About 50 people attended a rally Saturday 23 January 2010 on the Victorian parliament house steps to Save Solar Systems and build the Mildura Solar Thermal Power Plant.
Related: Save Solar Systems Blog | Photos by Takver | Melbourne Protests
Pissed off about sexism, racism and homophobia? Worried about climate change? Appalled by the growing lack of housing affordability and inadequate tenants rights? Grossed out by the cost of childcare? Fed up with ridiculous workloads on the job?
There is an alternative to a world where war seems endless and profit rules. It’s called socialism — the replacement of capitalist rule by a genuine workers’ democracy — and it will guarantee full economic, social, political and legal equality to all who are exploited, oppressed and repelled by the existing system.
Pissed off about sexism, racism and homophobia? Worried about climate change? Appalled by the growing lack of housing affordability and inadequate tenants rights? Grossed out by the cost of childcare? Fed up with ridiculous workloads on the job?
There is an alternative to a world where war seems endless and profit rules. It’s called socialism — the replacement of capitalist rule by a genuine workers’ democracy — and it will guarantee full economic, social, political and legal equality to all who are exploited, oppressed and repelled by the existing system.
A monthly discussion group hosted by Beyond Zero Emissions focusing on energy solutions to climate change.
This month's topic:
The Latest Developments in Wave Power Technology
Guest Speaker: Scott Hunter
Engineering Manager and Naval Architect for Oceanlinx
Melbourne's Tamil community and supporters joined others around Australia and the world in a day of action on 18 January to highlight the plight of 254 Tamil asylum seekers who have now spent 100 days on a boat in Merak, Indonesia, following the Australian Prime Minister's request to the Indonesian President to have the vessel intercepted in Indonesian waters to prevent it from reaching Australia.
Premier John Brumby said in parliament on Nov 25 "we have $50 million on the table for the Mildura solar project which I am confident will be delivered." But it hasn't been delivered. Company Solar Systems, which had the contract to build the Mildura solar power plant, faces liquidation. The administration period has been extended to Feb 17, but Labor is refusing to step in to guarantee the Mildura solar plant.
Dr Joseph Toscano writes on the commemoration of indigenous resistance and early Melbourne history and the need for a monument to the indigenous freedom fighters, Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, who were the first judicial executions in Melbourne on January 20, 1842.
Update: About 80 people attended commemoration - Photoset | Youtube Videos: Bunurong Elder Carolyn Briggs - No tolerance for racism | Gunnai activist Robbie Thorpe - Australia is a crime scene | Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner 2010 commemoration
Related: Time for a memorial to commemorate the Indigenous Resistance | Event Details | Lord Mayor Robert Doyle commemorated story of aboriginal resistance | Belgrave Survival Day (Event)
Marxism 2010 is a 4 day conference hosted by Socialist Alternative over the Easter weekend.
It will be bringing together hundreds of socialists and other left-wing activists from across Australia and the world. Marxism 2010 features international guest speakers from the US, Palestine, China, South Africa and elsewhere. But that is only a part of the event. There will be more than 60 sessions over the weekend, on topics ranging from radical history to the fight for women's and LGBTI liberation, imperialism and the Middle East, the global economic crisis and workers' struggles today.
Meet your cultivating community
share your produce, gardening tips and recipes.
We hope your gardens have withstood the sweltering temperatures, to be refreshed by the coming (fingers crossed) showers. We really did have some good rain there over New Years Eve and we hope you had some capacity to catch and store some for your vegies.
A femme affair is an afternoon of queer sights and delights presented by the Melbourne anarchist feminists for femmes and friends
- anarchists, sista-girls, lady-bois, fag-hags, pansies, bois and grrls.
Events include: hula hoop workshop, make-your-own-femme-visibility badges, femme "wall of fame", vegan cakes and tea slit magazine, stalls and MORE!
LAUNCH of "Tick my Box" Zine on feminism, gender and radical love by Lady Betty
"A Femme Affair" on Sunday, February 14 at 1:00pm.
Event: A Femme Affair
What: Opening
Start Time: Sunday, February 14 at 1:00pm
