Melbourne

Update from the Sydney G20 Solidarity Collective



Submitted by Uriohau on Mon, 15/06/2009 - 12:36pm

Trials of the three remaining arrestees from the anti-G20 demonstrations in Melbourne 2006 will begin on June 30 at the Melbourne Magistrate's Court. We urge people to come to Melbourne to show their support and political solidarity to the arrestees.

These trials do not mark the first of such kind, but more importantly, they do not mark the last. We need to build a strong culture of providing meaningful political solidarity to those targeted by the state. 


About the trials

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
protest
g20
State Repression
Neoliberalism in the Pacific

Indonesia: money politics vs people's democracy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 15/06/2009 - 1:53am
Date and Time: 
Thu, 18/06/2009 -
6:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
New International Bookshop, Victoria Trades Hall, cnr of Lygon and Victoria St, Carlton
Contact Name: 
Direct Action
Contact Phone: 
0439 454 375
Contact Email: 
melbourne@directaction.org.au
Website: 
www.directaction.org.au

DIRECT ACTION FORUM

Indonesia: money politics vs people's democracy

ZELY ARIANE, the national spokesperson of Political Committee of the Poor (KPRM-PRD) a revolutionary socialist group that organises workers, women, farmers, urban poor and students, represents a new generation of young radicals who reject Indonesia's fake “democracy†and pro-capitalist governments.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Film premier: Sling Shot Hip Hop - Palestinian documentary

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 15/06/2009 - 1:48am
Date and Time: 
Wed, 24/06/2009 -
7:00pm to 9:30pm
Location: 
New Council Chambers, Victoria Trades Hall, cnr of Lygon and Victoria St, Carlton
Contact Name: 
Direct Action
Contact Phone: 
0439 454 375
Contact Email: 
melbourne@directaction.org.au
Website: 
www.directaction.org.au

SLING SHOT HIP HOP MELBOURNE FILM PREMIER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rdS8zNp3ow

DIRECT ACTION PROUDLY PRESENTS THE MELBOURNE PREMIERE

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Melbourne

Pacific Climate Emergency - a journalist reports

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 14/06/2009 - 6:13pm
Date and Time: 
Tue, 16/06/2009 -
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Campbell Turnbull Library 220 Melville Road, West Brunswick
Contact Name: 
Moreland Climate Group
Website: 
http://morelandclimategroup.org/

Join Journalist Nic MacLellan and hear the latest from a region at the frontline of climate change at a public meeting Organised by the Moreland Climate Group.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Climate emergency: Thousands march for action across Australia

Submitted by takver on Sun, 14/06/2009 - 4:17pm

On June 13, 2009 thousands of people around Australia rallied for action on Climate Change, calling for 100% renewable energy by 2020 and demanding that Australia must make the shift from fossil fuels to wind, solar and other available renewable technologies. Rallies were held in capital cities around Australia, with people siting down outside Kevin Rudd's city office in Sydney and a sitdown protest in front of the Melbourne Town Hall where the Victorian State ALP conference was ocurring.


Perth Indymedia | Melbourne Photos, Takver's Photos, Melbourne Protests, Rally Video, Damien Lawson video | Sydney Report, Youtube Video | Brisbane Report

Geography: 
Hobart
Melbourne
Australia
Sydney
Promotion: 
Feature
Keywords: 
climate change
protest
global warming

Spanish and Greek Anarchist Film Night

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 14/06/2009 - 1:22pm
Date and Time: 
Fri, 26/06/2009 - 7:00pm to Sat, 27/06/2009 - 12:00am
Location: 
Melbourne Anarchist Resource Centre (MARC)
Contact Email: 
nestormakhno@riseup.net
Website: 
www.barricade.org.au

Barricade in conjunction with the Melbourne Anarchist Club's regular 'Anarchist Fridays' will be screening 2 films on the 26th of June. The first 'Living Utopia' is an old Spanish film about the Anarchist revolution of 1936-39. The second film 'The Potentiality of Storming Heaven' is about the Greek uprising that erupted in December last year. So come on down, enjoy some drinks and some great films.
Entry by donation

Geography: 
Melbourne

National climate emergency rally in Melbourne

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 14/06/2009 - 8:25am

At the National Climate Emergency Rally in Melbourne on Saturday 13th July (see: http://indymedia.org.au/national-climate-emergency-rally-melbourne) organises said at the Town Hall there were up to 5,000 people present on the march - listening to speeches and walking from the State Library, stopping at Melbourne Town Hall where the Victorian ALP was meeting, before heading to Treasury Gardens.

See also Climate Emergency: Thousands march for action across Australia, for another Melbourne report.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
climate change

The Sharehood Info Night - Starting a Sharing Community in Your Neighbourhood

Submitted by sharehood on Fri, 12/06/2009 - 10:05pm
Date and Time: 
Mon, 15/02/2010 -
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
The Hive, 17 Kerr St, Fitzroy **NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE**
Website: 
http://thesharehood.org/

The Sharehood is all about sharing resources within your neighbourhood. Sewing machines, cars, tools, books and washing machines all have the capacity to be shared. Skills too are meant to be shared, gardening help, handiwork, bike fixing, accountancy and so on, are all both desired and available within your neighbourhood. The Sharehood infrastructure provides a great way to get to know your neighbours and build a sense of community while saving money and the environment. So far around a hundred neighbours are interacting in Northcote, Merri, Thornbury and Carlton.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Solidarity Action demo/protest for Amazonia Indigenous Peoples in Perú

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 09/06/2009 - 11:07pm
Date and Time: 
Thu, 11/06/2009 -
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
GPO City, Corner of Bourke and Elizabeth Streets City - Melbourne
Contact Name: 
Lasnet
Contact Email: 
lasnet@latinlasnet.org
Website: 
http://latinamericansolidaritynetwork.org

ALERT: Massacre in Peru Police shooting Amazon Indigenous civilians - more than 60 people dead (Different media sources had declared that the numbers of people killed are from 60 to 300 people, but is certain that there are dissapeared indigenous people )
http://peruanista.blogspot.com/2009/06/alerta-masacre-en-peru-la-policia.html

PLEASE TAKE ACTION!

Join the demo/protest this Thursday 11, 12:30pm,at GPO in Melbourne, City - Australia

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Melbourne