Melbourne

Protest: Stop the Racist NT Intervention! Equal Pay and Jobs with Justice!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 7:27pm
Date and Time: 
Fri, 04/03/2011 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Contact Email: 
melbourneaic@gmail.com
Website: 
www.maicollective.blogspot.com

Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective demands an end to the exploitation of Aboriginal workers in the Northern Territory. Under the Intervention policies, Aboriginal people are working for rations whilst living in extreme poverty with the government denying basic services. The NT Intervention is a determined attack on Aboriginal self-determination and has only lead to further disadvantage.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Concept to Script with Robert Greenberg - Vic. Govt. Subsidised*

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:42pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 19/02/2011 -
9:30am to 5:30pm
Location: 
Open Channel Shed 4, North Wharf Rd. Waterfront City, Docklands VIC 3008
Contact Name: 
Lauren
Contact Phone: 
03 8610 9300
Contact Email: 
info@openchannel.org
Website: 
http://www.openchannel.org.au/training/c_concepttoscript.html

Concept to Script is an intense, collaborative workshop designed to help students develop a commercially viable screenplay running from Feb 19th - June 6th. Turn your concept for a feature, short, telemovie or series into a completed draft script that will attract market and development interest. Fee Subsidies are available from 2011 through the Victorian Government for eligible students. This course can lead to Open Channel’s year long business and creative script development program, Advanced Diploma of Screen and Media.

Tutor: Robert Greenberg

Geography: 
Melbourne

Certificate III in Media (Documentary) - Vic. Govt. Subsidised*

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:36pm
Date and Time: 
Wed, 02/03/2011 -
9:30am to 5:30pm
Location: 
OPEN CHANNEL, Shed 4, North Wharf Rd Waterfront City, Docklands VIC 3008
Contact Name: 
Lauren
Contact Phone: 
03 8610 9300
Contact Email: 
info@openchannel.org
Website: 
http://www.openchannel.org.au/training/certificate3DOC.html

During this 14 week full-time course running until June 14th, make your own short Documentary film for festival competition, and for broadcast supported by a professional mentor filmmaker. Learn practical skills in writing, producing, directing, camera, lighting, sound, editing and graphics. Certificate III in Media - Documentary Production comprises intensive, hands-on training with a focus on the documentary genre taught by a wide range of industry professionals.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Prisoner Support Letter Writing Group

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 07/02/2011 - 6:33pm
Date and Time: 
Sun, 13/02/2011 -
6:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Loophole Community Centre 670 High Street Thornbury
Contact Name: 
Chris
Contact Email: 
crustofcrust@gmail.com
Website: 
abcmelb.wordpress.com

A meeting to discuss the formation of a group to write letters to prisoners.The type of prisoners to be supported could be political prisoners, environmental or animal rights activists.
The meeting will be held at 6.30pm on Sunday 13 February at Loophole Community Centre 670 High Street Thornbury.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Garnaut warns costs of inaction on climate change will escalate

Submitted by takver on Sun, 06/02/2011 - 3:39pm

On Thursday evening Professor Ross Garnaut launched his latest climate update report - Weighing the costs and benefits of climate change action - for the Federal parliament Multi-Party Climate Change Committee, warning we are already seeing the results of global warming in the intensification of extreme weather events in Australia.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Australia
Keywords: 
climate change
extreme weather
climate policy

Julian Assange video speech to Melbourne Wikileaks public meeting

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 06/02/2011 - 8:53am

On Friday 4th of February 2011, people gathered at a GetUP organised event at Melbourne's Federation Square to here a number of speakers discuss the threat to liberty posed by the assault on both Wikileaks and Julian Assange. Speakers included: Jennifer Robinson (Assange's UK lawyer), Adam Bandt (Federal MP for Melbourne), Peter Gordon (Principal of Gordon Legal), Lizzie O'Shea, (Melbourne public interest solicitor) and Christopher Warren ( Federal Secretary of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance).

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
Wikileaks
Julian Assange

Media covers up metropolitan Melbourne’s biggest rain event on record

Submitted by Flowerpower on Sat, 05/02/2011 - 10:36pm

By 9AM on Saturday February 5th, areas of Melbourne Metropolitan area had received their highest rainfall total on record. Although the rain event has been extensively reported, the historically significant level of these rains has been almost completely unremarked upon in the mainstream press. For example Berwick in Melbourne’s South East received, 168mm and Officer receiving an incredible 195mm

The only comparable events in the last hundred years were in December 1934, February 1973 and Feb 2005. An examination of table from the Bureau of Meteorology shows that the rainfall total for Officer was the highest on record for any Melbourne suburb since records began. This oversight fits the pattern of the mainstream media attempting to normalise extreme climate events to prevent the public from clamouring for action on climate change.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
climate change
Australia
Melbourne

Egypt uprising solidarity protest Melbourne 4 Feb 2011

Submitted by takver on Sat, 05/02/2011 - 12:35am

Estimates of up to two million pro democracy protesters gathering in Tahrir Square in Cairo Egypt in a "Day of Departure" protest demanding Hosni Mubarak step down from office immediately. Millions more gathered in cities and towns around Egypt. In Melbourne, a smaller number, about 500 people, gathered outside the State Library where protesters heard from a number of speakers including Kevin Bracken, President of the Victorian Trades Hall Council, Greens MP Colleen Hartland, and speakers from the muslim and egyptian communities.

Photos: Takver | Youtube video: Departure Day protest in Melbourne

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
protest
solidarity
union
Egypt

Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our Right to Decide! Women with disability demand reproductive justice!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 04/02/2011 - 7:05pm
Date and Time: 
Thu, 24/02/2011 -
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Solidarity Salon 580 Sydney Road Brunswick
Contact Name: 
Radical Women
Contact Phone: 
03 93880062
Contact Email: 
radicalwomen@optusnet.com.au

The deeper the global economy sinks, the more aggressively it coerces women back into the home to breed and care for its labour force and shoulder the social costs of the crisis. Yet this system denies women with disability the right to be mothers. Reproductive choice is a key battle for all women.

Geography: 
Melbourne