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Indian students rally for peace

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 07/06/2009 - 3:11pm

On the last Sunday of May, hundreds of Indian students and supporters gathered in front of the Royal Melbourne Hospital for a peace rally urging the Victorian Government to take action to stop violence against Indian students. The rally was called by the Federation of Indian Students Association (FISA), following another violent attack on Indian students on Friday night where 5 Indian men were injured, one man was left fighting for his life from stab wounds.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
protest
peace
anti-racism

the first Sydney Anarchist Film Festival.

Submitted by takver on Fri, 29/05/2009 - 1:28pm
Date and Time: 
Fri, 05/06/2009 - 6:00pm to Mon, 08/06/2009 - 9:30pm
Location: 
Jura Books, 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham Black Rose, 22 Enmore Road, Newtown
Contact Name: 
Jura Books
Contact Phone: 
9550 9931
Website: 
http://www.jura.org.au/filmfestival

Jura and Black Rose Books are proud to present the first Sydney Anarchist Film Festival. We are showing 14 great films over the queens birthday long weekend (5th - 8th June). The films include tasty rarities as well as anarchist smash hits. One highlight is 'Lucio Anarquista' - a 2007 film about an anarchist worker who brought the most powerful bank on the planet to its knees. Tickets are only $8 per film ($5 concession) or get a gold pass to the entire festival for $30 ($25 concession).

Geography: 
Sydney

The Future of Public Transport Publc Meeting

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 29/05/2009 - 1:08pm
Date and Time: 
Wed, 03/06/2009 -
7:00pm to 10:00pm
Location: 
Melbourne Unitarian Church hall, 110 Grey St, East Melbourne
Contact Name: 
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Contact Phone: 
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public meeting on the Future of Public Transport

Melbourne Unitarian Church hall, Wednesday 3rd June at 7 pm, 110 Grey
St, East Melbourne

Speakers include:

* Carlo Carli, Member for Brunswick, former Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure
* Dr. Gavin Putland, Research Officer, Prosper Australia
* Dr. Tony Morton, Secretary, Public Transport Users Association
* Victor Moore, Secretary, Rail Operations Division, Rail, Tram & Bus Union (RTBU)

Geography: 
Melbourne

Australian creatives for positive change

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 24/05/2009 - 10:37pm

Bindarri - Australian creatives for positive change
http://www.bindarri.com.au

This new website will keep audiences informed of all the latest news and events relating to artists and designers working for positive change in Australia.

The Bindarri website includes the largest online directory of Australian designers, as well as essential resources to assist others seeking to create positive outcomes.

Geography: 
Australia
Keywords: 
art

National Climate Emergency Rally

Submitted by takver on Sat, 23/05/2009 - 9:21pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 13/06/2009 -
10:00am to 5:00pm
Location: 
ADELAIDE, BRISBANE, CANBERRA, HOBART, MELBOURNE, PERTH, SYDNEY, WOLLONGONG
Contact Name: 
Climate Action Centre
Contact Phone: 
03 9639 3660
Website: 
www.climaterally.org

Join thousands around Australia in calling for real action for a safe climate.

You can find details of interstate rallies at http://www.climaterally.org

Call 03 9639 3660 or email for more detail.

Geography: 
Australia

National Climate Emergency Rally Melbourne

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 23/05/2009 - 9:16pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 13/06/2009 -
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
State Library, cnr La Trobe and Swanston St march to Treasury Gardens
Contact Name: 
Climate Action Centre
Contact Phone: 
03 9639 3660
Website: 
www.climaterally.org

Speakers include:

* Peter Marshal, United Firefighters Union

* David Spratt, author of Climate Code Red : case for Climate Emergency

Entertainment includes: Melbourne comedian Rod Quantock and ...

If you have thought of taking action on climate change, now is the time. Drought, bush fires, floods and rising seas are already hitting hard. It's an emergency and we need emergency action.

In December 2009, governments of the world will meet in Copenhagen to create a new global climate agreement. Australia must support, not stop, strong global action.

Geography: 
Melbourne

'Boiling the Billy', Opportunities and Challenges of Radical Unionising.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 23/05/2009 - 9:00pm
Date and Time: 
Sun, 07/06/2009 -
10:00am to 4:00pm
Location: 
Melbourne Anarchist Resource Center 62 St Georges Rd Northcote
Contact Name: 
Melbourne ASF
Contact Phone: 
0404 105 403
Contact Email: 
asfsec@gmail.com
Website: 
http://www.asf-iwa.org.au/

The Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation Melbourne will host a conference on
Sunday 7th June, 'Boiling the Billy', Opportunities and Challenges of Radical Unionising.

Speakers include Gary Foley.

10am - 4pm
Entry by gold coin donation

Food available.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Meeting of the Victorian Climate Movement

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 20/05/2009 - 8:54pm
Date and Time: 
Sun, 24/05/2009 -
10:00am to 4:30pm
Location: 
Climate Action Centre, Level 5, New building of Trades Hall
Contact Name: 
Ellen Roberts
Contact Email: 
ellenmroberts@yahoo.com.au

Meeting of the Victorian Climate Movement to see how far we've come, develop strategy and plan our activities for the rest of the year

When: Sunday May 24, 10 am – 4.30pm
Where: Climate Action Centre, Level 5, New building of Trades Hall
Who: all people and groups active or interested in climate change

==Draft agenda:==

10:00- 10.15: Welcome and agenda review

10.15 -11.00: Introductions and report backs from groups and individuals.

11:00-12:00: The state of climate politics in Australia and internationally: where are we now? Where should we be heading?

Geography: 
Melbourne

Victorian Trades Hall 150th birthday Street Party

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 20/05/2009 - 8:49pm
Date and Time: 
Sun, 24/05/2009 -
5:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Lygon Street near Victoria Parade, Melbourne
Contact Name: 
Shelley Mildren
Contact Phone: 
9659 3511
Contact Email: 
smildren@vthc.org.au
Website: 
http://www.vthc.org.au/

Party like it’s 1859 — Victorian Trades Hall turns 150

A street party is being held on May 24 to mark the 150th Anniversary of the opening of the Melbourne Trades Hall.

The first Trades Hall building - a four-roomed timber, iron-roofed structure - was opened in 1859 to much celebration and fanfare.

The permanent present-day Trades Hall is situated on the same site at the corner of Victoria and Lygon Streets, Carlton.

Its construction started in 1874 and took 50 years to complete.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Action on climate change demanded by thousands on Melbourne's St Kilda Beach

Submitted by takver on Sun, 17/05/2009 - 10:54pm

Thousands of Melbourne people rocked up to St Kilda Beach to be part of a Climate Change Human Sign near the St Kilda Sea Baths. The event was organised by Locals into Victoria's Environment and promoted by the Climate Emergency Network and is a call for politicians at all levels of Government to make the hard decisions by legislating to drastically reduce carbon emissions and negotiate meaningful international carbon reduction targets at the Copenhagen Conference of Parties in December 2009.

The Federal Government has been much criticised for its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme in that too many free permits were handed out to business and targets were set far too low. In the budget handed down by the Rudd Labor Government the environment and climate change funding was relegated to second fiddle to economic recovery.

In Victoria the Brumby Labor Government is proceeding with a Desalination plant for Melbourne which will boost carbon emissions. Alternative water sources that are less costly and more environmentally friendly, such as stormwater harvesting, rainwater tanks and tertiary treatment and purification water recycling have been passed over in favour of a high tech, high cost and polluting solution.

Photo by Aerofoto

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
climate change
St Kilda

Wonthaggi protest highlights desalination issue for Melbourne

Submitted by takver on Sun, 17/05/2009 - 9:25pm

One person was arrested when protesters carrying two banners walked onto the Desalination Plant proposed site near Wonthaggi on May 9. The occasion was a rally at the gates of the proposed site organised by Watershed Victoria and Melbourne supporters.

Photos on Flickr | Action: Get Real on Climate Change | FoE

Geography: 
Melbourne
Victoria
Promotion: 
Feature
Keywords: 
climate change
desalination
energy
Wonthaggi
Bass Coast
water

Climate protest highlights environment funding in the Australian Budget

Submitted by takver on Sat, 16/05/2009 - 4:19am

Photo courtesy Rising Tide NewcastleEight people were arrested in a dramatic climate protest at Canberra during the 2009 Government budget session over the Government's inadequate response to climate change. So, how did the Environment fare in the budget?

"This is a historic level of Commonwealth investment in solar energy and public transport and we warmly welcome it. The money for solar gives a good kick start to this crucial industry of the future. In contrast, the $2 billion of new funds over nine years for carbon capture and storage research is public money not well spent. The companies that make huge profits from mining and burning coal should fund the research into technologies that may – or may not – help reduce Australia’s carbon emissions in ten, fifteen or twenty years." summed up Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) executive director Don Henry.

Geography: 
Canberra
Australia
Keywords: 
climate
environment
Budget
energy
solar
carbon capture
CPRS
public transport
foreign aid

Expanding tuna cannery in Papua New Guinea threatens local communities

Submitted by kimk on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 12:09pm

In Australia the practice of SLAPPS is well known to environmental and social justice activists. A SLAPP or Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation has been around in practice since the 70s when then Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen raised many nuisance law suits against his detractors as a matter of course. Such cases keep activists stressed out, cost them money and sometimes affect their ability to voice and enact actions against the company or government they are protesting. However, SLAPPS are a bit of a luxury in non-western nations. In Papua New Guinea the effect of collaboration of corporations and government have run legal and environmental roughshod over local activists and indigenous communities defending their homelands. The outrageous case of the Ok Tedi ruling, effectively making illegal the protest by affected peoples of the Ok Tedi mine, is a glaring example of this cronyism.

Geography: 
Global/International
Promotion: 
Feature

Brisbane war games organising picks up to defend pristine coastal environment

Submitted by kimk on Mon, 04/05/2009 - 5:57pm

Peace activists organising to oppose the bi-annual Talisman Saber US-Aust joint war games are stepping up activities in the lead up to the event in early July. The Peace Convergence is calling for peace action to take place throughout the war games and in various locations in the Shoalwater region, Brisbane, and around Australia.

Geography: 
Queensland
Keywords: 
peace
environment
war

Stop the Cell-Out Rally

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 29/04/2009 - 2:58pm
Date and Time: 
Fri, 01/05/2009 -
10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
outside Labor Party HQ 377 Sussex Street, Sydney
Contact Name: 
Public Service Association of NSW
Website: 
http://www.stopthecelloff.org.au

Join us this May Day to tell the Labor Party that we will not accept the manipulation of policy to suit their privatisation agenda.

Labor Party policy clearly states: “Labor opposes the private contract management of prisons.”

Corrective Services Minister John Robertson is trying to get ALP HQ to say that selling off Cessnock and Parklea prisons to international companies to run does not breach Labor policy.

When the powerful ALP Administrative Committee meets this Friday morning, Minister Robertson wants them to agree with his topsy turvy argument.

Geography: 
Sydney

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Radioactive Exposure Tour 2009

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 26/04/2009 - 11:48pm
Date and Time: 
Fri, 15/05/2009 - 8:00am to Sun, 24/05/2009 - 11:00pm
Location: 
journey to South Australia to visit: Olympic Dam uranium mine at Roxby Downs, the beautiful Lake Eyre and Mound Springs; Gammon Ranges and the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary; Beverley uranium mine, and much else besides.
Contact Name: 
FOE
Website: 
http://www.foe.org.au/anti-nuclear

The amazing Radioactive Exposure Tour is on again! Join Friends of the Earth for a journey to South Australia where we will visit the Olympic Dam uranium mine at Roxby Downs, the beautiful Lake Eyre and Mound Springs and meet with Aboriginal people campaigning against the nuclear industry. Indigenous people across the world suffer most directly from the impacts of the nuclear industry and this 'radioactive racism' is a major focus of the tour.

Geography: 
Melbourne
South Australia

May Day: Stop the Olympic Dam Uranium Mine Expansion

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 26/04/2009 - 11:39pm
Date and Time: 
Fri, 01/05/2009 -
11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: 
BHP Billiton office 180 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Contact Name: 
FOE
Contact Phone: 
(03) 9419 8700
Website: 
http://www.foe.org.au/anti-nuclear

Protest at BHP Billiton office
Friday, May 1, 11am to 1pm
180 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

On May 1, BHP Billiton will release the Environmental Impact Statement for its planned expansion of the Olympic Dam (Roxby Downs) uranium/copper mine in SA. Come along to this May Day protest to voice you're opposition.

* The mine operates under the SA Roxby Downs Indenture Act which exempts it from key environmental and Aboriginal heritage laws that apply everywhere else in SA.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Veterans group reflects on brutality of war and question how politicians use our armed forces on ANZAC Day

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 24/04/2009 - 4:11pm

/Press release/ *23 April 2009*

The Australian-based veterans group Stand Fast, comprised of veterans and former military personnel who oppose the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, today called on people to reject blind patriotism and flag waving this ANZAC Day. Stand Fast has called for reflection on the brutality of war and for people to question if Australia's current wars are really in the interest of the people of Australia.

Related: Youtube Video - Australian Army veteran opposes the war in Iraq and Afghanistan at Palm Sunday rally

Geography: 
Australia
Keywords: 
ANZAC
war
peace commemoration
media release

ANZAC Day anti-militarist action

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 24/04/2009 - 4:03pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 25/04/2009 -
10:30am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Old IWW Headquarters 171 Little Bourke St (cnr Russell St) Melbourne 3000
Contact Name: 
Ablokeimet

Anzac day is approaching again.

The media are full of myth-making about the "heroic" Australian military's exploits in Afghanistan, mourning the deaths of Australian troops but not those of their victims.

The ANZAC DAY ANTI-MILITARIST ACTION is on again. It will be held outside the old headquarters of the Industrial Workers of the World, We'll be there again to oppose
all wars past and present and particularly to oppose Australian imperialism.

Workers around the world are on the same side. All armies are our enemies.

DOWN WITH MILITARISM!

Geography: 
Melbourne