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Rally at
1pm at Federation Square.
Equal Love is a nationwide campaign for
same-sex marriage in Australia. Through education and direct
action, we aim to change public attitudes towards lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender and intersex people and put pressure on the
government to legislate for equal marriage rights.
This year the
Equal Love campaign promises to be bigger than ever, re-engaging
past supporters and bringing fresh faces to the cause. Everyone has
a role to play in building the momentum for equality.
Website:
www.equallove.info.
Email: contact@equallove.info
Sunday, 2 August 2009
The Fairfield Primary School Community Art Show Family Day is an annual event when Fairfield Primary School becomes a family-friendly ‘art gallery’ featuring work by local artists. This year’s theme is ‘Keep It Surreal’, and family activities will include: fabulous food, live music, bollywood dancing, drumming, cakes, preserves, crafts, garden items, drama, workshops, art activities, and more!
Location: Fairfield Primary School, Langridge St. Fairfield
Time: 10am – 4pm
Admission: adults $5 and kids free
Contact: Fairfield Primary School, 9489-2966
Crisis Hub Workshops and Training
Communities with power: Advocating for human rights in war and conflict
Workshop series
Humanitarian Crisis Hub invites community groups advocating on war and conflict to a free workshop series designed to improve their practical activism skills and outcomes.
All workshops are free of charge but bookings are essential.
Saturday 3 October, 11am - 4pm
New tactics for human rights advocacy and campaigning
Based upon the groundbreaking New Tactics in Human Rights Project, (newtactics.org) this workshop will explore how we can use a far broader array of innovative tactics to mobilise people and campaign for human rights in war and conflict.
Workshop 7: Saturday 14 November, 11am - 4pm
Lobbying for human rights and building political support
This workshop will explore how to lobby and influence politicians and decision-makers and how to strengthen your campaigning through effective networking and strategic alliance building.
Venue: Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane Melbourne 3000
All workshops are free of charge, but booking is essential! Please call (03) 9289 9226 or email to register or for more information.
Crisis Hub
Food Films – Popcorn – Hot Soup – Fresh Bread
Feature film Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people who are re-inventing our food system.
Supporting films: Guerrilla Gardening, Edible City preview, Backwards Hamburger
Venue: Friends of the Earth, 312 Smith Street, Collingwood
Entry by donation. Hot soup, bread & popcorn by donation.
Seating is limited, please RSVP.
For More information visit the Friends of the Earth website.
At Melbourne University Student Union, Members lounge (Ground Floor, enter via Tin Alley, Parkville).
Entry by donation
Minga means “collective” or “community work”. In this session we will hear about the different social movements in Colombia, from the indigenous struggle for self determination, the Afro-Colombian opposition to forced displacement and against free-trade agreements, the people´s movement for peace with social justice.
With the participation of Sergio Mariscal, Colombian Academic & member of Peace & Justice for Colombia. Plus footage & video.
After the presentation, the Free Liliany Campaign (Melbourne) invites you to share a “Coffee for Freedom”, to hear some updates about Liliany´s case and to send our solidarity to Liliany, her family and other political prisoners suffering injustice.
On August 7th, 2008, the Union leader, academic & film-maker Liliany Obando, was arrested by Colombian government forces. She was detained on charges of “rebellion” against the state, a catch-all charge that is regularly used to imprison those who speak out against the government & is used to delegitimise the work of social activists. Her trial stated at the beginning of July and the charges remain unsubstantiated.
Drink hot organic coffee. All donations will go to the “Freedom Fund” in support of Colombian political prisoners.
Further details call: Sergio 0432 956 198 or Lulu 0421 957 341
Find the event on Facebook
www.freeliliany.netPublic Meeting: Global to Local - Climate change in our community.
Speakers:
Professor David Karoly, Member of IPCC Panel, Member of Wentworth Group
of Concerned Scientists, Professor, Earth Science School, Melbourne
University.
Mr Andrew Lucas, Transition Towns local solutions to climate change and peak oil.
Cr Steven Tang, Deputy Mayor, Glen Eira Council.
Come along on August 6 at 7pm to the Glen Eira Town Hall,
Cnr Glen Eira and Hawthorn Rds,
Glen Eira.
For more info phone Phillip Walker: 0408 329 406.
The American singer has been called the voice of the progressive movement in the USA. "He will make you laugh, he will make you cry, and he will make the revolution irresistible."
Friday, August 7 at 8:00pm
Madeline Hudson (3CR broadcaster! from the Radioactive Show) begins at 8pm and David from 9.30pm
Where: Emerald Lounge, Clifton Hill Hotel.
$20/15 tickets. Purchase at the venue or call 9489 8705 and pay with a credit card.
Contact Cam Walker at FOE.Find out more about David Rovics or email.
Skype: david.rovics or Phone (US): (503) 863-1177 or Snail Mail: David Rovics 4326 SE Woodstock Blvd. #434 Portland, OR 97206-6270 (US)
Sumardi earned the title of Master Puppeteer (Dalang) for his distinctive performance style developed during extensive study in the most esteemed school of puppetry in Indonesia, and will be travelling from distant Sumatra.
Sumardi performs in traditional dress with Indonesian Wayang Kulit and Kancil puppets - intricate, translucent figures crafted from leather and wood casting delicate, shadowy images against a backlit screen. Theatrical storytelling and traditional music brings to life the ancient myths and stories of Indonesia.
This is a rich cultural experience not to be missed!
$10 per ticket Tickets can be purchased prior to the launch, or at the door on the night, at 138 Cromwell street Collingwood.
Performance is suitable for all ages.
Place: 138 CROMWELL STREET COLLINGWOOD 3066 VIC
AUGUST 7th at 7.30PM
For more information email or toll free 1800 010 069
Organised by Japanese for Peace and supported by MAPW and ICAN. Always a wonderful event with a variety of excellent performers and speakers.
Speakers:
Scott Ludlam - Guest Speaker, Australian Greens Senator
Steven Starr - Senior Scientist, Physicians for Social Responsibilty
Performers:
Yumi Umiumare - Butoh Dance
Bruce Watson - Acoustic Guitar, Singer/Songwriter
Djiva - Acoustic Guitar, Indigenous Female Duo
Ayako Sato & Fuefukuro - Japanese Drum & Bamboo Flutes
Jordie Lane - Acoustic Guitar, Singer/Songwriter
- When: Saturday 8 August, 3-5pm
- Where: State Library Village Roadshow Theatrette (La Trobe Street), Melbourne.
- Entry: $15/conc $10
- Inquiries: info@jfp.org.au or 0413 849 984
- Download a one-page flier of all Melbourne 2009 Hiroshima commemorations
The DIY Arts Show presents a fun-draiser extravaganza!! Give a chop to the winter blues and get your cake out at an extra super sunday afternoon on August 9 at The Tote Hotel, Collingwood. Featuring: The Hatchets, Suzanne Grae & the Katies, The Fuses, ExtraSupa Pash, Henry and Disco Vortex.
You can also catch the second premiere of Katie Cherry Bomb's sweatshop smashing B(girl) grade short film, M.C.G.F.C.
BBQ delights and vegan cupcakes also available.
Sunday August 9th from 5PM.
$8 unwaged/$10 waged
You're invited to the launch of Lauren Rosewarne's new book "Cheating on the Sisterhood: Infidelity and Feminism" on Wednesday August 12th at 6:00pm.
This event will be held in the Executive Lounge, 1st Floor, Alan Gilbert Building on the corner of Berkeley and Grattan Streets, Carlton. For more information visit the University of Melbourne's page about the event.
What happened to her Rights@Work?
You remember Tracey? She was featured in one of the ACTU TV ads. Her boss calls her to come in to work but she has no one to look after her children and is threatened with the sack. "You can't sack me", she says - but under WorkChoices
she was. And she still can be under Labor's Fair Work Australia!
Thursday 13 August @ 6pm
Beer Garden, Oxford Scholar Hotel (427 Swanston St, cnr Swanston & a'Beckett streets, Melbourne)
Informal social evening aimed at providing young people with information of the real facts about the Fair Work Australia Act & how it impacts on our lives.
With participation of Dean Mighell (ETU), Danielle Archer (Victorian Young Unionists) & Kirk Leonard (UNITE).
Followed by music
Are you tired of being under-paid and overworked?
Don't stay in the dark about your work rights! Do something about it!
Organise and win better wages and conditions. Find out how!
Organised by the Spirit of Eureka
Supported by: Young Unionists Network & UNITE
For more info. Call 0417456001 or 0421957341
Around 40% of Australians, including young workers are defined as being in "precarious employment", meaning they have no security of continued employment and little control over rosters or their hours of work.
Ordinary Australians in their millions totally rejected Howard government's WorkChoices policies and threw him and his government out of office. The Labor government of Rudd & Gillard rode into office hanging onto the coat tails of this great public backlash, they promised time and again to "tear WorkChoices up and restore fairness and justice to the world of work."
Well, guess what? WorkChoices hasn't been torn up, it's just been given a new suit of clothes and a new name: Fair Work Australia Act.
If like Tracey and millions of other Australians you work in a small business with less than 15 employees you can still be sacked harshly and unfairly, the same as under WorkChoices, and have no right to appeal against unfair dismissal if you worked for less than 12 months in the small business.
Organise and win better wages and conditions. Find out how!
Aireys Festival of Words is an annual event that attracts internationally acclaimed writers and showcases the talents of local authors, illustrators, musicians and artists, who all take part in a weekend-long celebration of words, sounds and images.
In 2009 the Festival will once again take over the beautiful coastal town of Aireys Inlet, transforming local venues big and small into artistic spaces full of words and music from Friday 14 to Sunday 16 August.
Highlights of this year’s Festival include author readings and conversations, poetry sessions, a children’s literature hub, panel discussions, writing and visual art workshops, contemporary art exhibitions and live music performances. Guest authors include Festival key note speaker and creator of the popular Murray Whelan series Shane Maloney, short story aficionado Cate Kennedy, acclaimed children’s author Alison Lester, award-winning illustrator Robert Ingpen, much-loved young adult writer Maureen McCarthy and foodie Allan Campion.
For more information about Aireys Festival of Words and to sign up to receive email updates visit the website.
Aireys Festival of Words is an annual event that attracts internationally acclaimed writers and showcases the talents of local authors, illustrators, musicians and artists, who all take part in a weekend-long celebration of words, sounds and images.
In 2009 the Festival will once again take over the beautiful coastal town of Aireys Inlet, transforming local venues big and small into artistic spaces full of words and music from Friday 14 to Sunday 16 August.
Highlights of this year’s Festival include author readings and conversations, poetry sessions, a children’s literature hub, panel discussions, writing and visual art workshops, contemporary art exhibitions and live music performances. Guest authors include Festival key note speaker and creator of the popular Murray Whelan series Shane Maloney, short story aficionado Cate Kennedy, acclaimed children’s author Alison Lester, award-winning illustrator Robert Ingpen, much-loved young adult writer Maureen McCarthy and foodie Allan Campion.
For more information about Aireys Festival of Words and to sign up to receive email updates visit the website.
Sudan & Darfur - which way forward for democracy?
Speakers:
Anas Elwakil, Communist Party of Sudan
Alphar Omar Lisimba, President of Darfur Austalia Network
Saturday 15 August
2pm
Old Church Hall, 10A Hyde St, Footscray
Phone 9639-8622 or 0413-377-978
Organised by Socialist Alliance and Communist Party of Sudan.
The Brunswick Women’s Choir Beyond the Sunset Tour, will begin in Adelaide and finish beyond Darwin in the Tiwi Islands. Performing and collaborating with local choirs along the way, this tour has been two years in the planning.
“It is an enormous, exciting and challenging undertaking and we are thrilled to be going on the road with our songs, and sharing and learning from others around this big country,” says Choir Director, Cathy Nixon.
Before heading on tour, the Choir is delighted to perform two farewell concerts on home territory in Melbourne. The Brunswick Women's Choir - New Territory concerts will send the Choir off in style as well as raise money to cover the costs of touring.
Two farewell concerts will be held at the Brunswick Uniting Church, at 212 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, on 15 August 2009 – an afternoon concert at 2.30pm and an evening concert at 7.30pm.
The Choir promises to uplift and inspire with songs about the land, women’s issues, working towards a better world, and the blues that come with bad shoes!
“The Brunswick Women’s Choir - Heavenly – really – like a foretaste of heaven!” says Clare Boyd-Macrae, author and freelance journalist.
Many of the choir’s songs are written by Australian songwriters including Lou Bennett, Paul Kelly, Kavisha Mazella and Tony Backhouse, and form the backbone of the repertoire we’ll take on tour.
The Beyond the Sunset tour is inspired by the choir’s collaboration with indigenous songwriter Lou Bennett in 2007. The title Beyond the Sunset is taken from the lyrics of one of these songs, which is partly sung in Bennett’s traditional language, Yorta Yorta.
Lou’s passion for keeping the Yorta Yorta language alive and flourishing has become our passion too. It’s our wish to share the Yorta Yorta language by singing these songs about love, respect and healing, to new audiences.
The Brunswick Women’s Choir strongly believes in the healing power of song. Lou Bennett feels the same way.
“When things like language are shared, there is a common ground and there is a sense of pride, but when we exclude that it becomes an ‘us and them’ situation…when you start to include people; when you choose the right people to share your knowledge with, it opens up such a positive place. It’s so important for healing and understanding. It’s reconciliation in action,” says Bennett.
One feature of the tour is an invitation from the Ngarukuruwala or Strong Women's Choir on Tiwi Islands to join them in sharing culture and song.
For more information and to buy tickets to the New Territory farewell concerts, go to www.brunswickwomenschoir.org.au or contact the Choir Administrator: 0408 079 922
For interviews, please contact Cathy Nixon, musical director: 0425 741 030
Aireys Festival of Words is an annual event that attracts internationally acclaimed writers and showcases the talents of local authors, illustrators, musicians and artists, who all take part in a weekend-long celebration of words, sounds and images.
In 2009 the Festival will once again take over the beautiful coastal town of Aireys Inlet, transforming local venues big and small into artistic spaces full of words and music from Friday 14 to Sunday 16 August.
Highlights of this year’s Festival include author readings and conversations, poetry sessions, a children’s literature hub, panel discussions, writing and visual art workshops, contemporary art exhibitions and live music performances. Guest authors include Festival key note speaker and creator of the popular Murray Whelan series Shane Maloney, short story aficionado Cate Kennedy, acclaimed children’s author Alison Lester, award-winning illustrator Robert Ingpen, much-loved young adult writer Maureen McCarthy and foodie Allan Campion.
For more information about Aireys Festival of Words and to sign up to receive email updates visit the website.
Designed to foster the next generation of professional Indigenous leaders in the visual arts, the Fellowship will focus on the many professional opportunities within the sector such as:
Exhibitions Development Curatorship
Management Sponsorship Publishing
Events Marketing Education
The National Gallery of Australia and Wesfarmers are seeking input from the visual and Indigenous arts sectors to inform the structure of this top level professional development opportunity with the Gallery.
Consultation workshops will be held on the following dates:
Sydney Monday 17 August
Melbourne Tuesday 18 August
Canberra Wednesday 19 August
Cairns Thursday 20 August
Adelaide Tuesday 8 September
Alice Springs Thursday 10 September
Darwin Friday 11 September
Perth Tuesday 20 October
Broome Wednesday 21 October
Cox Inall Ridgeway has been contracted to run consultation workshops which will be facilitated by respected Indigenous leader Aden Ridgeway.
Details for the Melbourne consultation workshop are:
Venue: Koorie Heritage Trust, 295 King Street (Cnr Little Lonsdale Street), Melbourne
9.30am - 3.45pm on Tuesday 18th August
Individuals and organisations working in the Indigenous visual arts sector across Australia are encouraged to participate in the national series of workshops.
Interested participants are invited to contact John Saulo at Cox Inall Ridgeway for further information or 02 8204 3876
A 2008 film discussing the impact of the Northern Territory emergency intervention in communities near Katherine, featuring the lives of ordinary community residents as they experience the intervention first hand. The Intervention puts a human face to the communities that have been rendered by the media as shadowy breeding grounds for criminal activity
Wednesday 19 August
7pm
Bar 303, 303 High St, Northcote
Entry by donation
Organised by Socialist Alliance. Supported by Green Left Weekly. Phone: 9639-8622 or 0425-741-961
In 2007 Australian workers all fought for our rights at work, and we won. Or so we thought.
From 1 July most of us will have access to the new Fair Work
Australia laws. Sadly workers at Marriott hotels will be stuck with
WorkChoices for three more long years.
At the very last minute Marriott Hotels have rushed through 3 year
WorkChoices contracts.
Hundreds of workers at these hotels have signed union cards to say
they want a Fair Work Agreement not a WorkChoices contract. They want to have a say.
But they need your help.
Marriott's Human Resources are based in the USA. It's probably not
surprising they don't know how seriously Australian workers take our
rights at work. They might not even realise how insulting it is to us
Australians that after we voted John Howard's nasty WorkChoices out
Marriott (a big multi-national company) is desperately clinging to
it.
We fought for our rights and we will keep fighting for them if
companies like Marriott ignore what Australians voted for 2007.
We need you to send a message to Marriott CEO Bill Marriott in
America. Please help us fight for Marriott workers' rights at work.
Go to Your Rights At Work to send your message to Bill Marriott.
In 2007 Australian workers all fought for our rights at work, and we won. Or so we thought.
From 1 July most of us will have access to the new Fair Work
Australia laws. Sadly workers at Marriott hotels will be stuck with
WorkChoices for three more long years.
At the very last minute Marriott Hotels have rushed through 3 year
WorkChoices contracts.
Hundreds of workers at these hotels have signed union cards to say
they want a Fair Work Agreement not a WorkChoices contract. They want to have a say.
But they need your help.
Marriott's Human Resources are based in the USA. It's probably not
surprising they don't know how seriously Australian workers take our
rights at work. They might not even realise how insulting it is to us
Australians that after we voted John Howard's nasty WorkChoices out
Marriott (a big multi-national company) is desperately clinging to
it.
We fought for our rights and we will keep fighting for them if
companies like Marriott ignore what Australians voted for 2007.
We need you to send a message to Marriott CEO Bill Marriott in
America. Please help us fight for Marriott workers' rights at work.
Go to Your Rights At Work to send your message to Bill Marriott.
The workshop is free of charge, but booking is essential! Please call (03) 9289 9226 or email to register.
For more information
Workshop 5
Using New, Alternative and Independent Media for Human Rights Advocacy
Saturday 22 August, 11am - 4pm
Independent media networks now play a vital role in communicating and advocating for human rights. The workshop will explore at how groups can most effectively utilize new, alternative and independent media for their
campaigning work. It will also look at using SMS, Twitter, Facebook for campaigning.
Presenter: Matt Abud
Matt has worked in media development, production, and training in various countries in Asia over the past decade, including East Timor, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
Where: Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Workshop is free of charge, but booking is essential! Please call (03) 9289 9226 or email to register or for more
information visit the website.
You can register on-line
In 2007 Australian workers all fought for our rights at work, and we won. Or so we thought.
From 1 July most of us will have access to the new Fair Work
Australia laws. Sadly workers at Marriott hotels will be stuck with
WorkChoices for three more long years.
At the very last minute Marriott Hotels have rushed through 3 year
WorkChoices contracts.
Hundreds of workers at these hotels have signed union cards to say
they want a Fair Work Agreement not a WorkChoices contract. They want to have a say.
But they need your help.
Marriott's Human Resources are based in the USA. It's probably not
surprising they don't know how seriously Australian workers take our
rights at work. They might not even realise how insulting it is to us
Australians that after we voted John Howard's nasty WorkChoices out
Marriott (a big multi-national company) is desperately clinging to
it.
We fought for our rights and we will keep fighting for them if
companies like Marriott ignore what Australians voted for 2007.
We need you to send a message to Marriott CEO Bill Marriott in
America. Please help us fight for Marriott workers' rights at work.
Go to Your Rights At Work to send your message to Bill Marriott.
In 2007 Australian workers all fought for our rights at work, and we won. Or so we thought.
From 1 July most of us will have access to the new Fair Work
Australia laws. Sadly workers at Marriott hotels will be stuck with
WorkChoices for three more long years.
At the very last minute Marriott Hotels have rushed through 3 year
WorkChoices contracts.
Hundreds of workers at these hotels have signed union cards to say
they want a Fair Work Agreement not a WorkChoices contract. They want to have a say.
But they need your help.
Marriott's Human Resources are based in the USA. It's probably not
surprising they don't know how seriously Australian workers take our
rights at work. They might not even realise how insulting it is to us
Australians that after we voted John Howard's nasty WorkChoices out
Marriott (a big multi-national company) is desperately clinging to
it.
We fought for our rights and we will keep fighting for them if
companies like Marriott ignore what Australians voted for 2007.
We need you to send a message to Marriott CEO Bill Marriott in
America. Please help us fight for Marriott workers' rights at work.
Go to Your Rights At Work to send your message to Bill Marriott.
Pubic Art - What is that about?
Monday 24 August 2009, 6–8pm
Reading Room, Fitzroy Town Hall, 201 Napier Street Fitzroy.
Key public art practitioners, including artists, administrators and academics,
discuss and debate the role of public art in the everyday environment.
The forum includes a keynote presentation and a panel discussion open to questions from the audience.
Keynote speaker: Jenny Pemberton-Webb – Place Manager, Revitalising Central Dandenong, City of Greater Dandenong.
Panel: Anthony McInneny – Lecturer RMIT Art in Public Places, Architects for Peace, Urban Artist,
Mike McInerney - Artist, Everfresh Studio, Julie Shiels - Artist, Sam Gaylard - City of Yarra Councillor.
Entry is free.
For more information, please call Arts & Cultural Services on 9205 5038 or visit City of Yarra website.
In 2007 Australian workers all fought for our rights at work, and we won. Or so we thought.
From 1 July most of us will have access to the new Fair Work
Australia laws. Sadly workers at Marriott hotels will be stuck with
WorkChoices for three more long years.
At the very last minute Marriott Hotels have rushed through 3 year
WorkChoices contracts.
Hundreds of workers at these hotels have signed union cards to say
they want a Fair Work Agreement not a WorkChoices contract. They want to have a say.
But they need your help.
Marriott's Human Resources are based in the USA. It's probably not
surprising they don't know how seriously Australian workers take our
rights at work. They might not even realise how insulting it is to us
Australians that after we voted John Howard's nasty WorkChoices out
Marriott (a big multi-national company) is desperately clinging to
it.
We fought for our rights and we will keep fighting for them if
companies like Marriott ignore what Australians voted for 2007.
We need you to send a message to Marriott CEO Bill Marriott in
America. Please help us fight for Marriott workers' rights at work.
Go to Your Rights At Work to send your message to Bill Marriott.
In 2007 Australian workers all fought for our rights at work, and we won. Or so we thought.
From 1 July most of us will have access to the new Fair Work
Australia laws. Sadly workers at Marriott hotels will be stuck with
WorkChoices for three more long years.
At the very last minute Marriott Hotels have rushed through 3 year
WorkChoices contracts.
Hundreds of workers at these hotels have signed union cards to say
they want a Fair Work Agreement not a WorkChoices contract. They want to have a say.
But they need your help.
Marriott's Human Resources are based in the USA. It's probably not
surprising they don't know how seriously Australian workers take our
rights at work. They might not even realise how insulting it is to us
Australians that after we voted John Howard's nasty WorkChoices out
Marriott (a big multi-national company) is desperately clinging to
it.
We fought for our rights and we will keep fighting for them if
companies like Marriott ignore what Australians voted for 2007.
We need you to send a message to Marriott CEO Bill Marriott in
America. Please help us fight for Marriott workers' rights at work.
Go to Your Rights At Work to send your message to Bill Marriott.
Tour of Venezuelan revolutionary student leader, Heryck Rangel
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Wed, August 26, 2009 @ 1pm
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY FORUM?organised by Cuba Venezuela Solidarity Club
Multifunction Room, Graduate Centre ?Melbourne University, Parkville Campus. ?Phone: 0430397074
This Australian speaking tour by the Venezuelan revolutionary student leader, Heryck Rangel, is an opportunity to hear about how the people of Venezuela are building a society based on cooperation, community control and social ownership of the country's major resources. Heryck is currently a student in Political and Administrative studies at the Central University of Venezuela.
In 2005, together with a group of young people he founded the Venezuelan Ecocitizens Movement ECOVEN. This is an eco-socialist collective, of which Heryck is currently the national coordinator.
Between 2006-2007 Heryck was President of the Student Centre at the School of Political and Administrative Studies at the Central University of Venezuela.
In 2008 Heryck was part of the National Promotors Group for the establishment of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela Youth. The PSUV, led by Chavez and other key leaders of the Bolivarian movement, numbers almost six million supporters.
6 for 6:30pm Wednesday 26 August
New International Bookshop, Trades Hall
Cnr Victoria & Lygon Sts, Carlton
Clinton Fernandes was consulting historian to the film Balibo. In this Underground Talk, he will expand upon the issues raised in the film, including the role of the Australian government, the solidarity movement that developed here - and the ongoing struggle for justice in East Timor today.
Clinton Fernandes is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He is the author of Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the independence of East Timor (Scribe, 2004) and Reluctant Indonesians: Australia, Indonesia and the future of West Papua (Scribe, 2006).
Entry: $5/ $2.
More info: 9662 3744 or email.
In 2007 Australian workers all fought for our rights at work, and we won. Or so we thought.
From 1 July most of us will have access to the new Fair Work
Australia laws. Sadly workers at Marriott hotels will be stuck with
WorkChoices for three more long years.
At the very last minute Marriott Hotels have rushed through 3 year
WorkChoices contracts.
Hundreds of workers at these hotels have signed union cards to say
they want a Fair Work Agreement not a WorkChoices contract. They want to have a say.
But they need your help.
Marriott's Human Resources are based in the USA. It's probably not
surprising they don't know how seriously Australian workers take our
rights at work. They might not even realise how insulting it is to us
Australians that after we voted John Howard's nasty WorkChoices out
Marriott (a big multi-national company) is desperately clinging to
it.
We fought for our rights and we will keep fighting for them if
companies like Marriott ignore what Australians voted for 2007.
We need you to send a message to Marriott CEO Bill Marriott in
America. Please help us fight for Marriott workers' rights at work.
Go to Your Rights At Work to send your message to Bill Marriott.
Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party joint meeting
Why socialist feminism?
Some on the Left — including those who have their origins in the International Socialist Tendency — go out of their way to stress that they are not feminists. Feminism, they simplistically opine, is bourgeois and they want none of it. Wrong, say both Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party, which embrace feminism as inherently revolutionary.
Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party will host a joint meeting to discuss the new Red Letter Press pamphlet, In Defence of Marxist Feminism, which features debates with the U.S. equivalent of Socialist Alternative and Solidarity.
Dinner will be served at 6:30 pm for a $7 donation. Meeting commences at 7:00pm. The venue is Solidarity Salon: 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick. Catch a Sydney Road tram or Upfield Line train. Plenty of free parking at rear, enter from Staley Street.
For more information or to purchase the pamphlet for $2, visit Solidarity Salon, call 9388-0062 or e-mail Radical Women or the Freedom Socialist Party.
Sunday, 23rd August at 9 PM (LOOP, 23 Meyers Place, (03) 9654 0500 and
Thursday, 27th August at 7 PM, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker (EMBASSY, 1 Queensbridge Street, (03) 9686 2944
The film will also be screening at the Sydney Underground Film Festival 2009.
Original music is by celebrated Australian musician MICK HARVEY, who was a member of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (1983 - 2009).
THE MARINA EXPERIMENT recently garnered two respected awards, Best Documentary from the influential Super Shorts International Film Festival in London and the prestigious Award of Excellence from The Accolade Competition.
THE MARINA EXPERIMENT is an evidentiary review of a childhood spent under the persistent gaze of an obsessively voyeuristic parent that explores the hazy boundary between the recording of priceless memories and the inflicting of emotional harm. It is culled from a vast collection of archival audiotape, super 8 films and photographs spanning 1959 to 1975 (the first 16 years of the filmmaker’s life, as documented by the filmmaker’s late father).
In 2007 Australian workers all fought for our rights at work, and we won. Or so we thought.
From 1 July most of us will have access to the new Fair Work
Australia laws. Sadly workers at Marriott hotels will be stuck with
WorkChoices for three more long years.
At the very last minute Marriott Hotels have rushed through 3 year
WorkChoices contracts.
Hundreds of workers at these hotels have signed union cards to say
they want a Fair Work Agreement not a WorkChoices contract. They want to have a say.
But they need your help.
Marriott's Human Resources are based in the USA. It's probably not
surprising they don't know how seriously Australian workers take our
rights at work. They might not even realise how insulting it is to us
Australians that after we voted John Howard's nasty WorkChoices out
Marriott (a big multi-national company) is desperately clinging to
it.
We fought for our rights and we will keep fighting for them if
companies like Marriott ignore what Australians voted for 2007.
We need you to send a message to Marriott CEO Bill Marriott in
America. Please help us fight for Marriott workers' rights at work.
Go to Your Rights At Work to send your message to Bill Marriott.
People´s Power is changing the World:
Latin American Solidarity Conference
August 28 and 29, 2009, Victorian Trades Hall
Major cracks are appearing in the global capitalist system – cracks that are being forced open by the tide of rebellions and revolutions across Latin America.
From Cuba to Venezuela and Bolivia to El Salvador, people’s power is toppling neo-liberal governments, challenging multinational corporations, and constructing social and economic alternatives to the plunder, war and injustices of the old system. For 50 years, the Cuban revolution has inspired millions of people around the world struggling for independence, human rights and genuine democracy.
Now, the Venezuelan revolution, with its vision of “socialism of the 21st century”, is continuing to provide examples of what a socialist government can achieve.
Imperialism is confronting an unprecedented challenge to its brutal rule. The Latin America Solidarity Conference will provide an open forum for all people wanting to learn about, learn from and build solidarity in Australia with the people’s power movements in Latin America.
AGENDA
7pm • People’s power is changing the world: revolution and reconstruction in Latin America
50 years since the victory of the Cuban revolution and 10 years since the coming to power of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has shown that the continent is unwilling to bow to international capital. Over the last few years further victories have been added including Evo Morales in Bolivia and the FMLN in El Salvador. What does all this mean for a new socialism of the 21st century?
SATURDAY
9:30am • Obama´s foreign policy for Latin America: militarisation, blockade& trade agreements
The Bush administration supported death squads and mass killings in Colombia, an attempted coup in Venezuela, continued the blockade against Cuba, organised assassination attempts against Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales and reinforced trade agreements in favour of its multinationals. Will the empire be any different under the Democrat regime of Obama?
Multiple workshops
2pm • Latin America as alternative: new models of economic, social and political power
After more than two decades of orthodox neoliberal doctrine and anti-democratic regimes, the tide has decisively turned across Latin America. Spearheaded by the Venezuelan revolution’s practical experiements in participtory economic and democratic models, the movement is impacting struggle from Boliva to El Salvador and Ecuador. The “end of history” has itself ended; a new discussion and practice for human suvivial and justice is being pursued apace.
Feature workshops: a) Venezuelan Revolution, b) Central America, c) Workers struggles in Latin America
5:30pm • Their struggle is our struggle: Strengthening solidarity
Campaigns, brigades and projects have been part of the process of globalising resistance to exploitation and inequality and building solidarity between Australia and Latin America.
Plus many workshops and evening fiesta.
Lunch provided by Food not Bombs
Guest speakers include:
VENEZUELA
Heryck Rangel Hernandez: National coordinator of the Venezuelan Eco-Citizens movement, student leader, radio broadcaster and activist with the PSUV Youth.
Daniel Sanchez: Leader in Venezuela´s “people´s power” movement through the Rebirth of the South Commune, local councillor for South Valencia and activist in the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV)
Nélson Dávila: Founding member of Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement and currently head of Venezuela’s diplomatic mission in Australia.
CHILE
Jaime Gajardo: General Secretary of the United Workers Federation of Chile CUT, member of the Communist Party and a long time activist with the Teachers movement, also the head of this union. One of the most outstanding leaders of the teachers´ struggle in the last decade in Chile.
GUATEMALA
Walter Rolando Félix: long time activist for human rights and better living conditions in Guatemala. Current parliamentarian for the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) and representative for the Commission for Peace and against field mines.
COLOMBIA
Jesús González: Founding member of the United Workers Federation of Colombia, forced to leave his country as a result of his work as political leader, organiser and for his work documenting the assassination of trade union leaders in Colombia.
Registration and further information:
Friday*: Conc $5/ regular $10/ Solidarity $15
Saturday: Conc $15/ regular $40/ Solidarity $50
* When registering for Saturday, Friday is free
To register use the form attached below or fill in the online form on the website.
Payments can be made by Money order or Cheque payable to Solidarity Conference.
Please send registration forms to c/ PO Box 5421 CC Melbourne VIC 3001
For more information, please email
Roberto 0425 182 994, Sean 0415 122 135, Oscar 0415 232 057, Paul 0413 072 137 or Lisa 0413 031 108
In 2007 Australian workers all fought for our rights at work, and we won. Or so we thought.
From 1 July most of us will have access to the new Fair Work
Australia laws. Sadly workers at Marriott hotels will be stuck with
WorkChoices for three more long years.
At the very last minute Marriott Hotels have rushed through 3 year
WorkChoices contracts.
Hundreds of workers at these hotels have signed union cards to say
they want a Fair Work Agreement not a WorkChoices contract. They want to have a say.
But they need your help.
Marriott's Human Resources are based in the USA. It's probably not
surprising they don't know how seriously Australian workers take our
rights at work. They might not even realise how insulting it is to us
Australians that after we voted John Howard's nasty WorkChoices out
Marriott (a big multi-national company) is desperately clinging to
it.
We fought for our rights and we will keep fighting for them if
companies like Marriott ignore what Australians voted for 2007.
We need you to send a message to Marriott CEO Bill Marriott in
America. Please help us fight for Marriott workers' rights at work.
Go to Your Rights At Work to send your message to Bill Marriott.
People´s Power is changing the World:
Latin American Solidarity Conference
August 28 and 29, 2009, Victorian Trades Hall
Major cracks are appearing in the global capitalist system – cracks that are being forced open by the tide of rebellions and revolutions across Latin America.
From Cuba to Venezuela and Bolivia to El Salvador, people’s power is toppling neo-liberal governments, challenging multinational corporations, and constructing social and economic alternatives to the plunder, war and injustices of the old system. For 50 years, the Cuban revolution has inspired millions of people around the world struggling for independence, human rights and genuine democracy.
Now, the Venezuelan revolution, with its vision of “socialism of the 21st century”, is continuing to provide examples of what a socialist government can achieve.
Imperialism is confronting an unprecedented challenge to its brutal rule. The Latin America Solidarity Conference will provide an open forum for all people wanting to learn about, learn from and build solidarity in Australia with the people’s power movements in Latin America.
AGENDA
7pm • People’s power is changing the world: revolution and reconstruction in Latin America
50 years since the victory of the Cuban revolution and 10 years since the coming to power of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has shown that the continent is unwilling to bow to international capital. Over the last few years further victories have been added including Evo Morales in Bolivia and the FMLN in El Salvador. What does all this mean for a new socialism of the 21st century?
SATURDAY
9:30am • Obama´s foreign policy for Latin America: militarisation, blockade& trade agreements
The Bush administration supported death squads and mass killings in Colombia, an attempted coup in Venezuela, continued the blockade against Cuba, organised assassination attempts against Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales and reinforced trade agreements in favour of its multinationals. Will the empire be any different under the Democrat regime of Obama?
Multiple workshops
2pm • Latin America as alternative: new models of economic, social and political power
After more than two decades of orthodox neoliberal doctrine and anti-democratic regimes, the tide has decisively turned across Latin America. Spearheaded by the Venezuelan revolution’s practical experiements in participtory economic and democratic models, the movement is impacting struggle from Boliva to El Salvador and Ecuador. The “end of history” has itself ended; a new discussion and practice for human suvivial and justice is being pursued apace.
Feature workshops: a) Venezuelan Revolution, b) Central America, c) Workers struggles in Latin America
5:30pm • Their struggle is our struggle: Strengthening solidarity
Campaigns, brigades and projects have been part of the process of globalising resistance to exploitation and inequality and building solidarity between Australia and Latin America.
Plus many workshops and evening fiesta.
Lunch provided by Food not Bombs
Guest speakers include:
VENEZUELA
Heryck Rangel Hernandez: National coordinator of the Venezuelan Eco-Citizens movement, student leader, radio broadcaster and activist with the PSUV Youth.
Daniel Sanchez: Leader in Venezuela´s “people´s power” movement through the Rebirth of the South Commune, local councillor for South Valencia and activist in the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV)
Nélson Dávila: Founding member of Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement and currently head of Venezuela’s diplomatic mission in Australia.
CHILE
Jaime Gajardo: General Secretary of the United Workers Federation of Chile CUT, member of the Communist Party and a long time activist with the Teachers movement, also the head of this union. One of the most outstanding leaders of the teachers´ struggle in the last decade in Chile.
GUATEMALA
Walter Rolando Félix: long time activist for human rights and better living conditions in Guatemala. Current parliamentarian for the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) and representative for the Commission for Peace and against field mines.
COLOMBIA
Jesús González: Founding member of the United Workers Federation of Colombia, forced to leave his country as a result of his work as political leader, organiser and for his work documenting the assassination of trade union leaders in Colombia.
Registration and further information:
Friday*: Conc $5/ regular $10/ Solidarity $15
Saturday: Conc $15/ regular $40/ Solidarity $50
* When registering for Saturday, Friday is free
To register use the form attached below or fill in the online form on the website.
Payments can be made by Money order or Cheque payable to Solidarity Conference.
Please send registration forms to c/ PO Box 5421 CC Melbourne VIC 3001
For more information, please email
Roberto 0425 182 994, Sean 0415 122 135, Oscar 0415 232 057, Paul 0413 072 137 or Lisa 0413 031 108
In 2007 Australian workers all fought for our rights at work, and we won. Or so we thought.
From 1 July most of us will have access to the new Fair Work
Australia laws. Sadly workers at Marriott hotels will be stuck with
WorkChoices for three more long years.
At the very last minute Marriott Hotels have rushed through 3 year
WorkChoices contracts.
Hundreds of workers at these hotels have signed union cards to say
they want a Fair Work Agreement not a WorkChoices contract. They want to have a say.
But they need your help.
Marriott's Human Resources are based in the USA. It's probably not
surprising they don't know how seriously Australian workers take our
rights at work. They might not even realise how insulting it is to us
Australians that after we voted John Howard's nasty WorkChoices out
Marriott (a big multi-national company) is desperately clinging to
it.
We fought for our rights and we will keep fighting for them if
companies like Marriott ignore what Australians voted for 2007.
We need you to send a message to Marriott CEO Bill Marriott in
America. Please help us fight for Marriott workers' rights at work.
Go to Your Rights At Work to send your message to Bill Marriott.
In 2007 Australian workers all fought for our rights at work, and we won. Or so we thought.
From 1 July most of us will have access to the new Fair Work
Australia laws. Sadly workers at Marriott hotels will be stuck with
WorkChoices for three more long years.
At the very last minute Marriott Hotels have rushed through 3 year
WorkChoices contracts.
Hundreds of workers at these hotels have signed union cards to say
they want a Fair Work Agreement not a WorkChoices contract. They want to have a say.
But they need your help.
Marriott's Human Resources are based in the USA. It's probably not
surprising they don't know how seriously Australian workers take our
rights at work. They might not even realise how insulting it is to us
Australians that after we voted John Howard's nasty WorkChoices out
Marriott (a big multi-national company) is desperately clinging to
it.
We fought for our rights and we will keep fighting for them if
companies like Marriott ignore what Australians voted for 2007.
We need you to send a message to Marriott CEO Bill Marriott in
America. Please help us fight for Marriott workers' rights at work.
Go to Your Rights At Work to send your message to Bill Marriott.
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