Melbourne

4 Year Anniversary: End the NT Intervention: Rally

Date and Time: 
Tue, 21/06/2011 -
12:30pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Corner of Lonsdale and Spring St, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

4 Years since Mal Brough's lies that saw the military brought to shock and awe indigenous communties in the NT, the government has compulsorily acquired tribal lands, suspended the Racial Discrimination Act, enforced black and white apartheid lines at supermarkets, reinstated the Racial Discrimination Act but continued these aspects of the Intervention as special measures.

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Barricade Infoshop Sweet Sixteen Benefit Birthday Party

Date and Time: 
Sat, 09/07/2011 - 7:00pm to Sun, 10/07/2011 - 4:00am
Location: 
Black Goat Warehouse, North Coburg. Closest train station is BATMAN.
Contact Name: 
Barricade Collective
Contact Email: 
barricadeinfoshop@riseup.net
Website: 
www.barricade.org.au

Barricade Infoshop is celebrating its Sweet Sixteen Birthday!

ALL STAR CAST:
LAST MEASURE,CABIN FEVER,OLLIE MC, BISCOTTI AND MORE TBC.
DJ TOO GHOUL FOR SCHOOL, MC WAR BASTARD 90210,
SAM FOX, GRIMSIM AND ANI T SUPERSTAR FOR LATE DISCO HOONS.

PLUS+ PORCELAIN PUNCH PRESENTS "THE GREAT ESCAPE"
RIOT PORN + PINATA WITH DISTROS GALORE!
STEAMIN ROCKTAIL BAR WITH HOMEBREWS.
DELICIOUS VEGAN SATAN BURGERS...CHEAP AND DELISH
SERVED FROM 7PM!
OUTDOOR CHILL AND FIRE SPACE BRING YOUR MATES!

ONLY $10 come and support the collective so we can charge on into
our dirty thirties!

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Media Release: Refugee campaigners to demand Labor axe the “Malaysian solution.

Refugee Advocates are to demand that the Labor government axe the “Malaysian solution” with a protest outside Labor Party Headquarters in Melbourne from 1pm Friday 10th. 360 King Street, West Melbourne. Refugee Action Collective (Victoria) condemns the Labor government’s policy to ship asylum seekers to Malaysia. It is not a solution for refugees fleeing war and persecution. It is a return to the dark days of John Howard and offshore processing.

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Candle Vigil for anarchist political prisoners Marie Mason and Eric McDavid

Date and Time: 
Sat, 11/06/2011 -
5:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
The old GPO, corner of Elizabeth Street and Bourke Street, Melbourne
Contact Email: 
abcmelb@yahoo.com.au
Website: 
www.june11.org

Please join us in an International Day of Solidarity with Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners Marie Mason and Eric McDavid on June 11th. This is a time to remember our friends who are in prison – who are continuing their struggles on the inside. This is a time to continue and strengthen the very work for which Eric and Marie are now serving so much time - to struggle against capitalism, ecological devastation, and the ever more diffuse forms of control in this prison society.

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WGAR News: Aboriginal Rights - Upcoming events around Australia - June 2011

Newsletter date: 7 June 2011

Contents:
* Aboriginal Rights - Upcoming events around Australia
* Prime Minister Julia Gillard visits Alice Springs today
* Bankstown Income Management forum, 20 June 2011 - Organised by STICS
* Central Australian delegates return from UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York
* Calls for Native Title reform
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

ABORIGINAL RIGHTS - UPCOMING EVENTS AROUND AUSTRALIA:

Click on the links for details of the events ...

The Decline of Political Debate in Australia- populism, racism and shock-jock journalism

Date and Time: 
Tue, 21/06/2011 -
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Resistance Centre lvl 5, 407 Swanston Street Melbourne (opp RMIT)
Contact Name: 
Sue
Contact Phone: 
0413 377 978
Contact Email: 
peterson_err@hotmail.com
Website: 
http://www.socialist-alliance.org/melbourne

A forum examining the social impacts of the steady decline in political reporting and mainstream political discussion.

Speakers:
Jeff Sparrow, editor of Overland
Pamela Curr, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

Vegetarian meal from 6pm

Organised by Socialist Alliance.
www.socialist-alliance.org
For information 9639 8622

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The War You Don't See- A film by John Pilger

Date and Time: 
Tue, 14/06/2011 -
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
MUA Hall, 46 Ireland st, West Melbourne (3 min from North Melbourne station)
Contact Name: 
Sue
Contact Phone: 
0413 377 978
Contact Email: 
peterson_err@hotmail.com

From the award winning director of "The War on Democracy" & "Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia"

"The War You Don't See" is a powerful & timefly investigation into the media's role in war, tracing the history of 'embedded' & independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima; from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war & disaster in Iraq & Afghanistan.

As weapons & propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an 'electronic battlefield' in which journalists play a key role & civilians are the victims.

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Thousands rally to price carbon on World Environment Day

An estimated 10,000 people packed the lawns of the State Library on Swanston street Melbourne on World Environment Day to Say yes to a safe climate and support the introduction of a carbon price by the Gillard Federal Labor Government. About 8000 people also gathered in Sydney, 5000 people rallied in Adelaide's Victoria Square, 5000 in Brisbane, 3000 in Perth, 3000 in Hobart, and 2000 in Canberra. Organisors estimate up to 45000 may have attended rallies across Australia today to support climate action and pricing carbon.

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WGAR News: "Rebuilding from the Ground Up: An Alternative to the NT Intervention" Document

Newsletter date: 5 June 2011

Contents:
* "Rebuilding from the Ground Up: An Alternative to the NT Intervention" Document
* June 21/25 Rallies around Australia: 4 years since announcement of NT Intervention
* Problems with Native Title
* Newcastle Rally: No Waste Dump at Muckaty, 11 June 2011
* Background to Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other Aboriginal articles

"REBUILDING FROM THE GROUND UP: AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE NT INTERVENTION" DOCUMENT

- The Document

Slutwalk Melbourne 28th May 2011

On May 28th, Melbourne saw its protest as part of the global "slutwalk" movement against the blaming of women for sexual assualts. This is a statement from organisers on what they felt of the day. "It was a magnificent day - more than we could have possibly hoped for. After having only announced the date of SlutWalk Melbourne three weeks prior, the response from the public, the media and importantly, survivors of assault and rape was overwhelming.

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