Melbourne

What The Economic Crisis Really Means and What We Can Do About It

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 24/07/2012 - 4:03pm
Date and Time: 
Sun, 12/08/2012 -
6:00pm to 11:00pm
Location: 
Noise Bar 291 Albert St Brunswick 3056
Contact Name: 
Doing It Ourselves
Contact Email: 
info@doingitourselves.org
Website: 
www.doingitourselves.org

Doing It Ourselves is launching a new short animation on the 12th August at Noise Bar in Brunswick. The message is that it's not just peak oil and climate change we're dealing with, this economic crisis will come to be seen as the world's worst depression ever. Continuous growth and trying to solve debt issues with more debt, simply can't work on a finite planet. If we work at it though, we can turn this crisis into an opportunity and come out the other side better off than before.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Substantive charges against Max Brenner protesters dropped

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 23/07/2012 - 7:21pm

The substantive charges against the Max Brenner 19 (besetting and trespass in a public place) have been dismissed this morning in court. 5 defendants are however still in court fighting specific charges of resist arrest and assault police.

The decision on the substantive charges is nonetheless a big win for our right to protest in public places in Melbourne. We have beaten back their attempts to criminalize dissent and their attempts to silence a public pro-Palestine voice in Australia.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
BDS campaign
Max Brenner 19
Students for Palestine

MEMORY, REVOLUTION AND RESILIENCE - Celebrate the release of 'The Unfinished Revolution:Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights' and 'Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home'

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 22/07/2012 - 2:47pm
Date and Time: 
Thu, 09/08/2012 -
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall 54 Victoria St Carlton (Enter from Lygon St) This is a free event.
Contact Name: 
Helen Lobato
Contact Phone: 
9329 6088
Contact Email: 
publicity@spinifexpress.com.au
Website: 
www.spinifexpress.com.au
Geography: 
Melbourne

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 18 events from 21 July 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 20/07/2012 - 7:25pm

Newsletter date: 21 July 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 18 events from 21 July 2012

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

Event: Thu 26 July 2012: Redfern, Sydney, NSW
Public Forum for Constitutional Change
Invitation from Women's Reconciliation Network
With Speakers:
* Jody Broun Co Chair, National Congress of First Peoples
* Linda Burney MP Member for Canterbury
* Jacqui Phillips National Director of ANTaR
Event details: http://www.nswreconciliation.org.au/events-1/public-forum-for-constituti...

Geography: 
Darwin
New South Wales
Melbourne
Australia
Northern Territory
Sydney
Gold Coast
Queensland
South Australia
Victoria
Western Australia

Fukuoka in India - South Melbourne Commons (Friends of the Earth) - Garden Film Fundraiser

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 20/07/2012 - 4:22pm
Date and Time: 
Wed, 08/08/2012 -
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
South Melbourne Commons Hall Corner of Bank and Montague Street, South Melbourne (Double story, red brick, building next to church)
Contact Name: 
Paul Miragliotta
Contact Phone: 
(03) 96825282
Contact Email: 
smc.coordinators@foe.org.au
Website: 
www.commons.org.au

The South Melbourne Commons is proud to announce that we will be hosting a film fundraiser event for the Commons Garden. Masanobu Fukuoka in his film 'Fukuoka in India 'shares with the viewer the philosophy and techniques from his revolutionary farm in Japan, before embarking on a tour of India, traveling to a number of farms and villages.'

Join us in seeing this rare footage, which includes a demonstration of Fukuoka's unique clay ball strategy of broadcasting seeds and growing rice.

All money is plowed straight into the Commons soil to grow a productive and edible garden on site.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Green Left Weekly's 2012 Trivia Nite

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 19/07/2012 - 6:33pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 18/08/2012 -
6:30pm to 10:30pm
Location: 
UA Hall, 46-54 Ireland St, West Melbourne (near North Melbourne railway station)
Contact Name: 
Sue Bolton
Contact Phone: 
9639 8622
Contact Email: 
greenleft.melbourne@gmail.com
Website: 
http://tinyurl.com/glwtrivia

Fun & politics: prizes, games, raffles, auctions, table quizzes . . .  Plus launch of new online media project Green Left TV. The revolution will be televised!

Food & bar available.

Organise a table of 6-10 or just bring yourself and/or a few friends and join one of our tables.

Tickets: $30 solidarity, $20 waged, $10 concession. Book online at http://tinyurl.com/glwtrivia or call 9639 8622.

A fundraiser for Green Left Weekly.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Judgement Day for Max Brenner 19

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 16/07/2012 - 6:58pm
Date and Time: 
Mon, 23/07/2012 -
9:00am to 10:00am
Location: 
Melbourne Magistrates' Court 233 William Street, Melbourne

19 pro-Palestine activists were arrested on July 1st last year for protesting outside the pro-Israeli military shop Max Brenner. They were charged with the ludicrous crime of 'trespass in a public place' and an antiquated anti picketing law, 'besetting'.

The case against them went for a month, and cost the Victorian state thousands of dollars in court time.

The case is an important one, not just for pro-Palestine activists, but raises issues about public control of public space and the impunity with which Ted Baillieu's police force is able to act.

Geography: 
Melbourne

WGAR News: "Labor's extended NT Intervention sparks calls for indigenous communities to vote Green"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 15/07/2012 - 6:56pm

Newsletter date: 16 July 2012

Contents:
* ABC PM: Labor's extended NT Intervention sparks calls for indigenous communities to vote Green
* ABC Lateline: NT intervention shakes once popular Labor support
* ABC Radio Australia: Indigenous leaders urge protest vote against Labor
* Tracker: NSW Labor condemns federal party policy on income management
* Talk by Les Malezer at Arena NT Intervention forum, Melbourne
* Talk by Barbara Shaw at Arena NT Intervention forum, Melbourne
* Talk by Rosalie Kunoth-Monks at Arena NT Intervention forum, Melbourne

Geography: 
New South Wales
Melbourne
Australia
Northern Territory
Keywords: 
ABC PM - Labor's extended NT Intervention sparks calls for indigenous communities to vote Green
ABC Lateline - NT intervention shakes once popular Labor support
ABC Radio Australia - Indigenous leaders urge protest vote against Labor
Tracker - NSW Labor condemns federal party policy on income management
Talk by Les Malezer at Arena NT Intervention forum Melbourne
Talk by Barbara Shaw at Arena NT Intervention forum Melbourne
Talk by Rosalie Kunoth-Monks at Arena NT Intervention forum Melbourne
Talk by Jon Altman at the Arena NT Intervention forum Melbourne
Emma Murphy - How Closing the Gap is full of holes

WGAR News: "Lizard's Revenge kicks off at Olympic Dam - Saturday 14th July [2012]" Antinuclear

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 15/07/2012 - 6:34pm

Newsletter date: 16 July 2012

Contents:
* Antinuclear: Lizard's Revenge kicks off at Olympic Dam - Saturday 14th July [2012]
* Sovereign Union: The Lizards Revenge Protest - Olympic Dam Gates 14th - 18th July 2012
* news.com.au : White horse brigade set for six-day anti-Olympic Dam protest in Roxby Downs
* Tracker: Protesters gather at Olympic Dam
* Background to expansion of Olympic Dam mine challenge
* Interview with Michael Woodley, CEO of the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation
* Green Left TV: Melbourne's National Aborigines and Islanders Day march

Geography: 
New South Wales
Melbourne
Northern Territory
South Australia
Western Australia
Keywords: 
Sovereign Union - The Lizards Revenge Protest - Olympic Dam Gates 14th - 18th July 2012
news.com.au - White horse brigade set for six-day anti-Olympic Dam protest in Roxby Downs
Tracker - Protesters gather at Olympic Dam
Interview with Michael Woodley - CEO of the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation
Green Left TV - Melbourne's National Aborigines and Islanders Day march
Sovereign Union - Sovereignty inevitable says Michael Anderson at Symposium
Peter Robson - Wharfies & traditional owners unite against nuclear dump

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 24 events from 14 July 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 14/07/2012 - 3:40pm

Newsletter date: 14 July 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 24 events from 14 July 2012

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

Event: 14 to 18 (or 20) July 2012: Olympic Dam, SA
The Lizard's Revenge:
Olympic Dam expansion music/art/festival/protest
"Sleeping underneath the ground there is an old lizard,
Kalta the sleepy lizard. The lizard ain’t so sleepy anymore.
BHP is mining right into that Lizards body. The government
has just approved an expansion of the Olympic Dam uranium
mine, making it the biggest uranium mine in the world.

Geography: 
Canberra
Darwin
New South Wales
Melbourne
Australia
Northern Territory
Sydney
Queensland
South Australia
Victoria
Western Australia