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Melbourne Palm Sunday Silent Vigil for Peace

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 11/03/2011 - 3:56pm

Date and Time:

Sun, 17/04/2011 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Location:

State Library

Please bring any banners for a silent vigil then walk down to Peace Forum - see below for details

Palm Sunday Peace Forum - Sunday 17 April, 2-4pm

Wesley Uniting Church, Lonsdale St, City

Speakers: Mariko Ishii (Peace Boat); Bill Williams (Medical Association for Prevention of War);

Jessica Morrison (recent visitor to Afghanistan and Palestine);

Michael Hamel-Green (Nuclear Disarmament academic)

Geography:

Melbourne

Solidarity Vigil with Afghanistan Action

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 11/03/2011 - 3:52pm

Date and Time:

Mon, 21/03/2011 -

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location:

outside St Paul's Cathedral, Cnr Flinders and Swanston Sts

Website:

http://www.livewithoutwars.org/lwwarsproject.html

On the 21st March, the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers, with international supporters, will be planting trees and holding a candlelight vigil in Kabul, Afghanistan. They have asked people around the world to also hold vigils in support.

Please bring your own candles

After this public vigil, people are invited to come to Coburg to continue the vigil into evening, to hear about Jessica's recent trip to Afghanistan and link with the international delegation in Afghanistan (8-9.30pm).

Geography:

Melbourne

Tibetans, Mongolians and Uighur peoples come together

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 11/03/2011 - 7:17am

Today marks the 52nd Tibetan uprising against the Chinese Communist invasion of Tibet. Many peoples came together to demand genuine autonomy. It means that the fist of global capitalism, the fist of genocide, the fist of killing trees and nature, the fist of ownership of people's lands be handed back. Same goes in Australia. Indigenous Asutralians want their land back as do the Tibetan people, the Mongolians, the Uighurs. Stop stealing China, England and America. Wake up wake up before the floods get ya and the air you breathe chokes the shit out of you.

Geography:

Melbourne

Keywords:

genuine autonomy for all of us

Emergency protest against Immigration Minister Chris Bowen

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 10/03/2011 - 6:47pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 11/03/2011 -

10:30am to 11:30am

Location:

RACV City Club, 501 Burke St., Melbourne

Support refugees
End mandatory detention of refugees

The Refugee Action Collective is holding an emergency protest outside an Immigration Law conference where the Immigration Minister Chris Bowen is a guest speaker. We urge you to come and use this opportunity to protest against Australia's inhumane laws against refugees.

Bring placards and banners

Geography:

Melbourne

Women of the revolution - From Tunisia to Egypt, Yemen & Iran

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 10/03/2011 - 6:38pm

Date and Time:

Tue, 15/03/2011 -

6:30pm to 9:30pm

Location:

Resistance Centre Level 5/407 Swanston Street (opposite RMIT) Melbourne, Australia

SPEAKERS: Jiselle Hanna
Egyptian feminist & AAWL

Sonia Abdessalem
From Tunisia "The spark of the revolution"

Geography:

Melbourne

Mapping solar potential of rooftops in Germany's SUN-AREA project

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 10/03/2011 - 3:09pm

Date and Time:

Mon, 04/04/2011 -

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:

Beyond Zero Emissions

Contact Phone:

03 8383 2232

Contact Email:

info@beyondzeroemissions.org

Website:

http://beyondzeroemissions.org/

The Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan research team is currently assessing the total solar potential of rooftops in Australia. Similar studies have been completed around the world.

Geography:

Melbourne

Black Harmony Gathering 2011

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 10/03/2011 - 11:58am

Date and Time:

Sun, 20/03/2011 -

12:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

Fairfield Ampitheatre Fairfield Park Dr

This is the 8th year of the Black Harmony Gathering marking both national Harmony Day and the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination with jubilance.

Gathering Indigenous, African & Island Culture to celebrate our cultural diversity through performance on the Banks of the Yarra River.
With performances from Australia's First Nations, The Congo, Sudan, Senegal, The Cook Islands, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde and more...

Geography:

Melbourne

Science and a bi-polar climate

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/03/2011 - 5:35pm

By Kristy Henderson: Leading climate scientists declared last Tuesday night that the recent Australian floods are not necessarily attributable to climate change. According to Professor David Karoly, Professor Neville Nicolls, and Dr Karl Braganza from the Bureau of Meteorology, the scientific basis for human induced climate change is overwhelmingly compelling, yet more research will need to be done to quantify its impacts with regard recent extreme weather events.

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IWD rally in Melbourne, 8 March, and picket of Trades Hall cocktail party

Submitted by peter on Wed, 09/03/2011 - 12:36pm

Pay Justice Action, 'a grassroots initiative of the Freedom Socialist Party', http://www.socialism.com/drupal-6.8/?q=node/9, organised a rally and march to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. At about the same time, Jenny Macklin, Minister for Indigenous Affairs, was due to address an IWD cocktail party at the Victorian Trades Hall ...

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Slumlord Frank Cassar's Fitzroy business closed by picket

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 08/03/2011 - 10:12pm

On Saturday March 5 a picket involving 30 protesters closed down Inner City Towing and Smash Repairs, a business owned by notorious slum lord Frank Cassar. The crowd heard speeches from those affected by Frank and his family’s thuggery and scams and joined in chants of “Put Cassar behind bars!” and “VCAT, VCAT why so slack, Make Frank pay our money back!”. The protest received coverage on various media outlets including ABC radio and a story was broadcast on Channel 7′s current affairs program Today Tonight (to view it visit the archive at au.todaytonight.yahoo.com)

Geography:

Melbourne

Keywords:

protest

housing