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 10 Feb, 10:00am - Fri 10 Feb, 10:00pm

City Square, cnr Collins & Swanston Sts, City.

Website: Occupy Melbourne

Date: Fri 10 Feb, 6:00pm

As part of the global Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions campaign, Students for Palestine is taking on corporations in Melbourne's CBD that support the theft of Palestinian land and the brutality of the Israeli military. Bourke St, Mall.

Phone: 0410 513 302

Website: Students for Palestine

Date: Fri 10 Feb, 7:30pm

The Decline launch their second album full of humourous socio-political punk tunes. The Tote, 71 Johnston Street (Cnr Johnston & Wellington St), Collingwood

Date: Sat 11 Feb, 9:00am - Sat 11 Feb, 5:00pm

You're invited to join with Victorian climate action, fossil fuel and energy campaigners for a day of ideas and planning for Victoria's climate campaigns of 2012. Exciting plenary speakers will kick off the day, then campaigners from across Victoria will talk about what they are doing this year. From city Climate Action Groups, to farmers fighting coal mines, to direct action campaigners locking on to mining equipment and protecting native forests, to inspiring national renewable energy campaigns, to locals concerned about their kid's health. You can also propose your own work shop for an Open Space. Entry is by donation (to cover venue hire). South Melbourne Commons, 217 - 239A Montague St, South Melbourne. For more info email Brett.

Email: brett@thesharehood.org

Date: Sat 11 Feb, 11:00am

Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Outside old GPO, corner Bourke and Elizabeth Streets, City • Death in custody of Terrance Briscoe, Alice Spring (5 January 2012) • 4th anniversary of the death of Mr Ward (27 January) • 5th anniversary of Queensland Police officer, Chris Hurley, being forced to front the Supreme Court charged with manslaughter and assault (5 February) • 8th anniversary of the death of TJ Hickey (14 February) • Stop Aboriginal deaths in custody — implement all 339 recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody • End privatisation of custodial services — cancel all contracts with G4S, SERCO and other profiteers from incarceration • Hold the police to account — end the practice of police investigating police. For an independent enquiry into the death of Terrance Briscoe. Establish elected community based review boards with the full legal and legislative powers to investigate, discipline and charge police, prison and custodial health officers found to be involved in a death in custody, negligence or lack of duty of care • End the harassment of deaths in custody families. Provide funding for families who have lost a loved one in custody to meet to allow their collective demands to be formulated, including suitable and adequate compensation. Use the $590,000 in fine money to establish a trust to honour the memory of Mr Ward. Erect a plaque at the fence line to remember TJ and publicise that his death was caused by a police chase. Remember Terrance Briscoe, Mr Ward, Mulrunji Doomadgee, TJ Hickey and all who have died in custody Organised by Indigenous Social Justice Association — Melbourne

Phone: 9388 0062

Date: Sat 11 Feb, 3:00pm

Featuring: The Coolbaroo Club (about racial apartheid in Perth in the late 1940s and fifties); The Tall Man (deals with the killing of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island in 2004); Ningla A-Na [Hungry for our land] (documentary about the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra in 1972). Starts 3pm. Further details TBA. Resistance Centre, level 5, 407 Swanston St, City (opposite RMIT). Organised by Green Left Weekly & Socialist Alliance.

Phone: 9639 8622

Email: peterson_err@hotmail.com

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, 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: 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: Sat 11 Feb, 1:00pm - Sun 12 Feb, 5:00pm

International Day of creative action Treasury Building, cnr Hay and Barrack Sts, Perth City Organised by Occupy Perth as part of the Fringe Festival.

Website: Occupy Perth

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: Sun 12 Feb, 6:00pm - Sun 12 Feb, 8:00pm

The Tony Award winning American playwright, performer and feminist, best known for The Vagina Monologues and as a writer and activist focusing on violence against women, presents the Australian Human Rights Centre's Annual Lecture. Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm Feb 12 Cost: $35/20 concession Venue: main, Sydney Theatre Company, Hickson Rd, The Rocks, Sydney

Phone: (02) 9385 1803

Website: Australian Human Rights Centre

Date: Mon 13 Feb, 6:00pm - Mon 13 Feb, 8:00pm

The Refugee Action Coalition is very proud to host this timely forum featuring LES MURRAY, SBS soccer commentator who (with Dateline) recently returned to Hungary to meet the people who helped him and his family flee Hungary in 1956. Other speakers: MIKE GREWCOCK, author of Border Crimes & UNSW Law lecturer; EDWINA LLOYD, lawyer for Indonesian boat crew jailed on ‘people smuggling’ charges; HADI HOSSEINI (Afghan Hazara detained on Christmas Island and in Darwin) on his experience of being ‘smuggled’ Monday 13 February, 6-8pm, UTS Haymarket campus, Room B111, Quay St (next to UTS library, opposite Paddy's Markets). Small donations welcomed. Organised by Refugee Action Coalition with support from UTS Anti Racism Collective

Phone: 0422078376

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