GLW Calendar, 2012-07

Date: Sun 22 Jul, 5:30pm

Bimblebox. Cairns and Far North Environment Centre movie: documentary on proposed China First coal mine in Bimblebox Nature Reserve. Sun 22 July, 5.30pm, Urchins Room 2 and 3, Reef Casino. $10/$8 to raise funds for campaign. Supported by Politics in the Pub.

Date: Mon 2 Jul, 5:30pm - Mon 2 Jul, 7:00pm

Featuring a presentation by Mehdi, a refugee with a Bridging Visa who spent 10 months in detention on Christmas Island and six months in the Northern Immigration Detention Centre. Melalueca, Rapid Creek Business Centre, Trower Rd, Rapid Creek

Phone: Peter: 0429 694 083

Email: dassan2011@gmail.com

Website: dassan.weebly.com

Date: Thu 12 Jul, 4:00pm - Thu 12 Jul, 6:00pm

Nuclear Waste Through Our Ports? MUA says No Way! Rally at Stokes Hill Wharf Organised by the Maritime Union of Australia

Email: muant@mua.org.au

Website: MUA

Date: Tue 17 Jul, 5:30pm - Tue 17 Jul, 7:30pm

A presentation by Humphrey McQueen 5:30pm, Tuesday July 17 Railway Club, Parap Food and drink available Entry by donation to Union Aid Abroad APHEDA NT

Email: teryn.crick@cpsu.org.au

Date: Sun 1 Jul, 12:00pm

It is time for the Australian people to take to the streets and ensure Julian Assange does not end up in the hands of the US government! Let's tell our government it is time to protect our own citizens. Julian Assange recently lost his appeal to the UK Supreme Court, which now means he will be extradited to Sweden for questioning. From Sweden he can be more easily extradited to the USA under a temporary surrender regime that is included in the US-Swedish bilateral agreement. This dangerous EAW extradition to Sweden has been upheld despite Julian not being charged with any crime in any country. The United Kingdom government could intervene to stop this extradition being carried out, as they did in the case of the war criminal Pinochet. The Australian government could apply much more pressure to bring Julian Assange home and yet they have been belligerently silent on the fate of an Australian citizen and award-winning journalist. RAP NEWSand other acts will perform live in support of Assange as well as a great list of speakers. 12 noon. Assemble State Library, 328 Swanston St, City; then march to City Square.

Date: Mon 2 Jul, 6:30pm

Monday, July 2 At this critical time for South Australian energy policy, Beyond Zero Emissions has released the long-awaited Repowering Port Augusta report. This report presents the compelling economic and environmental case for why Port Augusta's ageing coal-fired power stations should be replaced with concentrating solar thermal power. 6:30pm. Fritz Loewe Theatre (entry via level 2), McCoy Building, University of Melbourne, cnr Elgin & Swanston Sts, Carlton. Entry by gold coin donation.

Website: BZE

Date: Tue 3 Jul, 6:00pm

Tuesday, July 3 In a few places around the globe, individuals are beginning to change their mindset of how we see and use 'disposable' plastics, especially single-use plastics such as grocery bags, water bottles, and coffee lids. Preview at http://www.plasticizedthemovie.com Meet the film-maker after the screening. 6pm. Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane, City. Entry by donation. All proceeds go towards environmental and social justice groups and campaigns. Ross House presents The Big Picture, films for environmental and social justice on the first Thursday of the month.

Phone: 9650 1599

Website: The Big Picture

Date: Wed 4 Jul, 11:00am

Wednesday, July 4 The new state government construction code, to apply from July 1, is all about attacking unions. It forces companies to prove they are following Liberal Party anti-union policies like: Rewriting EBAs to promote labour hire and 'all-in' sham contracting; restricting entry of union officials to sites; removing union logos from work-issue clothing; limiting the freedom of union reps, and much more. Failure to comply on all sites will see builders thrown off the government tender list. The Libs will spend $7 million enforcing the code, including a hefty salary for ex-ABCC commissioner Nigel Hadgkiss. The code does nothing to improve safety, employ more apprentices or support local manufacturing jobs. The state government needs to focus on saving Victorian jobs and getting new construction projects going, not another anti-union drive. 11am. Meet at Trades Hall.

Website: Rally against Bailleu's anti-worker construction code

Date: Wed 4 Jul, 5:30pm

Water resources are under increasing pressure, due to world's growing population and economy, mainly in terms of increased food consumption. One measure to cope with limited water availability and growing demand in a country is to import grains and hence water. By importing grains countries become dependent on other countries and on world market prices. Because of its heavy dependence on the world grain market, importing countries are vulnerable to rising global food prices and export bans. Affluent countries like Saudi Arabia, South Korea, China and India have therefore descended on fertile plains across Africa, acquiring huge areas of land to produce food for consumption back home. As agriculture is by far the largest user of water, the increased food trade has a huge impact on the regional demand for water. Insight into the value of water (i.e. productivity of water) is important when making decisions about the reallocation of water among regions, sectors, and generations. Speaker: Professor Petra Hellegers. 5:30pm. Theatre B, Room 129 (ground floor), Old Arts (Blg 149), University of Melbourne, Parkville.

Date: Wed 4 Jul, 6:00pm

6:00pm. Warehouse, Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall.

Phone: Lisa Parris 9329 9097

Date: Wed 4 Jul, 6:30pm

This meeting is for people who are either TAFE teachers or students, and any community supporters, who want to talk about how we can organise to resist the cuts that are about to hit the TAFE system. At the moment, we are organising to show our support for the AEU stop work action, and will have a contingent at their stop-work rally. 6:30pm. Trades Hall, 54 Victoria Street, Carlton South.

Date: Fri 6 Jul, 10:00am

Friday, July 6 The theme for NAIDOC Week 2012 is 'Spirit of the Tent Embassy: 40 years on. They dared to challenge.' This year's theme celebrates the champions who lived to renew the spirit of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in 1972. 10am. Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, 186 Nicholson St, Fitzroy.

Date: Fri 6 Jul, 8:00pm - Fri 6 Jul, 11:00pm

8:00pm. The Royal Melbourne Hotel, 629 Bourke Street, City. Entry $15/$10.

Date: Sun 8 Jul, 5:30pm

Sunday, July 8 On 1 July the carbon tax will envelope the lucky country. Need guidance on how to cope with the impending doom wrought by the 0.8 percent rise in prices? Then head down to the Political Asylum bunker. Special guest host Matt Elsbury will guide you through a night featuring wise and hilarious prophets of doom including: Damian Callinan; Mathew Kenneally; Toby Halligan; Nicholas J Johnson; Mark Thomson; This is Siberian Husky & Rod Quantock. Entry $10/$5. Fairfax journalists: Free (Carbon Tax inclusive). Turn up early if you want a seat! 5:30pm. The Brunswick Green, 313 Sydney Rd, Brunswick.ee

Date: Mon 9 Jul, 7:30pm

Monday, July 9 This forum offers the opportunity to ask questions and raise issues on and around the East/West toll road, tunnels and flyovers as well as gauge each candidate's commitment to the Doncaster rail. 7:30pm. Church of all nations, 180 Palmerston st, Carlton (cnr Drummond st). Organised by Carlton Residents Association, supported by Ycat.

Date: Tue 10 Jul, 6:30pm

Tuesday, July 10 Join us for the MAPW July dinner. Our guest speaker will be Professor Louise Newman, psychiatrist and director of the Centre for Developmental Psychiatry & Psychology, Monash University, who's a strong advocate for refugees and asylum seekers. Her research looks at the link between time in restrictive detention and rates of mental illness. 6.30pm. La Notte restaurant, 140 Lygon St, Carlton. $30 (student members $15). RSVP to MAPW.

Email: secretary@mapw.org.au

Date: Wed 11 Jul, 6:30pm

Wednesday, July 11, 6:30pm. The Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth st, City. Speakers: Julian Burnside (barrister, author, human rights & refugee advocate) & Niromi de Soyza (author of Tamil Tigress); Harvey Stern (president, Labor for Refugees); Declan Murphy (Refugee Action Collective). Organised by Refugee Action Collective.

Date: Sat 14 Jul, 10:00am

Music & art festival. Response to the governments decision to expand Olympic Dam mine. Sleeping underneath the ground there is an old sleepy lizard, Kalta. The lizard ain't so sleepy anymore. BHP is mining right into that lizards body. The government has just approved an expansion of the Olympic Dam uranium mine, making it the biggest uranium mine in the world. Kalta is angry and wants revenge. Arabana elder Kevin Buzzacott is calling the people of the world to help the lizard shut down the mine. He is calling for people to come and heal the land in the name of peace and justice for the next 10,000 generations to come.

Email: izzybrown@live.com

Date: Fri 20 Jul, 6:30pm - Sun 22 Jul, 6:00pm

Friday, July 20-Sunday July 22 University of Adelaide, Union House.

Phone: 0437 714 786

Website: Resistance

Date: Tue 31 Jul, 6:30pm

CORRECTION: Address is Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth st, City International guest speaker: Chon Kai Choo, a leader of the Socialist Party of Malaysia. Tuesday, July 31, 6:30pm (meal from 6pm). The mainstream politicians and media have closed ranks to present offshore processing of asylum seekers as the only 'solution' to the 'problem' of refugees. Any discussion about what life is like in Malaysia for refugees and asylum seekers has vanished from the media. The speaker will present the facts about what life is really like for refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia. Organised by Socialist Alliance & Resistance.

Phone: 9639 8622

Email: peterson_err@hotmail.com

Date: Wed 4 Jul, 6:00pm

Weekly campaign and discussion meeting. Perth Activist Centre, 15/5 Aberdeen St, Perth (next to McIver station).

Phone: Ph 9218 9608, 0413 976 638

Website: Socialist Alliance Perth

Date: Sat 7 Jul, 12:00pm

Festival of activist stalls, leaflets, and speakers to highlight the importance of defending free speech rights in the face of previous Perth City Council harassment of activist events. Forrest Place/Murray Street Mall, Perth city.

Phone: Ph 0413 976 638 or 0416 160 605

Website: Defend Free Speech Perth

Date: Sat 7 Jul, 4:00pm

Film screening which chronicles 50 years of hostile US-Cuba relations by telling the story of the "Cuban Five". Perth Activist Centre, 15/5 Aberdeen St, Perth (next to McIver station). Organised by Australia-Cuba Frienship Society. <iframe width="601" height="338" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/KFra1GuBTzo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Email: acfsperth@gmail.com

Website: Australia-Cuba Friendship Society

Date: Mon 30 Jul, 6:00pm

Tony Kevin was a former Australian Ambassador and author of the prizewinning investigative book A Certain Maritime Incident: The Sinking of the Siev X Defectors Bar, upstairs, Flying Scotsman Hotel, 643 Beaufort St, Mount Lawley.

Website: Reluctant Rescuers

Date: Tue 31 Jul, 6:00pm

Briefing session by Alison Xamon (Greens parliamentarian), George Crisp (Doctors for the Environment) and Lynn MacLaren (Greens Parliamentarian). Fremantle Council reception room, (enter via external rear stairs), High St, Fremantle.

Phone: 9430 7233 or 0428 207 007

Website: Lynn MacLaren

Date: Mon 2 Jul, 6:00pm

Journalist and author Antony Loewenstein has just returned from Afghanistan and Pakistan investigating disaster capitalism since 9/11 for a forthcoming book and documentary. Private security and militias and privatised intelligence is now a major way the West fights its futile wars and yet this remains largely unreported. Antony will be ?showing pictures of his time in Afghanistan and Pakistan. 6pm for 6.30pm. Entry by gold-coin donation. Please consider downloading the meeting flyer to hand out and email around. For more information contact Pip 0412 139 968 or Anne 0404 090 710. Monday, 2 July 2012 6- 8:30pm University of Technology, Sydney Tower Building (Building 2), Level 3 (entry level), Room 17

Phone: 0412 139 968, 0404 090 710

Date: Fri 6 Jul, 1:54pm

Don't let them throw refugee rights overboard anymore! No mandatory detention - no deportations to danger. End ASIOs refugee veto - no indefinite detention. Stop the smuggling hysteria - no crime to seek asylum, no crime to bring the boats. No offshore processing - not Malaysia, not Nauru, not anywhere. 1pm Town Hall Sunday 26 August. Refugee Action Coalition.

Phone: Dianne 0413 003 148 Mark 0422 078 376

Website: http://refugeeaction.org.au/

Date: Sat 7 Jul, 6:00pm

Join us to help launch this new development in radical media! Be part of the studio audience for the live filming of Green Left TV's discussion panel, then relax with dinner, drinks and live music to welcome Green Left TV. Donations welcome to help get Green Left TV on it's feet. Saturday July 7, from 6pm. Art Resistance hut,Addison Road Community Centre, 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville. Web: Youtube.com/user/GreenLeftTV Email: GreenLeftTV@gmail.com Ph: Paul 0410 629 088. Donate at www.greenleft.org.au or free call: 1800 634 206

Phone: 0410 629 088

Email: GreenLeftTV@gmail.com

Website: Youtube.com/user/GreenLeftTV

Date: Sun 15 Jul, 1:00pm

Julian Assange has sought diplomatic sanctuary and political asylum with Ecuador. Why? Because he has finally given up hope that the Australian government will defend himself and WikiLeaks from a relentless US-led campaign of intimidation, including a financial blockade of WikiLeaks, a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and Assange, US State Department claims that Assange is not a journalist and therefore not entitled to First Amendment protections and description of Assange as a terrorist by the US Vice-President. Sunday August 15, 1pm Town Hall.

Phone: Anne on 0404 090 710 or Cassie on 0412 355 899

Website: http://stopwarcoalition.org/rally-for-assange-and-wikileaks

Date: Fri 27 Jul, 6:00pm

With classical performance and discussion with activist musicians. An inspiring documentary about Venezuela’s revolutionary cultural program - this movie explores the story of the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra System and ‘Tocar y Luchar’ program expanded under President Hugo Chavez's revolutionary process. lassical performance by Conservatorium student Rainee Lyleson & discussion on culture & revolution led by progressive theater group Kinetic Energy. $8/$5. Affordable, delicious meal 6pm, start 6:30. Organised by Resistance, Socialist Alliance.

Phone: Patrick 8070 9331