Today members of the Cross Campus Environment Network (CCEN) held a demonstration at the Melbourne office of HRL with the mock launch of a new 'clean coal' technology. The building went into lock-down when the protesters arrived at the steps of the office with a ramshackle 'state-of-the-art' coal cleaning machine.
The Refugee Action Collective (Vic) has organised a lively protest in solidarity with Tamil refugee Leela Krishna outside Maribyrnong Detention Centre on Sunday October 3rd. Leela Krishnan, has been locked in detention for 12 months, began a hunger strike on October 1st to demand his immediate release. Leela’s application for refugee status has been approved based on the discrimination and violence he experienced in Sri Lanka because of his sexuality – he is gay. But he remains in detention because ASIO has not completed its security check. Despite repeated attempts to get information from the Immigration Department about the status of these checks, he has not been able to find out why he has not been released. After spending almost a year at Christmas Island and Villawood detention centres, Leela was moved to Maribyrnong in the last 2 weeks.
S11, the protest against the WEF at the Crown Casino happened just over 10 years ago.
The website has been down for a few years, but it has just been archived at http://s11.media2.org
Melbourne Indymedia was launched a month or two before the protest, so this site has an anniversary to celebrate too.
Congrats everyone.
A group of "anti-corporate pirates" protested outside the Forbes global CEO's conference at the luxury Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney on Sepetember 29, 2010. Corporate pirates were plundering and destroying the earth and exploiting the world's majority, said Pirate Paul Benedek. "They are giving us grassroots pirates a bad name!"
YouTube Footage of Pirate Demo
Four protestors have been arrested this morning and charged with trespass on summons as they attempted to halt the bulldozing of a flora and fauna reserve to build the Peninsula Link Freeway in Frankston. Up to a hundred police converged on the site, forcibly removing around 30 protestors and arresting four.
There is a report with photos and short extracts from some of the speeches on Melbourne Protests - http://melbourneprotests.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/rally-for-same-sex-mar...
Video to follow, but in the meantime, here are mp3s of extracts from three of the speeches, plus a few extra photos:
Today rallies were held around the country to pressure the major parties to change their policies on banning same sex marriage on the sixth anniversary of Federal Parliament amended the Marriage Act to exclude same sex couples . Here is some video of Melbourne Rally .
Photos from John Wilson
NZ Green Party MP Keith Locke was one of those who addressed a 500-600 strong gathering outside the Melbourne Town Hall last night at the end of a rally called by the Refugee Action Collective under the banner "Stand Up For Refugees".
With as many as 200 people sleeping rough in Melbourne's CBD on any given night, a group calling itself Homelessness Front - Stop the Suffering organised a protest outside the Smith Street office of Victorian Housing Minister Richard Wynne.
Related: Youtube Video
Dave Sweeney, Nuclear Free campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation, was one of the speakers at the launch of Friends of the Earth Nuclear Freeways 2010.
