Melbourne

Container Deposit Rally

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 15/07/2011 - 5:00pm
Date and Time: 
Mon, 18/07/2011 -
9:30am to 11:30am
Location: 
Queensbridge Square - near Sandridge Bridge, Southbank (Melways: 1A G12)
Contact Name: 
Anthony Amis
Contact Phone: 
0425 841 564
Contact Email: 
anthonyamis@hotmail.com
Website: 
http://www.boomerangalliance.org.au/

In opposition, the Baillieu Government supported moves to implement Container Deposit Legislation in Victoria.

However now in the Government, the Baillieu Government has instead decided to wait until the Federal Government finalises the Packaging Impacts Consultation Regulation Impact Statement (CRIS).

This process could take years. Meanwhile beverage container waste issues, including pollution continue to worsen. Container Deposit legislation would mean that a 10c deposit is placed on all beverage containers, meaning containers will not be thrown away as garbage but recycled.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Rally: Call to action against the new anti-swearing law.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 14/07/2011 - 2:32pm
Date and Time: 
Sun, 17/07/2011 -
12:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
State Parliament, cnr Spring & Bourke Sts, City.
Contact Name: 
Chris
Contact Phone: 
0431 311 520
Contact Email: 
peterson_err@hotmail.com
Website: 
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=186399208075293

Our freedom is being abused by the moronic new law that prohibits people from swearing in public!
This is bullshit! As a supposedly free country, we should be able to say whatever we want!
Let's unite and rally against these stupid new laws and against everything that inhibits our freedom!

For media enquiries, message us or ph 0400 493 120 or 0431 311 520.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Never Again! Defend the Fertility Control. Remember murdered security guard, Steve Rogers. Stand up for abortion rights!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 10/07/2011 - 2:49pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 23/07/2011 -
10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Fertility Control Clinic, 118 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne (between Powlett & Simpson Sts)
Contact Name: 
Debbie Brennan
Contact Phone: 
9388 0062
Contact Email: 
cwrr.justice@hotmail.com

Ten years ago, Steve Rogers was killed at work, defending the Fertility Control Clinic. On July 16, 2001 an anti-abortion terrorist stormed the clinic’s waiting room: A terrifying confrontation ended in Rogers’ death. The clinic remains the target of an ultra-right movement intent on re-criminalising abortion in Victoria and stripping back women’s reproductive choices. On the fourth Saturday of every month, reproductive justice activists defend the clinic and its neighbourhood from a contingent of anti-choice crusaders.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Australian solidarity protests for Bersih democracy movement in Malaysia

Submitted by Flowerpower on Sun, 10/07/2011 - 9:30am

While "thousands and thousands" marched in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia today (July 9th) for democracy (braving police roadblocks, hundreds of arrests, water cannon, teargas, etc), in Australia some 750 Malaysian rallied in Melbourne, 300 in Sydney, 200 in Perth, 150 in Adelaide, 40 in Canberra and 100 in Brisbane.

Geography: 
Canberra
Adelaide
Perth
Brisbane
Melbourne
Australia
Sydney
Keywords: 
international solidarity
Malaysia
Bersih
democracy movement

Swan Island Peace Convergence Day 4: Third day of protest, third day of arrests

Submitted by Flowerpower on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 4:51pm

Peace activists have been arrested for the third consecutive day of the blockade of the Swan Island Military Base. A small but determined group of protestors were met by a large police presence, and two were arrested as the group attempted to keep the base closed. Photos of the picket

Geography: 
Melbourne

BZE August Discussion Group: Wind Turbine Placement

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 4:03pm
Date and Time: 
Mon, 01/08/2011 -
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Fritz Loewe Theatre (entry via level 2) McCoy Building University of Melbourne Cnr Elgin & Swanston Streets, Carlton
Contact Name: 
Pablo Brait
Contact Phone: 
03 8383 2232
Contact Email: 
pablo@beyondzeroemissions.or
Website: 
beyondzeroemissions.org

Dr Frank Neumann is Senior Lecturer at University of Adelaide's School of Computer Science.
He is working on wind turbine placement optimisation in collaboration with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr Neumann has developed computer algorithms that maximise the energy generated, given a particular terrain, turbine type, wind direction and area of land.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Support the Blossom Road Workers to get their pay & entitlements

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 3:25pm
Date and Time: 
Fri, 08/07/2011 -
5:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
285 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne (b/w Swanston & Elizabeth Sts), the Scanlan & Theodore store
Contact Name: 
Mark Riley
Contact Phone: 
03 9251 5270
Contact Email: 
fairwear@fairwear.org.au
Website: 
www.fairwear.org.au

High end fashion, low end ethics

27 workers sacked & owed over $500,000!

Blossom Road closes and re-opens next day as a ‘phoenix company’ called Tricots

Blossom Road supplied, and continue to supply clothing to high end fashion label
Scanlan & Theodore

On 19 May 2011, the director of Blossom Road Pty Ltd, Bill Jadilebovski, placed the company into liquidation. At that time the only client of Blossom Road, was Scanlan & Theodore, a high end fashion label with stores around Melbourne & Sydney.

Geography: 
Melbourne

WGAR News: Interviews with Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra about the Government’s consultation process

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 06/07/2011 - 2:59pm

Newsletter date: 6 July 2011

Contents:
* Interviews with Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra about the Government’s consultation process
* New round of consultations in the NT over the intervention
* Petition to Jenny Macklin: A Fair Go for Aboriginal People in the NT
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 17 events
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles

* INTERVIEWS WITH REV DR DJINIYINI GONDARRA ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT'S CONSULTATION PROCESS:

- The Audio Interviews

Geography: 
Adelaide
Brisbane
Albury
New South Wales
Melbourne
Australia
Northern Territory
Sydney
Queensland
South Australia
Townsville
Victoria
Western Australia
Keywords: 
NT intervention
indigenous
aboriginal
Northern Territory Intervention
Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
New round of consultations in the NT over the intervention
Petition to Jenny Macklin: A Fair Go for Aboriginal People in the NT
Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 17 events - From 6 July 2011

Swan Island Peace Convergence Day 2: Four activists arrested blockading base

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 05/07/2011 - 8:35am

Anti war activists have geared up their protest by blocking access to the secretive Swan Island military base near Queenscliff at 6am today (Tuesday 5 July 2011). Four protesters from Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth were arrested arrested this morning picketing the base as about 40 local and visiting activists converged in the small town in protest against Australia’s continuing participation in the US-lead war in Afghanistan.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
Afghanistan war
Swan Island

Public meeting- Is Victoria becoming a police state?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 03/07/2011 - 10:16pm
Date and Time: 
Tue, 19/07/2011 -
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City.
Contact Phone: 
9639 8622
Contact Email: 
peterson_err@hotmail.com

Since the Baillieu government was elected, the only policy it seems prepared to spend money on is 'law and order': Armed guards on stations, longer sentences, more prisoners, more jails, a new riot squad and on-the-spot fines for swearing in public. This is despite crime rates actually decreasing. The issues that are really making people's lives hard (such as underfunded or non-existent health services, overcrowded public transport; traffic jams; and increasing electricity and water bills) are being deliberately ignored.

The following speakers will be talking:

Geography: 
Melbourne