Melbourne

Support Reform SDA - Actions against the Woolworths EBA

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 02/07/2012 - 11:29pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 07/07/2012 -
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Woolworths Supermarkets in * Prahran - Cnr Wattle & Cato Streets, Prahran * St. Kild - Acland Arcade, 117 Acland Street, St Kilda * Balaclava - 220 Carlisle Street Balaclava
Contact Name: 
Reform Sda
Contact Email: 
westajm@gmail.com
Website: 
http://www.facebook.com/Reform.SDA

The new Woolworths EBA is BAAAAD for workers and members of the Reform SDA want to vote it DOWN!

They want your support to have 3 FLASHMOB actions outside 3 supermarkets on Saturday 7 July after 1pm.

The three Woolworths Supermarkets chosen are:

* Prahran - Cnr Wattle & Cato Streets, Prahran

* St. Kilda - Acland Arcade, 117 Acland St, St. Kilda

* Balaclava - 220 Carlisle Street Balaclava

Geography: 
Melbourne

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 4 events from 3 July 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 01/07/2012 - 7:21pm

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Tue 3 - Fri 20 July 2012: Bendigo & Roxby Downs
Road Trip for Change
- Step Out(back) and Learn from Country
"In July the South Australian Student Environment Network
will be running a series of epic road trips that will take you
on a journey of learning from Adelaide to Australia’s
biggest grass roots Environment Conference:
Students of Sustainability (SoS), then via the great
SA outback to Roxby Downs for the
Lizards Revenge Music/Art festival."

Geography: 
Melbourne
Victoria

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 25 events from 2 July 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 01/07/2012 - 6:27pm

Newsletter date: 1 July 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 25 events from 2 July 2012

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: 4 May - 8 July 2012: Circular Quay, Sydney, NSW
Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud
Photographs by Jagath Dheerasekara
Curated by Sandy Edwards
Head On Photo Festival
""The photographs are excellent. They are a moving
portrayal of Aboriginal Australia that all Australians
aught to know about on an issue that wont go away."
- John Pilger, Writer and Filmmaker, January 2012"

Geography: 
ACT
Darwin
New South Wales
Melbourne
Australia
Northern Territory
Sydney
Gold Coast
Queensland
South Australia
Victoria
Western Australia

Let the refugees in! Why Fortress Australia is killing refugees

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 29/06/2012 - 5:24pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 07/07/2012 -
3:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Trades Hall, Victoria and Lygon Street, Melbourne (enter via Victoria Street)
Website: 
www.sa.org.au

Public forum hosted by Socialist Alternative Featuring:

- Liz Walsh, from the Refugee Action Collective
- Tony Kevin, author of 'A Certain Maratime Incident', a book uncovering the governments role in the sinking of the SIEV X
- A Tamil refugee who arrived in Australia by boat

Geography: 
Melbourne

Videos: Rally against Baillieu new coal plans and HRL coal power station

Submitted by takver on Fri, 29/06/2012 - 10:20am

June 28, 2012: Up to 300 People gathered on the steps of the Victorian Parliament house to show opposition to new coal projects which would destroy prime farmland and triple Victoria's contribution to greenhouse pollution.

Residents from Bacchus Marsh and south Gippsland attended to show their opposition to new coal mining projects and plans to use an experimental drying technology by Exergen to open up further mining and the export of brown coal.

Related: Latrobe Valley Coal Power and Climate Change | Carbon capture and storage and the Melbourne earthquake | No coal mine in Bacchus Marsh - locals and activists halt exploratory drilling | Photoset on Flickr

Geography: 
Melbourne
Victoria
Keywords: 
climate change
protest
environment
brown coal
Baillieu
HRL
Exergen

Dump the Dump - Hear Muckaty Traditional Owners in Melbourne this Wednesday

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 23/06/2012 - 10:50pm
Date and Time: 
Wed, 27/06/2012 -
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Friends of the Earth, 312 Smith St, Collingwood
Contact Name: 
Zin Rain
Contact Phone: 
0408165735
Contact Email: 
ace@foe.org.au
Website: 
www.melbourne.foe.org.au

Hear from Muckaty Traditional Owners about their inspirational campaign to protect country and culture from Martin Ferguson's plan to use their land as a nuclear waste dump.

Wednesday 27th June 6.30pm − Friends of the Earth, 312 Smith St, Collingwood

Penny Phillips, Jeannie Sambo, Kylie Sambo and Delvine Spiteri will be in Melbourne for the latest hearing of the court case challenging the nomination of the Muckaty site.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Peace with People, Peace with the Planet: A Franciscan Perspective

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 22/06/2012 - 11:47pm
Date and Time: 
Fri, 31/08/2012 -
7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Yarra Theological Union - Study Centre. 34 Bedford St Box Hill, VIC
Contact Name: 
Franciscan Justice & Peace Office
Contact Phone: 
02 9369 9309
Contact Email: 
jmckay@franciscans.org.au
Website: 
www.franciscans.org.au/jpic

Peace with People, Peace with the Planet: A Franciscan Perspective

Friday 31st August 7:30pm

34 Bedford St, Box Hill.

Friar Joe Rozansky will speak on Franciscan perspectives and international activities directed towards peace and justice.

Joe Rozansky OFM is the head of the OFM Secretariat for Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation which co-ordinates and animates Franciscan activities for justice and peace across the world.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Government to blame for asylum seeker deaths as sea

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 22/06/2012 - 8:38pm

RAC Press release 22nd June 2012 The possible loss of lives of nearly 100 asylum seekers feared drowned at sea between Australia and Indonesia was entirely preventable. The Refugee Action Collective places the blame for these lives lost with the Australian government and demands people smuggling is decriminalised to prevent any further loss of life.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Australia
Keywords: 
asylum seekers
RAC

Free Baba Jan & the Hunza 5! Political prisoners of the climate change crisis

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 21/06/2012 - 5:59pm
Date and Time: 
Wed, 27/06/2012 -
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
cnr Bourke & Swanston Sts, Melbourne
Contact Name: 
Tony
Contact Phone: 
0437237010
Contact Email: 
tonyiltis@hotmail.com

Speakout for International Week of Action.
Background:
Baba Jan is an activist from a community that has fallen victim to climate change. He is also a victim of the “War on Terror”. In January 2010 several communities were engulfed by flooding and landslides in the Hunza River valley, in the remote Himalayan Pakistani-administered territory of Gilgit-Baltistan. These floods and landslides were the result of deforestation, soil erosion and climate change.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Effective action for environmental and social justice: Ross House training day

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 21/06/2012 - 5:58pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 30/06/2012 -
10:00am to 4:00pm
Location: 
Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

You've got the passion, but have you got the power? On Saturday 30 June, get skilled up for maximum effect at the Ross House all day training day with back to back workshops.

Each 90 minute workshop is $10 with all proceeds going back into the program. There are three workshops to choose from in each time period, plus discussions and opportunities to promote your campaign.

Workshops to chose from include:

Introduction to Campaigning
Campaign Planning and Strategy
Group Dynamics and Facilitation
Community Engagement
Campaign Strategy
Direct Action
Digital Campaigning

Geography: 
Melbourne