Maritime Union of Australia
Media Alert / Photo opportunity
Zoe Reynolds 21 Apr 2010 Protesters in costume from the film Avatar will be outside Rio Tinto’s headquarters in Melbourne tomorrow morning. They will be alerting the public to the mining giant’s on-going abuses of workers, the environment and indigenous people around the world.
The action, which also includes stilt-walkers and locked-out American workers, comes days after Rio Tinto’s annual general meeting in London where its treatment of people dominated coverage.
Who: Members of the Maritime Union of Australia, ILWU union from the United States and Avatar costumed protesters.
Where: Outside Rio Tinto’s headquarters, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne (near the corner of Russell)
When: 9.30—10.30 a.m. Thursday, 22 April
For more information:
Zoe Reynolds, Maritime Union of Australia, 0417.229.873
EMC, media, 0432.828.005
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