Groups and contacts

Oceans and nukes

G The Pacific Concerns Resource Centre/Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement: The PCRC serves as the secretariat for NFIP and helps over 100 NGOs and community organisations in the Pacific. Specific campaigns include lobbying and protesting the testing of nuclear weapons and dumping of hazardous wastes in the Johnston Atoll, missile defence testing in the Kwajalein Atoll, and actions against the trans-shipment of plutonium and uranium mixed oxide fuels through the Pacific Ocean (http://www.converge.org.nz/ pma/index.htm). Their more general campaigns include demilitarisation, decolonisation, environment, sustainable human development, human rights and good governance. Contact: Pacific Concerns Resource Centre, 83 Amy Street, Toorak, Suva, Fiji Islands (http://www.pcrc.org.fj).

All tied up
Figure Eight This knot can keep the end of a rope from running out of a tackle or pulley. First make underhand loop while bringing the end around and over the standing part. Then pass the end under and up through the loop. Tighten. Two Half Hitches Use this knot when mooring. First pass the end of the rope around a post or other object. Then wrap the short end under and over the long part of rope, pushing the end down through the loop. This creates a half hitch. Now just repeat this (still using the short rope) on the long rope below what you just made. Tighten. Bowline The Queen of Knotsnever jams or slips when tied properly. First, make an overhand loop with the end held toward you, then pass end through loop. Now pass the end up behind the standing part, then down through loop again. Draw up tight. Anchor Bend Use this one to tie a rope to a buoy or an anchor. Pass two loops through ring and then place the short end around the standing line. Now pass the short end through the loops and complete the knot by making a half hitch (use the first part of the directions for Two Half Hitches above) . Square knot Use this knot to tie two ropes together. Pass left end over and under right end. Then curve what is now the left end toward the right. The final step before tightening it, is to cross what is now the right end over and under the left. For more knots search the net for clove hitch, cleat wind, sheet bend...

Pollution/bycatch/habitat destruction

G Oceana: This is an international non-profit organisation that fights to protect the ocean from cruise ship pollution, bottom trawling, and bycatch. Cruise ships are sources of unregulated ocean pollution, as monitoring, inspection, reporting, and enforcement provisions of laws do not apply to cruise ships. Oceana is currently focusing its bottom trawling campaign on trying to get laws passed that eliminate the most destructive and wasteful bottom trawling gears and to protect the most sensitive seafloor habitats. Each year 44 billion pounds of unwanted marine life is caught and fishing gear needlessly kills fish, sea turtles, whales, sharks, and seabirds. Oceana hopes to reduce bycatch by enforcing existing laws and lobbying for new ones See: http://www.Oceana.org

NUCLEAR NAVIES

G Overview of international nuclear submarine fleets http://www.stopthenato.org/m/zit/id_ses/5871186c/id_p/10/opt/read_e/id_s/ 106.html G Everything about nuclear-powered submarines (technical) http://me.eng.sunysb.edu/~mec290/subs/ G South Asian nuclear navies http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2000/so00/so00siddiqa.html G Sod off subs! (Australia) http://www.anawa.org.au/events/perle.html G Russian nuclear fleet http://www.bellona.no/en/international/russia/navy/northern_fleet/decommissioning/index.html G Floating nuclear plants http://www.bellona.no/en/international/russia/npps/co-operation/33294.html G Naval reactors and highly emriched uranium http://npc.sarov.ru/english/digest/42001/appendix5.html G Barents sea http://www.bellona.no/en/energy/fossil/barents/17634.html G Whistelblowers http://free.freespeech.org/manushi/108/subbprof.html

BUILD YOUR OWN BOAT!

How to make a paper SIEV X The term SIEV (Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel) refers to boats carrying people without immigration papers. According to the Australia Refugee Council website, 9,160 unauthorised boats arrived in Australia between July 1999 and June 2002. In October 2001, a boat known as SIEV X sank while carrying Indonesian refugees to Christmas Island, killing over 350 people. Survivors have been denied asylum by the Australian government. Protest against the treatment of asylum seekers in Australia Follow the diagrams to create the paper boat. Then attach a photo or write the name of a refugee who died or has been interned while searching for a better life. Post to: Minister for Immigration, Amanda Vanstone, Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia. Source: http://flotilla2004.com.
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