Melbourne

Jobs cuts, corporate greed, austerity: How to build a union fightback

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 07/08/2012 - 2:45pm
Date and Time: 
Wed, 15/08/2012 -
6:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: 
Trades Hall, Carlton, Lygon St

Join us and our special guest panellists:
Frank Polemico - delegate from the Toll/Coles warehouse in Somerton
Davie Thomason - former Buliders Labourers Federation organiser
Cathy Lewis - rank and file activist in the CPSU campaigning to save public services
Jerome Small - industrial organiser for Socialist Alternative

A Socialist Alternative special event.
SA Centre, Trades Hall (enter on Victoria Street)
www.sa.org.au

Geography: 
Melbourne

We stopped HRL party

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 07/08/2012 - 2:41pm
Date and Time: 
Sun, 19/08/2012 -
4:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall, Lygon St, Carlton

roposed new coal-fired power station in Victoria called HRL!

Hosted by Environment Victoria, Greenpeace and Quit Coal this family friendly afternoon/evening/night of fun and revelry is sure to remind even the most jaded among us that campaigning for a safe climate future can be both fun and effective!

RSVP today via the following link (not facebook) to help us plan > http://environmentvictoria.org.au/content/it
%E2%80%99s-time-party

Geography: 
Melbourne

Refugee left in limbo attempts suicide in MITA

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 07/08/2012 - 2:30pm

A Kurdish refugee in his mid-30s attempted suicide at approximately
6.00am at the Melbourne Immigration Transit accomofdation centre. He
was unsuccessful as he was stopped by his friends and SERCO guards.
Fearing for his mental health, SERCO and police officers sent him to
a hospital at approximately 6.30am.

This attempted suicide is the result of SERCO and immigration
detention policies leaving him in limbo. He has been in detention for
14 months and was given refugee status after 7 months.

He remains detained after Serco branded him a "person of interest".

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
RAC
Mandatory Detenion

Boat People and People Smugglers: The true cost of deterrence

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 07/08/2012 - 2:15pm
Date and Time: 
Wed, 22/08/2012 -
7:45pm to 9:30pm
Location: 
Brunswick Library

As federal parliament debates the best method to repel refugees, authors Robin de Crespigny and Tony Kevin remind us of the human cost of refugee policies that begin with deterrence. Their stories of why refugees breach borders and avoidable boat tragedies, speak of their belief in the need for safe passage for refugees, not criminalisation and deterrence.

Join us for a conversation with Robin de Crespigny, author of 'The People Smuggler: The true story of Ali Al Jebani, the "Oskar Schindler of Asia"' and Tony Kevin, author of 'Reluctant Rescuers' and 'A Certain Maritime Incident'.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Art Auction Fundraiser

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 06/08/2012 - 3:48pm
Date and Time: 
Sun, 16/09/2012 -
4:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Hogan Gallery 310 Smith Street Collingwood
Contact Name: 
ACE
Contact Phone: 
0408165735
Contact Email: 
ace@foe.org.au
Website: 
www.acecollective.org

Friends of the Earth's Anti-nuclear and Clean Energy (ACE) campaign has been working creatively against the nuclear industry for over 35 years, because of its treatment to indigenous people, its contribution to nuclear weapons proliferation risks and its serious, long-term environmental impacts. We promote clean energy solutions to climate change & the current energy crisis.

Geography: 
Melbourne

The Saphire film fundraiser for 3CR

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/08/2012 - 2:46pm
Date and Time: 
Thu, 09/08/2012 -
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Palace Kino Cinema 45 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3000

3CR program Media Moves- Cinema Scene invites you to a film fundraiser for 3CR's Radiothon. The Sapphires fundraiser is Thursday 9 August at 6.30pm at the Kino Cinema 45 Collins St City. Fundraising tickets are $20 or $18 concession.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Rally to free Palestine

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/08/2012 - 2:33pm
Date and Time: 
Fri, 31/08/2012 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Bourke Street Mall Bourke Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3000

The next in the series of Boycott Divestment and Sanctions actions organised by Students for Palestine. Details have yet to be determined by the collective, but what's sure is that we'll be protesting against apartheid and for justice on this day.

Start spreading the word!

Geography: 
Melbourne

Wobblies Winter Warmer

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/08/2012 - 2:23pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 25/08/2012 -
4:00pm to 11:45pm
Location: 
62 Ryan St, Footscray
Website: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/444051118950259/

Warm up with hot food, chocolate fountain, home made ginger beer, mulled wine and dark ale in Tristan and Emma's Footcsray ski chalet!

A fundraiser for Industrial Workers of the World Melbourne branch. The IWW is a revolutionary union organising all workers under the banner "abolition of the wage system".

Food is free
Drinks available by donation

Geography: 
Melbourne

Melbourne IWW Meeting

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/08/2012 - 2:20pm
Date and Time: 
Thu, 09/08/2012 -
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Trades Hall, Lygon St, Carlton, Melbourne

Melbourne members of the Industrial Workers of the World meet to discuss the ways and means of defending our rights and advancing our interests as as workers, students, unwaged persons, home workers and as human beings under conditions of direct democracy.

Time and place: 6.30pm, THURSDAY, 9 AUGUST @ LASNET Office, downstairs at Trades Hall (near New International Bookshop but turn right instead of left and bottom of stairs), cnr. Victoria and Lygon Streets, Carlton. All welcome.

Copies of the latest issu
e of Direct Action will be available on the evening.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Vigil against Afghan War

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/08/2012 - 2:18pm
Date and Time: 
Tue, 07/08/2012 -
4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Flinders St Station, Melbourne

As we hear the tragic death of another Australian killed in Afghanistan....please put this date in your diary

Not all our troops will come home in 2014; and our increasing military alliance with the US are two reasons we think we need to keep the focus on the Afghanistan War.....join us if you agree

Geography: 
Melbourne