Melbourne

Benefit event for Cartaret climate refugees

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 01/10/2010 - 5:13pm
Date and Time: 
Tue, 05/10/2010 -
6:30pm to 10:30pm
Location: 
RMIT Research Lounge, RMIT University Building 8, Level 5, Swanston St, Melb
Website: 
http://www.acf.to/carteret-event

Join us for a night of wine and cheese, lovely Bougainvillean bamboo band music for a good cause. Please tell people in your network about it and ask them to pass it on.

Meet Ursula Rakova from Tulele Peisa and hear her moving and inspiring stories of a people not defeated by the tough challenges of climate change in a country where the Government is too weak to respond to any crisis.

Comedian Rod Quantock will entertain you with his good humour consistent with the spirit of the Pacific islanders in the face of adversity.

Geography: 
Melbourne

BZE Discussion Group: 6.30pm Monday 4 October "The Future Makers"

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 01/10/2010 - 2:59am
Date and Time: 
Mon, 04/10/2010 -
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Fritz Leowe Theatre (entry via level 2) McCoy Building University of Melbourne Cnr Elgin & Swanston Streets, Carlton
Website: 
http://beyondzeroemissions.org/events/discussion/630pm-monday-4-october-discussion-group-future-makers

Film Screening and Q&A with Director

Maryella Hatfield is a lecturer in the School of Communication Arts at
the University of Western Sydney. Her documentary "The Future Makers"
tells the story of key Australians leading the way on the world stage
in renewable energy, particularly solar thermal projects.

It also focuses on cutting edge photovoltaics research in Australia,
with reference to Zhengrong Shi's massive SunTech PV business in China
and his continuing connections with UNSW researchers. The documentary
was funded by The NSW Film and Television Office and the Discovery

Geography: 
Melbourne

Australian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Conference for Palestine

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 01/10/2010 - 1:39am
Date and Time: 
Fri, 29/10/2010 - 7:00pm to Sun, 31/10/2010 - 6:00pm
Location: 
Conference launch - Friday 29th October Theatrette, State Library of Australia, cnr of Swanston and La Trobe St, Melbourne City. Conference sessions - Sat, 30th Oct & Sun, 31st Oct. Maritime Union of Australia Hall, 54 Ireland St, West Melbourne (5 minutes walk from North Melbourne train station)
Contact Email: 
ausbds@gmail.com
Website: 
http://australianbdscampaign.wordpress.com/

SPEAKERS AND UPDATED CONFERENCE AGENDA
Building Solidarity, Combating Occupation and Apartheid
National Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions conference
Melbourne, 29 - 31 October 2010
- activism in support of Palestine -

Endorsed by the Palestinian BDS National Committee

Our confirmed speakers so far include:

Rafeef Ziadah

Geography: 
Melbourne
Australia

S11 / Melb Indymedia 10 year anniversary

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 30/09/2010 - 12:34pm

S11, the protest against the WEF at the Crown Casino happened just over 10 years ago.

The website has been down for a few years, but it has just been archived at http://s11.media2.org

Melbourne Indymedia was launched a month or two before the protest, so this site has an anniversary to celebrate too.

Congrats everyone.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Australia
Keywords: 
protest
independent media
S11

Upper echelon Aussie cops caught dealing drugs

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 30/09/2010 - 11:20am

'Shock and alarm' at secret-papers cache. The Age revealed today a cache of secret files from ASIO, the OPI and West Australian police were uncovered during a drug raid in Melbourne's north.
...
Read the full story a the link below

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/shock-and-alarm-at-secretpapers-cache-...

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
ASIO
the OPI and West Australian police

West Papua Benefit Party

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 29/09/2010 - 10:13pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 16/10/2010 - 8:00pm to Sun, 17/10/2010 - 1:00am
Location: 
Fitzroy Town Hall 201 Napier St, Fitzroy
Contact Name: 
Ricard
Contact Email: 
rickyrumbiak@hotmail.com
Website: 
www.freewestpapua.com.au

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Come along and support West Papua struggle for Freedom and help make the journey to the UN!

The West Papuans will be taking their case to the UN in New York in
October to present their case for a free and independent nation from
Indonesian rule. They wish to join the Decolonization List - a la East
Timor.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Victorian government launches funding for community climate projects

Submitted by takver on Wed, 29/09/2010 - 6:01pm

The Victorian State Government has just announced grants for the community greenhouse programs for local community action on climate change. The O'Hea Biketown Project in North Coburg was used as the flagship for the launch of the program by Victorian Climate Change Minister Gavin Jennings at CERES environmental park in Brunswick today.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Victoria
Keywords: 
climate
cycling
funding
Brunswick
community
Moreland
Coburg

You are invited to: Public space versus Market place: A community forum to keep speech free

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 29/09/2010 - 12:40pm
Date and Time: 
Wed, 27/10/2010 -
6:45pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Brunswick Town Hall, 233 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Contact Phone: 
03-9388-0062
Contact Email: 
freedom.socialist.party@ozemail.com.au

Use of public space is being restricted by privatisation. Earlier this year, the management of Barkly Square shopping centre in Brunswick stopped Green Left Weekly from operating its regular Saturday stalls. A community campaign resulted in Green Left Weekly winning limited access. While Green Left Weekly is happy to allow other community campaigns to distribute materials, access to this social space is restricted.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Flashmob Action on the 9th anniversary of the Afghanistan War

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 27/09/2010 - 10:21pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 09/10/2010 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets, just inside or outside the station.

The war in Afghanistan is not liberating anyone from terrorism. A reported 971 Afghani’s were killed in fighting during August. 22 Australian troops have been killed, almost half this year. Documents just released through Wikileaks expose how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, and that the Taliban are becoming increasingly deadly.

While 61% of Australians think we should withdraw from A...fghanistan – on the whole we’ve been a very silent majority.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Stop the Intervention - Jobs With Justice!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 27/09/2010 - 9:53pm
Date and Time: 
Fri, 29/10/2010 -
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
State Library of Victoria (cnr Swanston and Lt La Trobe Streets)
Website: 
www.maicollective.blogspot.com

Join this National Day of Action in Melbourne to demand the end to the racist Northern Territory Intervention.

Get Involved!
Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective (MAIC) meets every Monday, 6.30pm at the New International Bookshop (NIBS). The bookshop is easily found in the basement of the Trades Hall building (Lygon and Victoria Streets, Carlton)

Geography: 
Melbourne