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SEP public meetings: Oppose the US, Australia war preparations against China

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 15/12/2013 - 6:43pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 19/12/2013 -

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

Arts House, Meat Market 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne

Website:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/04/meet-d04.html

The military tensions provoked since the Chinese government declared an Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea sharply pose the dangers of war produced by the US Obama administration’s pivot to Asia.

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Melbourne

WGAR News: Aboriginal Law must sit on top of whiteman's law, because 'our Law is the Law of this land': SU

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 15/12/2013 - 2:29pm

Newsletter date: 15 December 2013

Contents:

* Sovereign Union: Aboriginal Law must sit on top of whiteman's law, because 'our Law is the Law of this land'
* Ron Sutton, SBS News: Indigenous Australians remember Mandela
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Aunty Lila Watson & Mary Graham
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* Upcoming Event 17 December 2013: Public monument proposal - 'The Freedom Fighters' Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner
* Community Radio 3CR Anarchist World's Joseph Toscano on the Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheener campaign

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Melbourne

Australia

Hundreds rally to oppose brown coal allocation and export from Victoria

Submitted by takver on Thu, 12/12/2013 - 9:55am

Hundreds rallied outside the Victorian Parliament House opposing plans for brown coal allocation and development for a coal export industry from the La Trobe Valley and Gippsland.

Currently 13 billion tonnes of brown coal is being considered for allocation by the Napthine conservative state Government, despite the impact of this in carbon emissions on climate change and increasing temperatures and extreme weather. As well as the allocation of coal licences, $90 million of Federal and State subsidies are also up for grab. Does subsidising brown coal make sense when we should rapidly be transitioning to renewables?

Photos at Quit Coal Campaign Victoria Photoset at Flickr | Youtube Video

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WGAR News: Dismantling the Land Rights Act - 99 year leases: 'cA' & 'Respect and Listen' compilations

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 09/12/2013 - 1:21pm

Newsletter date: 9 December 2013

Contents:

* 'concerned Australians' compilation: Dismantling the Land Rights Act - 99 year leases
* Respect and Listen compilation: Dismantling the Land Rights Act - 99 year leases
* ACM Sydney: The dismantling of the Land Rights Act (NT) 1976 forum [a forum held by 'concerned Australians']
* Michele Harris 'concerned Australians': "I would like to thank all those who attended the conversation on the "Dismantling of the Aboriginal land Rights Act (NT) 1976" yesterday."

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Melbourne

Northern Territory

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 44 events from 7 December 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 09/12/2013 - 10:55am

Newsletter date: 7 December 2013

Updated: 9 December 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Now Open [as of 9 Dec 13]: Parkes, Canberra, ACT
Insurgence
Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
"The Insurgence exhibition explores art, with all its
revolutionary potential, deployed as a platform for politics."
"The museum welcomes all voices in the House-
Insurgence is the voice of proppaNOW. Insurgence builds on

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Major uranium leak endangers Kakadu - but played down

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 09/12/2013 - 7:11am

Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/ - A million litres of radioactive slurry has contaminated Kakadu National Park from a burst tank at Ranger uranium mine. It is a significant toxic accident but it has surprisingly generated relatively minimal news coverage. It took the local Traditional Owners to break the news to Australia.

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Film Screening: Trotsky - The Movie

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 10:41am

Date and Time:

Mon, 16/12/2013 -

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

Solidarity Salon 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick

Contact Name:

Freedom Socialist Party

Contact Phone:

9388 0062

Contact Email:

freedom.socialist.party@ozemail.com.au

Film Screening: Trotsky — the movie

Monday 16 December

Join members of FSP’s study circle for this special film screening of a documentary by Alain Dugrand and Patrick Le Gall (Films for the Humanities) about the revolutionary life and leadership of Leon Trotsky.

The group, which has just finished reading and discussing Leon Trotsky: His Life and His Ideas, will view the film and discuss Trotsky’s legacy and the importance of his ideas in the 21st century. Your participation is welcome.

Dinner served at 6:30 pm for an $8 donation and film screening at 7:00.

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Melbourne

West Papuan National Day Goes Global

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 29/11/2013 - 3:12pm

This Sunday the 1st of December 2013 events will be held across West Papua, Australia and the world to mark the day West Papua’s flag was first raised in preparation for Independence from the Dutch in 1961.

Global solidarity for a free West Papua is surging in the wake of the unprecedented public awareness generated by the Freedom Flotilla to West Papua and the occupation of the Australian Embassy in Bali during the APEC summit.

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The Stringer weekly newsletter - November 29

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 29/11/2013 - 2:53pm

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - NEWS update: The Stringer went live February 20, 2013. We are a not-for-profit independent news format. We believe in the importance of independent media with a bent for investigative journalism.

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 40 events from 28 November 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 28/11/2013 - 9:23am

Newsletter date: 28 November 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Now Open [as of 27 Nov 13]: Parkes, Canberra, ACT
Insurgence
Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
"The Insurgence exhibition explores art, with all its
revolutionary potential, deployed as a platform for politics."
"The museum welcomes all voices in the House-
Insurgence is the voice of proppaNOW. Insurgence builds on

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