Melbourne

Melbourne and Victoria events: Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner + Camp for Deaf Aboriginal Children

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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

Event: 12 March 2014: Melbourne, Vic
Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner: Stories & Connections
"Aboriginal Tasmanian men Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner
were tried, found guilty and hanged in public for the murder of
two white whale-hunters. In January 1842, they were the first
people to be executed in Melbourne.

Socialist Equality Party public meeting in Melbourne: A global political strategy to defend car industry jobs

Date and Time: 
Sun, 16/03/2014 -
2:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Northcote Town Hall, Roof Top Room 189 High Street, Northcote.
Contact Email: 
sep@sep.org.au
Website: 
www.wsws.org

A global political strategy to defend car industry jobs

The entire car industry in Australia has been slated for destruction by Ford, General Motors Holden and Toyota. At least 7,000 workers in five assembly and engine plants will lose their jobs. Many of the 44,000 workers employed by components manufacturers and supporting businesses will be sacked. As the impact is felt across the economy, up to 150,000 more workers will be thrown into unemployment.

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Celebrate Green Left Weekly's 1000th issue!

Date and Time: 
Sat, 15/03/2014 -
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
AMWU, 251 Queensberry St, Carlton South.
Contact Name: 
Chris
Contact Phone: 
9639 8622
Contact Email: 
peterson_err@hotmail.com
Website: 
https://www.greenleft.org.au/

Saturday, March 15, 6.30pm. The 1000th edition of Green Left Weekly will roll off the presses on March 12. That’s a huge milestone for a people-powered newspaper. Green Left Weekly, and more recently Green Left TV, have proudly published an unashamedly biased ecosocialist point of view for 23 years! Join the celebration and help keep the most widely read, radical weekly newspaper in Australia powering along. Speakers, music from Les Thomas, food & bar available. 6:30pm. $30 solidarity/$20 waged/$10 conc. For more info ph 9639 8622.

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Disaster in the Latrobe Valley - protest at GDF Suez

Date and Time: 
Tue, 11/03/2014 -
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
GDF SUEZ Head Office Rialto South Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne Victoria 3000

At 12:30, we'll March up Collins St for a 1pm media conference on the steps of Parliament House.

At 2pm we're going to go into the gallery to watch Greg Barber MP ask questions of the government in relation to this disaster.

On the 9th February, disaster struck the Latrobe Valley. A bushfire surging from Hernes Oak on an extreme fire day is said to be what sparked a fire in a disused part of an open cut brown coal mine owned by GDF SUEZ Australian Energy.

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A global political strategy to defend car industry jobs - Socialist Equality Party public meeting

Date and Time: 
Sun, 16/03/2014 -
2:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
Northcote Town Hall, Roof Top Room 189 High Street, Northcote

The entire car industry in Australia has been slated for destruction by Ford, General Motors Holden and Toyota. At least 7,000 workers in five assembly and engine plants will lose their jobs. Many of the 44,000 workers employed by components manufacturers and supporting businesses will be sacked. As the impact is felt across the economy, up to 150,000 more workers will be thrown into unemployment.

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WGAR News: Michael Mansell talks TREATY - Brisbane Blacks interview: Aboriginal Provisional Government

Newsletter date: 7 March 2014

Contents:

* Aboriginal Provisional Government: Michael Mansell talks TREATY - Brisbane Blacks interview
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Aunty Lilla Watson and Mary Graham about Treaties and Constitutional Recognition
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Chris Graham about Warren Mundine’s Treaty comments, Utopia by John Pilger and Constitutional Recognition
* Background to Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia
* Background to Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples

Victoria events: 'In the Absence of Treaty' book-launch & 'Utopia' + Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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

Updated Event: Thu 6 March 2014:
'concerned Australians': In the Absence of Treaty Waurn Ponds (VIC) Book launch
in conjunction with the screening of Utopia,
John Pilger’s film on Aboriginal Australia (entry free)
Venue: Peter Thwaites Lecture Theatre, Deakin University
Organised by:
* Geelong One Fire Reconciliation Group,

Ongoing Vigil for Asylum Seekers in Detention - Casseleden Place - 24 February to 25 March 2014

In response to the murder of Kurdish Iranian asylum seeker Reza Barati in the detention centre on Manus Island last week a small group of protesters has established an ongoing vigil outside the Department of Immigration office at Casselden Place. While determined to maintain the action regardless, they would welcome support and ideally for others to join them. There is a Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/592372480844016/

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'I am a Girl' Free Film Screening!

Date and Time: 
Sat, 01/03/2014 -
5:00pm to 11:00pm
Location: 
LOOP Project and Space Bar, 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne
Contact Name: 
Charlotte Turner
Contact Phone: 
0437976569
Contact Email: 
amnestygetactive@gmail.com.au
Website: 
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Amnesty-International-Melbourne/496451427106446

To celebrate International Women’s Day, the Amnesty International Melbourne Get Active Network invites members of the public to a special screening of I Am A Girl, on the 1st of March at LOOP Project and Space Bar, 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne.
“I Am a Girl” is a feature-length documentary about what it means to grow up as a girl in the 21st century. The film explores the lives of 6 girls living around the world in places like Papua New Guinea, Afghanistan and Australia.

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The Betrayal of Julian Assange

By Robyn Irene - February 23rd, 2014 - Truth changes everything. There is a kind of automatic reaction involved when factual information comes into the public sphere — whether that be the life of a country or an individual. Hidden secrets, the exposure of dirty washing, call it what you will, once we know what is concealed, we feel empowered.More so when our understanding of situations and complex scenarios is complete. The full story is the only story. It is only when we know that we can even begin to properly assess a situation, in our own lives, or in our world.

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