Events

Stop All Aboriginal Deaths In Custody NOW!

Palm Island resident, Lex Wotton, is facing charges of 'riot with distruction' - a charge that could lead to a jail sentence of more than 10 years. His trial commences in Brisbane on 7 April, 2008.

With 400 others Lex particpated in the November 2004 protest against the killing of his friend Mulrunji in the Palm Island watch house while in police custody.

Saturday 5 April, 12 noon

Roberto Perez, Cuban permaculturalist from the documentary film "The Power Of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil" will speak in Melbourne on Saturday 5 April at Northcote High School.

Roberto Perez is a permaculture and environmental educator for the Foundation for Nature + Humanity, Cuba's major environmental organisation, based in Havana.

6PM: Screening of "The Power Of Community"
7PM: Public Meeting with Roberto Perez

Do you belong to or work with self help or peer support groups?

Then this Conference is for you!

Self Help Groups - The Path to Health and Wellbeing offers two unique days of workshops and networking.  With lots of opportunity to meet with other self help and peer support groups to share ideas and experiences.

Do you belong to or work with self help or peer support groups?

Then this Conference is for you!

Self Help Groups - The Path to Health and Wellbeing offers two unique days of workshops and networking.  With lots of opportunity to meet with other self help and peer support groups to share ideas and experiences.

April 11-13, 2008 — Sydney

April 11-13, 2008 — Sydney

Yarraville protest march & family picnic: Reclaim the Streets

Saturday 11am.

March from corner of Francis St & Williamstown Rd, Yarraville to Beaton Reserve, Fehon St, Yarraville for speakers and live music.

Organised by Maribyrnong Truck Action Group.

For more info ph Peter 0409 797 852 or visit Maribyrnong Truck Action Group.

April 11-13, 2008 — Sydney

Music from the Wetlands

Featuring Chris Wilson and Kavisha Mazzella.

South Alphington & Fairfield Civic Association is pleased to announce that the 4th Annual Music Festival will be held on Sunday April 13th between 12.30pm and 6.00pm, at the Alphington Wetlands, 1 View St Alphington.

This free community event also includes children's art activities, environment displays and wetlands tours.

On Sunday 20th April, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in West Melbourne will host its 2nd Global Gourmet Fair.

After the success of last year's inaugural fair, we are once again offering fantastic food and music in the forecourt of the ASRC. Come and enjoy dishes from Sudan, Vietnam or Sri Lanka from the ASRC Catering Service and a variety of pickles, teas, cakes and spices....

The music program is just as exciting, with the Joelenes (country music with a Dolly Parton twist) at 1pm, gypsy music from the Balkans, the Shaking the Tree Choir (2pm), Iranian musician Mohammed Rounagh playing several traditional instruments, music from East Africa and more....

Where: ASRC, 12 Batman Street, West Melbourne

When: 10.30am – 4pm

FREE ENTRY

For more details contact:
 
Kristine Robertson

Fundraising Coordinator

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

12 Batman Street

West Melbourne Vic 3003

email: kristine.r@asrc.org.au

Ph: 03 9326 6066

Public meeting: Open the gate in 2008 — moving beyond refugee detention.

Speaker Anna Samson (National Policy Director of the Refugee Council of Australia) and others.

Tuesday, April 22, 6.30pm.

Kaleide Theatre, RMIT, 360 Swanston St, City.

For more info visit Refugee Action Collective.

Beats 2 Benefit Gig - a fundraiser for the Famine Feed Project

Saturday 26th of April
Laundry Bar, 50 Johnston Street, Fitzroy

 Elf Tranzporter, Carlos 'Kobya' Panguana,
Milan Perkins, Cold Sweat and The Conch. Tickets cost $12, 100% of
proceeds guaranteed to the farm.

All of the funds from the ticket sales of this benefit gig
will go towards helping us build a farm on our orphanage in Kenya.

The International Humanity Foundation (IHF), a non-religious,
non-political grass-roots organization, cares for 88 orphans in
Nakuru, Kenya.  In November 2007, our local volunteers and children
began to farm a small area of the orphanage's land to help provide
food for the orphans. All extra produce that isn't used by the orphans
is given to the Pokot tribes on our monthly famine feed drives.

The International Humanity Foundation dedicated most of the 14 acres of land for a vegetable garden so that the organization could provide food for the orphans, the monthly famine feed drives - that serve the desert tribal communities, and the poorest families in the area.

The food is farmed and distributed by volunteers and staff from four
different tribes. This helps bring the community together and build
the foundations of Peace. For this reason the farm is known as the
"Tribal Peace Farm".

More information could be found on www.ihfonline.org