Melbourne

Make Poverty History Wills Electoral Forum

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 07/05/2010 - 1:44pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 08/05/2010 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Brunswick Town Hall
Contact Name: 
Clancy Moore
Contact Phone: 
0410 508 051
Contact Email: 
clancym@oxfam.org.au
Website: 
www.makepovertyhistory.com.au

Get Active on Poverty - Every Minute Counts

Speakers:
Kelvin Thomson (Australian Labor Party)
Mark Riley (Australian Greens)
Andrew Hewett (Oxfam Australia)

Wills Electorate - this is your chance to ask our political leaders their views and policies on:
• Tackling global poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals
• Increasing Australia’s overseas aid commitments
• Developing adaptation funding and a global agreement on climate change

80% of Australians support the government committing 0.7% of national income to aid.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Time to replace Hazelwood coal power station for climate change

Submitted by takver on Thu, 06/05/2010 - 9:42pm

Over 250 people gathered on Thursday May 6, 2010 for a protest on the steps of the Victorian Parliament in Melbourne, called for Victorian Premier John Brumby to take strong climate change action and negotiate the closure of the Hazelwood brown coal fired Power Station in the La Trobe valley by 2012.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
climate change
protest
coal
global warming
Hazelwood
John Brumby

Green Left Weekly Comdedy Debate 2010

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 06/05/2010 - 12:48pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 29/05/2010 - 7:30pm to Sun, 30/05/2010 - 1:00am
Location: 
Brunswick Town Hall Corner Sydney Rd & Dawson St Brusnwick
Contact Name: 
Sue Bolton
Contact Phone: 
9639 8622
Contact Email: 
sueb@greenleft.org.au

10th annual Green Left Weekly comedy debate

'Tony Abbot is our saviour!' Political backflips & budgie-smugglers

Geography: 
Melbourne

Equal Pay Day of Action

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 05/05/2010 - 9:12pm
Date and Time: 
Thu, 10/06/2010 -
11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: 
Federation Square, opposite Flinders St Station. Rally and then march to Parliament
Website: 
http://www.payup.org.au

The ASU has been campaigning for equal pay for community sector workers for over 3 years. They have been talking to government, community sector workers, employers and service users about the high turn over in the sector and the need to get real about sector sustainability. Fair Work Australia will hear the case for equal pay and is likely to make a decision in the latter part of 2010.

Visit www.payup.org.au and take part in other campaign actions

Geography: 
Melbourne

No Radioactive Waste Dump @ Muckaty

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 05/05/2010 - 8:54pm
Date and Time: 
Fri, 07/05/2010 -
12:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
FLINDERS ST STATION (under the clocks): Cnr Flinders and Swanson St, Melbourne CBD.

Last weeks protest at Martin Ferguson's office was such a blast, we are now taking it to the CBD. Come make some noise, have some fun and help raise the public profile of the campaign.

Bring banners, instruments, placards, family & friends.
We will have our regulars : Ziggy the massive inflatable anti-nukes elephant, various costumes to dress up in, awesome music and live acts and of course 'mock' Martin Ferguson aka : "Minister Sinister"....plus fresh ideas thrown into the mix.

Contributions welcome!

Geography: 
Melbourne

Celebration of Palestinian Cinema

Submitted by Flowerpower on Wed, 05/05/2010 - 8:08pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 22/05/2010 -
12:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Direct Action Centre , Trades Hall, Cnr Victoria and Lygon Sts
Contact Name: 
Direct Action
Website: 
www.directaction.org.au

"Letters to the Rest of the World" is a celebration of Palestinian cinema. Three wonderful Palestinian films explore the Palestinian experience under occupation and Palestinian identity through drama, action, adventure, subversive dark humour, whimsy, puppy love and dreams of freedom and nationhood.

12.40 Salt of the Sea(2008)

2.45 Divine Intervention (2002)

4.30 Tale of the Three Jewels (1995)

Geography: 
Melbourne

Protest Rally for free speech in Brunswick Support the right of community groups to have stalls at Barkly Square

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 05/05/2010 - 4:10pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 08/05/2010 -
11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: 
Saturday 8 May 11am Outside the Mechanics Institute (& the free speech monument) corner Sydney Rd & Glenlyon St Brunswick The monument commemorates the famous struggle 77 years ago when Noel Counihan defied the police from inside a cage outside Phoenix St in front of a crowd of 10,000 people.
Contact Name: 
Sue Bolton
Contact Phone: 
0413-377-978
Contact Email: 
sueb@greenleft.org.au
Website: 
http://www.socialist-alliance.org/victoria/

Speakers:

* Brian Walters, former Liberty Victoria president, former Free Speech Victoria vice president and Greens candidate. Brian is also author of “Slapping on the Writs: Defamation, Developers and Community Activism”.
* Sharon Firebrace, indigenous activist from the northern suburbs and from Black Rights Action Group. * Cyndi Dawes, Greens candidate for Brunswick
* Trent Hawkins, Socialist Alliance candidate for Wills
* High School for Coburg representative
* Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union representative
* Ellen Roberts, Climate Action Moreland

Geography: 
Melbourne

Zombie’s March on on May Day – subversive or braindead?

Submitted by Flowerpower on Tue, 04/05/2010 - 7:51am

On May Day in Melbourne – the refugee rally was dwarfed by another gathering of largely young people – about one thousand people took part in the Zombie Shuffle. Is this a subversive cultural statement about the zombification of our corporate, consumerist society? Or is it actually a manifestation of a braindead culture obsessed with meaningless spectacle? What does it say for the left that this “rally of the undead” was much bigger than the refugee rally happening at Trades Hall literally at the same time?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsmczany/sets/72157623849116805/

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
zombie
mayday

Climate Change World Peoples Summitt Eyewitness account

Submitted by Davey Heller on Tue, 04/05/2010 - 7:37am
Date and Time: 
Tue, 04/05/2010 -
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Resistance Centre level 5, 407 Swanston St
Contact Phone: 
9639 8622
Website: 
www.socialistalliance.org

Here from two Australian activists who just returned from the historic Climate Change World Peoples Summit held in Bolivia

Geography: 
Melbourne

LATIN AMERICA, AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC — INSPIRING, RESISTING, CREATING NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR CHANGE

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 03/05/2010 - 11:06am
Date and Time: 
Sat, 15/05/2010 -
11:00am to 5:00pm
Location: 
Electrical Trades Union Building, 1/200 Arden St, North Melbourne.
Contact Name: 
LASNET
Contact Phone: 
0400 914 944
Website: 
www.latinamericansolidaritynetwork.org

Saturday 15 May

LATIN AMERICA, AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC — INSPIRING, RESISTING, CREATING NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR CHANGE

Seminar: speakers include:
Edgar Páez (Sinaltrainal national leader from Colombia), Clive Porabou & Joanne Dateransi (from Bougainville), Australian union representative, Jim Green (anti-uranium activist from ACE),
Robbie Thorpe (Indigenous activist),
Richard Downs (NT Indigenous leader),
Richard Rumbiack (Free West-Papua Association).
Plus music, poetry, dance and more.

11am to 5pm.
ETU Building, 1/200 Arden St, North Melbourne.

Geography: 
Melbourne