Melbourne

Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin in Melbourne

Date and Time: 
Fri, 23/10/2009 - 9:00am to Thu, 29/10/2009 - 10:00pm
Location: 
berth no 3 at North Wharf Rd, Docklands
Contact Name: 
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Website: 
http://www.seashepherd.org/matilda/campaign-updates.html

The Sea Shepherd's flagship Steve Irwin is due to leave Brisbane the first week of October for a grand tour around Australia, calling in the ports of Sydney, Hobart, and Fremantle.

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Food not Bombs - Not another van fund raiser !

Date and Time: 
Sun, 18/10/2009 -
6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Irene Warehouse, 5 Pitt St, East Brunswick (off Lygon Street, first small street on left going north of Glenlyon Road)
Contact Name: 
Ali
Contact Phone: 
0422 426 450
Contact Email: 
reactiveali@yahoo.com.au

Food Not Bombs Presents...
Not Another Fund Raiser!

Sunday the 18th October at 6 p.m. Irene Warehouse, 5 Pitt St, Brunswick

One of our Food Not Bombers has written a short play called White fella Dreaming. Set in a small Western Australian country town, it looks at black/white relations and the differing ways in which both groups view post- colonial history. Despite touching heavily on the issue of genocide, White fella Dreaming has some light hearted moments. Read by three talented actors, it will follow spoken- word and comedy from other new Melbourne writers.

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8 years too long…End the war in Afghanistan!

Date and Time: 
Wed, 07/10/2009 - 8:00am to Thu, 08/10/2009 - 6:00am
Location: 
Outside Flinders St Station, corner Flinders and Swanston Sts, Melbourne.
Contact Name: 
Simon Moyle
Contact Phone: 
0402 857 915
Contact Email: 
smoyle@gmail.com
Website: 
http://smoyle.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/leunig-on-afghanistan/

8 years too long…End the war in Afghanistan!

Two days of action against the Afghan war

Wednesday 7th October marks 8 years since the invasion of Afghanistan, an unmitigated and expensive humanitarian disaster which has only worsened the situation for ordinary Afghans. Join us for a vigil to mark the occasion, and to call for this war to end now. Come for as long as you can make it, everyone welcome.

8am-6pm Wednesday 7th AND Thursday 8th October

Outside Flinders St Station, corner Flinders and Swanston Sts, Melbourne.

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Emergency rally in solidarity for indigenous Mapuches of Chile

Date and Time: 
Sat, 10/10/2009 -
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Federation Square/ Flinder Street Melbourne
Contact Name: 
Lucho Riquelme
Contact Phone: 
0430223778
Contact Email: 
lasnet.latinosolidarity@gmail.com
Website: 
http://www.latinlasnet.org

We invite all you to join us in support and solidarity to the indigenous Mapuches of Chile and Rally beside them for their freedom and justice movement.
The Mapuches are holding a national rally in Chile on the 12/10/2009.

During the past eight years the level of violence and repression from the Chilean Government towards the Mapuches movement has risen.

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Melbourne Anarchist Resource Centre attacked by neo-Nazis

Recently, the Melbourne Anarchist Resource Centre (MARC) in Northcote was attacked by neo-Nazis. We believe the attack was in response to a recent anti-fascist action which happened in Burwood. (see http://indymedia.org.au/2009/09/14/anti-fascists-attack-neo-nazis-busine...). More statements may follow from the groups who use the space, but for the moment one of those present has written the following description of what happened.

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Palestine film: PEACE, PROPAGANDA AND THE HOLY LAND:

Date and Time: 
Fri, 16/10/2009 -
6:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Direct Action Centre Victorian Trades Hall, cnr of Lygon and Victoria St, Carlton. The Direct Action Centre is located in the basement of the Victorian Trades Hall, next to the New International Bookshop. Entry is via the Victoria St entrance.
Contact Email: 
melbourne@directaction.org.au
Website: 
www.directaction.org.au

Direct Action Radical Films presents

PEACE, PROPAGANDA AND THE HOLY LAND: US media and Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Palestine: Speaking out against Israeli apartheid and occupation

Date and Time: 
Tue, 08/09/2009 -
7:00pm to 9:30pm
Location: 
Victorian Trades Hall, Cnr of Lygon and Victoria St, Carlton
Contact Email: 
palestinesolidaritycampaign@gmail.com
Website: 
www.palestinesolidaritycampaign.net

PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN

presents

The Struggle for a Free Palestine:

SPEAKING OUT AGAINST ISRAELI APARTHEID AND OCCUPATION

A public forum and discussion on Israel, Zionism, apartheid and the Palestinian struggle for justice and freedom

7pm, Thursday, 8 October

New International Bookshop

Victorian Trades Hall, Cnr of Lygon and Victoria St, Carlton

Entry by donation

“Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.”

- Henrik Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister, 1961

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Stop Solar Systems Closure Rally: Save Jobs &fund renewables.

Date and Time: 
Sun, 11/10/2009 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
45 Grosvenor St Abbotsford (off Victoria Street, take 109 tram from city)
Contact Name: 
Chris
Contact Phone: 
0403 013 183

Stop Solar Systems Closure
Rally
save the jobs,
fund renewables.

The Federal Government must guarantee Australia's first large scale solar power plant.

The building of this plant neat Mildura in North West Victoria is in doubt after compamny Solar Systems went into administration, making 100 workers redundant in the process. This is a huge blow to the effort to transition to renewable energy, and shows why government support of renewables needs to be stepped up.

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7-Eleven: Pressure mounts on Eddie Chan

More than 30 people attended a protest outside a 7-Eleven in South Yarra on the 18th September. The action was organised by UNITE, the union campaigning against the underpayment of more than $100,000 of wages in 7-Eleven stores owned by businessman Eddie Chan. The rally was a success despite members of the riot police turning up.

The protest targeted the Domain Rd 7-Eleven store because Eddie Chan has interests in the business. Until recently Chan also owned the Moorabool Street 7-Eleven store in Geelong where he paid his workers only half of the wages they were owed.

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WGAR News: Ampilatwatja Anti-Intervention Walk-off Speaking Tour (22 Sep 09)

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
Ampilatwatja Anti-Intervention Walk-off Speaking Tour
Restrictions on Bilingual Education in the NT
NT Intervention Chief removed
Call for Stolen Generations Compensation
Homelands / Outstations Policy
Proposed National Indigenous Representative Body
Aboriginal Housing in the NT
Other Aboriginal articles

AMPILATWATJA ANTI-INTERVENTION WALK-OFF SPEAKING TOUR:

- Background

Intervention walkoff’s Blog
http://interventionwalkoff.wordpress.com/

WGAR News: