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Secret history of Queer Melbourne walking tour

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 17/05/2011 - 6:16pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 28/05/2011 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

Location:

State Library of Victoria

Website:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=217082908321396

"For the past decade, Graham Willett and Wayne Murdoch have been opening people’s eyes to the queer history hidden in Melbourne’s laneways, by leading walking tours through Melbourne’s CBD – as well as the inner north and St Kilda – as part of Midsumma, Victoria’s premier gay and lesbian festival..”
From Melbourne Weekly, 18 Jan 2011.

Join us when historian Graham Willett takes us for a stroll from the State Library of Victoria to City Library, outlining Melbourne’s secret past.
The walk concludes with coffee, biscuits and book sales at Journal Canteen (Rosa’s Kitchen).

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Melbourne

Protest: San Churro workers demand penalty rates! - cancelled

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 17/05/2011 - 5:30pm

Date and Time:

Sun, 22/05/2011 -

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location:

San Churro - Fitzroy 277 Brunswick Street Fitzroy, Australia

THE EVENT WAS CANCELLED BECAUSE THE WORKERS WON!!! SOLIDARITY FOREVER

San Churro is a popular cafe chain employing hundreds of workers and turning over millions of dollars a year. Unfortunately many of the workers are not paid penalty rates even though they consistently work late nights and weekends. San Churro's own collective agreements states that "The Employer shall pay the Employees in accordance with the Award, including penalties, allowances and overtime where applicable."
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Melbourne

Torture, Lies and the Australian State: Mamdouh Habib Speaks Out

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 16/05/2011 - 5:08pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 19/05/2011 -

6:30pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Socialist Alternative Centre Trades Hall, Cnr Lygon and Victoria St, Carlton

Contact Name:

Vashti Kenway

Contact Phone:

0410513302

Contact Email:

vashtijane@gmail.com

Website:

www.sa.org.au

Wikileaks files have revealed the complicity of the Australian government in the torture that occurred in Guantanamo Bay. Former inmate Mumdouh Habib speaks, at this very special Socialist Alternative meeting, on his experiences.

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Melbourne

Counter-demonstration against Fascist rally - Federation Square, 15 May 2011

Submitted by peter on Mon, 16/05/2011 - 3:23pm

Against a background of a Buddhist festival promoting peace, harmony and enlightenment, the latest incarnation of Fascism in Australia, the so-called Australian Defence League, chose Melbourne's Federation Square to spread their message of intolerance, divisiveness and ignorance. But a counter-demonstration saw them first outnumbered, then drowned out, and finally forced to an ignominious retreat.

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Oppose the Malaysian 'solution' - End mandatory detention. Rally and march - 13 May 2011

Submitted by peter on Sat, 14/05/2011 - 4:57pm

A few days after the Malaysian Bar Association issued a statement opposing the recently-announced refugee swap between the Malaysian and Australian governments (“Asylum seekers and refugees are not commodities to be traded” – full text given below), the Refugee Action Collective in Melbourne called a protest at the GPO in Bourke Street, followed by a march down to the steps of Flinders Street Station.

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WSN National Conference

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 11/05/2011 - 8:52pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 20/05/2011 - 6:30pm to Sun, 22/05/2011 - 5:00pm

Location:

Trades Hall, Carlton.

Contact Phone:

0431 445 978

Contact Email:

wsn.melb@gmail.com

Website:

http://www.workerssolidaritymelbourne.org/

The first Workers Solidarity Network conference will take place Fri 20, Sat 21 and Sun 22 May at Trades Hall. All are welcome!

Friday 20th May

6.30pm The history of Union Solidarity and the need for community action

Dave Kerin kicks off the conference with a discussion of the history and legacy of Union Solidarity, its successes, flaws and impact.

Saturday 21st May

9-12 Community and Industrial Cooperation

A historical look at community support in industrial campaigns and industrial support in community campaigns.

The BLF green bans and black bans – Speaker TBC

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Melbourne

Amnesty Melbourne briefing on Malaysian Solution

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 11/05/2011 - 6:26pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 14/05/2011 -

3:45pm to 4:30pm

Location:

Meeting Room 1, Trades Hall Council, Cnr. Victoria & Lygon Streets, Carlton South, VIC, 3053

Want to find out more about the 'Malaysia deal' and how you can help stop it? Come along to one of the community briefing sessions being held around the country this weekend.

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Melbourne

Footage from "From Chernobyl to Fukushima - is there a future in nuclear?" Public Meeting

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 11/05/2011 - 7:50am

Video extracts from a public meeting organised by Friends of the Earth's Anti-Nuclear and Clean Energy Collective on 28 April 2011 under the heading "From Chernobyl to Fukushima, Is there a future in nuclear?".

Video from Engage Media by PC

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Melbourne

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Fukushima

nuclear power

Oppose the Malaysian solution, End mandatory detention

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 10/05/2011 - 6:08pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 13/05/2011 -

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Melbourne, GPO steps, Bourke Street Mall (near Elizabeth street) Bourke Street

Gillard's plan to ship asylum seekers to squalid refugee camps in Malaysia is an attack on the right, under international law, to seek asylum regardless of how you arrive in a country. Her attacks on people smugglers is just a cover for her attacks on refugee rights and her desire to avoid any responsibility for looking after the world's most persecuted people seeking protection.

The Refugee Action Collective (Victoria) opposes offshore processing but also calls for an end to mandatory detention on Australian shores as well.

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Melbourne

Melbourne Candle Day 2011 - Rethinking the way we see refugees.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 10/05/2011 - 6:06pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 27/05/2011 -

6:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

Melbourne, State Library

In 1961 two Portuguese students were arrested for toasting their wine glasses to freedom. On the other side of the world British lawyer Peter Benenson read about this and founded Amnesty International. Fifty years later Amnesty continues to defend human rights worldwide.

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Melbourne