Melbourne

Feminism, football and one teenage girl's attempts to “fight the power”

Submitted by Flowerpower on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 11:10am

The teenage girl at the centre of the St Kilda football club sex and photos scandal is emerging as an unlikely feminist warrior in our supposedly “post-feminist” world. This young girl is bravely refusing to accept the labels of “slut” or “victim” and is instead ferociously trying to hold the St Kilda football club and the AFL to account in footballer's treatment of young women. Most importantly, she is refusing to be silenced. Her latest efforts included crashing a St Kilda club training session , putting up posters and handing out fliers including one proclaiming “Fight the Power”.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
St Kilda
football

Marxism 2011: Ideas to Challenge the System

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 09/01/2011 - 9:28pm
Date and Time: 
Thu, 21/04/2011 - 6:30pm to Sun, 24/04/2011 - 9:30pm
Location: 
University of Melbourne Student Union
Contact Name: 
Socialist Alternative
Contact Phone: 
0410 861 093
Website: 
http://www.marxismconference.org/

Marxism 2011 is the largest annual event on the Australian left, to be run over 4 days during the Easter weekend in Melbourne, Thursday 21 April - Sunday 24 April. The conference features over 70 sessions and international guest speakers on a huge range of topics - from radical history to women's and LGBTI liberation, imperialism and the Middle East, socialist theory, the global economic crisis and workers' struggles today.

CHILDCARE AVAILABLE

International guest speakers include;

* John Pilger: Multi award winning left-wing documentary film maker

Geography: 
Melbourne

Rally: HANDS OFF WIKILEAKS

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 09/01/2011 - 9:08pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 29/01/2011 -
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
State Library of Victoria
Contact Name: 
Hands Off Wikileaks
Website: 
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120207014714402

Despite having committed no crime, Julian Assange is still under house arrest in Britain despite being released on bail. World leaders continue to call for his prosecution or even assassination, with US vice-President Joe Biden labelling Assange a “cyber-terrorist”.

Bradley Manning, the soldier who leaked US military documents and footage, continues to languish in prison and is facing a jail sentence of up to 52 years. Assange faces an initial extradition hearing on 11 Jan, and a further hearing on February 7 and 8.

The protests against this attack on free speech must continue.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Film Screening: Our Generation

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 09/01/2011 - 9:00pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 05/02/2011 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Trades Hall (Corner Victoria and Lygon St, Carlton)
Contact Name: 
Socialist Alternative
Contact Phone: 
0402 175 330
Contact Email: 
melbourne@sa.org.au
Website: 
www.sa.org.au

From the ongoing racism of the Northern Territory Intervention, to being forced off their traditional lands into larger townships crippled by social dysfunction, to their languages being removed from school education, to mining deals sidelining traditional owners, the Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory are fighting for freedom.

Our Generation is their untold story; of a struggle hidden from the eyes of mainstream Austral...ia. A rollercoaster journey into the heart of Australia's Indigenous relations, a hidden shame that is pushing the world's oldest living culture to the edge.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Film Screening: Martin Luther King's Struggle Against Poverty

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 09/01/2011 - 8:56pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 15/01/2011 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Trades Hall Cnr Victoria and Lygon streets Carlton, VIC
Contact Name: 
Socialist Alternative
Contact Phone: 
0402 175 330
Contact Email: 
melbourne@sa.org.au
Website: 
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=172000142841370

At the River I Stand reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed the strike movement of black sanitation workers in Memphis into a national struggle against racism. It captures the role of Martin Luther King in his last ever battle before his assassination.

Join Socialist Alternative for a screening of At the River I Stand and a discussion about the political transformation of Martin Luther King towards the end of his life. All welcome.

For more information, 0402 175 330
Visit our website www.sa.org.au

Geography: 
Melbourne

Topless protest - Update Event Cancelled

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 4:52pm
Date and Time: 
Sun, 23/01/2011 -
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Parliment House Spring street Melbourne, Australia
Website: 
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=116845278389360

UPDATE - THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED BY ITS FACEBOOK CREATOR

The fact that only men can be topless in public is discriminatory. Both Sexes are welcome.

Women, you don't have to be topless, how ever it encouraged. Placing tape over your nipples is recommended so you don't get arrested for public nudity.
Its the little things like this that proves women still aren't equal.

Please invite others.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Radical Melbourne Walking To

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 06/01/2011 - 5:31pm
Date and Time: 
Thu, 03/02/2011 -
6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Meet at the Lygon Street entrance to Trades Hall

Join local historian Mick Armstrong for a tour of the radical hot-spots of Melbourne's CBD. If you like tales of defiance, of rabble rousing, of demonstrations and police chases - then come along to this special tour.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Freedom Socialist Party meeting: Indigenous inclusion in the Constitution - worth fighting for?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 05/01/2011 - 4:17pm
Date and Time: 
Thu, 27/01/2011 -
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Solidarity Salon 580 Sydney Road Brunswick
Contact Name: 
Freedom Socialist Party
Contact Phone: 
03 93880062
Contact Email: 
freedom.socialist.party@ozemail.com.au

On 9 November, Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, announced an “expert panel” will be set up to “lead a national discussion and broad consultation” around plans for a referendum to recognise Aboriginal Australians in the Constitution. How can the Aboriginal rights movement make sure the result is a step forward? The Freedom Socialist Party will decide what we think. We welcome supporters and guests to join in this discussion.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Protest Against Scientology's Crimes

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 03/01/2011 - 2:41pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 15/01/2011 -
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Flinders St Station

How many families were without their loved ones this Christmas and New Years because of Scientology's Disconnection policy?

How many women have been forced to have abortions last year by Scientology because it's 'easier' for the CoS to make them do that than train another SeaOrg member?
...
How many people have been abused? How many rapes and sexual abuses have been covered up last year because the rapist was a Scientologist?

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So once more, on January 15th, Melbourne Anonymous is meeting again to protest against the crimes of the Church of Scientology.

// DETAILS //

Geography: 
Melbourne

International Multinational Monitor - 1st Organising Meeting

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 03/01/2011 - 2:35pm
Date and Time: 
Tue, 18/01/2011 -
7:00pm to 10:30pm
Location: 
LASNET Space, Basement, Trades Hall

Following the resolutions reached at the November 'Latin American, Australian & Asia-Pacific Solidarity Gathering', LASNET is calling this meeting to commence our work for the 'International Multinational Monitor' (Observatorio Internacional de las PolĂ­ticas de las Multinacionales). This project aims to raise awareness, to monitor and denounce the behaviour of multinational corporations, initially in the areas of Latin America ...and the Asia-Pacific. Also, the Co-ordination will seek out other bodies involved in working against multinationals, both in Australia and overseas.

Geography: 
Melbourne