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Public meeting, which will discuss the current situation for workers in China and the links and campaigns that we can build together with them
Union activist Pier Moro, recently returned from China will speak on the current situation.
Where: Trades Hall, Evatt Room
54 Victoria Street
Celebrate the birth of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex movement and it's future.
Liam Byrne, National Union of Students Queer Officer, will speak on Stonewall Riots, veteran activist Liz Ross will recall how Stonewall helped inspired her generation of activists to build the Gay Liberation movement in Australia.
Featuring visual display from the early Gay Liberation movement.
Snacks/Drinks available
This free event takes place on Wednesday July 1st 6:30pm atTrades Hall, cnr Lygon St & Victoria St, Carlton (enter Victoria St)
See you at the 40th Anniversary of Stonewall forum at Trades Hall!
Speakers: John Cleary (former ETU organiser), Tim Gooden (Geelong Trades Hall secretary), Sue Bull (Geelong CFMEU trainer). All participated in the April 2009 AVSN Solidarity brigade to Venezuela.
Thursday, July 2
7pm. New International Bookshop, Trades Hall, Lygon St, Carlton.
Supported by Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network. For more info ph Jody 0418 691 403 or Roberto 0425 182 994
Shane Howard - Archie Roach - Ruby Hunter - Amy Saunders - Matt Walters - Lyn Eales - Myra howard - Oriel Glennen- Ewen Baker
In Sth West Vic, once home to Australia's largest rural Irish community, st Brigid's Church and Hall stands atop a hill overlooking the Southern Ocean. Irish Famine refugees built them. For 130 years the community have cherished them. The church need to sell them. The people want to keep them. You can help them!
The Thornbury Theatre 859 High St
$20 presale / $55 dinner & show or $25 at the door
Andy Baylor, Denis Close and Margret RoadKnight. Creole duets and fold songs with a twist.
Andy Baylor on fiddle, mandolin and vocals, and Denis Close on percussion present music in the Cajun/Creole style, written by Andy in Lafayette, Louisiana. The music represent a unique Australian/Cajun hybrid.
with
Songs from passionate fold singer Margret Roadknight, known for her powerful vocals, witty lyrics an dwide ranging roots-based repertoire.
Bookings and Enquires: 9417 1983
Sunday July 5th, 4pm
at the Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church
110 Grey Street, East Melbourne
Judith Le Blanc, a member of the
indigenous Caddo Tribe from Oklahoma, is the National Organising
coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, the largest US national
Peace Coalition. She is also the vice-chair of the Communist Party of
the USA and Chair of their Peace and Solidarity Commission.
She will be
touring Australia as a guest of the Communist Party and to participate
in the actions against the US/Australian Talisman Sabre military
exercises.
In this special event we will be discussing current campaigns against US government´s policy of permanent warfare, militarisation and empire-building, and the need to build an alternative based on peace and justice for the continent. Judith will also talk about the solidarity movement in the US.
Light refreshments and drinks will be provided by donation
Confirmation and bookings preferred
For bookings & further details, please contact: Andrew 0419 523 886 or Lulu 0421 957 341 or email.
Event organised by Peace and Justice for Colombia, the Centre for Latin America Solidarity and Studies (CLASS) and the Communist Party of Australia.
The international movement for Peace, Justice and Solidarity with Latin America:
Talk with US peace activist Judith LeBlanc
Sunday 5 July at 4pm
Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church
110 Grey Street, East Melbourne
Judith Le Blanc, a member of the indigenous Caddo Tribe from Oklahoma, is the National Organising coordinator of United for Peace and Justice. She is also the vice-chair of the Communist Party of the USA. She will participate in the actions against the US/Australian Talisman Sabre military exercises.
In this special evening we will be discussing current campaigns against US government´s policy of permanent warfare, militarisation and empire-building, and the need to build an alternative based on peace and justice for the continent. Judith will also talk about the solidarity movement in the US.
Light refreshments and drinks will be provided by donation
Confirmation and bookings preferred
For bookings & further details, please contact: Andrew 0419 523 886 or Lulu 0421 957 341
the Centre for Latin America Solidarity and Studies (CLASS)
Students of Sustainability (SoS) is a week-long conference dedicated to the exchange of skills and knowledge in the pursuit of environmental and social justice. The program is packed with workshops, plenaries, lectures and skillshares on topics from ocean degradation to the NT intervention.
Dates: Monday 6th July 2009 - Friday 10th July 2009;
Times: 10am to 6pm
Location: Wurundjeri Land: Monash University, Clayton
Contact Email
Students of Sustainability (SoS) is a week-long conference dedicated to the exchange of skills and knowledge in the pursuit of environmental and social justice. The program is packed with workshops, plenaries, lectures and skillshares on topics from ocean degradation to the NT intervention.
Dates: Monday 6th July 2009 - Friday 10th July 2009;
Times: 10am to 6pm
Location: Wurundjeri Land: Monash University, Clayton
Contact Email
Who is eligible? How much can be borrowed, at what interest rates, from what entity and for what exact purpose? What is the role of a Home Sustainability Assessor?
What factors should be considered when selecting green technology for your home?
Find out at the Rotary Club of Caulfield’s FREE “Green Loans Explained” Public Information session
When: 6.30 for 7.pm on Tuesday July 7
Where: Glen Eira Theatrette cnr. Hawthorn and Glen Eira Roads, Caulfield.
Speakers:
Lyn and Maurice Beinat: In May this year, Lyn Beinat was awarded the prestigious National Award- HIA Green Smart Professional of the Year at Parliament House, Canberra for leadership and professionalism; and
Martha Hills: Accredited Home Sustainability Assessor
Enquiries:9568-7190
Students of Sustainability (SoS) is a week-long conference dedicated to the exchange of skills and knowledge in the pursuit of environmental and social justice. The program is packed with workshops, plenaries, lectures and skillshares on topics from ocean degradation to the NT intervention.
Dates: Monday 6th July 2009 - Friday 10th July 2009;
Times: 10am to 6pm
Location: Wurundjeri Land: Monash University, Clayton
Contact Email
Come to the Southern Cross Railway Station Spencer Street concourse - Collins Street en....
All are welcome who challenge the Victorian Government's ban on political activity in open public spaces that have been privatised as a result of "private public" partnerships.
Bring along food, leaflets, banners, jokes, poetry, rants, songs to share with others assembled in free association for free speech. WAG members hold weekly direct democracy assmblies about Climate Change, Constitutional Rights, The Right to freely distribute political material in open public space and much more. (sites include Federation Square; The Magistrates, County, Supreme & High Courts; Southern Cross & Flinders Street Stations ...more)
Organised by the Wednesday Action Group
Contact: Joseph Toscano Contact Phone: 0439 395 489 or email.
Website or Post: PO Box 5035, Alphington 3078
IWPS-Palestine is inviting applicants from women who would like to join our team of volunteers. Successful applicants will serve at least one term in Palestine and support our on-going work outside. Deadline for application 30.09.09.
Please email for more info and application form. More information about IWPS.
This Wednesday 8th July Aboriginal
rights activists from around the country are holding a protest
outside the office of Indigenous Affairs Minister, Jenny Macklin at
149 Burgundy St Heidelberg.
The protest was jointly called by the
Intervention Rollback Action Group from Alice Springs, Stop the
Intervention from Sydney and the Melbourne Anti-Intervention
Collective.
The protest will be attended by a number of
Aboriginal leaders from Alice Springs and surrounding communities who
have been directly affected by the Northern Territory intervention,
and who will be affected by Jenny Macklin’s planned take over of
the Alice Springs town camps and the Northern Territory Government’s
policy of moving Aboriginal people from homelands to ‘hub’
communities.
Opponents of the Governments expansion of the
Northern Territory intervention have labeled it racist and
assimilationist, arguing that the real aims of the intervention are
to move Aboriginal people off their traditional land and to destroy
Aboriginal culture.
“The recent report from the Productivity
Commission shows the failure of the Rudd Government’s approach of
imposing policy upon Aboriginal communities. The Rudd Government’s
‘Closing the Gap’ policy and expansion of the Northern Territory
intervention have proved to be devastating for Aboriginal people.
We
demand that the Government reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act,
repeal the racist policies of the intervention, and act on their own
surveys that show that the best outcomes are achieved when Aboriginal
people have control of their own affairs,” said Joe Lorback from
the Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective.
On Wednesday
protesters will be highlighting the failure of the Labour Government
to re-instate the Racial Discrimination Act, the racism of
quarantined welfare payments, Jenny Macklin’s decision to take over
the Alice Springs town camps, the Northern Territory Governments
policy of forcing Aboriginal people off homelands, and the
‘blackmailing’ of Aboriginal communities to trade their land for
housing and basic services.
Aboriginal community leaders have
spoken out against the injustice of the "BasicCard" that
gives the Government the power to decide where those on quarantined
welfare must do their shopping and what they can buy. Accessing
welfare entitlements has turned into a new battle that is leading
many of them to go hungry and forcing them to leave their land and
move into larger towns where housing, health and education problems
are greater.
“The Aboriginal people are being forced to line
up in separately to the rest of the population to negotiate the
"BasicCard" in Centrelink and in shops. This clearly shows
that the government intentions are the total assimilation of these
Aboriginal communities,” said Marisol S. from the Melbourne
Anti-Intervention Collective.
Aboriginal leader Barbara Shaw
who is traveling to Melbourne from her home in Mt Nancy town camp
near Alice Springs has argued that things have gotten worse since the
introduction of income quarantining. “Centrelink is always
mismanaging funds and people are losing money... We need control of
our own money. This legislation is racist and must be repealed,”
said Ms Shaw.
Protesters are meeting at 12 midday out the
front of Jenny Macklin’s Burgundy St office. They have said they
are determined to make their opposition to the expansion of the
intervention and take over of the Alice Springs town camps known to
the Minister and the wider community.
For details or comment:
Marisol: 0413 597 315 Barbara: 0401 291 166 or email Joe.
Students of Sustainability (SoS) is a week-long conference dedicated to the exchange of skills and knowledge in the pursuit of environmental and social justice. The program is packed with workshops, plenaries, lectures and skillshares on topics from ocean degradation to the NT intervention.
Dates: Monday 6th July 2009 - Friday 10th July 2009;
Times: 10am to 6pm
Location: Wurundjeri Land: Monash University, Clayton
Contact Email
IWPS-Palestine is inviting applicants from women who would like to join our team of volunteers. Successful applicants will serve at least one term in Palestine and support our on-going work outside. Deadline for application 30.09.09.
Please email for more info and application form. More information about IWPS.
Our next journey, held during December 2009 and January 2010 will take participants to a choice of Pitchanikulum South India, Tribal Villages of Pal or the Himalayas and Rajasthan. During this journey we will contribute to projects relating to women's health, environmental education, renewable technologies, land conservation and waste management.
This information session will be a discussion of previous trips and give plenty of opportunity for those interested in joining our next program to ask questions and talk with the trip organises. Please join us from 7pm Thursday the 9th at CERES Visitor's Centre, corner of Roberts and Stewart Streets, East Brunswick. RSVP essential.
Students of Sustainability (SoS) is a week-long conference dedicated to the exchange of skills and knowledge in the pursuit of environmental and social justice. The program is packed with workshops, plenaries, lectures and skillshares on topics from ocean degradation to the NT intervention.
Dates: Monday 6th July 2009 - Friday 10th July 2009;
Times: 10am to 6pm
Location: Wurundjeri Land: Monash University, Clayton
Contact Email
IWPS-Palestine is inviting applicants from women who would like to join our team of volunteers. Successful applicants will serve at least one term in Palestine and support our on-going work outside. Deadline for application 30.09.09.
Please email for more info and application form. More information about IWPS.
IWPS-Palestine is inviting applicants from women who would like to join our team of volunteers. Successful applicants will serve at least one term in Palestine and support our on-going work outside. Deadline for application 30.09.09.
Please email for more info and application form. More information about IWPS.
July 11th 2009, Saturday 1pm- 5pm
Level 4, Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane
Featuring:
1-2.15pm HOW THE WEST WAS LOST
The 1946 Pilbara strike was a landmark strike by Indigenous pastoral workers for human rights, fair wages and working conditions.
2.30- 3.30pm NINGLA A-NA
The 1972 fight for the tent embassy in Canberra
3.45- 4.45pm THE INTERVENTION: KATHERINE, NT
A 2008 film discussing the impact of the Northern Territory intervention in three communities near Katherine.
Entry by donation (recomended $20/12 full festival; $10/5 per film)
Contact 9639 8622 or email
Organised by Resistance and Green Left Weekly.
www.resistance.org.au
www.greenleft.org.au
Saturday, July 11
Bourke St Mall,
Cnr of Swanston and Bourke St,
Melbourne City
On 19 September 2007, Israel’s “Security Cabinet” declared the Gaza Strip a “hostile entity”. Since that time, Israel in the name of “security” has imposed an illegal and punitive siege against the 1.5 million civilians living in Gaza, preventing almost entirely the movement of goods and people into and out of Gaza. Israel’s illegal siege, which is a form of collective punishment, is a war crime under international law.
According to Oxfam, more than 80% of Gaza’s 1.5 million residents are currently dependent on international food aid as a result of the siege. In addition, according to a report in October 2008 by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights currently 45% of working age adults in the Gaza Strip are officially unemployed.
Since Israel’s all-out bombing of the Gaza Strip in December - January, the situation in Gaza has gotten worse and the siege has tightened. During Israel’s assault on Gaza, more than 1400 Gazans were killed, two-thirds of whom were civilians. According to the United Nations, more than 42,400 houses were destroyed, leaving more than 250,000 people homeless. Also destroyed were 14 mosques and 10 schools, while a further 240 schools were damaged. Currently, due to Israel’s siege, no widespread reconstruction can take place.
On July 9 2004, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s building of the apartheid wall is illegal. The following year on July 9, 2005, more than 100 Palestinian civil society organisations launched the international call for a boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel until it complied with its obligations under international law.
To mark the anniversary of these two very important events, we call on all supporters of human rights to join us and to speak out against Israel’s ongoing human rights abuses against the Palestinian people, to say no to Israel's occupation and apartheid policies and to demand justice for the Palestinian people struggling against siege, occupation and war.
End the siege of Gaza!
End the Israeli occupation of Palestine!
No Australian support for Israel – Sanctions Now!
Initiated by Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Tel: O439 454 3750 or 0431 728 271
Email or website.
’Gaza is a prison and Israel seems to have thrown away the key”
-UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, John Dugard
On the July 11 action we will be displaying the goods banned by Israel from entering Gaza. If you can contribute any of the following for the display, please bring them on the day or contact us at the above numbers/email.
As part of its illegal and punitive siege of Gaza, Israel currently bans the following items in the name of “security”:
Canned goods, tinned meat, tomato paste, tea, coffee, milk products in large packages, apricots, most baking products, sausages, semolina, sesame seeds, nuts, cherries, kiwi, green almonds, pomegranates, plums, grapes, avocados, chocolate, animals (ie. cows, sheep), clothing, shoes, notebooks, toys, crayons, fabrics, threads, needles, candles, matches, books, light bulbs, hair conditioner, musical instruments, mattresses, sheets, blankets, cutlery, crockery, cups, glasses, wood, wooden furniture, building material, electric appliances, refrigerators, washing machines, spare machine, car parts.
Previously banned but allowed to be imported in the last three months:
toilet paper, nappies, sanitary napkins, detergents, soaps, pasta, pumpkin, carrots, hair shampoo, margarine, salt, artificial sweetener, legumes, yeast, cheeses, toothbrushes, toothpaste
IWPS-Palestine is inviting applicants from women who would like to join our team of volunteers. Successful applicants will serve at least one term in Palestine and support our on-going work outside. Deadline for application 30.09.09.
Please email for more info and application form. More information about IWPS.
IWPS-Palestine is inviting applicants from women who would like to join our team of volunteers. Successful applicants will serve at least one term in Palestine and support our on-going work outside. Deadline for application 30.09.09.
Please email for more info and application form. More information about IWPS.
IWPS-Palestine is inviting applicants from women who would like to join our team of volunteers. Successful applicants will serve at least one term in Palestine and support our on-going work outside. Deadline for application 30.09.09.
Please email for more info and application form. More information about IWPS.
IWPS-Palestine is inviting applicants from women who would like to join our team of volunteers. Successful applicants will serve at least one term in Palestine and support our on-going work outside. Deadline for application 30.09.09.
Please email for more info and application form. More information about IWPS.
IWPS-Palestine is inviting applicants from women who would like to join our team of volunteers. Successful applicants will serve at least one term in Palestine and support our on-going work outside. Deadline for application 30.09.09.
Please email for more info and application form. More information about IWPS.
IWPS-Palestine is inviting applicants from women who would like to join our team of volunteers. Successful applicants will serve at least one term in Palestine and support our on-going work outside. Deadline for application 30.09.09.
Please email for more info and application form. More information about IWPS.
IWPS-Palestine is inviting applicants from women who would like to join our team of volunteers. Successful applicants will serve at least one term in Palestine and support our on-going work outside. Deadline for application 30.09.09.
Please email for more info and application form. More information about IWPS.
IWPS-Palestine is inviting applicants from women who would like to join our team of volunteers. Successful applicants will serve at least one term in Palestine and support our on-going work outside. Deadline for application 30.09.09.
Please email for more info and application form. More information about IWPS.
IWPS-Palestine is inviting applicants from women who would like to join our team of volunteers. Successful applicants will serve at least one term in Palestine and support our on-going work outside. Deadline for application 30.09.09.
Please email for more info and application form. More information about IWPS.
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM; doors open at 5.30pm
Where: BMW Edge Federation Square
What will shape and define the nature and live - ability of the future city? What are the pressures and circumstances - imminent or distant - that will shape the social fabric of the city in 2040 and the subsequent spatial, physical and ecological realm that 2040 citizens will occupy? Speakers include Prof. Tom Kovac RMIT, Prof. Lyndon Anderson Swinburne NID, Michael Trudgeon CROWD Productions, Prof Chris Ryan University of Melbourne. Respondents include Dr Esther Charlesworth RMIT, CityEdge and Architects Without Frontiers, Prof Rob Adams Director, Design and Urban Environment, City of Melbourne. A partnership event developed with the State of Design Festival.
Date:
Wednesday the 22nd July 2009,
Time:
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, doors open at 3.30pm;
Where:
BMW Edge Federation Square
Don't miss the first Spinout dance night, 60s and 60s inspired music to get jumping to! DJ sets from Malibu Go Heads and go-go dancing from everyone!!
$6 entry to keep 3CR People Powered Radio going for another 32 years! Get out the go-go boots or slip into Cuban heels, get on your finest op-art or mod creations and get down to the Cobra Bar for.....SPINOUT!
Friday, July 24, 2009 at 9:00pm
Cobra Bar at the Tote Hotel, Corner Johnston and Wellington Streets
Don't miss the first Spinout dance night, 60s and 60s inspired music to get jumping to! DJ sets from Malibu Go Heads and go-go dancing from everyone!!
$6 entry to keep 3CR People Powered Radio going for another 32 years! Get out the go-go boots or slip into Cuban heels, get on your finest op-art or mod creations and get down to the Cobra Bar for.....SPINOUT!
Friday, July 24, 2009 at 9:00pm
Cobra Bar at the Tote Hotel, Corner Johnston and Wellington Streets
This introduction to humanitarian protection will look at mechanisms used for increasing the safety of civilians and the roles of different actors working in wars and conflicts, such as local communities, local NGOs, international humanitarian agencies, the UN and others. It will explore how to build relationships with these actors.
All community advocacy actors are welcome free of charge, but registration is essential! To register visit Crisis Hub.
Join Green Left Weekly to celebrate 50 years of the Cuban revolution
Solidarity toasts, delicious Latin food and Cuban drinks
Fuega - 8-piece Latin band
Saturday 25 July
7pm til late
Brunswick Town Hall,
Cnr Sydney Rd & Dawson St, Brunswick
$45 solidarity/$35 waged/$20 concession
(food and music included)
Band only(after 9.30pm): $20 waged/$12concession
Bookings essential: Phone 9639-8622
A Green Left Weekly fundraiser, supported by Socialist Alliance.
Film, Poetry and Music
Afternoon Tean and Raffle
$15 - bookings preferred call Joan - 98579249
Everyone welcome fo rthis exciting afternoon to support Cuba
Venue - MUA 46 Ireland St, West Melbourne
Speed Renting is a fast and enjoyable way for prospective tenants to connect in a comfortable atmosphere with those who have spare rooms or properties available.
Book your spot for the night online at I Want To Live Here.
Revolution & counter Revolution in Central America
Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras
Lessons and experiences for socialism in the 21st Century
On 19 July 1979, Nicaragua's Sandinistas 9FSLN) led a seccessful people's insurrection, overthrowing the Somoza dictatorship and beginning a period of a workers and farmers government, where socialism was put on the agenda but eventually defeated.
Thirty years later the Sandinista's are back in power and the people of El Salvador have elected a government supported by the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). The FMLN had previousely led a guerilla movement and like the Sandinista's, pursued an insurrectional road to revolution.
On June 28 of this year the left leaning government of Manuel Zalaya in Honduras was ousted by a right wing military coup. These developments are an attempt by the local bourgeoise and international capital to reverse the left turn that is taken place throught the latin American continent.
This forum will look at the challenges of building a socialism of the 21st Century in the Americas. It will also explore the historical lessons of the revolutions that have occured in the region.
Guest Speakers:
Representative of the FMLN in Melbourne
Roberto Jorquera: Revolutionary Socialist Party
evening will include Video footage of the developments in Honduras
6.30pm,
Thurs, 30 July
Direct Action Centre
Victorian Trades Hall
cnr Lygon & Victoria St, Carlton
Tel 0439 454 375 or 0403 943 529
Email.
entry by donation
* The Direct Action Centre is located via the Victoria St Entrance of the Victorian Trades Hall, next to the New International Bookshop
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