Events

Film Screening: Lousy Little Sixpence.
Start: 26 Jun 2008 - 7:00pm
Yarraville Community Centre,
144 Blackwood St, Yarraville.

Entry by donation.

A meticulous study of how white Australians between the wars consistently broke up Aboriginal families to manufacture a black servant class.

Organised by Socialist Alliance.
For more info ph 0406 402 401.

Film screening and speaker about the NT Intervention:
Lousy Little Sixpence

In New South Wales, in 1909, the Aborigines Protection Board planned to break up Aboriginal communities by forcibly removing their children and hiring them out as servants to white employers.

The title of this powerful documentary comes from the wages that were to be paid to the children. Many never saw that lousy little sixpence.

In the mid-1930s, the Aboriginal people began to organise, and to fight the Aborigines Protection Board. Through old newsreels, archive film, photographs and interviews with Elders, the film weaves a moving account of a hidden history, the early struggle for Aboriginal land rights and self-determination. A meticulous study of how white Australians between the wars consistently broke up Aboriginal families to manufacture a black servant class.

A meticulous study of how white Australians between the wars consistently broke up Aboriginal families to manufacture a black servant class. Australia has produced few films of such quiet and ironic passion. - John Baxter, The Australian.

7pm, Thursday June 26th
Yarraville Community Centre
144 Blackwood St

Entry by donation.
There will also be mulled wine and cheese available.

Organised by Socialist Alliance.

For more info: 0406 402 401

Visit Socialist Alliance Melbourne West

The Refugee Action Collective of Victoria invites you to join in a 'Happening'...

...... a pile of old suitcases will appear in the middle of the city .....

Each suitcase represents the human suffering experienced by refugees, their need for a safe place to call home, as well as the riches they bring to our community

WHEN: Saturday 28th June. Meet @ 11.30 am SHARP! It will all be over by 12.30pm.
WHERE: Meet at Atrium at Federation Square (opp. the Forum Theatre, Flinders St)
 BRING: Old unwanted suitcase (they are very cheap at op shops) with a slogan painted on it.
WEAR: a long coat.

PLEASE CHOOSE FROM ONE OR TWO SLOGANS BELOW:

Stop Refugee Deportations; Justice for Refugees; Abolish Unfair Citizenship Tests; Open the Borders; Let the Boats Land, Let Them Stay; End Mandatory Detention; No-One is Illegal; Free the Refugees: Abolish Bridging Visa Es; Close Christmas Island.

Come to a Suitcase Painting Workshop: Sat 21st June @ 3.30 pm

For those who would like to take part, come along to rear Wesley Uniting Church, 148 Lonsdale St , b/w Russell and Exhibition Sts (north east/far right corner).

BRING: paint - including spray cans, brushes, old suitcases, stencil/letter templates. (You dont have to bring all this but please bring an old suitcase.)

Enquiries: 0409 190 738

Download a flyer at the website.

 

Saturday, June 28

4-6pm:Photographic exhibition, film & poetry session.

6-9pm: cultural celebration.

Victorian Trades Hall, Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton.

Organised by Salvador Allende Centenary Committee.

For more information phone Alejandra 0433 540 932, Andrew 0419 523 886 or Paul 0448 786 253.

25th Anniversary of the Saving of the Franklin River, 1 July

Join Senator Bob Brown (Greens Party) in the the celebration at The Federation Ballroom, Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart.

A fast-moving panoply of reminiscences, music, film footage and spectacular photography of the will be Bob Hawke, David Bellamy, Shane Howard, Doug Lowe and more.

Tuesday, 1 July 2008 6:30 for 7:00pm.

Call Centertainment on 03 62345998 or go to www.centertainment.com.au to book your tickets. Tables of 10 or 12 available. Tickets $65/$50 conc.

Includes light refreshments during the night. More info

 Melbourne premiere!

The Doctors of Tomorrow

Thursday, July 3, 7pm

Victoria University City Campus, Room 11.01 (11th floor)

300 Flinders Street, City

A film about how the people of two countries, East Timor & Cuba, are working together to build a health system. Discussion with film-maker Tim Anderson will follow the screening. Entry by donation. Organised by Green Left Weekly & Victoria University Community Development Students' Association.

For more info ph 9639 8622 or Vannessa 0407 023 672.

No desalination plant! No new freeway tunnel!
No bay dredging! Yes to renewable energy & public transport!

Saturday, July 5, 1pm

City Square, Cnr Swanston & Collins St, City then march to Alexandra Gardens to form human sign. See list of sponsors at Climate Emergency rally.

For more info & to add endorsement of your group ph Ben 0413 580 706.

Performers include: Agency Dub Collective, Culture Connect, West Papuan Singers & Dancers, Chant Down Sound, Pataphysics, A Mapmouth Exploder, B12 Shot.

Saturday 5 July.

$10/15. 8pm.

The Corner Hotel, Swan St Richmond.

Proceeds to Australia West Papua Association.

Federation Square, City.

Start: 6 Jul 2008 - 11:00am
10th Anniversary Commemoration of the Biak Massacre in West Papua.
Come and show solidarity by participating in a flag raising re-enactment ceremony.

 

Resistance Centre, Level 5,
407 Swanston St, City.
Start: 10 Jul 2008 - 6:00pm
Includes a political update discussion about most recent events in Venezuela followed by planning our solidarity work.

All welcome.

For more info ph 0448 064 755 or 9639 8622.

 

The march provides an opportunity for all Australians to show their support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Friday 11 July at 10am.

 

Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, 186 Nicholson St, Fitzroy.

 

303 High St,
Northcote.
Start: 25 Jul 2008 - 7:00pm
Featuring: The Conch & Pataphysics.
Also screening of Australia's Pacific Solution, a film about Australia's offshore detention centres.

$12/$8.

For more info ph 0438 399 973.

Start: 26 Jul 2008 - 7:00pm

Top Floor, AMWU offices,
251 Queensberry St,
Carlton South.
greetings & toast, a delicious 3-course feast (vegetarian options provided) & live music!

Cost (incl meal): $25 full/$15 concession/$40 solidarity donation
(Music only :$10 after 9pm)

A fundraiser for Green Left Weekly

For bookings Ph. 9639 8622 or 0433 695 693.

For over 30 years, 3CR has become synonymous with radical causes, and for good reason. We got our mojo and its still working a treat! But we have to pay for it to the tune of over two hundred grand each year; and as one of the oldest (and most fabulous) independent music programs on community radio in Melbourne, Burning Vinyl kicks in to stay on air. How do we do it? The power of music, dear friends, the power of music. And so on Saturday 26 July at 7pm, we're putting on a bang at The Tote. The damage is $10/8 so get your concession card and your slush fund together, come down and join us. Bands, Djs, BBQ, 3CR Stall, Art exhibition & a raffle.

SATURDAY 26TH JULY 2008
DOORS OPEN AT 7:00PM

AT THE TOTE HOTEL
CNR JOHNSTON & WELLINGTON STS
COLLINGWOOD