Sydney IMC
 Two banners hung in solidarity with the 14 arrested comrades in Chile.
One on the overpass of City rd near the University of Sydney, and one
on Enmore rd, Newtown. Despite twelve thousand kilometres, the passion
for freedom connects us. Solidarity from the world's largest prison
island- Australia.
NO ONE HOSTAGE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE
IT IS THE STATE, CAPITALISTS, AND COPS WHO ARE THE TERRORISTS
-Anarchists in Sydney
Dos banderas fueron colgadas en solidaridad con los 14 comaradas
arrestados en Chile.
A University of Sydney researcher has received an award for groundbreaking work into capturing carbon emissions - research important to mitigating climate change by reducing atmospheric carbon pollution. Dr Deanna D'Alessandro, a postdoctoral fellow based in the School of Chemistry at Sydney University, was awarded a L'Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellowship for her research on ways to capture and release carbon dioxide, hydrogen and other gases using molecular sponges.
 Bob Briton
A hung parliament with neither the ALP nor the Coalition able to claim government in their own right. That is the result of last Saturday’s federal election as The Guardian goes to press. It is a fitting outcome for the major parties. Labor, the Liberals and the Nationals have become completely remote from the communities they claim they want to serve. Their “solutions” to the pressing concerns of the people are less and less convincing and trust that they will ever deliver on their commitments has nosedived. Their close ties to the corporate sector are plain for all to see.
The ACT Government has announced cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent by 2020, and 80 per cent by 2050, based on 1990 levels. The targets were announced by Minister for the Environment Climate Change and Water, Simon Corbell when tabling the Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Bill 2010 in the ACT legislative assembly.
 A group of fascists and neo nazis were found in Newtown this afternoon. They gathered provocatively at the "I have a dream" mural wall in Newtown. A hundred or so people of the Newtown community spontaneously gathered and overwhelmed them with their powerful presence and voices. The people chanted "nazis out of Newtown, nazis off the planet". They were physically confronted and forced to flee with their tail between their legs escorted by cops.
Julian Assange has revealed in an interview on SBS Dateline program that he fled Australia after the arrest of Private Manning over the release of the Collateral Murder video of civilians being killed by the U.S. in Iraq. Sources indicated the U.S. had requested his detention and interogation as a "counter esponiage" request. This fear of reprisal from the U.S. has greatly increased since the release of the Afghan Diaries, over 90,000 secret U.S. documents on the Afghan War recently.
 Tuesday evening was supposed to be a rally with 2GB conservative radio shock jock Alan Jones railing against Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moores plans for expanding cycling infrastructure and the recently completed Bourke Road Cycleway. However, cyclists from Bikesydney organised a counter event at the Sydney Town Hall in support of cycleways which drew up to 300 people. Alan Jones was nowhere to be seen.
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The Stop the War Coalition (StWC) condemns the latest Australian government’s purchase of 18 drones (Shadow 200) and training packages worth $175 m.
Ms Marlene Obeid, spokesperson for the anti-war group, said “the drones are part of an offensive weapons system that, almost certainly, will be linked to US systems in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“In other words, Australia will be subsidising US assault operations, which are more than likely to result in the death of more Afghan women and children.
Date and Time:
Thu, 12/08/2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
Sydney Town Hall
483 George St
Sydney, Australia
Website:
http://beyondzeroemissions.org/
Featuring:
Bob Carr, Former Premier NSW
Malcolm Turnbull, Federal MP
Matthew Wright, Executive Director Beyond Zero Emissions
...Allan Jones, City of Sydney
MC - Quentin Dempster, ABC TV
Free Entry
You are invited to attend the Sydney launch of the Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan.
This cutting-edge plan, the culmination of over 12 months and thousands of hours of pro bono work by engineers, scientists and postgraduate students, is a collaboration between the climate solutions think tank Beyond Zero Emissions, and the University of Melbourne Energy Institute.
Date and Time:
Tue, 03/08/2010 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
Sydney Town Hall
George St
Sydney, Australia
Website:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130529973656477
Head to town hall 6pm Tuesday to show our support for future plans to introduce a people friendly cycleway network.
It also coincides with an Alan jones inspired protest that is planned for the same time.
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Date and Time:
Sat, 14/08/2010 - 9:30am - 6:30pm
Location:
Macquarie University THEATRE 1 (T1) Y3A
Contact Name:
Joseph Pugliese and Suvendrini Perera
Contact Email:
Joseph.Pugliese@mq.edu.au; S.Perera@curtn.edu.au
"There is not occupation of territory, on the one hand, and independence of persons on the other. It is the country as a whole, its history, its daily pulsation that are contested, disfigured … under these conditions, the individual’s breathing is an observed breathing. It is a combat breathing".
Frantz Fanon
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Why is a ground breaking solar research facility losing research funding at such a crucial time for transitioning from coal fired power stations to renewable energy? On Monday 26 July Greens staffer Tim Hollo revealed on Twitter that research funding had not been renewed for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Advanced Silicon Photovoltaics and Photonics based at the University of NSW.
Related: Call for Gillard to install solar panels on the Lodge
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Policy Plans released by Julia Gillard and her Climate Change Minister Penny Wong for mandatory fuel efficiency standards and a $2000 rebate for trading in pre-1995 cars for new fuel efficient vehicles, were cautiously welcomed by environmentalists while being criticised for not going far enough and being funded by cuts to other climate change action programs such as Carbon Capture and Storage and solar energy. "Under this plan, Australia's fuel efficiency standards for new vehicles will be about a quarter of a century behind China's when they are eventually law. We must make our cars cleaner quicker." said Don Henry, Australian Conservation Foundation executive director.
Sydney community radio is unique for its non-profit structure and for providing a voice for groups that would otherwise not get access to the mainstream media. But smaller stations in this sector seem to have been completely overlooked as part of Australia’s move to go digital.
Date and Time:
Sun, 15/08/2010 - 11:00am - 3:00pm
Location:
Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Launceston, Adelaide Perth, Darwin and many regional towns
Website:
http://www.walkagainstwarming.org/
We’re doing our bit on climate change. It's time to make our political leaders do theirs. This election join a Walk near you and help us convince our political leaders to: Walk with the people. Not the Big Polluters.
While our political leaders have been squabbling, the rest of us have been getting on with the business of dealing with climate change.
We're going green and clean. We're reducing our greenhouse pollution and recycling our waste. We're saving water and energy, and buying greenpower. And we're forming climate action groups - all across the country.
Date and Time:
Sun, 15/08/2010 - 11:00am - 3:00pm
Location:
Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Launceston, Adelaide Perth, Darwin and many regional towns
Website:
http://www.walkagainstwarming.org/
We’re doing our bit on climate change. It's time to make our political leaders do theirs. This election join a Walk near you and help us convince our political leaders to: Walk with the people. Not the Big Polluters.
While our political leaders have been squabbling, the rest of us have been getting on with the business of dealing with climate change.
We're going green and clean. We're reducing our greenhouse pollution and recycling our waste. We're saving water and energy, and buying greenpower. And we're forming climate action groups - all across the country.
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 Melbourne, 13 July 2010 - - An Aboriginal leader has told about 500 international psychologists and psychiatrists meeting here that Australia has perpetrated genocide on Aboriginal people since the white invasion and continues to do so.
Michael Anderson, leader of the 3,000 Euahlayi, whose lands straddle the border between northwest New South Wales and southwest Queensland, made the accusation to a genocide section of the 27th conference of the International Association of Applied Psychology, running from 12 to 16 July in the Melbourne Convention Centre.
Date and Time:
Wed, 21/07/2010 - 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Location:
Black Rose Anarchist Library
22 Enmore Rd, Newtown
Contact Email:
blackrosebooks@yahoo.com.au
Coming up this wednesday 21st of July we have a fundraiser screening for the Institut A Infohouse in Jakarta.
Peoples kitchen will feed at 7pm as always, and then at 7:30 we will be showing 2 films:
Tijidurian 19: Rumah Budaya Yang Dirampas
(Tijidurian 19: Seized Culture House. A documentary about the Lekra artists during the suharto regime)
By Abduh Aziz & Lasya Susatyo
42mins
Taring Babi (Documentary about the Taring Babi activist collective in Jakarta)
by Mbak Mash
36mins
We will also be displaying more information and photos about Institut A in Little Fish Gallery.
 The missing words at Julia Gillard's first address as Prime Minister to the National Press Club was "climate change". Outside the building Climate activists from Rising Tide Newcastle had dumped a ute full of coal at the entrance. The protesters called on the Gillard Government to announce a climate change policy that addresses Australia's principal source of greenhouse pollution - coal.
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The international climate activist organisation - 350.org - has launched a campaign for Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to install solar panels on The Lodge. It has called for leaders of nations to instal solar panels on official residences, as part of global action on climate change on 10/10/10.
Goodooga, northwest NSW, 11 July 2010 -- Aboriginal people across Australia are expressing great concerns and anger at the operations of the government’s Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC), whose task is to purchase and give land to Aboriginal people unable to claim it through Native Title.
Political activist Michael Anderson, leader of the 3,000 Euahlayi living on both sides of the Queensland and NSW border, says he is receiving calls about this from various parts of the country.
The NTEU says the pay packets of Uni chiefs are "obscene" with some getting more than $1m per year.
As face- to- face time with lecturers decreases and class sizes expand, those in senior management positions at top public universities are enjoying increasingly healthy pay packets..
Data tendered to the NSW Government this week revealed what has been described by The National Tertiary Education Union as a ‘salary explosion.’
Date and Time:
Fri, 25/06/2010 - 7:45am - 9:00am
Location:
Powerhouse Museum - The Boiler Room
Website:
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/bookings/fastbreak.php
 The 2010 fastBREAK innovation series an exciting addition to Sydney's event calendar that has sent a buzz through local creative and entrepreneurial communities. The first four sold-out instalments of fastBREAK have injected life, inspiration and a flurry of fastBREAKing conversation into the Powerhouse Museum's best-kept secret, the Boiler room Mezzanine.
The racism-in-rugby furore leading to Timana Tahu handing back his Blues' jersey is not an isolated incident, says Michael Anderson, an Aboriginal political activist and former professional League player.
The NRL says there is no racism in rugby league. Many voices, including Aboriginal ex and current players, say there is.
Ex Manly player Anderson says for racist comments to still be brushed over within the NRL is an
indictment on the league.
He says racist attitudes in sport start at home - and are rife in country areas.
Date and Time:
Sat, 26/06/2010 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Contact Email:
sydwest_sa@yahoogroups.com
Website:
http://refugeeactioncoalitionsydney.wordpress.com/
RALLY TO WELCOME REFUGEES
SAY NO TO ANOTHER TAMPA ELECTION
NO VISA FREEZE
CLOSE THE DETENTION CENTRES
Rally 1pm Saturday June 26, Sydney Town Hall
Speakers include:
Andrew Bartlett (The Greens)
Shiko Zaher (Afghan refugee)
Fashid Kheirollapour (former Curtin detainee)
John Dowd (President, International Commission of Jurists Australia)
Bala Vigneswaran (Tamil community)
Plus performances by Solidarity Choir and Sydney Trade Union Choir
Date and Time:
Wed, 16/06/2010 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location:
Parramatta Activist Centre
29 Macquarie Street (Upstairs), Parramatta
Contact Email:
sydwest_sa@yahoogroups.com
Website:
www.socialist-alliance.org
Racism and the Elections: Fighting Against Rudd and Abbott’s Anti-Refugee Hysteria
While war in Afghanistan and brutal repression in Sri Lanka against the Tamils, perpetrated by Western governments, continues unabated - refugees flee to seek asylum. This meeting will examine how Rudd and Abbott are attacking refugees to win the upcoming elections.
Speakers include Socialist Alliance Senate candidate Soubhi Iskander, national
co-ordinator for Australian Tamil Council women’s advocacy group Kalyani Inpakumar and Liz Tysoe, refugee activist & Queer officer at Macquarie University
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