GLW Calendar, 2010-09, Melbourne

Date: Wed 1 Sep, 12:00am

Speakers Latin American Forum, LASNET, Socialist Alliance, AAWL. 6.30pm. Trades Hall, Lygon Street, Carlton. Organised by Australia Asia Worker Links.

Date: Fri 3 Sep, 12:00am

Equal Pay Day 2010 marks all the extra days each year it takes women to catch up to men’s annual earnings. Women earn 18% less than men on average. This year it will take an extra 65 days to make up that pay, starting from the end of the financial year (30 June 2010). Therefore Equal Pay Day is 3 September 2010. Next year it could take even longer!!! 9.30am -11.00am, Trades Hall, Carlton, 54 Victoria Street Carlton South. Wear red. Guest Speakers: Jill McCabe, Director, Office of Women’s Policy, Bronwyn Halfpenny, VTHC Industrial Campaigns Officer & 1960’s Equal Pay Activist. RSVP to Cheryl via email or phone

Phone: 9659 3576

Email: cfruscalzo@vthc.org.au

Website: Equal Pay Day

Date: Fri 3 Sep, 6:30pm

Come and join us to raise funds to support boats breaking the naval blockade of Gaza to get concrete to help rebuild homes. Friday 3 September 6:30pm Melbourne University

Date: Sat 4 Sep, 12:00am

2010 is the 35th anniversary of the final liberation and reunification of Vietnam; for us in Australia it's the 40th anniversary of the big Moratorium anti-Vietnam War demonstrations. Speakers: Harry Van Moorst, John Percy, Max Lane, John Tully. 2pm. Trades Hall, Carlton. $5/$3. Sponsored by New International Bookshop & Direct Action.

Date: Sun 5 Sep, 12:00am

Featuring award-winning singer Kavisha Mazzella and Muslim author Hanifa Deen plus performances from Burma, Sudan, Congo, Vietnam, West Papua, Sri Lanka and more. The event concludes with a Middle Eastern and West African dinner. Aboriginal Elder Reg Blow will welcome the refugees to the festival and acknowledge the traditional owners of this land. 3-5.30pm. Box Hill Town Hall, 1022 Whitehorse Rd, Box Hill. Followed by Afro-Asian dinner. $10 (free for refugees & children under 12). Tickets and enquiries can be made by calling Glenys or Visier on 9650 6811 Organised by the Victorian Council of Churches in partnership with Whitehorse City Council and Act For Peace.

Phone: (03) 9650 6811

Email: vcc@vcc.org.au

Website: City of Whitehorse - Festival of Refugees

Date: Mon 6 Sep, 12:00am

Journalist Ray Moynihan teams with drug assessment specialist Barbara Mintzes to investigate the creation of female sexual dysfunction (FSD) and the marketing machine that promises to 'cure' it. 6.30 pm, Readings Bookshop, Lygon St, Carlton. For more info ph 9347 6633.

Phone: (03) 9347 6633

Date: Mon 6 Sep, 12:00am

Clive Hamilton - Greens candidate in 2009 & author of Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change & Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change will speak via video link. 6.30pm. Wood Theatre, Economics & Commerce Building, Room G09, Melbourne University. RSVP: query-environment@unimelb.edu.au

Email: query-environment@unimelb.edu.au

Date: Tue 7 Sep, 12:00am

Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City (opposite RMIT). Rather than giving us the government we deserve, the August 21 federal election delivered an outcome the two old parties deserved. Close to one in five voters showed their opposition to Labor and Liberal by voting for alternatives in an election described by many as representing a seismic shift in the Australian electoral landscape. The resulting quake leaves us with a hung parliament and the Greens holding the balance of power in the Senate. As the horse trading continues in earnest, join Socialist Alliance in a discussion to explore the broader political impacts of the elections for unions, the climate and other struggles for justice. Introduced by Trent Hawkins, Socialist Alliance candidate in the seat of Wills.

Phone: (03) 9639 8622

Email: sueb@greenleft.org.au

Website: Socialist Alliance Victoria

Date: Tue 7 Sep, 12:00am

The Burma – Women’s Voices for Peace anthology focuses on the stories of women’s experiences living within Burma and as refugees. Their stories are heartbreaking and moving, and we are privileged that these women have been willing to share so many painful, suspenseful and inspiring experiences with compassion, humility and wit. This is the 7th compilation of writings by Women from Burma. We are delighted to be able to share this night with you. 6.30 pm, Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton. Free, no need to book.

Date: Wed 8 Sep, 12:00am

Launch of Gary Presland's new book, the only up-to-date work available about the Eastern Kulin peoples. The Kulin nation lived around Port Phillip Bay and the Yarra River valley and their territory stretched as far north as the Murray River at Echuca. Presland looks at the Eastern Kulin peoples from before European invasion in the mid-1830s when their world was changed forever. 6.30pm. New International Bookshop, Trades Hall, Carlton.

Date: Thu 9 Sep, 12:00am

In 1948, more than 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homeland by the Zionist forces becoming the world's biggest refugee population. The Palestinian refugees in Iraq experienced brutality from the hands of US forces and militia in 2003, resulting in a mass exodus from their homes in Baghdad. The meeting examines the question resettling them in Australia. Speakers: Yousef al Reemawi (refugee advocate), Robin Laycock (Palestine Solidarity Campaign), and others. 7pm. New International Bookshop, Trades Hall, cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton. Organised by Palestinian Refugee Campaign. For more info ph 0431 738 271.

Phone: 0431 738 271

Date: Thu 9 Sep, 12:00am

Asylum seekers have no connection to population boom, unemployment, debt, terrorism or interest rates, but you wouldn’t know it watching the nightly news. We receive so few refugees compared to the global community yet time and again we are told to be scared. Why do so many Australians feel a sense of entitlement to turn back people fleeing for their lives? What does it mean to be Australian if we offer no just sanctuary for refugees? Why have we allowed a moral issue to become a political one? Presenter: Kon Karapangiotidis established the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre in 2001. The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, 12:45PM - 1:15PM. This is a free event. Booking not required.

Website: Wheeler Centre

Date: Fri 10 Sep, 12:00am

LABJACD, The Conch, Pataphysics, Madre Monte, I Heart Cusack. Five of Melbournes hottest bands together for a special night to commemorate 37 years since the terrible period in Chilean history with the overthrow of democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende, and to draw out the inspirational struggle that the chilean people and the rest of Latin America have undertaken to fight for a better world. ...It's also a part of 80 Gigs In 80 Days in support of the Victorian music scene. The night is being filmed for an upcoming documentary of this unique music marathon event. Half of all proceeds will go to The Latin American Forum. 7:00pm, The Spanish Club, 59 Johnston St, Fitzroy. www.latinamericasolidarity.org, www.80gigsin80days.com.

Date: Sat 11 Sep, 12:00am

Students for Palestine raise funds to buy cement to rebuild infrastructure ruined by the Israeli invasion of Gaza. Live music & halal food. 6.30pm. Members Lounge, Melbourne University Student Union Building. $10/$8. For more info ph 0423 407 910.

Phone: 0423 407 910

Date: Mon 13 Sep, 6:00pm

Seminar at Melbourne Law School Monday 13 September 6pm

Date: Tue 14 Sep, 12:00am

The Wheeler Centre, 6:15PM - 7:15PM, Tuesday 14 September 2010 This is a free event. Booking recommended. Anh Do nearly didn’t make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. Anh Do talks to Sam Pang the tragedy, humour and heartache of life in Australia and the path that lead him to become of Australia’s best loved comedians.

Website: The happiest refugee: Anh Do - The Wheeler Centre: Books, Writing, Ideas

Date: Fri 17 Sep, 12:00am

Friends of Baucau and Friends of Aileu are proud to invite you to a new Australian play by Mari Lourey and directed by Nadja Kostich, which will premiere at fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, as a special La Mama presentation. The play is set in the world of photojournalism and set in East Timor, the Balkans and Iraq. The play was shortlisted for the 2008 Patrick White award and was the recipient of the R.E. Ross Trust Award. For more about Bare Witness see the forty-five downstairs website. The show starts at 7.30pm but come early for a complimentary glass of wine prior to the play. Cost: $40 (includes complimentary glass of wine). Bookings must be received by the 7th September (bookings made after this date cannot be guaranteed). Friends of Baucau: book by contacting Fiona Young on 8470 8332 or 0419 750 457 or emailing fiona.young@darebin.vic.gov.au, Friends of Aileu: book by contacting Richard Brown on 0407 091 004 or rbrown@moreland.vic.gov.au. Website: www.friendsofbaucau.org, Blogspot: http://wwwfriendsofbaucau.blogspot.com/

Website: Forty Five Downstairs - Bare Witness 2

Date: Fri 17 Sep, 3:00pm

Panel discussion with Ahmed Luqman and Jerry Campbell - participants of the Freedom Flotilla which was attacked by Israel and resulted in the murder of 9 activists. Friday 17 September 3pm Trades Hall, cnr Lygon and Victoria Streets, City

Date: Fri 17 Sep, 5:30pm

DEMONSTRATION Friday 17 September 5:30pm State Library, corner of Latrobe and Swanston Streets, City (opposite RMIT)

Date: Sat 18 Sep, 12:00am

Jack Charles, Lady Lash and Lee Morgan MC'd by Kamahi Djordon King 8:00pm - 11:00pm Northcote Town Hall 189 High St Northcote, Australia Songlines Aboriginal Music This intimate evening will feature 3 talented Aboriginal singers from very diverse musical and professional backgrounds. In their contrasting careers, they have reached Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal audiences alike. This line up of artists will span generations, states and histories representing a large cross section of Aboriginal people. ...Koorie Stories and Song is a unique opportunity to promote understanding between Indigenous and non Indigenous peoples through the medium of music. The 3 artists will share the stage performing their music accompanied by facilitated discussion on how their Aboriginal Identity influences their art. This will allow these artists to display the living culture which is South Eastern Indigenous music. MC'd by visual artist and performer in his own right, Kamahi Djordon King, the evening promises to be a frank and entertaining exploration into the minds and hearts of renowned Koorie performers. Alongside questions posed by the evening's MC, there will be an opportunity for the audience to ask questions. Koorie Stories and Song promises to be an entertaining and enlightening evening and one more step in the journey of Healing and Reconciliation. The event is supported by Songlines and the City of Darebin. Songlines: Healing the Land and her Peoples through the Harmony of music, dance and song.

Website: Darebin City Council - Darebin Music Feast

Date: Wed 22 Sep, 7:00pm

A Socialist Ideas Seminar. Wednesday, September 22 7pm Cheap meal from 6:30pm. Resistance Centre 5th Floor 407 Swanston Street, City The media are always screaming about the latest criminal outrage and calling for harsher penalties for offenders. Elections are more and more 'law and order' auctions. Speaker: Chris Peterson Socialist Ideas Seminars take up key questions facing the socialist movement. They are held on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month.

Phone: 9639 8622

Website: Socialist Alliance

Date: Sun 26 Sep, 12:00am

1pm-6pm Evelyn HOtel, 351 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy A diverse and talented mix of local performers will be raising money for Pakistan flood relief victims.

Email: info@riserefugee.org

Website: Rise Refugee

Date: Tue 28 Sep, 6:30pm

On Australia Day 2008 respected Aboriginal elder, Mr Ward, died in the back of a prison transport van. Temperatures outside were in the 40s. Air-conditioning in the van failed. By the end of the 4 hour journey Mr Ward was suffering from third degree burns and could not be revived. Indigenous Social Justice Association - Melbourne urges people to attend a public meeting it is hosting on Tues. 28 Sept. @ 6.30pm at Solidarity Salon, 580 Sydney Rd., Brunswick. Family members from Geelong and Bruce Campbell, a visiting Perth-based Deaths in Custody Watch Committee member and Ward Campaign for Justice activist will be speaking. For more info call 03)9388 0062 or e-mail alison.thorne@ozemail.com.au