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Melbourne Free University: New course on the politics of myths

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 05/06/2012 - 8:40pm

Date and Time:

Tue, 12/06/2012 -

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Dexter Bar/Cafe 123 Queens Parade, (the sunny side of the street), Clifton Hill, VIC VIC 3068

Website:

www.melbournefreeuniversity.org

The Melbourne Free University is launching a new course on the politics of myth.

In stories, images and casual references, around the names of mythic figures (whether they really existed or not) there cluster through time a remarkably changing series of ideas, concepts, obsessions, all with some social and so political meaning.

Geography:

Melbourne

June Vigil against the Afghan War

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 05/06/2012 - 8:30pm

Date and Time:

Tue, 12/06/2012 -

4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location:

Melbourne Central Station (Elizabeth St Entrance)

Hey all.....with Gillard flying to the USA to sign the 'Strategic Partnership Agreement, you can be sure that the Afghanistan war is not really ending any time soon....

Come along to our monthly vigil to keep the voice alive that we've got to bring ALL troops home NOW.

Vigil goes for 2 hours, then we share some yummy food cooked by one of our regulars...Hope to see you there.

Geography:

Melbourne

Occupy Melbourne Saturday 4 and 64th General Assembly

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 05/06/2012 - 8:20pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 09/06/2012 -

12:00pm to 11:00pm

Location:

City Square - Swanston St

Can the people of Melbourne reclaim control over their own lives?

Is your life everything it could be?
Are you free to live, free to choose, free to be who you want to be?
Will your kids look back on you as someone who changed the world for the better, or sat idly by as their freedoms were eroded away bit by bit?

The choice is yours.

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OCCUPY SATURDAY NUMBER 4 IS HERE!

Once a week where history is made and your future is yours to create, if you so choose.

Are you a type of person who can change the world?

Geography:

Melbourne

AEU stop work meeting: Teachers tell Ballieu to honour election promies

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 05/06/2012 - 8:16pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 07/06/2012 -

1:30pm to 3:00pm

Location:

Hisense arena 9Swan St Richmond) and then march to Parliament House (Spring St)

AEU Members attend stop work meeting in Hisense arena and then march to Parliament House.

Geography:

Melbourne

Victorian police pay out secretly on dozens of misconduct claims

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 05/06/2012 - 2:42pm

VICTORIA Police has made dozens of secret financial settlements to halt civil lawsuits in the past five years, ensuring allegations of police brutality and other wrongdoing are not heard in an open court.

Documents obtained by The Age under freedom of information laws show the government solicitor settled 39 lawsuits before trial on behalf of Victoria Police between March 2007 and March this year. Allegations against police included false imprisonment, negligence, assault, trespass, malicious prosecution and defamation.

The allegations were against police stationed across Victoria.

Geography:

Melbourne

Keywords:

police violence

Third Annual Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/06/2012 - 3:40pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 10/08/2013 -

10:00am to 6:00pm

Location:

Abbotsford Convent, St Heliers Street, Abbotsford

Website:

http://www.amelbournebookfair.org

Saturday August 10th, Abbotsford Convent, St Heliers Street, Abbotsford - In previous years, the Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair was a great success. It attracted hundreds of people from around Australia to share ideas, attend workshops and strengthen networks.

Geography:

Melbourne

Gina Rinehart goes to Rio! On June 21 protest against Australia pushing ‘sustainable mining’ at Rio+20

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/06/2012 - 1:52pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 21/06/2012 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Starting from the State Library, Cnr La Trobe and Swanston Streets

Website:

http://www.facebook.com/events/308658485889731/

Mining magnates Gina Rinehart and Clive Palmer have their fingerprints all over the Australian government submission to the second UN Rio Earth Summit – a meeting of world leaders from June 20-22 in Brazil – which is supposed to be “a chance to move away from business-as-usual” and create sustainable solutions to the world's most serious environmental problems.

But you’ll never guess what the mining industry’s answer to the environmental problems caused by mining is: why, more mining of course!

Geography:

Melbourne

SEP meetings on June 10th: Defend Wikileaks editor Julian Assange

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 03/06/2012 - 8:42pm

Date and Time:

Sun, 10/06/2012 -

2:30pm to 4:00pm

Location:

Arts House, Meat Market 5 Blackwood Street North Melbourne. Melway Reference: 2B A9

The Socialist Equality Party will be holding public meetings in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth on Sunday, June 10, to defend WikiLeaks’ editor and Australian citizen Julian Assange. The British Supreme Court has rejected his appeal against attempts to extradite him to Sweden on dubious sexual assault allegations, for which he has not even been charged. The Swedish authorities are functioning as nothing more than a tool of the US Obama administration, which wants to force Assange to Sweden.

Geography:

Melbourne