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Occupy Melbourne - SUPPORT QANTAS WORKERS

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/11/2011 - 9:46pm

Date and Time:

Wed, 09/11/2011 -

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location:

City Square cnr Swanston and Collins Streets Melbourne, Australia

Website:

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=235877963134979

As part of Occupy Melbourne's weekly Towers of Power tours
SUPPORT QANTAS WORKERS!
Tell Alan Joyce that his anti worker offensive won't fly!
Friday 11th November, 5:30pm
City Square (Cnr Collins St, Swanston St)
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Recent weeks have seen a major offensive by Qantas CEO Alan Joyce against his workforce.Only 3 days after he announced a 71% pay increase FOR HIMSELF (amounting to 5 million a year) Joyce locked out Qantas pilots, baggage handlers, maintenance engineers.

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Melbourne

WGAR News: Aboriginal leaders call for apology over NT intervention; Darwin launch of Walk With Us

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 09/11/2011 - 9:46am

Newsletter date: 9 November 2011

Contents:
* Aboriginal Leaders call for apology over NT intervention
* Report on 'Consultations' - "A flawed process and not what people said"
* Darwin book launch of 'Walk With Us' - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention
* Video: Yuendumu Voices - Reflections on the Intervention
* National Health Leadership Forum (NHLF) to be voice to govt
* Interview with Jonathan Nichols, Editor of a APY Project
* Project: Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud exhibition
* Jon Altman: The intervention is dead, long live the intervention

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Northern Territory Intervention

Report on 'Consultations' - A flawed process and not what people said

Darwin book launch of 'Walk With Us' - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention

Yuendumu Voices - Reflections on the Intervention

National Health Leadership Forum (NHLF) to be voice to govt

Interview with Jonathan Nichols Editor of a APY Project

Project - Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud exhibition

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 15 events from 9 November 2011

Occupy Melbourne challenges City of Melbourne in federal court

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 08/11/2011 - 9:56pm

Fitzroy Legal Service have filed documents in the Federal Court seeking that the court make a declaration that a Notice to Comply served to Occupy Melbourne participants by council officers on Friday the 4th of November was “ultra vires” and hence “null, void and of no legal force or effect.”

Occupy Melbourne seeks to uphold the right of all Australians to protest as enshrined in the constitutional right of political communication.

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Melbourne

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Occupy Melbourne

Refugees are welcome here! - Rally and march, Melbourne 5 November 2011

Submitted by peter on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 12:35pm

The Refugee Action Collective (Victoria)organised a rally and march reiterating demands for an end to mandatory detention and offshore processing. This came in the wake of two events: the High Court decision ruling the government’s intended Malaysia deal illegal, and the drowning deaths of asylum seekers off the coast of Java a few days previously.

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Occupy Melbourne's Rescheduled -'Dare to Share Teddy bears Picnic'

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 06/11/2011 - 7:52pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 09/12/2011 -

10:00am to 1:00pm

Location:

Treasury Gardens however people should visit occupymelbourne.org for updates if the camp is evicted.

Note- event was delayed for the second time due to rain
It's about sharing! Kids get it, why doesn't everyone?!

Across the planet 800 million people suffer from hunger and malnutrition, 1.1 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water and, every hour, 1,200 children die from preventable diseases.

In Australia the number living in poverty is 2.2 million, while homelessness is at 100,000.
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Currently, in Victoria funding is being cut to 9000 'take a break' occasional care places, impacting on shift workers, single parents and families in crisis.

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Melbourne

Community picket for Baiada poultry workers - Occupy Laverton!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 06/11/2011 - 6:49pm

Date and Time:

Wed, 09/11/2011 -

6:00pm to 11:45pm

Location:

Baiada Poultry Pipe Road Laverton

Website:

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=271986516169831

Workers at Baiada Poultry will take indefinite protected industrial action in their campaign for secure and permanent jobs starting THIS WEEK. 100% of returned ballots have indicated a 'yes' vote for industrial action, meaning every single worker in the plant has voted to strike!

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Melbourne

Save Abbotsford Convent precious open spaces from private Steiner school land grab

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 06/11/2011 - 6:36pm

Dear fellow community activists, The Abbotsford Convent is again under threat with the Sophia Mundi Steiner school’s proposal to take over public land for their own fenced playground, build four additional classrooms and associated structures – including some on St Mary’s paddock (the “goats paddock”): See: http://cararesidents.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/threat-to-our-public-open-... The plans are objected to by the local community, the local council (C

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Melbourne

Film screening: Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 06/11/2011 - 6:06pm

Date and Time:

Tue, 15/11/2011 -

6:30pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Resistance Centre, lvl 5, 407 Swanston st, City (opp RMIT).

Contact Name:

Sue

Contact Phone:

9639 8622

Contact Email:

peterson_err@hotmail.com

Website:

www.socialist-alliance.org

As the corporate system takes us toward yet another economic crisis, where the poor pay while the rich are bailed out, Moore uses both humour and outrage to ask "What is the price we pay for capitalism?" From a hilarious history lesson through to today's struggles of working people to keep hold of our homes & our jobs, the film helps us step back and ask whether a world where people and planet are slaves to profit has any future.. and what alternatives could be created?

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Melbourne

WGAR News: "Congress joins opposition to big stick policies in the NT" - NCAFP media release

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 06/11/2011 - 10:22am

Newsletter date: 29 October 2011

Contents:
* What’s Working: Animation of stories
* "Congress Joins Opposition to Big Stick Policies in the NT" NCAFP Media Release
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (NCAFP)
* Occupy Melbourne calls for Treaty with Indigenous Australia
* Interview with Brian Devlin on cuts to bilingual education in the NT
* Prof Jon Altman: Governments can not afford to neglect homelands
* UTS Lecture by Dr Miriam Jorgensen & Prof Stephen Cornell:
Indigenous Government - A Solution in Settler States

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Northern Territory Intervention

Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (NCAFP)

What’s Working - Animation of stories

Occupy Melbourne calls for Treaty with Indigenous Australia

Interview with Brian Devlin on cuts to bilingual education in the NT

Prof Jon Altman -Governments can not afford to neglect homelands

UTS Lecture by Dr Miriam Jorgensen & Prof Stephen Cornell - Indigenous Government - A Solution in Settler States

Australia mining aid for Philippines questioned – ATM

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 05/11/2011 - 10:15am

Melbourne, Australia – Filipino and Australian organizations criticized Prime Minister Julia Gillard for launching a $127 million ‘smart aid’ for poor but mineral-rich nations during a forum at the University of Melbourne.

Recently, the Gillard government has launched ‘Mining for Development Initiative’ which aims to help more than 30 developing countries, including the Philippines, address mining related challenges, including everything from managing environmental impacts of mining to governance issues.

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