Melbourne

Mumia is Innocent! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Abolish the Racist U.S. death penalty

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 24/03/2010 - 11:48am
Date and Time: 
Sat, 10/04/2010 -
1:30pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Old City Square, Corner Swanston and Collins Streets, Melbourne
Contact Name: 
Solidarity Salon
Contact Phone: 
03-9388-0062
Contact Email: 
freedom.socialist.party@ozemail.com.au

Date: Saturday, 10 April 2010
Time: 1:30pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Old City Square, Corner Swanston and Collins Streets, Melbourne

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an innocent man, framed and convicted for the killing of a police officer in Philadelphia, USA, in December 1981 and sentenced to death. He was targeted for the frame-up because of his long history of political activism in the black community and opposition to police brutality. Now the death sentence is near to being carried out. Come to a speakout and demand the unconditional release of this champion of the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Public Meeting: Experiences & prospects of workers' control in Venezuela, Bangladesh & Australia

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 23/03/2010 - 3:01pm
Date and Time: 
Tue, 06/04/2010 -
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Tuesday, April 6, 6.30pm. Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City (opposite RMIT).
Contact Name: 
Sue Bolton
Contact Phone: 
0413-377-978
Contact Email: 
sueb@greenleft.org.au
Website: 
http://www.socialist-alliance.org/victoria/

Speakers:
Fahreen Alamgir (researcher on workers' ownership in Venezuela & jute mills in Bangladesh)
Dave Kerin (CFMEU mining and energy union organiser).

Organised by Socialist Alliance

Geography: 
Melbourne

Muckaty Station is not a radioactive waste dump site - Darebin residents teach in

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 23/03/2010 - 12:15pm
Date and Time: 
Wed, 21/04/2010 -
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Northcote Town Hall, Roof Top room. 189 High st, Northcote

Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: Northcote Town Hall, Roof Top room. 189 High st, Northcote

Description Get up, stand up and lets walk together! Your invited to a community event and information session.

The evening is focused on bringing the voices of Muckaty in the Northern Territory to the inner city suburb of Northcote to create awareness around the issues of Radioactive Waste Management in Australia and the sensitivity of the site selection of the nations only proposed Radioactive Waste repository site.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Warming or cooling ?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 20/03/2010 - 12:31am

Some people say that global warming science is wrong because the earth is not warming up very fast.

It is very easy to understand why: The increased heat is melting the glaciers and icebergs.

This takes up the extra energy of the heat. The result is increased ocean levels and strange rain & cyclone patterns.

But the heating will not happen until all the ice is melted. Think about it. If it is summer and you have a big block of ice in your room, the air will get colder... until all the ice is melted.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
climate change

Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 19/03/2010 - 12:16pm
Date and Time: 
Tue, 25/05/2010 -
7:00pm to 8:45pm
Location: 
Solidarity Salon 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Contact Name: 
Alison Thorne
Contact Phone: 
03-9388-0062
Contact Email: 
freedom.socialist.party@ozemail.com.au
Website: 
www.socialism.com/melbourne

Four session discussion circle on the newly published anthology

Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation

Tuesdays 7:00 pm – 8:45 pm
First session: Tuesday 25th May

Solidarity Salon
580 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Take the Upfield train to Anstey Station or Sydney Road tram to Stewart Street. Plenty of free parking is available at the rear. Enter from Staley Street.

“This book represents a snapshot of that moment when queers weren’t obsessed with tying the knot of picking up a rifle to go off and fight ‘terrorists.’ Revolution was in the air.”

Geography: 
Melbourne

Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 19/03/2010 - 12:06pm
Date and Time: 
Tue, 11/05/2010 -
7:00pm to 8:45pm
Location: 
Solidarity Salon 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Contact Name: 
Alison Thorne
Contact Phone: 
03-9388-0062
Contact Email: 
freedom.socialist.party@ozemail.com.au
Website: 
www.socialism.com/melbourne

Four session discussion circle on the newly published anthology

Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation

Tuesdays 7:00 pm – 8:45 pm
First session: Tuesday 13th April and then 27th April, 11th May and 25th May

Solidarity Salon
580 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Take the Upfield train to Anstey Station or Sydney Road tram to Stewart Street. Plenty of free parking is available at the rear. Enter from Staley Street.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Earth Day Cabaret!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 19/03/2010 - 11:52am
Date and Time: 
Sat, 24/04/2010 -
6:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: 
Solidarity Salon 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Contact Name: 
Alison Thorne
Contact Phone: 
03-9388-0062
Contact Email: 
freedom.socialist.party@ozemail.com.au
Website: 
www.socialism.com

You are warmly invited to

Earth Day Cabaret!

Featuring
• Enviro/Rebel Songs Go Live!
Paul Karp performs his own songs. He is a passionate cycling environmentalist, a musician, poet and a workplace delegate with the Community and Public Sector Union.
• Proletarian poets for the planet

Saturday 24 April
• Doors open at 6:30 pm • Program at 8 pm
• Authentic Ethiopian banquet served at 7 pm

• $20 solidarity price • $15 waged • $10 concession

Solidarity Salon
580 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Take a Sydney Road tram to Stewart Street or an Upfield Line Train to Anstey.

Geography: 
Melbourne

** Mariem Hassan: the voice of the Sahara ** Film, Speaker ACMI

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 19/03/2010 - 7:43am
Date and Time: 
Tue, 30/03/2010 -
7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: 
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Federation Square, Melbourne cnr Flinders & Swanston Streets
Contact Name: 
Lyn Allison
Website: 
www.awsa.org.au

** Mariem Hassan: the voice of the Sahara **

- Film night on Western Sahara -

Presented by Melbourne Filmoteca: Latin American, Spanish &
Portuguese Film Group and the Australia Western Sahara Association.

When: Tuesday 30th March 2010 at 7.30pm

Where: Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Federation
Square, Melbourne

Films to be screened:

* 'Mariem Hassan: the voice of the Sahara'

Dir Manuel Dominguez, 55 mins, Spain 2008. (Spanish & Hassaniya
Arabic with English subtitles).

Geography: 
Melbourne

** Black harmony gathering 2010 **

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 19/03/2010 - 7:36am
Date and Time: 
Sun, 21/03/2010 -
1:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Where: FREE at the Fairfield Amphitheatre, Heidelberg Rd, Fairfield Melways Map 30 J12 - Near Clifton Hill, Westgarth and Dennis stations. Amphitheatre on main Yarra trail.
Contact Name: 
Mohamed Komba and Kutcha Edwards
Contact Phone: 
9417 4777
Website: 
www.multiculturalarts.com.au

** Black harmony gathering 2010 **

- Celebrate our cultural diversity - Say no to racism --

When: Sunday 21st March 2010, 1 - 5 pm

Where: FREE at the Fairfield Amphitheatre, Heidelberg Rd, Fairfield

Melways Map 30 J12 - Near Clifton Hill, Westgarth and Dennis
stations.

Amphitheatre on main Yarra trail.

Summary:

Gathering of Indigenous, African and culturally diverse music and dance on the banks of the Yarra River with traditional smoking ceremony, children's activities, stalls, workshops and cultural food.

Details:

Geography: 
Melbourne

Water. The early Christmas present for Melbourne.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 16/03/2010 - 11:15pm

Water restrictions have been eased, and there seem to be no critics of this decision. But should this really be the case? Or am I out of touch? The ABC calls it "An early christmas present for Melbourne." In Melbourne water capacity is only at 37.4%. When the catchments are less than half full, is it appropriate that more people should be able to water their gardens? Is this really neccassary? Is it a waste? Our roses will look beautiful again.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
water
Water Restrictions
John Brumby