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'Sedition' Launch Party!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 04/02/2012 - 4:03pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 25/02/2012 -

7:00pm to 11:45pm

Location:

Melbourne Anarchist Club (MAC) 62 St Georges Rd, Northcote, Australia 3070

Join us at the Melbourne Anarchist Club for the launch of an exciting new anarchist publication - Sedition.

As well as sparkly new copies of Sedition, we'll have bands and a special theatre performance as part of the 'End Of The World News' series. This time we'll be ex...ploring (in an interactive fashion) the question: what if Occupy Melbourne had occurred in the midst of a revolution?

Geography:

Melbourne

Melbourne Free University - Workers' Struggles in China

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 04/02/2012 - 3:57pm

Date and Time:

Wed, 22/02/2012 -

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

The Alderman Bar, 134 Lygon Street, Brunswick East

In mid-2010 a strike wave rolled through China's factories, the most widespread and militant struggle of China's internal migrant workers so far. The struggle shook the Chinese regime and provoked a world-wide debate: Is this the beginning of the end of the low-wage-model... that stands behind China’s rise to the “factory of the world” and provides the rest of the world with cheap consumer products? The strikes continued in 2011, and together with riots and peasant uprisings they are indicators for the increasing pressure for social change in China.

Geography:

Melbourne

Melbourne Free University - Education / Trauma / Violence seminar

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 04/02/2012 - 3:48pm

Date and Time:

Mon, 13/02/2012 -

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

The Red Wheelbarrow Bookshop, 105 Lygon St

Website:

www.melbournefreeuniversity.org.

How did the way we organise schools become so unchallenged a part of the social order?

Why are debates about education and children always couched in terms of fear and violence?

How can trauma theory make sense of this?
...
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Melbourne Free University presents a special seminar with Stephen Wright.

Stephen Wright manages a service that intervenes with men
with a history of violent and abusive behaviour. Once upon a
time he worked extensively in early childhood education.

Geography:

Melbourne

Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 04/02/2012 - 3:42pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 10/02/2012 - 9:00am to Sun, 12/02/2012 - 11:30pm

Location:

* Federation Square * Events will also be held at ACMI, Birrarung Marr, Art Play, Signal and City Gallery.

Website:

http://www.thatsmelbourne.com.au/Whatson/iaf/Pages/iaf.aspx

The inaugural Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival demonstrates the breadth of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island contemporary and traditional artistic expression.

There’s something for everyone, with three days of dance, cabaret, visual art, theatre, comedy, films and live music.

For Program and more info http://www.thatsmelbourne.com.au/Whatson/iaf/Pages/iaf.aspx

Geography:

Melbourne

Belgrave Film Screening of HOME.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 04/02/2012 - 3:27pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 18/02/2012 -

6:30pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Belgrave Library

Website:

http://www.transitionsherbrooke.org.au/

Transition Sherbrooke are linking in with the Sustainable Living Festivals Transitions Film Program to show a FREE synchronised screening of the documentary HOME. Through incredible cinematography this film shows the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet.
All Welcome. Invite everyone along! Free of charge. Gold coin donations toward Transition Sherbrooke projects are gratefully received.

About the movie

Geography:

Melbourne

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 17 events from 3 February 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 8:14pm

Newsletter date: 3 February 2012

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

Event: 4 November 2011 to February 2012: Townsville, Qld
Exhibition: From Little Things Big Things Grow
- Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970
Event description: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/
Event location: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/tra...

Event: February 2012 to May 2012: Queensland Museum
Exhibition: From Little Things Big Things Grow
- Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970

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Upcoming Melbourne Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 10 events from 9 February 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 7:56pm

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

Event: Thu 9 February 2012: Carlton, Melbourne, Vic
Film screening: Operation 8 with Gary Foley
"Operation 8 involved 18 months of invasive
surveillance of Maori sovereignty ...
Reflections on Operation 8 & Q&A hosted by
Gary Foley after the screening."
Event details: http://www.greenleft.org.au/events/49891

Event: Sat 11 February 2012: Melbourne, Vic
Aboriginal Rights Film Festival
Featuring:
The Coolbaroo Club; The Tall Man;
Ningla A-Na [Hungry for our land]; BarbaKiueria

Geography:

Melbourne

Victoria

Film-screening of "Over the edge" + brief talk about the struggle against youth-prisons in France

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 1:42pm

Date and Time:

Mon, 13/02/2012 -

7:00pm to 11:00pm

Location:

Melbourne Anarchist Club 62 St Georges Rd, Northcote (Melbourne) Railway station: Merri

Contact Email:

melbourneanarchistclub@gmail.com

Website:

http://mac.anarchobase.com/

Film-screening of OVER THE EDGE
(directed by Jonathan Kaplan, 95min., USA, 1979)
+ brief talk about the struggle against youth-prisons in France

In 1978, more than 110,000 kids under 18 were arrested for crimes of vandalism in the USA. Over the Edge shows a teenage rebellion against all authorities. It's fiction but the story is based on true incidents that occured during the 70's in a suburban community.

Geography:

Melbourne

Rally says no to HRL coal power station

Submitted by takver on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 11:28am

About 400 people gathered in the sun, on the steps of the Victorian parliament for a weekday lunchtime protest to say no new coal fired power stations. The Rally was against the propoed HRL coal fired power station for Victoria. Speakers included Adam Bandt, Greens MP for Melbourne, Kelvin Thomson, Labor MP for Wills, Victoria McKenzie-McHarg, Safe Climate Campaigner for Environment Victoria, Greenpeace Energy Campaigner Julien Vincent, and Gem from AYCC.

Geography:

Melbourne

Keywords:

climate change

coal

Is The Punch being unduly censored?

Submitted by JenniferNash on Wed, 01/02/2012 - 4:48pm

I recently documented on The Punch how my son Jordan, a victim of severe school bullying and education discrimination has become a victim of escalating human rights abuses including police brutality, false arrest, false imprisonment and wrongful prosecution. After my blog comments were published online they received over a dozen replies. However, sometime between 5 and 6 pm on 13/12/11, all my published comments and the responses to them were removed from The Punch website due to censorship.

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Keywords:

lack of press freedom