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May Day March
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Sunday May 6th
1pm Trades Hall, cnr Victoria and Russel streets Carlton May Day is a day when we celebrate internationalism and working class struggle throughout the world. UNITE would like to send May Day greetings to workers and young people across the globe especially to those who stand with us in the fight to organise the areas of fast food and retail. |
Public Forum with Israeli pro-Palestinian Activist
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Thursday May 3
7:30pm Outlets Co-op Community House 43 Mason St Newport Guy Gillard, peace activist and member of the pro-Palestinian Socialist Hadash Party in Israel will discuss the ongoing atrocities carried out against the Palestinians and the isolation that faces Israelis who oppose the Occupation of Palestine. More info: Emma 0406 402 401 | melbwest@socialist-alliance.org |
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May Day (Tuesday May 1)
7:00 pm Trades Hall Bar Cnr Lygon and Victoria Streets ORGANISING AGAINST APEC LAUNCH George Bush is coming to Sydney this year... Stop this weapon of mass destruction Break the Bush/Howard Allance This May Day, the international workers day, the Stop the War Coalition is holding the public launch of it's campaign to go to the APEC conference in Sydney. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference will be attended by George Bush this year and we plan on taking as many people from Melbourne on buses aned trains as there are seats. The Sydney Stop Bush group has called a national mobilisation for Sept 6 to let the world know that Australia says NO to Bush and NO to war. Join us at this campaign lauch and get involved in the biggest demonstration Sydney will have ever seen. More info: Marcus 0406 965 896 | Mick 0422 196 011 |
Defend the Fertility Control Clinic
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Defend the Fertility Control Clinic
Saturday, 28 April 10.00 - 11.30 am 118 Wellington Pd, East Melbourne The presence of clinic defenders keeps the anti-abortionists away from the clinic, so that staff and clients can enter and leave, and people can walk the street, free from their harassment. Defending the clinic is still an important part of the battle to decriminalise abortion and make it freely accessible, on demand, to all women. More info: Debbie 0425 733 256 | Michelle 0424 737 150 |
Important May Day events
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May Day Messages from Around the World
Tuesday 1 May at 5 pm 8 Hour Day Monument, Corner Victoria & Lygon Streets Carlton South Melbourne, Australia Send your May Day solidarity message to aawl@aawl.org.au and we will read it out at this public event A reading of May Day solidarity messages from trade unions and labour movement solidarity organisations from right across the world. All welcome. more info: Manrico 0417 577 971 International industrial action & solidarity: organising for health & safety at work Ttuesday 1 may 6pm Evatt room Trades Hall 54 victoria street carlton south free solidarity event - all welcome more info: 9663 7277 | 0411 054 859 A discussion about health and safety as a tool for workplace organising, and as a way of building international solidarity through industrial action. Like AAWL’s series on Race to the Bottom, this public meeting will be one of many looking at building international solidarity through industrial action. |
Fundraiser for uncle Kev Buzzacott - Arabunna elder
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Saturday 4m-midnight
April 21 Uniting Church Hall High Street Northcote The fundraiser will raise money for Uncle Kev Buzzacott who has cancer. Entry: $ 10/15/20 - Live music - many bands playing |
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Thur, 7pm, April 19
New International Bookshop, Trades Hall crn Lygon st & Victoria st, Carlton Public forum with leading democracy activist from Zimbabwe "The struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe" with special guest speaker: Munyaradzi Gwisai (former Movement for Democracy Change ( MDC) MP, deputy chairperson Zimbabwe Social Forum and member of the National Co-ordinating Committee of the International Socialist Organisation) Mugabe's dictatorship has taken Zimbabwe to breaking point. Official inflation is 1700 per cent. Skyrocketing food prices and high unemployment coupled with vicious repression by the regime make life one big struggle to survive for the majority of people. Recent strikes sparked an intensification of Mugabe's crackdown on dissent Munyaradzi Gwisai has been at the frontline of the struggle for the rights of workers and the poor and has faced beatings and arrest by the regime's security forces. He will speak on the democratic struggle in Zimbabwe and where it is heading. More info: 0418 316 310 | 09639 8622 entry by donation |
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MELBOURNE
4.30-8.00pm Tuesday 24 April Ross House 24 Flinders Lane Melbourne BRISBANE 4.30-8.00pm Monday 30 April 2007 Ahimsa House 24 Horan Street Melbourne In the good ol' days, every social change group knew how to do a street protest, or an occupation, or something even more confrontational. Today, many social change groups avoid any kind of confrontation in favour of consensus models. Is confrontation really irrelevant to today's social change efforts? Are consensus models really effective? This workshop will draw on participants' experiences with confrontation and consensus processes to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of each. Then, using a political opportunity structure model, you will learn how to analyse your political context to better decide when, where, and how to use a combination of confrontation and consensus strategies. http://comm-org.wisc.edu/stoeckerfolio/stoeckvita.htm Places limited. Registration essential: $20 (unwaged); $40 (community sector); $60 (higher income) More info: Sam La Rocca m. 0424 610 038 | sam@thechangeagency.org |
Union and Community Family Day
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Sunday 12 - 4 PM
April 22nd Myer Music Bowl • picnic • music • kids' entertainment • comedy • short speeches Join us for a day of fun at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, one of Melbourne's landmark venues. Unions and community groups will come together to call for equity and justice for working families. The day will feature music, comedy, kid's shows and short speeches. Most importantly it will be an opportunity to stand together against the Howard Government and demand a better deal for families. More information: www.vthc.org.au | 9662 3511 Rip Up the IR laws On Sunday 22 April, we can celebrate our campaign to defend ourselves so far – and importantly, show that we are determined to see it through. As the employers use the IR laws more and more, there is no doubt that workers will be worse off. It is important to keep mobilising together to share our stories and experiences and to fight for a fairer system for working families. |
The Workplace has become a Warzone: reflecting on the Waterfront Dispute of 1998
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Produced by Stick Together (Radio 3CR)
On the morning of the 29th of January 1998, Australians woke to find a radically different world. Overnight employees of Patrick’s Stevedoring at Webb Dock in Melbourne were locked out. The scab workers who replaced them, who largely had military backgrounds, wore masks and patrolled the perimeters with attack dogs. It later came out that the scab workers had been trained in a government supported and covert operation in Dubai. The workplace has become a warzone. Howard and Reith wanted to smash organised labour in Australia and it started with the Maritime workers. This three-part documentary strives to understand the events of the Waterfront dispute in 1998. We talk with workers, activists and union officials to help us reflect on the ongoing reverberations of these events not only on the maritime industry, but also on Australian society. This documentary will be played at 3CR on the following dates:
To contact the producer, Colm McNaughton : 0432 504 531. 3CR Community Radio 21 Smith Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, 3065. Po Box 1277, Collingwood, Victoria, 3066. Telephone: 03 9419 8377. www.3cr.org.au |
Palm Sunday - Action for a nuclear free future
 April 1 - April Fools Day1pm Treasury Gardens Melbourne Palm Sunday has a long history across the world where people come together and mobilise for a peaceful future and nuclear disarmament. As such, a growing collaboration of groups has seized upon the opportunity to come together, in this federal election year, to demand our political representatives stop their Nuclear Foolishness, instead creating a future for Australia that is free of uranium mines, nuclear waste dumps, nuclear power stations and to get out from under the American Nuclear weapons umbrella. more info: www.nuclearfoolsday.org | download posters & flyers |
