Melbourne

Aboriginal rights film festival

Date and Time: 
Sat, 11/02/2012 -
3:00pm to 9:15pm
Location: 
Resistance Centre, level 5, 407 Swanston St, City (opposite RMIT).
Contact Name: 
Chris
Contact Phone: 
9639 8622
Contact Email: 
peterson_err@hotmail.com
Website: 
www.socialist-alliance.org

Agenda:

3:00-3:30pm. Introduction: Robbie Thorpe, longtime Indigenous rights activist.

3:30-4:30pm. The Coolbaroo Club. Deals with situation facing Aboriginal people in Perth in post-World War II years. Excluded from white social clubs and venues by an apartheid colour bar, they began organising their own dances at an East Perth hall (the Coolbaroo Club). (1996, 55 mins)

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11March Fukushima anti-nuclear demonstration

Date and Time: 
Sun, 11/03/2012 -
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
State Library Victoria
Contact Name: 
Tim Wright
Contact Phone: 
93474795
Contact Email: 
info@icanw.org
Website: 
www.11march.com

The 11th of  March 2012 marks one year since the tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster in Fukushima prefecture, Japan.

Australian uranium fueled the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe and has caused extensive human suffering and long-term environmental damage.

It’s time to end Australia’s dirty and dangerous uranium trade.

On Sunday the 11th of March please join us for a demonstration from 1PM at the State Library of Victoria (see website for events in other states).

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LASNET 2012 Annual Get Together Meeting

Date and Time: 
Wed, 15/02/2012 -
6:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
LASNET Space, Trades Hall Basement, Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts

Inspiring… Resisting… Creating New Possibilities For Change...
An invitation for all of those interested in Latin American Solidarity...

Our greetings for 2012 with our best wishes for this New Year, we wish the best for all those who struggling for a better world without injustices and exploitation.

We would like to thank all of you for support the Latin American people through the Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET) during last year.

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Occupy Oakland Solidarity March

Date and Time: 
Mon, 30/01/2012 -
12:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
City Square Melbourne, then onto the American Consulate

On Saturday the 28th January, the Oakland Police Deparment Declared Occupy Oakland's march an 'Illegal assembly', and deployed the use of Tear gas, Smoke bombs and rubber bullets.

In such protests in the past, it has come out later that violence that seemed to be caused... by the protesters has actually insitgated by undercover agents in the protesters midsts.

We will meet and march in support of our Brothers and Sisters in Oakland who have had violence brought upon them for using their own right to voice their dissatisfaction with their own government.

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Film screening: The People Speak

Date and Time: 
Sat, 04/02/2012 -
4:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Loophole Community Centre 670 High Street, Thornbury
Contact Name: 
Industrial Workers of the World
Website: 
www.iww.org.au

Inspired by Howard Zinn's books, The People Speak celebrates the extraordinary possibilities for creating social change that ordinary people have realized throughout the course of the United States' rich but often ignored history of dissent and protest.

"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
—Howard Zinn (1922–2010)

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Save Japan Dolphins Australia Initial Volunteer Meeting

Date and Time: 
Sat, 25/02/2012 -
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
1901/572 St. Kilda Road (entrance off Beatrice St.)

Initial meeting and chapter launch for Save Japan Dolphins Australia, organized and hosted by Volunteer Coordinator, Liberty Miller. This meeting will cover the basics of the new SJDA chapter; we will discuss ideas for getting involved in the local community, determine what events we will participate in and how we can spread the word and raise awareness in regards to the Cove. If you, or anyone you know, may be interested in volunteering with SJDA, this meeting is the first step you will need to take.

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Malalai Joya to speak at Marxism 2012

Date and Time: 
Sat, 07/04/2012 -
1:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
The University of Melbourne Student Union Building

Marxism 2012 is extremely proud to announce a new addition to our international lineup of speakers: Malalaii Joya.

Joya, one of the most outspoken Afghan critics of the American war and occupation, will be speaking on Saturday 7th April at 1:30pm on her life and struggle.

Joya came to international prominence in 2003, when she stood up in Afghanistan's constitutional assembly to denounce the presence of "criminals" on its benches.

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Stop the deportation of Afghan Hazara asylum seeker Ismail Mirza Jan

Date and Time: 
Tue, 07/02/2012 -
5:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Bourke St Mall

The Australian government is currently attempting to deport Afghan Hazara asylum seeker, Ismail Mirza Jan, to Afghanistan. Never before has an Afghan national been forcibly removed from Australia to Afghanistan.

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Afghan War Vigil

Date and Time: 
Tue, 07/02/2012 -
4:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Flinders St Station

We have now been involved in the Afghanistan War longer than we were in Vietnam...a Roy Morgan poll late last year say 72% of Australians want the troops home - yet the war goes on.

Join us in a vigil to oppose the war. We held these vigils monthly in 2010 - and look forward to resuming them in 2012...let us know if you'd like regular updates!

Please invite your friends (and enemies!)

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