GLW Calendar, 2012-02

Date: Fri 17 Feb, 6:30pm

Slutwalk. Walk against violence against women. Fri 17 Feb, 5.30pm. Munro Martin Park.

Date: Sat 18 Feb, 8:30pm

Vagina Monologues. Two performances. Sat 18 Feb and Sun 19 Feb, 7.30pm. JCU Boathouse. Entry by bank note donation: funds raised go to Ruth's Women's Shelter. Bar from 6.30pm. Ph. Carole 4039 2720.

Date: Fri 17 Feb, 9:00am - Sun 19 Feb, 5:00pm

Federation Square & Birrarung Marr Event Park, near cnr Swanston & Flinders Sts, City.

Website: SLF

Date: Fri 17 Feb, 10:00am - Fri 17 Feb, 8:00pm

City Square, cnr Collins & Swanston Sts, City.

Website: Occupy Melbourne

Date: Fri 17 Feb, 12:00pm

Outside Telstra shop, cnr Bourke & Swanston sts, City.

Date: Fri 17 Feb, 5:00pm

Homegrown Australian documentaries about the organic permaculture revolution that is shaping the future of food. Entry by donation. 'Growing Change' follows the filmmaker’s journey to understand why current food systems leave hundreds of millions of people in hunger. It’s a journey to understand how the world will feed itself in the future in the face of major environmental challenges. 'Anima Mundi' asks will you survive the transition of human industrial civilization happening now due to peak oil and climate change? Can you see the forest for the trees, the earth for the dream, the universe for the seed? Anima Mundi is an innovative documentary about the planetary animal called Gaia and the human animal we deny, we deny at our own peril, yet a peril that is perfect in design. The Greenhouse, Federation Square, City.

Date: Fri 17 Feb, 6:00pm

Outdoor screening of documentary made by Sinem Saban & Damien Curtis about the NT Intervention; and a short film about the Kimberley campaign opposing the proposed gas hub at James Price Point. The screening will be preceded by live music and speakers including Greens Senator Richard di Natale. The focus is on making connections between the issues affecting indigenous communities in northern Australia, and involving us all in finding solutions. Doors open 6pm, speakers 7pm, and live music until dark, feature starts at 9pm. $20/$16. CERES Village Green, cnr Roberts & Stewart Sts, Brunswick East.

Phone: 9389 0100

Website: CERES

Date: Sat 18 Feb, 6:00pm

Eighteen years after a brutal attack against Ogaden Civilians by the Ethiopian Government and military, the Ogaden Youth and Students Union in Melbourne is hosting a Remembrance Day for the past and present victims and their family. Flemington Community Centre 24 Mount Alexander Rd, Flemington.

Phone: Layla 0423 674 009

Email: oysumelbourne@gmail.com

Date: Sun 19 Feb, 6:30pm

Hosted by esteemed poet and rapper Omar Musa (Moneykat). Performance Revolt, 12 Elizabeth St, Kensington. $18/$15. Organised by the Centre for Poetics and Justice.

Website: Centre for Poetics and Justice.

Date: Tue 21 Feb, 7:00pm

Speaker: Richard Denniss (The Australia Institute). City Square, Cnr Collins & Swanston sts, City.

Website: Melbourne Free University

Date: Wed 22 Feb, 6:15pm

Foreign correspondent Kim Barker’s personal account of reporting in Afghanistan and Pakistan, The Taliban Shuffle, is a fiercely honest – and occasionally hilarious – dissection of the absurdities of an intractable conflict. Barker, previously South Asia bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, abandons the journalist’s conventional poker-faced neutrality for a mordant take on the newest American – and Australian – military quagmire. In conversation with Karen Middleton (An Unwinnable War). This is a free event; bookings are recommended. The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street.

Website: Wheeler Centre

Date: Wed 22 Feb, 6:30pm

A talk with the author Alex Mitchell, veteran journalist and one-time editor of the UK Trotskyist daily newspaper The Workers Press. In this role he travelled to the Middle East and interviewed Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi. New International Bookshop meeting room, Basement, Trades Hall, Carlton. Entry by gold coin donation. Drinks and snacks available.

Date: Fri 24 Feb, 10:00am - Fri 24 Feb, 8:00pm

City Square, cnr Collins & Swanston Sts, City.

Website: Occupy Melbourne

Date: Sat 25 Feb, 2:00pm

The Occupy movement raises the questions of how and why the 1% maintain their rule at the expense of the 99%. Questions discussed will be: Can capitalism be reformed? Is socialism the only alternative? Can socialism be democratic? What would a socialist society look like? How can the 99% succeed in building an alternative society? Followed by "Introduction to Socialist Alliance". Resistance Centre, Lvl 5, 407 Swanston St, City (opposite RMIT).

Phone: 9639 8622

Email: peterson_err@hotmail.com

Date: Sat 25 Feb, 5:00pm

Panel discussion with Lionel Bopage, Michael Colin Cooke & Martin Mulligan. Darebin Intercultural Centre, 59A Roseberry Ave, Preston. Free dinner. Organised by Darebin Intercultural Centre.

Phone: 8470 8440

Email: intercultural@darebin.vic.gov.au

Date: Mon 27 Feb, 4:30pm

Richmond Town Hall.

Date: Mon 27 Feb, 7:00pm

Exhibition of paintings from the Saharawi refugee camps. Guest speaker: Carmela Baranowska, award winning documentary film-makker. Music by Brazilian Saba band Rio Samba. 7:00pm. The Clare, 421 Rathdowne st, Carlton. Drinks 6:00pm, 2 course dinner $45($40 conc). RSVP to Georgia 0425 702 975.

Phone: 0425 702 975

Date: Tue 28 Feb, 5:30pm

On February 28, over 100 million Indians will join together and walk off the job in what is likely to be the largest strike of workers the world has ever seen. The different labor unions have specific demands that they want to achieve with the strike. These include bringing contract workers up to the same level of employee protections as permanent workers, extending the minimum wage to cover the entire population, and countering the attacks on unions. Workers around the world will be standing in solidarity with those fighting for economic justice in India. Federation Square, City.

Website: Workers' Solidarity Network

Date: Tue 28 Feb, 6:30pm

Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City (opposite RMIT). A discussion about legal limits on the right to take industrial action and a campaign to win back the right to strike. Speakers: Len Cooper (Communication Workers Union telecommunications state secretary and founder of right to strike campaign); Tim Gooden (Geelong Trades Hall Council secretary); Paul Gilbert (Australian Nurses Federation). Only dictatorships ban strikes don't they? Wrong. Australia has so many legal restrictions to stop workers taking effective industrial action that the right to strike is effectively illegal. Victorian nurses and state public servants were forced to lift their only effective industrial bans. Qantas workers had taken very little industrial action before being locked out and banned from taking industrial action.

Phone: 9639 8622

Email: peterson_err@hotmail.com

Date: Fri 17 Feb, 6:30pm

Over the Australia Day long weekend in 2012, the Refugee Rights Action Network took a bus and 40 people to the Leonora Detention Centre. This event will give feedback on our experiences and impressions from the trip. Wesley Uniting Church Hall, Level 1, 97 William Street, Perth Organised by Refugee Rights Action Network

Phone: 0417 904 329

Email: refugeerights.actionnetwork@gmail.com

Website: Refugee Rights Action Network

Date: Tue 21 Feb, 6:00pm

Kwinana Recquatic, Cnr Gilmore & Chisham Ave, Kwinana The closure of the wheatbelt rail lines threatens to dramatically increase the amount of trucks travelling through Kwinana to CBH. Come along to this meeting to find out more. Speakers Jane Fuchsbichler, Wheatbelt Railway Retention Alliance Hon Lynn MacLaren MLC, Member for South Metropolitan Region Jon Strachan, Fremantle Councillor Annolies Truman, Road to Rail Campaign George Crisp, Doctors for the Environment Mayor Carol Adams, Chair Hosted by Hon Lynn MacLaren MLC. Organised by Fremantle Road2Rail. Refreshments provided by Kwinana Council. More trucks means: • More dangerous conditions for road users and our community • Increased particulate pollution and potential adverse health impacts • A less efficient freight system • Increased greenhouse gas emissions • Increased traffic congestion We have to shift freight from road to rail. For more information see: http://savegrainonrail.com.au/ http://freoroad2rail.org/

Email: freoroad2rail@gmail.com

Website: Freo Road to Rail campaign

Date: Fri 17 Feb, 6:30pm - Fri 17 Feb, 8:30pm

WikiLeaks, a free press publishing and media organisation, has revealed human rights abuses, war crimes and corruption in governments across the world. Yet the US Administration wants to close WikiLeaks down and prosecute its founder Julian Assange. International financial services organisations have blocked payments to WikiLeaks, denying them vital income. The Australian government has failed to take a stand against the political persecution of Assange. Australian Prime Minister Gillard's assertion that WikiLeaks' activities were illegal was proved to be false by an Australian Federal Police investigation. What does this say about our democracy? Speakers: Scott Ludlam, Greens Senator Christine Assange, mother of Julian Assange Humphrey McQueen, historian, Australian National University Chaired by: Mary Kostakidis, journalist and Australia's first primetime anchorwoman FRIDAY 17TH FEBRUARY, 2012, 6.30 pm to 8.15 pm University of Technology, Sydney Room 13 (Building 2) Entrance level, UTS Tower, Broadway Presented by the Support Assange & WikiLeaks Coalition Gold coin donation | For more information: Anne 0404 090 710 / Helen 0413 381 408

Date: Sat 18 Feb, 2:00pm

Join us for the Australian premier of a powerful new film about Burma’s political prisoners, introduced by a former Burmese political prisoner now living in Australia. Into the Current tells the story of Burma's unsung heroes - its prisoners of conscience - and the price they pay for speaking truth to power in a military dictatorship. Using footage secretly shot in Burma, the film uncovers the stories and sacrifices of 'ordinary' people of exceptional courage, and the leaders who inspire them. Former poltiical prisoner Bo Kyi and an underground team work tirelessly and often at great risk on behalf of their jailed colleagues. While they and countless others fight on, the dream of a free Burma remains alive. Price: $10 Venue: Tom Mann Theatre, 136 Chalmers St, Surry Hills, Sydney

Phone: 9264 7694

Email: admin@aucampaignforburma.org

Date: Fri 24 Feb, 8:00pm

5 Mins of Infamy is a PechaKucha style evening. An affair where people talk about their ideas and passions, accompanied by 20 slides or other visual media for 5 minutes only! Often described as an intellectual happy hour, it’s also full of humor and ideas that will challenge, inspire and ignite your imagination. Come down early to the Rattler and get a comfy lounge, groove in the breaks to tunes by Sir Loins and listen to a bunch of queers discuss Art, Politics, and Action, a perfect night out before the thinking festival begins in earnest the next morning. LOCATION The Red Rattler Theatre, 6 Faversham St. Marrickville NSW 2204 Doors Open 8pm $5 With MC Nassim