Melbourne

Ross House Active Melbourne Film Series: Peace Brigades International

Date and Time: 
Thu, 26/08/2010 -
6:00pm to 10:00pm
Location: 
Level 4 Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane Melbourne

Kami tidak sendiri (We are not alone)
Human rights protection in Aceh, Indonesia

A film that covers work of PBI in Aceh over eight years and during some of the worst periods of the regions' long and bitter conflict. This new documentary covers the protection of human rights activists in Aceh conflict through the eyes of human rights defenders.

We are not giving up!
Human rights in Nepal

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Get the message Labor? Aboriginal Rights, Not the Intervention

Date and Time: 
Fri, 27/08/2010 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
ALP Head Office 360 King St Melbourne, Australia
Website: 
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=154903507859615&ref=mf

This Friday 31st August Aboriginal rights activists protest against the Northern Territory Intervention. The action will target the ALP Headquarters, as the Intervention has cost the previous government votes in the recent elections. The huge swing to the Greens in remote Indigenous communities is a rejection of the paternalistic policies of the Intervention. This is particularly shown in areas affected by then Intervention, where the Green...s outpolled the ALP on a platform opposing the NT Intervention.

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Colombia Forum

Date and Time: 
Tue, 31/08/2010 -
6:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
ETU Building, 1/200 Arden St, North Melbourne
Website: 
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=147091061978737

Report back from Colombia - Colombia unions and resistance
movements today!

For two weeks in July, a Solidarity Delegation representing the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), and the Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET) visited Colombia, hosted by SINALTRAINAL, a union organis...ing the food services sector, including workers for Kraft, Nestle, Coca-Cola and the whole agro-industry products.

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Anti-Scientology Protest

Date and Time: 
Tue, 24/08/2010 - 10:00pm
Location: 
Meeting At: Flinders Street Steps at 12.00 midday. Moving to Bourke Street Mall, then The Church of Scientology
Contact Name: 
Kenji
Contact Email: 
kenji.melbanon@gmail.com
Website: 
http://www.melbanon.com

The Church of Scientology is known for many things - celebrities, ufology, and their strange beliefs in general. They are also known as one of the most controversial religions around.
What people might not be aware of is the countless human rights violations of the church, and how their actions have effected and destroyed the lives of many people.

Forced Abortions - Destroyed Families - Attacks on Critics - Attacks on Ex Members - Stalking - Suicides of members - Harassment ... just to name a few.

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National Day of Action: Hit the Streets for Abortion Rights!

Date and Time: 
Sat, 09/10/2010 -
12:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Parliament House Corner of Spring Street and Bourke Street Melbourne, Australia
Contact Email: 
radicalwomen@optusnet.com.au
Website: 
www.RadicalWomen.org

Keep abortion legal in Victoria!
Drop the Cairns abortion charges!

On October 9 this year, the Right to Life will mark two years since the legalisation of abortion in Victoria by holding a “March for the Babies” as part of a campaign to recriminalise abortion.

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SP Meeting: Federal Election Debrief

Date and Time: 
Wed, 25/08/2010 -
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Trades Hall Cnr Victoria & Lygon Sts, Carlton South

Stephen Jolly will be kicking off a discussion on the outcome of the federal election. The meeting will explore perspectives on the next term of Australian federal politics and what we can expect from the winning party. We will also be discussing the socialist alternative to the current political system.

Public meeting: All welcome!

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Walk against Warming 2010 in Melbourne - 15 August

The 2010 Walk against Warming in Melbourne was different from previous years, being in fact largely symbolic. Instead of the usual march through the city, participants gathered in three critical electorates, Melbourne, Deakin and La Trobe before engaging in a mass letter-box with a message for climate change. In central Melbourne the initial rally attracted a larger than expected number, about 500, and there was a short backwards march to highlight the direction the major parties have been taking the country.

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More on same-sex marriage rights rally - 14 August

There is a report with photos and short extracts from some of the speeches on Melbourne Protests - http://melbourneprotests.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/rally-for-same-sex-mar...

Video to follow, but in the meantime, here are mp3s of extracts from three of the speeches, plus a few extra photos:

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FairWear action on school uniforms - 16 August

Students, staff, and parents from Brunswick West Primary School joined FairWear campaigners and members of the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia in an action highlighting that school's commitment to ethical uniforms, with a follow-up at the Thomastown outlet of BuxWear, where they awarded the company a 'Fail' report card for its use of sweatshop labour.

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Refugees and Racism in Australia

Date and Time: 
Wed, 18/08/2010 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Student Union Meeting Room, Building 8 RMIT
Contact Name: 
Chris Peterson
Contact Phone: 
0431 311 520
Website: 
www.resistance.org.au

Speakers:

Madhuni Kumarakulasing

Member of

the Tamil Community and Asylum seeker support worker

Julius Kogoya

West

Papuan activist

12.30pm,

Wednesday, August 18

The new Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, has shown her support

for the racist, Howard-era style method of “ disposing” of the refugee problem by constructing a

detention camp in one of the most impoverished countries of South-East Asia -

East Timor.

This forum will address the problem of asylum seekers in Australia and present some of the

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