DOWNLOAD BHP BILLITON ALTERNATIVE ANNUAL REPORT
Today at the annual general meeting for the largest mining company in the world, BHP Billiton, aboriginal elders and civil society representatives have attended to share their concerns.
Delegates included:
Uncle Kevin Buzzacott and Peter Watts (Arabunna), Richard Evans – Yeelirrie, Tomohiro Matsuoka – Japan for Peace, Mia Pepper – Conservation Council WA
Dave Sweeney – Australian Conservation Foundation, Donna Jackson – Larrakia nation, Mitch – Arrente and many others – including Christian Miller from Chile.
Uncle Kevin Buzzacott addressed supporters gathered saying, calling on the people of Melbourne to regularly visit BHP headquarters to keep them accountable.
Uncle Kevin Buzzacott is from Arabunna country, directly impacted by BHP Billiton’s uranium mining operations has brought a ‘Notice of Trespass’ to be served on BHP.
40 supporters gathered to support over 20 delegates who entered the conference to share concerns about many aspects of BHP Operations across Australia, and worldwide.
Conference delegates were greeted by a massive 6 metre high inflatable nuclear waste barrel and were handed copies of a different style of report.
A collective of environment groups from across the country have today released BHP Billiton: Dirty Energy ‘Alternative Annual Report’.
VIDEOS FROM ACTION OUTSIDE BHP BILLITON”S ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, Melbourne, Australia
Arabunna elder Uncle Kevin Buzzacott was one of a number of traditional custodians who travelled to Melbourne to challenge the board of the world’s biggest mining company, BHP Billiton, over the despoiling of their country. Here he describes his reception at the AGM.
We hear first from Friends of the Earth anti-nuclear campaigner Tully McIntyre, who witnessed proceedings, and Japanese for Peace campaigner Tomohiro Matsuoka.
While traditional custodians and supporters holding proxies were inside the Melbourne Convention Centre challenging the board, other supporters held a protest outside, against the backdrop of a huge blow-up radioactive waste barrel:
hip-hop from Izzy and MC Ollie, satire from No Nukes Calamity Jane (aka Madeline Hudson), song from the Radical Choir, including a solo from Emily…
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November 19, 2011 at 10:47 pm
melbourneprotests
Video of Uncle Kevin speaking outside the AGM –
http://youtu.be/Oe_CT3vw4t0
and some snippets from the musical interludes -
June 4, 2012 at 4:22 am
Alexiitha
I have been thinking about Occupy Melbourne and check your wbesite regularly. I would like to see an inclusion on your wbesite that names and shames I have always thought that articles regarding the 1% that appear in newspapers, etc should always have in small print the names of the Board and Executive staff.Take Qantas for instance which is THE big one at the moment. Check out their wbesite and you find all these connections’. Leigh Clifford the Chairman of the Board is also Murdoch (that name!) Children’s Institute and Rio Tinto (causing mining problems to the indigenous community in WA). Alan Joyce’s main claim to fame is Ansett (say no more). Patricia Cross on board of Murdoch Children’s Institute and the NAB. Paul Rayner is a British American Tobacco and Rothman’s man with a bit of GEC thrown in. All lovely one percenters.Knowledge is power and the more knowledge you can get out there about all these fat cats that are incestuously involved in their networks the more the 99% will identify with the rationale behind the Occupy movement.Harness all the beautiful young student brains to research all these details and put them on cyberspace in simple terms that all can understand. I know Twitter and Facebook are the main vehicles at the moment, but don’t underestimate your wbesite and the hits it will get if these people are personalised. It is easy for them to hide behind their corporate protection but if you make them real and accountable to your followers and others they will not like the scrutiny.I bet Robert Doyle (what Boards are he on?) and the Ballieu/Ryan Government are so pleased to have Qantas on the front page for the next week or so.Seize this moment with Qantas the travelling public are with you .I wish I was able to help you more, but my radical action days are behind me. Good luck, and I will be doing all I can to support you.