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Our Land Our Future - Melanesian speaking tour - AidWATCH

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 16/03/2010 - 11:09am

Date and Time:

Thu, 25/03/2010 -

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

ACF Boardroom, First Floor, Green Building, 60 Leicester Street, Carlton

Contact Name:

Nic Maclellan

Contact Phone:

0421 840 100

Contact Email:

info@aidwatch.org.au

Website:

http://www.aidwatch.org.au/

PUBLIC MEETING: Our Land, Our Future

Melanesian Land Speaking Tour, organised by AidWATCH

Throughout Melanesia, customary land tenure is under pressure from aid agencies such as AusAID, which want to instigate land reforms as a means to accelerate economic growth in the region.

Join us to hear from two leading campaigners for land rights in Melanesia about the impacts of land reforms on Melanesian peoples, their cultures, economies and livelihoods.

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Melbourne

BBQ, Beer & working bee - South Melbourne Commons

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 15/03/2010 - 10:51pm

Date and Time:

Sun, 21/03/2010 -

10:00am to 3:00pm

Location:

Corner of Bank and Montague Streets, South Melbourne at the site of the old South Melbourne Catholic Primary School, adjacent to the St Peter & Paul's Catholic Church

Contact Name:

Martin Pritchard

Contact Phone:

0403 440 996

Contact Email:

ecomarket.melbourne@foe.org.au

Website:

http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/?q=smc

You are invited to a BBQ and working bee at the South Melbourne Commons.

In 2010, Friends of the Earth are very excited to announce the development of the first Eco Market style operation in South Melbourne. The tentatively named 'South Melbourne Commons' will become a new community hub that reconnects people back to a sense of place and belonging.

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Melbourne

Ban duck shooting! The 'Duck Army' mobilizes at Parliament House, 14 March 2010

Submitted by peter on Mon, 15/03/2010 - 12:14pm

With the start of the new duck killing season only a week away, opponents of the slaughter of native birds in the name of sport lined the steps of Parliament House on Sunday to condemn the Brumby Government’s decision not only to allow the season to go ahead, but even to increase the allowed catch – this in spite of overwhelming opposition from within the community and the ALP itself, not to mention the near-catastophic drop in bird populations after years of drought.

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Coalition against Duck Shooting

"Defending Human Rights in Latin America" Colombia, Honduras, Haiti

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 15/03/2010 - 8:45am

Date and Time:

Sat, 20/03/2010 -

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Location:

Federation Square - Melbourne City, cnr Flinders & Swanston Streets opposite Flinders Street Railway station

Contact Name:

Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET)

Contact Phone:

0400 914 944

Contact Email:

lasnet@latinlasnet.org

Website:

www.latinlasnet.org

The Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET) is organising a rally
"Defending Human Rights in Latin America" for Colombia, Honduras & Haiti

U.S. Military bases out of Latin America now!

Rally in Support Latin American People
For those Disappeared, Displaced, Massacred & Executed

Saturday, March 20 - 1PM
Federation Square - Melbourne City

Defending Workers rights
For Indigenous/First Nations rights
No to the criminalisation of social, political and solidarity activists
Against multinational exploitation and plunder
Against US intervention in the Latin American continent

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Melbourne

Protest at Muckaty waste dump nomination - open-air film night at office of Martin Ferguson, 11 March

Submitted by peter on Sat, 13/03/2010 - 3:12pm

Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson’s announcement on 23 February of plans to dump nuclear waste at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory in spite of opposition from a range of traditional owners triggered immediate protests, including one by FoE’s ACE collective on Friday 26th. A further action took the form of an open-air film night outside his electorate office, with films projected on a makeshift screen on the side wall, while the ‘audience’ made themselves comfortable on the footpath opposite...

The following statement was issued by Friends of the Earth Australia:

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Public Speak-Out: Free All Political Prisoners!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 13/03/2010 - 9:23am

Date and Time:

Sat, 10/04/2010 -

1:30pm to 2:30pm

Location:

Old City Square corner Swanston and Collins Streets

Contact Name:

solidarity_salon@bigpond.com,

Contact Phone:

03-9388-0062

Contact Email:

abcmelb@yahoo.com.au

Website:

macg1984@yahoo.com.au

April 10 City Square 1.30pm

Front of leaflet

Public Speak-Out: Free All Political Prisoners!

Photos:
Clockwise from above:
Lynne Stewart, radical lawyer, jailed in New York. for fearlessly defending her client; Palm Island Indigenous leader, Lex Wotton, jailed in Queensland for leading a protest against a police killing; Leonard Peltier, Native American elder, framed by the FBI and held in numerous U.S. prisons for 33 years Mumia Abu-Jamal, framed by racist police and currently on death row in
Pennsylvania

MUMIA IS INNOCENT!
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!

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Melbourne

Beyond Zero Emissions Discussion Group 6.30pm Monday 12th April 2010

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 11/03/2010 - 2:01am

Date and Time:

Mon, 12/04/2010 -

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

2nd Floor, Kindness House, 288 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

Website:

http://www.beyondzeroemissions.org/events/discussion-group

Geography:

Melbourne

More from SLAM rally - 23 February 2010 Ctd

Submitted by peter on Wed, 10/03/2010 - 2:53pm

See previous post - these are the remaining speeches from the rally at Parliament House. (Note - Quincy McLean and Helen Marcou spoke in turns, and are represented by one file, and Dan Sultan's welcome and acknowledgement of the elders will be found on the video of the performance of "It's a long way...') MC Brian Nankervis spoke throughout, and again, some of what he said can be heard on the video clips.

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More from SLAM rally - 23 February 2010

Submitted by peter on Wed, 10/03/2010 - 2:30pm

The last part of the rally consisted of speeches from a number of prominent members of the music community, and the organisers of the event have placed partial transcripts/summaries of some of these on the SLAM website - http://www.slamrally.org/speeches/ There are also snippets in the video clips posted on YouTube.

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