Melbourne

Solidarity Sunday: Celebrating people power in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen ...

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 28/02/2011 - 8:20pm
Date and Time: 
Sun, 06/03/2011 -
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
4 Castle St, Yarraville (5 min walk from Yarraville station on Werribee train line).
Contact Name: 
Sue
Contact Phone: 
0413 377 978
Contact Email: 
peterson_err@hotmail.com
Website: 
www.greenleft.org.au

North African feast & live music

Solidarity Sunday: Celebrating people power in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen ...

Also celebrating the 20th birthday of Green Left Weekly

The dramatic and stirring events in North Africa and the Middle East are showing the world the power of an aroused, determined and united people. The bloody, corrupt US-backed regimes are shaking. Celebrate these great days.

$20 solidarity/$15 waged/$10 conc. Halal food. All proceeds to support Green Left Weekly.

For more info ph 9639 8622 or 0413 377 978.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Engage Media Film Screening

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 26/02/2011 - 1:25pm
Date and Time: 
Fri, 04/03/2011 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Gertrude's Brown Couc
Website: 
www.engagemedia.org

The complete EngageMedia squad, both Indonesian and Australian teams, will be at Gertrude's Brown Couch to chat with friends and collaborators. Screening EngageMedia highlights and we may have a couple of special, surprise guests.

Geography: 
Melbourne

International Women's Day Celebration 100 Years of International Women's Day and Solidarity Salon's first 10 Years

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 25/02/2011 - 7:52pm
Date and Time: 
Sun, 13/03/2011 -
6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Solidarity Salon 580 Sydney Road Brunswick
Contact Name: 
Radical Women
Contact Phone: 
03 93880062
Contact Email: 
radicalwomen@optusnet.com.au
Website: 
www.RadicalWomen.org

In 1911 marches and meetings for women’s rights in cities, towns and villages across Europe launched International Women’s Day for women’s liberation. On this day in 2001, Solidarity Salon opened its doors as an organising place for revolutionary feminism in the heart of multicultural working class Brunswick.

Come celebrate this double anniversary with Radical Women! Bring what you want to share — a story, poem, artwork, song, picketline chant — to pay tribute to a feminist freedom fighter or fight that has inspired you, past, present or future.

Geography: 
Melbourne

WGAR News: A further conversation with Elders - impacts of living under the Intervention

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 25/02/2011 - 11:32am

Newsletter date: 25 Feb 2011

Contents:
* A Further Conversation with Elders
(7 Feb 2011 Forum at Melbourne Uni)
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

A FURTHER CONVERSATION WITH ELDERS (7 FEB 2011 FORUM AT MELBOURNE UNI)

"A Further Conversation with Elders" Forum was an initiative of 'concerned Australians': http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/

- Special Compilations:

'concerned Australians':

Geography: 
Melbourne
Australia
Northern Territory
Keywords: 
NT intervention
indigenous
human rights
solidarity
aboriginal
Northern Territory Intervention

No dump at Muckaty! Protests continue in Martin Ferguson's electorate, 24 February 2011

Submitted by peter on Fri, 25/02/2011 - 11:20am

To mark the one-year anniversary of the announcement of Muckaty in the Northern Territory as the chosen site for a proposed national radioactive waste dump, members of Friends of the Earth ACE (Anti-nuclear and Clean Energy) Collective* toured part of Energy and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson's Batman electorate in search of an alternative dumping ground.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
Friends of the Earth
indigenous rights
Muckaty
Nuclear waste dump
Martin Ferguson
ACE

Carlton Gardens bike-ban protest February 26th

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 25/02/2011 - 10:31am
Date and Time: 
Sat, 26/02/2011 -
11:30am to 2:30pm
Location: 
Carlton Gardens, Melbourne
Website: 
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124844107583783

UPDATE: IMPORTANT DETAILS 'N THAT
The RUNDOWN on the day:
11:30am Assemble on the grass on the corner of Carlton st and Nicholson St
12:00 am Form a backwards single file line streching down the Canning st Park enterance.
12:15am Proceed trying to walk backwards.
...MC Jon Bennett will be directing proceedings. He is a funny man.

Geography: 
Melbourne

"Our Generation" screening

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 22/02/2011 - 12:28pm
Date and Time: 
Fri, 11/03/2011 -
7:30pm to 10:00pm
Location: 
Yarraville Community Centre, 59 Francis St, Yarraville, Vic.
Contact Phone: 
0438 869 790
Website: 
www.greenleft.org.au/

A ground breaking new documentary on Aboriginal rights told through the eyes of the Yolngu of Notheast Arnhem Land, "Our Generation" is an unforgettable journey deep into the heart of remote Aboriginal Australia and the social impact of the Northern Territory Intervention.

Entry by donation (to cover costs and support campaigns against the NT intervention) and nibbles and drinks will be available before the film.

7:30 for an 8pm start.

Presented by Socialist Alliance.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Solidarity Sunday North African feast and live music: celebrating people power in Egypt and Tunisia

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 22/02/2011 - 12:26pm
Date and Time: 
Sun, 06/03/2011 -
1:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
4 Castle St, Yarraville, Vic.
Contact Phone: 
9639 8622
Website: 
www.greenleft.org.au/

A joint celebration with lots of yummy Halal food for the recent events in the Egypt and Tunisia and to mark the 20th anniversary of Green Left Weekly. Children are very welcome.

Entry is $20 (solidarity), $15 (waged) or $10 (concession) and includes food. Drinks will be available.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Mitsubishi Greenwash exposed at Sustainable Living Festival over Bluefin tuna stockpiling

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 21/02/2011 - 7:39am

Mitsubishi is one of the sponsors of the Sustainable Living Festival. The Mitsubishi conglomerate is also responsible for killing over one third of endangered bluefin tuna, which they are stockpiling for when stocks become unavailable. The value of this stockpile is soaring as the tuna become scarcer. They are also responsible for financing and building dolphin banger boats and whaling ships.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
bluefin tuna
Mitsubishi
Sustainable Living Festival

Private schools? Want em? Pay yourself. Every single cent

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 20/02/2011 - 12:38pm

The Federal Government is currently reviewing funding for schools in Australia, after maintaining Howard's inequitable model of funding for the first four years in office. Visit the AEU For Our Future website to make a submission. If you want to read a great critique of the current arrangements, read the column below by Catherine Deveney from her Blog

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
Private School Funding