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Public meeting: Does the right to strike exist in Australia?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 17/02/2012 - 12:20pm

Date and Time:

Tue, 28/02/2012 -

6:30pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City (opposite RMIT).

Contact Name:

Chris

Contact Phone:

9639 8622

Contact Email:

peterson_err@hotmail.com

Only dictatorships ban strikes don't they? Wrong. Australia has so many legal restrictions to stop workers taking meaningful industrial action that the right to strike is effectively illegal. Victorian nurses and state public servants were forced to lift their effective industrial bans. Qantas workers had done very little before being locked out and banned from taking industrial action.

Geography:

Melbourne

BBQ: Celebrate 12 months of the Arab Spring

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 16/02/2012 - 6:50pm

Date and Time:

Sun, 26/02/2012 -

2:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

81 Rathmines St, Fairfield.

Contact Name:

Sue

Contact Phone:

9639 8622

Contact Email:

peterson_err@hotmail.com

BBQ & Egyptian feast

Celebrate 12 months of the Arab Spring

The dramatic and stirring events in North Africa and the Middle East are showing the world the power of an aroused, determined and united people. The bloody, corrupt US-backed regimes are shaking. Celebrate these great days.

Speakers: Reham Maklad (representative of April 6 Movement),
Ghaleb Jaber (Gulf & Arabian Peninsula pro-democracy activist),
Mahmood Alfardan (coordinator Australian Bahrain Forum). Music & Egyptian feast (Halal food available). $20 (solidarity), $15 (waged), $10 (conc).

Geography:

Melbourne

Public meeting: The 99% vs the 1%

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 16/02/2012 - 6:39pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 25/02/2012 -

2:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City (opposite RMIT)

Contact Name:

Chris

Contact Phone:

9639 8622

Contact Email:

peterson_err@hotmail.com

The Occupy movement raises the question of how the 1% maintain their rule at the expense of the 99%.

Can capitalism be reformed? Is socialism the only alternative? Can socialism be democratic? What would a socialist society look like? How can the 99% succeed in building an alternative society?
Followed by an introduction to Socialist Alliance.

Geography:

Melbourne

Man stitches his lips in Broadmeadows Detention Centre

Submitted by Flowerpower on Tue, 14/02/2012 - 4:07pm

Refugee Action Collective Victoria Press Release 14th February 2012 As tentions once again rise at MITA (Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation) in Broadmeadows, an Iranian man, aged 28, stitched his lips up this morning (Monday) as a sign of desperation. He has been detained for 11 months.

Geography:

Melbourne

Keywords:

Australia's Mandatory Detention

Lessons from history: a guide to occupying the planet

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 13/02/2012 - 6:52pm

Date and Time:

Mon, 05/03/2012 -

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

Solidarity Salon 580 Sydney Road Brunswick 3056

Contact Name:

Freedom Socialist Party

Contact Phone:

03 9388 - 0062

Contact Email:

freedom.socialist.party@ozemail.com.au

Website:

www.socialism.com/melbourne

12 Session Study Circle

Geography:

Melbourne

"Have a Heart for Animals" - Edgar's Mission at Southbank

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/02/2012 - 2:50pm

Date and Time:

Tue, 14/02/2012 -

11:00am to 2:00pm

Location:

Sandridge Rail Bridge Southbank

Website:

http://www.edgarsmission.org.au

Edgar’s Mission Inc. is a not for profit organisation that seeks to create a humane and just world for humans and non-humans. We will endeavour to achieve this by education, advocacy and empowerment. Looking to spark the flame of compassion inherent within us all, raising human consciousness and challenging long held beliefs that have enslaved animals, with the view to prevent animal cruelty and suffering, abuse and neglect, preventing exploitation and protecting native animals and their environments.

Geography:

Melbourne

Is France burning ? [talk + slide show + discussion]

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/02/2012 - 6:38pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 16/02/2012 -

7:00pm to 10:00pm

Location:

Loophole Community Centre 670 High Street Thornbury (Melbourne)

A presentation on riots and social struggle in France from 2005 to the present.

THURSDAY FEB. 16TH @ 7PM

LOOPHOLE COMMUNITY CENTRE
670 HIGH ST.
THORNBURY (MELBOURNE)

//TALK//
//SLIDESHOW//
//DISCUSSION//

Geography:

Melbourne

RLL and Thiess destroy rare heritage gardens

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/02/2012 - 1:28pm

Fresh from union busting in Wonthaggi, the construction behemoth Theiss is now intent on destroying the last of the working class heritage in Sunshine in Melbourne's west. The conglomeration of the Regional Rail Link Authority, Thiess, Parsons Brinckerhoff and others have officially announced their intention to destroy the HV McKay Memorial Gardens, Australia's oldest and rarest remaining industrial garden.

Geography:

Melbourne

Keywords:

HV McKay Memorial Gardens

working class history

WGAR News: Tent Embassy protest interviews with Michael Anderson, Jeff McMullen, Chris Graham, etc

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 09/02/2012 - 1:35pm

Newsletter date: 9 February 2012

Contents:
* Interviews on the Aboriginal Tent Embassy protest on Sovereignty Day
* More on the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill
* More on the Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory Bill
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 22 events from 9 February 2012

* INTERVIEWS ON THE ABORIGINAL TENT EMBASSY PROTEST ON SOVEREIGNTY DAY:

See:

Geography:

Keywords:

Northern Territory Intervention

Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles

Interviews on the Aboriginal Tent Embassy protest on Sovereignty Day

More on the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill

More on the Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory Bill

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 22 events from 9 February 2012

The Great Australian Home Retrofit - Sustainable Living Festival

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 07/02/2012 - 1:59pm

Date and Time:

Sun, 19/02/2012 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

Location:

BMW Edge, Federation Square, VIC

Website:

http://festival.slf.org.au/program/sustainability-edge/great-australian-home-retrofit

Watch an average Australian house transform into a zero-carbon, low-energy, high-performance home before your eyes! Based on the Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan, due for release in May 2012.

Free Event

Geography:

Melbourne