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Australian Paper - the Scrooges who stole Christmas

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 07/12/2010 - 6:24pm

You may have heard the story in the media about the paper company Australian Paper attempting to force it's staff at it's Maryvale Mill to work on Christmas Day. And surprise, surprise the "Fair Work" Australia Commissioner (thankyou Gillard and Rudd for keeping Work Choices going, just renaming it) is ready to fine staff if they don't comply.

( For a more detailed explanation - http://www.theage.com.au/national/workers-must-volunteer-for-christmas-o...)

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Picket to Mooroop College and stop demolition

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/12/2010 - 7:03pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 17/12/2010 -

8:00am to 5:00pm

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Ballerrt Mooroop College a Koorie Pathways School (interim Name) (Glenroy Campus) 208 Hilton St, Glenroy, VIC 3046

There is escalating anger and resistance amongst sections of the local Indigenous community to a government attack on an Aboriginal school in Melbourne. Ballerrt Mooroop College is the only school in Melbourne explicitly for Indigenous students. In operation since 1996, it runs with the assistance of minimal government funding, and is now is having part of its school grounds appropriated for another school (Glenroy Special School).

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Campaign to defend Mooroop College steps up

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/12/2010 - 6:57pm

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Victoria

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indiginous rights

Mooroop College

Swan Island court case # 2 – another victory! A reflection by Jessica Morrison

Submitted by Flowerpower on Tue, 30/11/2010 - 4:44pm

It was over five months ago, in the depth of a chilly Victorian winter day that about forty people gathered in front of the Swan Island military base. They had just been to court and witnessed four activists have their charges of trespassing onto the base be dismissed by a Magistrate. The group sang songs; chalked the footpath with messages for peace; spoke to an aid worker in Afghanistan; heard from an ex-serviceperson; and then held a die in. At the end of the die-in, nine activists refused to get off the road.

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Afghanistan war

Swan Island

Eureka 156th anniversary to be marked in Ballarat

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 28/11/2010 - 4:03pm

One hundred and fifty six years after the Eureka Rebellion was drowned in a sea of blood in Ballarat on the 3rd December 1854, diverse opinions are still held about the Rebellion's significance. Opinions have varied from Karl Marx's observations in 1855 "we have to distinguish between the riot at Ballarat (near Melbourne) and the general revolutionary movement in the colony of Victoria. The former will have been suppressed by now; the later can only be suppressed through complete concessions". Mark Twain, in 1897 in his whirlwind Australian tour believed "Eureka...

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Ballarat: Eureka Dawn vigil and commemoration 2010

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 28/11/2010 - 3:47pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 03/12/2010 -

4:00am to 10:00pm

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Eureka stockade site, Ballarat March to Bakery Hill, Ballarat Town Hall, Old Ballarat Cemetery

Contact Name:

Joseph Toscano

Contact Phone:

0439 395 489

Contact Email:

anarchistage@yahoo.com

4am- 10pm FRIDAY 3rd DECEMBER 2010
156th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
AT EUREKA STOCKADE SITE
(Corner Stawell & Eureka Streets, Ballarat, VICTORIA)

Celebrate the important elements of the Eureka Rebellion
Direct Democracy - Direct Action
Solidarity - Internationalism

4:00am Gather at the monument at Eureka Park for the Dawn vigil
6:00am Breakfast Eureka Park (Bring Your Own Food & Drinks)
9am March From Eureka Park To Bakery Hill To Reaffirm Eureka Oath
9:30am Presentation Eureka Australia Day Medals At Bakery Hill

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Victoria

Special Discussion- Transgender Oppression & Resistance!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 09/11/2010 - 1:00pm

Date and Time:

Wed, 24/11/2010 -

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

Solidarity Salon 580 Sydney Road Brunswick

Contact Name:

Debbie Brennan

Contact Phone:

03 93880062

Contact Email:

radicalwomen@optusnet.com.au

Website:

www.RadicalWomen.org

Trans people are targets of hate violence wherever they threaten the straightlaced rules of gender and sexuality. Because capitalism uses sexism, heterosexism and racism as its chief weapons of control, trans sisters and brothers are the most demonised and abused, especially if they are of colour. Some studies reveal that more than 50% of transsexuals have attempted suicide at least once by their 20th birthday.

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Climate scientist calls for Hazelwood immediate closure

Submitted by takver on Sun, 07/11/2010 - 1:03pm

Emminent Melbourne climate scientist Professor David Karoly has called for the Hazelwood coal fired power station to be closed down completely, saying "Hazelwood is partly to blame for causing climate change."

Photos: Replace Hazelwood (Takver) | Video: Close Hazelwood Power Station now says Climate Scientist Prof David Karoly

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CSIRO: South East Australia becoming drier, global warming implicated

Submitted by takver on Sun, 24/10/2010 - 9:39pm

A new report into the changing climate of South East Australia and particularly the Murray Darling Basin indicates an increasing risk of below average rainfall and runoff into streams and generally drier conditions. The change in the climate has, at least in part, been attributed to an increase in atmospheric anthropogenic greenhouse gases associated with global warming.

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