Melbourne

Minutes of first Occupy Melbourne General Assembly - October 15th 2011

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 15/10/2011 - 11:07pm

Overview given of purpose of General Assemblies. Aimed to work on consensus model, having one General Assembly each day at 4PM Weekends, 6 PM weekdays

1.Working Group Report Backs/Information Sharing

If anyone wants to get involved in a working group – please go to the information desk and sign up. Involvement of all is encouraged. The purpose of working groups is to facilitate the self-organisation of the occupy camp.

Legal support working group.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
United for Change
Occupy Melbourne
General Assembly

Occupy Melbourne Kitchen wishlist

Submitted by levin on Sat, 15/10/2011 - 3:38pm

The kitchen at Occupy Melbourne desperately needs the following items:

* pots and pans
* cutlery and crockery
* gas burners and gas bottles
* and most urgently of all we need water barrels or any large water containers.

If you have any please bring them to Melbourne City Square and take them to the kitchen.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Occupy Melbourne joins day of global solidarity

Submitted by levin on Sat, 15/10/2011 - 11:22am

The Occupy Melbourne day in Melbourne's City Square kicked off with approximately 750 people and a large number of police. Approximately 20 tents have been set up from various groups including refugee support and campaign groups, the gay marriage campaign, an indigenous tent, kids' spaces, and many others. People are busy making signs and placards with calls for solidarity. Throughout today and subsequent days there will be workshops, and a General Assembly at 4pm weekends or 6pm on weekdays.

The Occupy Melbourne kitchen group has a wishlist - if you can help please donate.

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Blog Reports: Day 1 of Occupy Melbourne by Benjamin Solah | Occupy Melbourne: some initial thoughts by Jeff Sparrow | Mike Stuchberry on Occupying Melbourne
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Geography: 
Melbourne
Promotion: 
Feature
Keywords: 
occupy melbourne together october protest 2011

WGAR News: Amnesty International head slams decades of neglect in remote Aboriginal communities

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 13/10/2011 - 9:56am

Newsletter date: 13 October 2011

Contents:
* Amnesty International cheif Salil Shetty visits communities in Utopia, NT
* Calls for implementation of UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
* Jon Altman: Homeland communities destroyed to save a bit of cash
* Amnesty International Australia Action: Tell the government: don’t abandon homelands
* Amnesty International Australia: Utopia Homelands featured on the 7pm Project
* What’s Working: Health-Utopia
* Rally against Income Management in Bankstown - 8 October 2011

Geography: 
ACT
Canberra
Adelaide
Perth
Brisbane
Darwin
New South Wales
Melbourne
Northern Territory
Sydney
Queensland
South Australia
Townsville
Victoria
Western Australia
Keywords: 
NT intervention
indigenous
aboriginal
Northern Territory Intervention
Amnesty International cheif Salil Shetty visits communities in Utopia NT
Calls for implementation of UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Jon Altman - Homeland communities destroyed to save a bit of cash
Amnesty International Australia Action - Tell the government: don’t abandon homelands
Amnesty International Australia - Utopia Homelands featured on the 7pm Project
What’s Working - Health-Utopia
Rally against Income Management in Bankstown - 8 October 2011
Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 23 events from 13 October 2011

Afghanistan: the occupation must end

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 12/10/2011 - 5:24pm
Date and Time: 
Tue, 18/10/2011 -
6:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City (opposite RMIT).
Contact Name: 
Sue
Contact Phone: 
9639 8622
Contact Email: 
peterson_err@hotmail.com
Website: 
http://www.socialist-alliance.org/

Public meeting

6pm (for 6:30pm start).

Speakers:
Jessica Morrison (peace activist & social work teacher) &
Richard Tanter (University of Melbourne & Nautilus Institute).

Afghanistan has been at war for several decades now, with a succession of invaders & puppet governments. Prominent Afghan activist Malalai Joya told an Australian audience in 2010 that 'we want your troops to leave so that we have only one enemy to fight'. That is, the warlord government led by Hamid Karzai, and the Taliban. She said that the politics of the Karzai government and the Taliban have converged.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Film Screening: Urban Roots

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 12/10/2011 - 4:23pm
Date and Time: 
Tue, 08/11/2011 -
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Ross House 247 Flinders Lane Melbourne
Contact Name: 
Sarah Day
Contact Phone: 
9650 1599
Contact Email: 
sarah.day@rosshouse.org.au
Website: 
www.rosshouse.org.au

Ross House presents The Big Picture - films for environmental and social justice
The First Tuesday of each month (except public holidays)

Film screening: Urban Roots
plus chats with with Cultivating Community
plus free seeds! Popcorn and mulled wine and ace people

Urban Roots

Geography: 
Melbourne

Anti-abortionists on the march - rally and counter-rally at Parliament House, Melbourne, 8 October 2011

Submitted by peter on Wed, 12/10/2011 - 1:50pm

Under the banner of “March for the Babies“, anti-abortionists massed at Parliament House as part of a ramped-up campaign to force the repeal of laws in Victoria decriminalising abortion.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
abortion rights
right to life
Radical Women
Steve Rogers
March for the Babies
CWRR

The waste of war - Vigil for 10th anniversary of war in Afghanistan, Melbourne, 7 Oct 2011

Submitted by peter on Wed, 12/10/2011 - 8:22am

To mark the 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, Renegade Activists prepared a leaflet setting out some of the uses to which $21.3 billion could have been put, this being the sum of increased military spending over the last ten years compared with 2001 levels. A lolly was attached to each “as a taste of what you could have been enjoying”: it was calculated that $21.3 billion would provide “19 712 lollies for every man, woman and child in Australia”.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
war
Afghanistan
MAPW
Renegade Activists

Planning for Occupy Melbourne continues

Submitted by Flowerpower on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 10:12pm

On Sunday 9th October, the second planning meeting for “Occupy Melbourne” was held at Ross House in the CBD. It is hard to believe that this action was only called for just over a week before, but between 50-60 people crammed into the meeting room to help plan the action. Those in attendance were a diverse group of non-aligned activists, socialists, anarchists, spiritualists, Zeitgeist believers, Indigenous activists, unionist, working and middle class folk, old and young and at least one libertarian capitalist! The movement at this stage defies simple characterizations.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
United for Change
Occupy Melbourne

Bacchus Marsh Coal Campaign Meeting,

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 8:59pm
Date and Time: 
Thu, 13/10/2011 -
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Climate Action Centre, Level 5, Trades Hall Cnr Lygon and Victoria St, Carlton

Right now, a company called Mantle Mining is test drilling in Bacchus Marsh, just 60km West of Melbourne, with plans to start digging up and exporting dirty brown coal at the expense of valuable farmlands, its owners wishes, and a safe climate future for us all.

Switch Off Coal has taken some initial actions against this project, influencing an original investor to pull out, sitting in at the office of new financier Cygnet Capital and last week halting test drilling for a day – but now we need your help.

Geography: 
Melbourne