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Update: Defending Melbourne's Aboriginal school

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 17/12/2010 - 9:53pm

Below is an update from the Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective from the 16th December
We have been supporting the campaign to defend Ballerrt Mooroop College because we think a great injustice is occurring. The imposition of this non-Indigenous school on Aboriginal land is an attack on the idea of educating in a cultural way. Simply put, it is an extension of cultural genocide against Aboriginal people.

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Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective

SEP Australia public meetings: Free Julian Assange! Hands off WikiLeaks!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 17/12/2010 - 9:35pm

Date and Time:

Mon, 20/12/2010 -

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

Conference Room Arts House, Meat Market 5 Blackwood Street North Melbourne (Melway Reference: 2B A9)

mperialist diplomacy exposed: Behind the witch-hunt of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange

The ongoing publication of US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks has provided an invaluable insight into the real state of international relations, the undercover criminal activities of the United States and other governments, and the mounting tensions between the US and its “allies” and rivals alike—tensions that threaten to spark new military conflicts in flashpoints around the world.

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169th Anniversary of execution of two Indigenous Freedom Fighters

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 17/12/2010 - 12:26pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 20/01/2011 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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cnr Bowen and Franklin Streets

Website:

www.3cr.org.au

169th Anniversary of execution of two Indigenous Freedom Fighters

Thursday, January 20 at 12:00pm at cnr Bowen and Franklin Streets

Lest We forget Tunnerminawait & Maulboyheener were executed by public hanging 20th january 1842

Join us 12.00pm to 1.00pm Thursday January 20th 2011

After the commemoration we will silently walk from the execution site to their last resting place at the Eastern end of the Northern wall that divides Melbourne's Queen Victoria markets to acknowledge their just struggle. Please bring flowers.

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Vigil for refugees who drowned at Christmas Island

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 16/12/2010 - 10:29pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 17/12/2010 -

5:30pm to 7:30pm

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Outside Myer Christmas Windows, Bourke Street Mall

Website:

www.rac-vic.org

**No Christmas on Christmas Island

Christmas may be a time of joy and holiday for some, but for asylum seekers and refugees locked up on Christmas Island and immigration detention centres around Australia, there is no respite from the degradation and uncertainty of not knowing when you will be released, deported back to danger or continue to be locked up indefinitely.

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International 24hrs of action for Tasmania’s ancient forests

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 16/12/2010 - 8:42pm

December 14th/15th 2010, saw the biggest show of support for Tasmania’s ancient forests in history. In just over 24 hours, there were banner actions and film screenings in Tanzania, Reunion Island, Japan, Vanuatu, Thailand, India, France, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, England, Wales, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Ireland, Scotland, Ecuador and the United States of America.

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DEFEND JULIAN ASSANGE and WIKILEAKS! Protest on Fri 17th Dec @ 5.30pm State Library

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 16/12/2010 - 1:15am

Date and Time:

Fri, 17/12/2010 -

5:30pm to 8:15pm

Location:

State Library (cnr Swanston & La Trobe Sts), Victoria

Contact Name:

Colleen

Website:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=138917892829261&index=1

For those living in Melbourne:

PROTEST TO DEFEND WIKILEAKS and JULIAN ASSANGE

Friday 17th Dec 2010, 5.30pm @ State Library of Victoria (cnr Swanston & La Trobe streets, city)

After two rallies in Melbourne of over one thousand people we need to continue the fight to defend freedom of speech and to defend Wikileaks.

In Sydney the protest was attacked by the police. Oppose such flagrant violations of our rights.

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Melbourne Wikileaks protesters march on British consulate

Submitted by takver on Wed, 15/12/2010 - 2:10am

A warm early summer day in Melbourne, with crowds of Christmas shoppers strolling the streets and city workers heading home on a Tuesday evening. Into this mix a gathering slowly grows on the lawn of the State Library. A gathering for free speech, to defend Julian Assange and the Wikileaks website.

Photos | Youtube Video | More photos | WikiLeaks protesters march in Sydney despite police intimidation | Antony Loewenstein Blog from Sydney: Defending Wikileaks faces Oprah-obsessed police force | London IMC: Assange out on bail, Anonymous out in support | Ireland IMC: Photos from Australia House protest London

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Meat workers in Brooklyn, Melbourne, locked out.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 14/12/2010 - 12:24pm

ABOUT 140 meatworkers have been locked out of a meat processing plant in Brooklyn in Melbourne's west after picketing their workplace since Friday 10th December. The workers are trying to win a decent pay rise. Their employer Swift Australia, Australia's biggest meat packer and exporter, is only offering them a 2 percent pay rise, for which they are meant to worked for reduced penalty rates on a Saturday. vowed to picket until Christmas if necessary after being locked out of a Brooklyn plant.

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Swift Australia

29 workers arrested at Visy in Dandenong- Solidarity Needed!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 13/12/2010 - 6:10pm

Around 500 Visy workers across Australia have been on strike since November 29th, 400 of them at the Visy plant in Dandenong. The strike has been over the workers demands that the company stop undermining their job security by forcing casual employment on workers at the factory, as part of latest round of enterprise bargaining. Visy has further angered the protestors by flying in an a scab workforce by helicopter to maintain production at the factory and by taking out injunction on individual workers this morning. Today saw a major escalation of the dispute with at least 29 people being arrested and charged with creating an undue obstruction and besetting the premises. One worker was injured when a truck run over his foot.
Update: Trades Hall has called for a community picket at 6AM at the site tommorow (Tuesday 13th December). Please try to make if it you can to show solidarity. Corner Greens Rd and Hammond Rd Dandenong
Related: Video of arrests from Channel 9 -- Youtube footage of picketline -- AMWU Press Release -- Workers Solidarity Network

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Rally to defend Julian Assange and Wikileaks

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 1:11pm

Date and Time:

Tue, 14/12/2010 -

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location:

State Library, Swanston St

As announced at Friday's Melbourne demonstration, there will be a protest on Tuesday, Dec 14 to defend Julian Assange and Wikileaks.

We need to keep the pressure up and voice our outrage at this assault on freedom of speech and democratic rights.

The rally will coincide with Julian Assange's next court hearing of his application to be released from detention in Britain on bail.

Like last time, spread the word like wildfire....
Details of speakers will follow.
For more information, please call Colleen B on 0449 678 621.

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