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Rally: Shut Down Serco! End Mandatory Detention! Free the Refugees!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 01/09/2011 - 10:26pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 16/09/2011 -

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location:

Serco Offices, Corner of Bourke and William Streets, Melbourne 3000 (meet in the courtyard on the South-East corner)

Serco destroying lives for profit! End mandatory detention! No deportations! Free the refugees!
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Serco is the company that profits off the incarceration of asylum seekers. The Immigration Department privatises the running of Australia's network of inhumane prisons known as detention centres. Australian Government privatises their violation of some 6400(6/11) Asylum Seekers human rights and Serco are more than eager to profit from this human suffering.

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Walmadan Country calling - community awareness gathering in Northcote, 27 August 2011

Submitted by peter on Wed, 31/08/2011 - 11:08am

Following on from the very successful ‘Keep the Kimberley’ rally on August 14th, campaigners in Melbourne organised on Saturday what is planned to be the first of a series of awareness raising gatherings. See the Walmadan Country is Calling Facebook page for details and other reports, including photos, and a slideshow of photos on Melbourne Protests:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Walmadan-Country-is-Calling/146535252088544
http://melbourneprotests.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/walmadan-country-is-ca...

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Financing the transformation to a zero carbon economy: Why we can afford more jobs and a better life

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 26/08/2011 - 11:15pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 03/09/2011 -

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location:

New International Bookshop Meeting Room (downstairs, Trades Hall, 54 Victoria St, Carlton)

On Saturday, 3rd September, renowned economist, author and activist Ann Pettifor will speak at NIBS on the economics of climate change and why a tax on carbon can only be the beginning of a governmental response to the crisis.

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Melbourne

Hiyaku - Artists Benefit Japan

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 26/08/2011 - 10:38pm

Date and Time:

Sun, 11/09/2011 -

3:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Bella Union, Level 1 Trades Hall cnr Victoria and Lygon Sts Carlton Melbourne, Australia

Artists: DYA SINGH - FRUIT JAR - HUNG LE - IRENE VELA - NORIKO TADANO - RIA SOEMARDJO - SNUFF PUPPETS - WANG ZHENG TING - YUMI UMIUMARE - AND MORE...

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Melbourne

Enough is Enough! For Chilean Students, Workers & the Mapuche!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 26/08/2011 - 10:33pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 10/09/2011 -

12:00pm to 3:00pm

Location:

Federation Square, Melbourne

Protest for the Chilean students, workers and Mapuche in struggle.

All welcome, bring yr flags and demands.

We have called this action as a show of solidarity with the ongoing mobilisations of large sections of the Chilean people, we welcome all those who also stand in solidarity with our brothers & sisters in Chile (and/or Wallmapu) to join us at this action.

Free, quality education; workers' rights; land and self-determination. Solidarity with the students, workers & Mapuche in struggle.
Towards the Social Revolution.

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Melbourne

Public Meeting to stop McDonalds in Tecoma

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 26/08/2011 - 10:24pm

Date and Time:

Sun, 11/09/2011 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location:

Tecoma Primary School

TVAG is calling another Public Meeting to provide advice to residents and Hills visitors on how to best focus their objections, and to show community unity in our objection to this inappropriate development proposal. The ultimate goal is to convince McDonald’s that Tecoma is an inappropriate location for a 24/7 take-away business as proposed, and that the Hills need to remain unique as a place to live and to which to escape.

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Melbourne

Rally against Bacchus Marsh coal mine & coal exports

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 25/08/2011 - 7:50pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 01/09/2011 -

12:45pm to 1:45pm

Location:

City Square, cnr. Swanston & Collins St.

Speakers:
Deborah Porter, Moorabool Environment Group
Victoria McKenzie-McHarg, Environment Victoria

WA company Mantle Mining are planning to dig a huge, open-cut, brown coal mine in Bacchus Marsh, then dry and export this coal overseas. They already have an exploration license, and despite strong local opposition, are poised to commence test drilling at a number of sites in Bacchus Marsh. If successful, this project would:

* destroy local farmland
* threaten ground water

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Melbourne

5 Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary - from 30 August 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 25/08/2011 - 2:16pm

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Event: Tue 30 August 2011: Carlton, Melbourne, Vic
Book launch: "Walk With Us"
- Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention
To be launched by Hon Sally Brown and Melissa Brickell
Brought to you by 'concerned Australians': http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/
Event details: http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/WWU_booklaunches.html
Event details: http://indymedia.org.au/melbourne-book-launch-of-walk-with-us-aboriginal...
Event details: [scroll down page] http://stoptheintervention.org/

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Melbourne book launch Walk With Us - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention

URGENT Appeal to Save Ballerrt Mooroop College

Submitted by Flowerpower on Wed, 24/08/2011 - 5:26pm

School supporters have issued the following urgent appeal for help on the picketline at Ballerrt Mooroop College:

"Bulldozers are on site. We don't want the bulldozer to destroy our Ceremonial Ground, Gathering Place and Spirit Tree. So come down and support and help us to Stop this from Happening. Re-post this to everyone that you know please. The more help and support that we get is much appreciated."

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Melbourne

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Defending Indigenous Rights

Save Ballerrt Mooroop College

WGAR News: Book launch: "Walk With Us" - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 23/08/2011 - 4:41pm

Newsletter date: 23 August 2011

Contents:
* Book launch: "Walk With Us" - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention
* Research review: 'Does new evidence from NT women undermine supposed benefits of income management?'
* Interview with Equality Rights Alliance's Emma Davidson
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 22 events from 23 August 2011
* Muckaty Voices and Our Generation screening at 'Down Under Berlin - Australian Film Festival'
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

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