involved in the on... Read more

22 Sep 2019

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Fighting mining from Ecuador to Australia

Fighting mining from Ecuador to Australia

Mining is at the forefront of climate change, and the opposition to it is the nexus of indigenous and environmental stru... Read more

6 Oct 2019

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Roadtrip to Nuclear Australia

Roadtrip to Nuclear Australia

The Radioactive Exposure Tour is a road trip exploring nuclear Australia, past and present, and forging connections for ... Read more

15 Apr 2018

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Ten Eighty Summit. Calling for a ban on the deadly poison. Part One.

Ten Eighty Summit. Calling for a ban on the deadly poison. Part One.

Join the audience for Part Two of the Ten80 Summit into the effects of 1080 poison use in Australia.1080 poison is one o... Read more

30 Dec 2018

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Coal power's toxic health toll [encore]

Coal power's toxic health toll [encore]

Coal power's toxic health toll [encore broadcast] This week we bring you a story we first aired in 2007. Coal-fired powe... Read more

20 Jan 2019

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Future histories - technology isn't neutral

Future histories - technology isn't neutral

Can we simply innovate our way out of the present climate crisis? Or do technological fixes hide another problem - that ... Read more

8 Sep 2019

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Decolonising Anarchism: Indigenous Anarchist Federation

Decolonising Anarchism: Indigenous Anarchist Federation

Decolonising Anarchism: Indigenous Anarchist FederationIAF members Bombshell and insurgent e on the formation of the Ind... Read more

28 Jul 2019

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Fighting Eco-Fascism

Fighting Eco-Fascism

Fighting eco-fascism: an environmentalism without natureWe often think of environmental politics as inherently progressi... Read more

15 Sep 2019

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Djab Wurrung Eviction: Our Way, or the highway!

Djab Wurrung Eviction: Our Way, or the highway!

Djab Wurrung Eviction: Our Way, or the highway!The Djab Wurrung Heritage Protection Embassy blockade is facing eviction ... Read more

25 Aug 2019

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The Desert Pea and The Frontier Wars March on Anzac

The Desert Pea and The Frontier Wars March on Anzac

The Australian frontier wars were a series of conflicts fought between Indigenous Australians and white settlers during ... Read more

22 Apr 2018

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IMARC Blockade live outside broadcast (Pt 1)

IMARC Blockade live outside broadcast (Pt 1)

IMARC blockade live outside broadcast (Part 1)Recorded live at the (IMARC) International Mining & Resource Conferenc... Read more

10 Nov 2019

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"We wish to restore our rights over those countries": Uncle Albert Hartnett

"We wish to restore our rights over those countries": Uncle Albert Hartnett

"Everything that we have been fighting for over years of our activism has been  for the  rights to be able to make decis... Read more

27 Oct 2019

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Black throated finch and Adani contractors under pressure.

Black throated finch and Adani contractors under pressure.

This is about  the  fate of the black throated finch  as Adani is bulldozing  some of its last natural habitat . Michael... Read more

29 Sep 2019

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Saving The Murray Darling part 3 with local traditional owners

Saving The Murray Darling part 3 with local traditional owners

In what is a national environmental disaster this week on the program we yarn about the health of the Murray-Darling riv... Read more

3 Feb 2019

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Resisting state repression - resisting business as usual

Resisting state repression - resisting business as usual

On today’s show we hear about Queensland’s new anti lock-on laws.  Then we get a report-back from Blockade IMARC in Melb... Read more

3 Nov 2019

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Water is Life - First Nations fight for water justice

Water is Life - First Nations fight for water justice

Water is Life - First Nations fight for water justiceToday, we’re bringing you First Nations voices in the fight for wat... Read more

17 Feb 2019

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Wangan Jagalingou establish a sovereignty camp / Sounds from a StopAdani lockon 

Wangan Jagalingou establish a sovereignty camp / Sounds from a StopAdani lockon 

Adani is currently clearing trees for the construction of its Carmichael mine in Queensland.In todays show we hear Adria... Read more

1 Sep 2019

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Warburdar Bununu - Water Shield documentary

Warburdar Bununu - Water Shield documentary

Warburdar Bununu - Water Shield documentary is a new short film highlighting the fight for water rights and mining on co... Read more

13 Oct 2019

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Behind Enemy Lines - The Songs of the Terania Creek and Nightcap Blockades

Behind Enemy Lines - The Songs of the Terania Creek and Nightcap Blockades

To mark the 40th anniversary of Australia's first forest blockade at Terania Creek in 1979 Earth Matters presents a prog... Read more

18 Aug 2019

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