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Rally against HRL – Stand up for climate action

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 18/10/2011 - 6:20pm

Date and Time:

Mon, 24/10/2011 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Outside the front of VCAT, 55 King St Melbourne

Website:

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173981609354959

It’s confirmed! Our legal challenge against the proposed new coal-fired power station for Victoria called HRL is set to begin this coming Monday, 24 October at VCAT.

Environment Victoria along with a local community climate action group called LIVE is challenging the Victorian Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) approval for HRL to go ahead. We are supported in this action by an expert legal team including the Environment Defenders Office, and three barristers working pro-bono.

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Melbourne

Peaceful Law Reform Rally to Legalise Cannabis

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 18/10/2011 - 6:16pm

Date and Time:

Sun, 20/11/2011 -

1:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

Flagstaff Gardens Between William and King st 200 metres from Flagstaff Station Lawn 7 Melbourne, Australia

Please invite friends who are pro cannabis ! Come light up enjoy a day of peace and music in lovely surroundings. Bringing awareness to the benefits of Industrial Hemp and Medical Cannabis, and the issues surrounding Cannabis prohibition. Don't forget to invite your friends who support the cause, too!

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Melbourne

Occupy Melbourne: Indigenous Film Festival

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 18/10/2011 - 6:11pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 22/10/2011 - 8:30pm to Mon, 24/10/2011 - 10:00pm

Location:

Occupy Melbourne, City Square, cnr Collins & Swanston sts, City

Join the 99% in City Square for Occupy Melbourne's Indigenous outdoor cinema. We will be screening a classic film each night and will be joined with a range of special guests. There will be performances and political discussion. All welcome!

Saturday at 8.30pm: "Our Generation"
Sunday at 8.30pm: "Bastardy"
Monday at 8.30pm: "Wrong Side of the Road"
... ...
Hosted by Occupy Melbourne's Indigenous Working Group.

For more info on the occupation, visit http://occupymelbourne.org/

OUR GENERATION

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Melbourne

What’s wrong with Occupy Melbourne

Submitted by Flowerpower on Tue, 18/10/2011 - 5:59pm

Firstly let me state that there is a lot of things right about Occupy Melbourne. It is showing solidarity with an amazing global movement of ordinary people demanding political and economic justice. Secondly, it is bringing people together to talk about politics and it is also a great experiment in communal living and participatory democracy. Lastly, it is plugging into the crisis of legitimacy that exists within Representatives democracies such as Australia where people realize their Governments have been captured by corporate interests.

Geography:

Melbourne

Keywords:

Occupy Melbourne

World Vegan Day Melbourne Festival

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 17/10/2011 - 10:58pm

Date and Time:

Sun, 06/11/2011 -

10:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Helliers Street, Abbotsford, Victoria

Contact Name:

Despina Bedovian

Contact Phone:

0435 207 456

Contact Email:

despina.bedovian@live.vu.edu.au

Website:

http://www.wvd.org.au/

Join in the annual celebration of healthy, ethical, and compassionate living in Melbourne. Peruse
through the marketplace of more than 100 stallholders and activities offering vegan-friendly
products, sample some of the yummy food on offer, be informed about vegan and environmental
lifestyle choices at one of the many talks and seminars, or maybe even meet your perfect match
in speed dating.

You don’t have to be a vegan or vegetarian to join in the fun; we invite all
members of the community to join in this day, so don’t forget to bring your friends and family!

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Melbourne

SNAP NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION against BHP Billiton

Submitted by peter on Mon, 17/10/2011 - 5:23pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 20/10/2011 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location:

BHP Billiton HQ, 180 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

Contact Name:

Tully

Contact Phone:

0410 388 187

Contact Email:

ace@foe.org.au

Website:

http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/?q=node/1016

Last Monday Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke approved BHP Billiton's supplementary Environmental Impact Statement for the expansion of the Olympic Dam mine.

The BHP Billiton board are now debating the final decision.

Reasons why the expansion should not go ahead:

The mine is to be one of the largest open cut mines in the world, 1km deep, 4.5km wide & 3km long.

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Melbourne

Occupy Melbourne: Corporate Scumbags Tour

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 16/10/2011 - 9:54pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 21/10/2011 -

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location:

Occupy Melbourne @ City Square

Contact Name:

Sam Salvidge

Contact Phone:

0432803360

Contact Email:

salvidge@gmail.com

Website:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=235877963134979

Everyone knows about the Arts Centre spire and Melbourne's laneways, but did you also know Melbourne is home to some of Australia's biggest corporate scumbags?

Join us on a march through the CBD visiting the worst offenders. Who's your nomination? Is it a company who attacks their workers, or a company that makes billions by trashing our environment? Or a CEO who pays themselves millions while outsourcing your jobs?

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Melbourne

BDS Max Brenner, Melbourne. 15/10/11

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 16/10/2011 - 8:08pm

I write this to u on the occupied lands of the Wurundjeri ppl and near the lands of the Bunwurrung ppl. Melbourne is again occupied by the ppl and not the corporations.
Victory 1 day one for Occupy Melbourne and the Bans, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Melbourne Central Shopping Centre was shutdown. It has a store owned by the Strauss Group called Max Brenner.
There were great and emotional speeches, covering the reasons to BDS businesses like Max Brenner.

Geography:

Melbourne

Keywords:

human rights

Palestian Solidarity

Victorian Students for Palestine

Max Brenner

Upcoming Melbourne & Vic Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 3 events from 21 October 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 16/10/2011 - 5:10pm

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

Event: Fri 21 October 2011: Melbourne City, Vic
Public meeting:
You say you want a revolution: Not Sorry Enough
Speakers: Robbie Thorpe; Karla Grant; Linday Bruney;
Kim Hill; Tania Major.
"From the battles for basic civil rights four decades ago,
to the overturning of terra nullius and the stolen
generations apology, Australian Indigenous activists have
achieved much over successive generations.
Yet it would seem many aspirations have been left behind
along the way, and there is so much left to achieve. ... "

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Melbourne

Victoria

WGAR News: Advocates brief UN Committee on the Rights of the Child re Australia's performance

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 16/10/2011 - 1:40pm

Newsletter date: 16 October 2011

Contents:
* Advocates brief UN Committee on the Rights of the Child re Australia's performance
* Amnesty chief tells Macklin - We will be watching
* Attempted suicides in communities affected by NT Intervention has doubled
* Arnhem Land leaders are gathering on Elcho Island
* Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott calls for scrapping of Olympic Dam expansion
* What’s Working: A Better Way - ANTaR's book of success stories
* More on APY Lands
* Apology to the Aboriginal People of Australia on behalf of Australians of Arabic background

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