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Rally to Replace ALL of Hazelwood

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 13/10/2010 - 10:38pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 06/11/2010 -

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Location:

State Library, cnr Swanston and Latrobe Streets

Join us to put the heat on our pollies this state election to Replace ALL of Hazelwood - Australia's dirtiest power station.

Because: Lets move Victoria to a renewable energy powered future
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We’ve written letters, letterboxed our streets, door-knocked our neighbourhoods, held community meetings and met with our MPs to get them to act on Hazelwood. But now, in the lead up to Victoria’s state election, we’ve got to take the campaign up a notch.

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Rally to stop the new coal fired power station - Climate Jobs NOT New Coal!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 13/10/2010 - 9:49pm

Date and Time:

Mon, 18/10/2010 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Location:

Premier John Brumby's office, 1 Treasury Place, Melbourne

Melbourne company HRL recently applied for approval to build a new “Dual Gas' coal-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley. The Brumby government is backing it and contributing $50 million in an attempt to prolong the life of the coal industry in Victoria.

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Defending Human Rights in Colombia: A PBI Public Forum

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 13/10/2010 - 9:15pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 04/11/2010 -

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

La Trobe University City Campus, 215 Franklin St, Melbourne. 215 Franklin St, Melbourne, Australia

Contact Email:

info@pbi-australia.org

Website:

www.pbi-australia.org

Defending Human Rights in Colombia:
A High-Risk Activity

Australian volunteer Carly Dawson has spent 12 months in Barrancabermeja Colombia, providing protective accompaniment for grassroots human rights defenders who are facing threats for their work for human rights.

Come to this public forum exploring the state of human rights in Colombia since the election of Santos, the courageous work of Colombian human rights defenders, and the role of the international community in keeping them safe.

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Melbourne

Melbourne launch of "Our Generation" Doco

Submitted by Flowerpower on Wed, 13/10/2010 - 9:03pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 22/10/2010 -

7:00pm to 10:00pm

Location:

Capitol Theatre, RMIT 113 Swanston Street Melbourne, Australia

Contact Email:

tickets@ourgeneration.org.au

Website:

http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/

Melbourne is our first destination for the launch of our Rolling Thunder EAST COAST tour!

With Indigenous guests from N.E Arnhem Land, Jeff McMullen (former ABC foreign correspondent) and music by Shane Howard and Shellie Morris, this is set to be a special, soulful evening.

Time: 6.30pm doors open for 7pm start.
Price: $25 or $15 concession
For reservations please email tickets@ourgeneration.org.au
Tickets payable on the door

The DVD will be available for purchase on the night so you can have it signed by the leading people in the documentary!

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Melbourne

Flashmob protest on 9th anniversary of Afghanistan War

Submitted by takver on Sat, 09/10/2010 - 10:28pm

Nine years of Australian defence forces in Afghanistan was remembered by three flashmob die-ins: on the steps of Flinders street station, outside the old GPO, and at the State Library steps today in Melbourne.

Photos | Youtube video: Ninth anniversary of Afghanistan War remembered in Melbourne with a Flashmob protest

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Justice for Refugees: End Mandatory Detention Rally

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 06/10/2010 - 8:59pm

Date and Time:

Sun, 07/11/2010 -

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location:

State Library of Victoria Swanston and Latrobe Streets Melbourne, Australia

The Refugee Advocacy Network, the coalition that organised the World Refugee Day march in Melbourne on June 20, has called another mass rally and march for Sunday November 7.

The focus of the rally will be to call for an end to the policy of Mandatory Detention. There are currently over 4600 people in detention centres, places that 2010 Australian of the Year, mental health advocate Pat McGorry, described as "factories for producing mental illness".

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Melbourne

Coups and congresses: contemporary Latin American democracies

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 06/10/2010 - 8:55pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 15/10/2010 -

6:30pm to 9:30pm

Location:

LASNET Office, Trades Hall basement

In continuation of our Friday night films, we will be hosting an evening of discussion on contemporary Latin American democracies. We will first have a discussion of the recent (rather anti-climactic) coup attempt in Ecuador, and the social forces which supported and opposed it. Afterwards, as participation in the international day of action in solidarity with Honduras, against last year's coup on 28 June, we will be watching "Who is afraid?" The film covers the mass opposition to the junta.

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Melbourne

Coal is a dead end! Community demonstration at HRL office with mock 'clean coal' technology launch

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 05/10/2010 - 10:27am

Today members of the Cross Campus Environment Network (CCEN) held a demonstration at the Melbourne office of HRL with the mock launch of a new 'clean coal' technology. The building went into lock-down when the protesters arrived at the steps of the office with a ramshackle 'state-of-the-art' coal cleaning machine.

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Protest in solidarity with Maribyrnong hunger striker

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/10/2010 - 9:37pm

The Refugee Action Collective (Vic) has organised a lively protest in solidarity with Tamil refugee Leela Krishna outside Maribyrnong Detention Centre on Sunday October 3rd. Leela Krishnan, has been locked in detention for 12 months, began a hunger strike on October 1st to demand his immediate release. Leela’s application for refugee status has been approved based on the discrimination and violence he experienced in Sri Lanka because of his sexuality – he is gay. But he remains in detention because ASIO has not completed its security check. Despite repeated attempts to get information from the Immigration Department about the status of these checks, he has not been able to find out why he has not been released. After spending almost a year at Christmas Island and Villawood detention centres, Leela was moved to Maribyrnong in the last 2 weeks.

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Melbourne

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