Melbourne

Walking backwards under Bailleau

Date and Time: 
Sun, 13/11/2011 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Parliament House, Spring Street, Melbourne
Website: 
http://www.facebook.com/BackwardsMarch

In just one year Premier Baillieu has taken Victoria decades backwards on the environment.

* Cattle trampling our national parks
* New wind farms blocked
* Co2 emissions target ignored
* Endangered species habitat logged
* New coal-fired power station approved
* Green Wedges threatened
* Westernport destruction fast-tracked

Premier Baillieu said he would 'fix the problems, and build the future', but when it comes to our environment his government has created new problems and is threatening out future!

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WGAR News: 'cA' paper: Cuts to welfare payments for school non-attendance - requested or imposed?

Newsletter date: 12 November 2011

Contents:
* 'cA': Cuts to Welfare Payments for School Non-Attendance
* Thanks from leaders to supporters of the Yolngu Nations Assembly
* Paddy Gibson and Barb Shaw: Alternative to the NT Intervention
* Emma Murphy: New NT education policy still sidelines Indigenous language
* Amnesty: Stronger futures in the NT must be a product of the people
* Greens Rachel Siewert: Smarter investments the key for the NT
* More on the National Health Leadership Forum (NHLF)
* What’s Working: So No to Government Intervention

Support the striking poultry workers at Baiada!

On Wednesday 9th of November, workers at Baiada Poultry began indefinite protected industrial action in their campaign for secure and permanent jobs. The campaign under the umbrella of the NUW began when every single worker in the largely migrant workforce at the plant has voted to strike The So far the picketline has come under sustained attack but held strong. Firstly the company employed 30-50 security guards. Then a picketor had their arm broken when a security guard tried to drive through the picketline. The company then successfully received an injunction banning all NUW officials from the picketline. The picketline is relying on community support to now succeed. Lastly on Friday night, 80 police officers rushed the picket line in an attempt to break it but retreated after the line held. Contact Workers Solidarity Network mobile: 0431445978 to find out how to help. Please come to Baiada Poultry (17 Pipe Rd, Laverton Nt) when you can: "nothing goes in, nothing goes out!". Occupy Melbourne Solidarity protest 15t November

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Loophole Community Centre RENT Party

Date and Time: 
Fri, 18/11/2011 -
5:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
670 High Street Thornbury
Contact Name: 
Loopy Caretaker
Contact Phone: 
9495 1475
Contact Email: 
loopholecommunitycentre@gmail.com
Website: 
http://www.loopholecommunitycentre.org

END OF THE YEAR / RENT FUND RAISER/ HOUSE WARMING PARTY!

Loopholers past and present, residents old and new, and everyone else come down on:

Date: Friday 18th November

Time: 3pm- till late

Bands (from 6pm)
Vegan chowdown feast
PICKLES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheap sangria, beer
face paint for all
arty things for cheep cheep

Dress: wear an item of clothing (or your whole outfit) that you would be happy to swap at the party!

Location: 670 High Street Thornbury

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p.s. pass on the invite through your networks! Thanks

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OM loses court injunction - what next?

James Muldoon who gallantly took the City of Melbourne to court over his right to put up some small tents in a public place so that people could protest has lost his first battle. This is a big disappointment for Occupy Melbourne who were recently served with a notice not to erect tents or bring any "things" - such as trestle tables and signs - into Treasury Gardens. Muldoon had sought an interlocutory injunction against the notice but this was not granted in the Federal Court today.

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Draft declaration for Occupy Melbourne

The following declaration prepared by the "Declaration Working Group" will be presented to the Occupy Melbourne General Assembly on Saturday 12th in the Treasury Gardens.

DRAFT First Declaration of Occupy Melbourne

We stand in solidarity with the people in the Occupy movement in Australia and across the globe. In the name of freedom and democracy, we stand resolutely in opposition to unjust, unrepresentative, and unsustainable systems and practices world-wide.

Our Vision

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Mass [re] Occupation at Treasury Gardens this Saturday

Date and Time: 
Sat, 12/11/2011 -
12:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Treasury Gardens

Occupy for the rights of the 99%

Occupy Melbourne is calling the people of Melbourne and all community groups to join us in a mass occupation to defend all Australians rights to free speech.

Occupy Melbourne is fighting the Melbourne City Council's 'notice to comply' in the Federal Court to protect the right of all Australians to protest as enshrined in the constitutional right of political communication. This legal challenge ...may act as an international precedent for how police and local authorities respond to peaceful protests around the world.

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Your honour will see that we are in for some inclement weather: Occupy Melbourne and the right to protest

Below is a repost from the blog of Raili Simojoki. It provides some good coverage of the case made on behalf of Occupy Melbourne as part of its injunction in the Federal Court against the City of Melbourne's compliance notice. A result is expected today (Friday 11th).

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Public forum with RUBEN PEREIRA , guest speaker from Venezuela: Social movements and political change

Date and Time: 
Wed, 23/11/2011 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
New International Bookshop downstairs, Trades Hall, cnr Victoria St & Lygon St, Carlton South (enter from Vicoria Parade)
Contact Name: 
Sean
Contact Phone: 
0415 122 135
Contact Email: 
peterson_err@hotmail.com
Website: 
www.venezuelasolidarity.org

For the 99%!
Social movements and political change

Public forum with guest speaker from Venezuela:
RUBEN PEREIRA
Coordinator of Social Movements for the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America

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How democratic was the decision to reduce General Assemblies at Occupy Melbourne?

I attended Occupy Melbourne last weekend and had a very positive experience including attending a GA and staying over on Saturday night in the Treasury Gardens. I was pleased to see positive proposals being made and people working so hard to keep this movement going. A couple of days later I checked out the website and now I feel compelled to write about how whether deliberately or not, General Assemblies have been undermined by some people working within the Facilitation Working Group. I am referring to the decision at the GA on Sunday 6th Nov to only hold General Assemblies twice a week.

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