Melbourne rally to defend Wikileaks declares "You're the Voice!"
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Music Day @Ballerrt Mooroop College
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 09/12/2010 - 9:39pmDate and Time:
Sun, 12/12/2010 -
10:00am to 8:00pm
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Ballerrt Mooroop College, 208 Hilton Street, Glenroy, Melways 16 H1.
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0433090933
Featuring: Tjimba and the Young Warriors, Bart Burns Band, Johnny Mac and Lady Luck (open mic).
The school community is putting on a gig to help support the school. All are welcome to come along to the school and enjoy some cultural music and a BBQ.
Gold coin donation.
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Melbourne pro-Palestine BDS action - Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/12/2010 - 9:49pmA Pro-Palestine Anti-Israeli Apartheid Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Action in Melbourne Central was carried out by the C.A.I.A. (Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid). It targeted Jericho Cosmetics in Melbourne Central, an Israeli cosmetics company, on December 3rd
Be sure to check out the websites Global BDS Movement for more info (www.bdsmovement.net)
To see footage of this action vist On Youtube
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Stop the Bulldozers! At Melbourne's only Aboriginal School
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 02/12/2010 - 9:23pmDate and Time:
Wed, 15/12/2010 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
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Bourke Street Mall
The Department of Education has approved the construction of a new school directly on the land of Ballerrt Mooroop College in Glenroy. To make way for this new school the Aboriginal community is losing their gymnasium and their ceremonial grounds. Why must this new school be built on Aboriginal land-...-the only Aboriginal school in Melbourne?
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Venezuela report: A discussion with Comandante William Izarra (via Skype video hookup)
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 02/12/2010 - 9:18pmDate and Time:
Sun, 05/12/2010 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
International Bookshop, Trades Hall, cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton
Contact Phone:
0425 182 994.
Organised by the Venezuelan Embassy in Australia & the Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network. Izarra is a leading Venezuelan revolutionary and longtime activist in the Chanvista movement.
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Marriage Equality Action Workshop
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 02/12/2010 - 9:09pmDate and Time:
Sat, 04/12/2010 -
9:30am to 12:30pm
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Kulin Room
225 Bourke Street
Melbourne, Australia
Register now for a Marriage Equality Action Workshop
Do you support marriage equality but aren't sure how to make your case?
Do you want to help achieve full equality but aren't sure what to do?
...
Are you unsure of how to respond to, and challenge, opponents of equality?
If the answer is "yes" then a Marriage Equality Action Workshop is for you.
An Action Workshop is made up of two three-hour intensive sessions led by Australia's foremost challenging-homophobia educator, Daniel Witthaus.
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Carlton - Our Generation Film Screening
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 30/11/2010 - 9:40pmDate and Time:
Wed, 08/12/2010 -
6:30pm to 8:30pm
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Trades Hall, Cnr Lygon St and Victoria St (enter on Victoria St)
Special Film Screening - OUR GENERATION
A Documentary film by Sinem Saban & Damien Curtis
A rollercoaster journey into the heart of Australia’s Indigenous relations, a hidden shame that is pushing the world’s oldest living culture to the edge. Through the stories of the Yolngu of NE Arnhem Land, the film looks at the Government’s ongoing policies of paternalism and assimilation, examines the real issues underlying Indigenous disad...vantage, and opens dialogue on ways forward that respect Aboriginal culture and dignity.
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Charges dismissed for Swan Island activists
Submitted by Flowerpower on Mon, 29/11/2010 - 5:23pmA Geelong Magistrate today stated that activists who had blocked the gate of the Swan Island military facility had “acted in good consciousness” and in light of this, recorded no conviction, and dismissed the charges for 8 of the 9 defendants.The 9th defendant, who was arrested the same day she faced court for a similar action, was given a one month good behavior bond.
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Koorie school community rallies against discriminatory development
Submitted by takver on Sun, 28/11/2010 - 5:53pm
Builders are moving in to destroy the gymnasium of Ballerrt Mooroop College, the only aboriginal school in Melbourne. The school is located in Hilton Street Glenroy and the school is being moved into two demountable clasrooms and the gymnasium slated for demolition on December 17 to create 170 car parking spaces for an $18 million development of Glenroy Special School.
Campaign details at Treaty Republic Website
15th Dec Bourke St Mall Solidarity Rally
Picket on December 17th to stop demolition
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A peak into the human well being equation
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 26/11/2010 - 9:46amThe man who invented the term “Peak Oil” delivered a lecture at Melbourne University on Wednesday night declaring that: “fossil fuel energy does the work we don’t like doing ourselves” and “without energy there can be no economic growth”.
Kjell Aleklett, Professor of Physics at Uppsala University in Sweden and President of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO), believes that oil, gas and coal are reaching peak production, which is set to leave the world with a deficit of energy relative to future demand.
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