Green Left Weekly Activist Calendar - 2015-04-08

Green Left Weekly Activist Calendar April 8, 2015 Rally: Stop the forced closures of Aboriginal communities Friday, April 10, 4pm. A callout to hit the streets and voice your outrage at fascist Colin Barnett and the imposter governments forced closures of First Nations communities in Western Australia. National protests are being run around the country against this ongoing, slow motion genocide of our people. Flinders Street Station, City. Book launch: A Short History of Social Democracy Tuesday, April 21, 6:30pm. John Rainford's book examines social democratic attempts to civilise capitalism: from its origins in the socialist movement,  to its high point in the post World War 2 boom, and its surrender to neoliberalism in the 1980s and beyond. Speakers: John Rainford (former union official & director of Radical Wollongong) & Sue Bolton (Socialist Alliance councillor for Moreland). 6:30pm. Entry by donation. Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth st, City (opposite Victoria Markets). For more info ph 9639 8622. This is the regular Melbourne activist calendar compiled by Green Left Weekly. Emailed to subscribers each Wednesday fortnight, it is a one-stop listing of the main left and progressive events in Melbourne and Geelong. Since it began in early 1991, Green Left Weekly has offered an indispensable alternative to the lies of the big-business media and has helped build the various movements for social change. To subscribe toGreen Left Weekly, visit our secure online website for rates and payment or call our national hotline on 1800 634 206. You can also contact us at the Resistance Centre, 5th floor, 407 Swanston St, City; ph 9639 8622. In Geelong we are at the Activist Centre, Trades Hall, 127 Myers St (opening hours: Mon 2-4:30pm, Fri 10am-4:30pm); ph 5222 6900. New email address? Not already receiving this calendar regularly? Want to subscribe someone else? Let us know at Greenleft Melbourne. Wednesday, April 8 Rally: 6 hours for 6 years. Demand freedom and permanent protection for indefinitely detained ASIO refugees. The Department of Immigration has kept these refugees locked up indefinitely on the basis of ASIO's secret assessments. In recent months, many have at last received security clearance, but they are now denied permanent protection and family reunion due to new migration laws. Speakers: David Manne (RILC), Trevor Grant (Tamil Refugee Council), Olivia Ball (Remedy Australia), Elizabeth O'Shea (social justice lawyer), Van Badham (social commentator), Jasmine Pillbrow (Walking for Freedom), Daniella Olea (long term detention centre visitor). 12-6pm. Immigration Department, cnr Spring & Lonsdale Sts, City. Speeches will start at 12.30pm and the day will end with a candlelit vigil from 5pm. Thursday, April 9 - Saturday, May 2 Exhibition: Ancient cultures, new futures. A photographic exhibition for Sri Lankan reconciliation. Photographs by Stephen Champion, Dominic Sansoni, Sivathas Sivasubramanium & Paul James. Mon-Fri 11am-5pm; Sat 11am-3pm. Opening night: Thursday, April 9, 6:30pm. RSVP Global reconcilliation. Walker St Gallery One, Dandenong. Facebook event Thursday, April 9 Gathering: Families, Friends, and Feminists Against Detention. This is our first public event, a group discussion about different concerning aspects of detention and then collectively decide on how we will enact solidarity around these on the day.10.30am. Coles Fountain, Parliament Gardens. Friday, April 10 Rally: Stop the forced closures of Aboriginal communities. A callout to hit the streets and voice your outrage at fascist Colin Barnett and the imposter governments forced closures of First Nations communities in Western Australia. National protests are being run around the country against this ongoing, slow motion genocide of our people. 4pm. Flinders Street Station. [Note change of venue and time.] Saturday, April 11 Rally: Stop the super trawler. Don't let this super trawler decimate out fishstocks and kill our marine wildlife. Hundreds of protected seals, dolphins and sea birds will be killed by this factory of death ship along with 16,556 tonnes of fish. 11am. Southern Beach reserve, St Kilda. Organised by the Victoria Marine Animal Defenders Conservation Society & the Trawler Alliance. Rally: Hands Off Venezuela! On the 13th anniversary of the defeated military coup against Hugo Chavez, join the community gatherings in solidarity with Venezuela to demand No more coups! End foreign intervention! Respect Venezuela’s revolution! Peace in Latin America! 12pm. State Library, cnr Swanston & La Trobe Sts, City. For more info ph Daniela Segovia (02) 6290 2967. Protest: Rally for kidnapped Hazaras in Afghanistan. Dozens of Hazaras have been kidnapped recently in Afghanistan. The government has been mysteriously silent on this issue and Afghan military has not taken any action. Demand that the Afghan government takes serious  action to free all the hostages alive. We also request UN and human rights organisations to take serious actions in this regard. 2pm. Federation Square, Swanston St, City. Comedy: Political Asylum late night riot. Melbourne International Comedy Festival gets invaded by outrage (and outrageousness) as Political Asylum returns once more! Featuring a fantastic line-up of smart and acerbic stand-up comics, this is the night for Abbott denialism, Labor lamentations and Palmer Party prophesising, all wrapped up in a flaming bundle of hilarity. 11pm. Town Hall, Supper Room, cnr Swanston & Collins Sts, City. $25/$20. To book visit Late night riot. Monday, April 13 Public meeting: Stopping deportations & the fight for refugee rights. The Abbott government is stepping up efforts to deport refugees to danger. Last year it forcibly deported asylum seekers back to Afghanistan for the first time. In December a deportation from Sydney was successfully prevented when the asylum seeker on board, in conjunction with passengers who stood up, demanded the deportee be removed from the plane This forum will hear about recent protests as well as past anti-deportation action, and will discuss their role in the broader refugee rights campaign. 6:30pm. ANMF Building, 540 Elizabeth St, City. Organised by Refugee Action Collective. Tuesday, April 14 Forum: Syria: Background to war; working for peace.  Speaker: Susan Dirgham (National Coordinator of Australians for Mussalaha (Reconciliation) in Syria). 6:45pm (for 7pm start). $5.To confirm your place on the night please call 9662 3744 or email NIBS. New International Bookshop, Downstairs, Trades Hall, cnr Victoria & Lygon Sts, Carlton South. Wednesday, April 15 - Saturday, May 2 Theatre: Beautiful One Day. A theatrical documentary about the irrepressible life and times of Palm Island; now touring Victoria. On Palm Island, 2004, an Aboriginal man dies in police custody. Members of the Palm Island community make a direct challenge to police power and the police station is torched. Eleven years later, the people of Palm Island continue to demand real justice, and all the while life continues. For metropolitan and country dates, venues and bookings see IlbijerriTheatre Company. Friday, April 17 Forum: The Kurdish freedom struggle today.  Discussion of the radical changes happening in the Kurds' long struggle against oppression in four countries. Speakers: Rob Pascoe (Professor of History VU), Seval Ulus (VU student, Kurdish Association), Rob Stary (civil liberties lawyer). 12 noon. Room E319, Victoria University, Footscray Park campus. Organised by Australians for Kurdistan. Saturday, April 18 Public meeting: Lex Wotton. A panel featuring veteran Palm Island leader Lex Wotton will discuss Indigenous liberation, leadership and what it will take to put an end to deaths in custody. The panel discussion will be followed by a social and reception for Lex. Start time TBA. Town Hall, 233 Sydney Rd, Brunswick. Organised by Indigenous Social Justice Association. Ayotzinapa Resiste: Lunch in solidarity with missing Mexican students. Six months ago, 43 students from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, were kidnapped by state forces and six more were killed. Six months later, the state insists in closing the case. Six months later we must keep demanding justice. Come along and support this event in solidarity with the missing Ayotzinapa students, their classmates and courageous families. Entry $10/$5; lunch $15 ($10 for children). Plus aguas frescas, beer, tea & coffee. MUA hall, 46 Ireland St, West Melbourne (near North Melbourne train station). For info ph Lulu on 0421 957 341 or Francisco 0432 565 470. Sunday, April 19 Rally: Legalise medical cannabis. Come and join us at our next event, as we celebrate 4:20 with speeches, music, comedy, prize drawers and freebies, and help weak and ill children and people everywhere access medical cannabis. 3pm. Treasury Gardens, 2-18 Spring St, East Melbourne. Monday, April 20 Public meeting: What is the future of Anzac Day? A century on from WW1, Anzac Day marches and pilgrimages to Gallipoli are attracting record crowds.  But it hasn't always been that way.  Will today's patriotic fervour continue to grow? Panellists: Michael Brissenden (ABC journalist ); James Brown (defence analyst); Carolyn Holbrook (historian); Celeste Liddle (trade unionist & Indigenous activist). 6pm (doors open 5.30pm). Deakin Edge, Federation Square, City. Free event but bookings essential. To book email Conversations or call 9658 9965 during business hours. Tuesday, April 21 Book launch: A Short History of Social Democracy. This new title from Resistance Books examines the social democratic attempt to civilise capitalism: from its origins in the socialist movement,  to its high point in the post World War II boom, to its surrender to neoliberalism in the 1980s and beyond. Speakers: John Rainford (former union official & director of Radical Wollongong); Sue Bolton (Socialist Alliance councillor for Moreland). 6:30pm. Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth St, City (opposite Victoria Markets). For more info ph 9639 8622. Presented by Green Left Weekly and Socialist Alliance. Wednesday, April 22 National day of action: It's time to divest! Join us as we deliver a massive petition signed by students, staff and members of the community and a second petition from alumni calling on the University of Melbourne to divest from fossil fuels. 12pm. South Lawn, Melbourne University. Thursday, April 23 Public meeting: War and peace in Moreland. Along with other parts of Australia, Moreland sent men to fight in the Great War. Some 700 would not return. The argument over the war was particularly strong in Moreland, with Frank Anstey, Frank Hyett and John Curtin leading the opposition to conscription. Stuart Macintyre, a professor of history at the University of Melbourne, will relate the wartime experience and its affects. 7:45pm. Brunswick Library, cnr Dawson St & Sydney Rd, Brunswick (enter via Dawson St). Friday, April 24 Vigil: Rana Plaza anniversary. Mourn the dead, fight for the living. Vigil for the workers who were killed in the name of greed in Bangladesh's Rana Plaza disaster. 4:30pm.  8 Hour Monument, cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton South. Organised by Australia Bangladesh Solidarity Network. Sunday, April 26 These Machines Cut Razor Wire 2015. Fifth annual music fundraiser for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre  Performers: Jeff Lang, Kavisha Mazzella, Les Thomas Band, Little Foot duo and more. 6pm. Ding Dong Lounge, 18 Market Lane, City. Tuesday, April 28 May Day film night. 7pm. Democritus Workers League, 583 High St, Northcote. Wednesday, April 29 Film screening: Frackman. 6:30pm. $20. Bookings here. Jam Factory, 500 Chapel St, South Yarra. Promoted by Coal and Gas Free Communities. Thursday, April 30 May day wreath laying. 5pm. 8 hour monument, cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton South. May day Multicultural event. 5pm. Trades Hall Old Ballroom, cnr Lygon & Victoria sts, Carlton South. Book launch:  Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet. The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that the public is now convinced that 'growth' is the natural solution to virtually all social problems — poverty, debt, unemployment, and even the environmental degradation caused by growth in the first place. Warnings from scientists that we live on a finite planet have been ignored or even scorned as bogus predictions of doom and systematically resisted by economists and the corporate sector. Author Kerryn Higgs will discuss these and other themes and their importance for left politics in the 21st century. 6:45pm. New International Bookshop,  54 Victoria St, Carlton South. Friday, May 1 Book launch: Robbed of Every Blessing. John Tully's new novel is a dark tale set in Ireland and Van Diemen’s Land in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars; The title is taken from a traditional song about transportation to the Tasmanian penal colony. Speaker: Bronwyn Cran (Dean of the College of Arts, Victoria University). 6pm for 6:30pm start. Readings Bookshop, Lygon St, Carlton. Concert: I’ll Be There! Songs and stories of solidarity. The Victorian Trade Union Choir’s hit show, I’ll Be There!, brings to life inspiring moments of the trade union, labour and social justice movements. 7:30pm. Footscray Community Arts Centre, 45 Moreland St, Footscray. Booking I'll be there. Sunday, May 3 Join with Socialist Alliance at a May Day toast.  Breakfast from 10am; speeches 11am. Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City (opposite RMIT). For more info ph 9639 8622. Rally: May Day march. 1pm. Trades Hall, cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton South. Friday, April 10 TORQUAY Film screening: Isolated. When five surfers travel to West Papua in search of untouched waves, they discovered a lot more than just surf. The movie Isolated is the story that had to be told, of genocide and exploitation. Introduction from West Papuan Ronny Kareni, performances by The Black Orchard Stringband and Q & A from Greens Senator Richard Di Natale. 6:30pm. Beer & Mexican food available. The Usual Suspects Coffee Co,  4 Baines Crescent, Torquay. Monday, April 13 GEELONG Film screening: Frackman. 6:30pm. $20. Bookings here. Village Cinemas, 194-200 Ryrie St, Geelong. Promoted by Coal and Gas Free Communities.   Thursday, April 16 GEELONG Film screening: India's Daughter.  Leslee Udwin's documentary is based on the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman student. The film includes a confrontiong interview with one of the rapists. The government banned the film in India and the attempted to block it on YouTube. 6:30pm. Percy Baxter Theatre, Deakin Waterfront Campus. 6.30pm. Presented by Deakin Young Socialist Alliance & the Deakin Anthropology Department . For more info  ph 5222 6900. Friday, April 17 GEELONG Red Cinema: This Land Belongs to the Army. Highlights the post-civil war landscape in Sri Lanka, the government's policy of Sinhalisation and land grabbing through a brutal army of occupation. 7pm (dinner from 6:30pm). Downstairs, Trades Hall, 127 Myers St, Geelong. Entry by donation. Presented by Socialist Alliance. For more info  ph 5222 6900. Sunday, April 19 ANGLESEA Book launch: 'The Coal Face' by Tom Doig. The February-March 2014 Hazelwood mine fire was one of the worst industrial pollution events in Victoria's history. It may turn out to be one of the worst public health crises the state has ever seen. Speakers: Tom Doig & Wendy Farmer (President of the Latrobe Valley community group Voices of the Valley). 2:30pm. Community Hall, 5 McMillan St, Anglesea. Organised by Surf Coast Air Action. Wednesday, April 22 MORWELL Film screening: Frackman. 6:30pm. $20. Bookings here. Village Cinemas,  Mid Valley Shopping Centre, Princes Drive, Morwell. Promoted by Coal and Gas Free Communities. Wednesday, April 29 BALLARAT Film screening: Frackman. 7pm. $20. Bookings here. Regent Cinemas, 49 Lydiard St North, Ballarat. Promoted by Coal and Gas Free Communities. WARRNAMBOOL Film screening: Frackman. 6:30pm. $20. Bookings here. Capitol Cinema, 54 Kepler St, Warrnambool. Promoted by Coal and Gas Free Communities.  Australia Kurdistan Solidarity. Meets regularly to build solidarity with the Kurdish freedom struggle in Rojava (liberated zone in northern Syria), Turkey and elsewhere. For campaign and open letter to have the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) removed from the Australian list of terrorist organisations see Lift the ban on the PKK. For information ph Gulay 0412 926 706 or Aran 0410 197 814. Australian West Papua Association (AWPA). Struggles against the Indonesian occupation of West Papua and against environmental destruction and resource theft. For info 9510 2193 or email AWPA. Climate Action Moreland. Meets regularly to develop action on climate change in the Moreland area. For information ph Andrea on 0424 508 535 or email CAM. Friends of the Earth's Anti-Nuclear & Clean Energy (ACE) collective. Meets every second Tuesday. FoE office, 312 Smith St, Collingwood. For meeting times & more info email Zin. Indigenous Social Justice Association. The Indigenous Social Justice Association was established in January 2005 campaigns to permanently stop Aboriginal deaths in custody. During 2013, ISJA will meet the first Thursday of every month. For more info visit ISJA. Quit Coal: No New Coal Power for Victoria. A Melbourne-based collective which campaigns against expansion of the coal industry in Victoria. We believe this is important because building new coal infrastructure locks in decades of dirty, old technology, when we should be moving towards clean, renewable energy. Quit Coal meets each Wednesday at 6pm, at FOE, 312 Smith St, Collingwood. For more info visit Quit Coal or email us. Refugee Action Collective. Established in 2000, RAC is a democratic, grassroots activist collective, representing a broad cross section of the community. It aims to mobilise opposition to Australia's inhuman refugee policies. For more info ph 0413 377 978 or visit RAC. Timor Sea Justice Campaign. For info visit TSJC, email Tom Clarke or ph 0422 545 763. Victorian Climate Action Calendar. Online updates are available at http://vcac.org.au/calendar/. Recent articles from Green Left Weekly Counter-rallies challenge 'Reclaim Australia' Thousands rally for refugees on Palm Sunday Campaign launched to de-list the PKK Weekend penalty rates under threat thanks to South Australian deal Check out Green Left TV: See There is no price on culture To subscribe to Green Left Weekly visit our secure online website for rates and payment or call our national hotline on 1800 634 206. Join us on Facebook. You can also contact us at the Resistance Centre, 5th floor, 407 Swanston St, City; ph 9639 8622. In Geelong: Activist Centre, Trades Hall, 127 Myers St (opening hours: Mon 2-4.30pm, Fri 10am-4.30pm); ph 5222 6900. Links: 'Socialism for the 21st century' Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal is a journal for the post-Cold War left; a journal that rejects the Stalinist distortion of the socialist project; a journal that takes into account ecological questions; a journal that is taking steps to bring together the forces for socialism in the world today; a journal that aspires to unite Marxists from different political traditions because it discusses openly and constructively. Links seeks to promote the international exchange of information, experiences of struggle, theoretical analysis and views on strategies and tactics within the international left. Kurdistan: Political and cultural revolution unfolds in Rojava Ireland: Sinn Féin fights welfare attacks in north, power sharing threatened South Africa: United Front condemns COSATU's expulsion of Zwelinzima Vavi Greece: Radical Eric Toussaint to audit Greek debt Socialist Alliance: Broad, non-sectarian, activist Socialist Alliance is a proud supporter of the Green Left Weekly project and contributes a regular column. Socialist Alliance is a broad, non-sectarian socialist party, dedicated to bringing together all those who want to resist the capitalist assault on our planet and its people and fight for a socialist society that puts people's needs before business profits. Anyone who agrees with the general approach of our policies is welcome to join and organisations are invited to affiliate. For more information visit Socialist Alliance or join us on Facebook. See our recent statements: Socialist Alliance welcomes cancellation of Sydney CSG License State governments share blame for (not) closing the gap Paris massacre: Abbott's response 'no solution to cycle of violence Contact Socialist Alliance. Join with other socialists in the struggle. Melbourne: Visit us at the Resistance Centre, 5th floor, 407 Swanston St, City; ph 9639 8622. In Melbourne, Socialist Alliance meets on the first Tuesday of each month, 6:30pm, at the Resistance Centre. Geelong: Activist Centre, Trades Hall, 127 Myers St (opening hours: Mon 2-4:30pm, Fri 10am-4:30pm); ph 5222 6900. Moreland Socialists Moreland Socialists is open to anyone (even if you live outside the area) who wants to work constructively to support Socialist Alliance councillor Sue Bolton and use her position to build up a stronger activist left presence in Moreland. In general, we meet monthly and alternate between Coburg and Fawkner. 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Dale Hess's Calendar - 2013-07-22

The Centre for Dialogue (CfD) is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the Muslim Leadership Program. This is the seventh year of the course, coordinated by the CfD in conjunction with the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV). We would be pleased if you could forward this information to your networks so that we may attract the most talented future Muslim leaders; people who are ‘ready to face the challenges of tomorrow’. Full details and the online application form are available at www.latrobe.edu.au/dialogue

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Monday 22 July, 12 noon: 

International Day Against Multinational Corporations. We invite the social and human rights organizations and all those affected by the policies of the transnational corporations, to join the International Day to be held in different countries on July 20th & 22nd, as an expression of protest against exploitation, poverty, hunger, war, so that we do not become the ones who pay for the economic crisis and environment devastation”. Bring your flags,demands and ideas, open mic. Meet at Monsanto Office, 600 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne. More Info: Call 0425 539 149 or 0414 970 418. 

Write to: lasnet@latinlasnet.org. 

Website:http://www.latinamericansolidaritynetwork.org

Monday 22 July, 6.30 pm: 

Denouncing Meeting. We will have a denouncing meeting on Monday July 22 (the international day) at Trades Hall in Carlton. More Info: Call 0425 539 149 or 0414 970 418. 

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Website: http://www.latinamericansolidaritynetwork.org

Wednesday 24 July, 7 pm – 8.30 pm: 

Women in Afghanistan. Nuclear physicist and human rights activist Dr Nouria Salehi will talk about projects for women in Afghanistan. 

Venue: St Kilda Sports Club, 66 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda. 

RSVP: email: innersouthamnesty@hotmail.com by 17th July. 

Cost:entry by gold coin donation.

Thursday 25 July, 6.30 pm: 

Public Meeting: US Militarisation of the Pacific. MAPW with the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network is organising this meeting with visiting activists Victoria-Lola Leon Guerrero from Guam, and Bruce Gagnon, US campaigner against the militarisation of space. Victoria-Lola Leon Guerrero will speak about the US military build-up in Guam, and Bruce Gagnon will discuss Pacific implications of changing US strategy and the "pivot" to Asia and the Pacific. Venue: Meeting Room 1, Trades Hall, corner of Victoria and Lygon Streets, Carlton.

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Thursday 25 July, 7 pm: 

Film screening: Frontrunner. Bayside Group of Amnesty International film night with coffee and dessert. The film is Frontrunner, which is a documentary on Afghanistan’s first democratic election. Venue: All Souls Church Hall, 48 Bay Road, Sandringham (Mel Ref 76 G10). RSVP by 22 July to Tom Rehn Tel: 9521 9086; Email: rad4@bigpond.com.  

Friday 26 July & Saturday 27 July: 

Celebrate Australian Indigenous Culture and Literature at the 2013 Past Matters Festival. Join a stellar line up of Australian writers, historians, filmmakers, scholars and thinkers as they delve into Australia’s Indigenous past and spotlight its present.

 For a detailed program:http://home.vicnet.net.au/~nrgp/index_files/events.html  orhttp://www.montsalvat.com.au/WhatsOn/FESTIVALthePastMatters.aspx

Tuesday 30 July, 8 pm: 

Asylum Seekers – Fact v. Retoric! Genuine facts and figures from 
Prof. Andrew Markus, Monash University and
Faris Mallouhi, La Trobe University. 
ALL WELCOME! 
Venue: High Street Road Uniting Church. Enquiries: Jim 0400 789 543 or Dennis 0488 198 461
Sponsored by the Uniting Churches in Chadstone & Mount Waverley.

Tuesday 6 August, 7.30am - 8.30am 

Hiroshima Day! Every year MAPW, along with other peace organisations, holds a vigil to mark the dropping of an atomic weapon on Hiroshima at 8.15 am on 6 August 1945 and to remember those killed in the attack.
Venue: Steps of St Pauls Cathedral,Swanston St., Melbourne.

Wednesday 7 August, 7:30 pm. 

What now for asylum seekers?

Caz Coleman will review efforts by church and community groups to improve outcomes for refugees and asylum seekers in Australia, while recognising the difficult political constraints. 

Misha Coleman will speak on how local church and community groups can help shape humane policies, including by questioning candidates for the forthcoming federal government elections, and helping to bust the myths perpetrated in this debate, within congregations and with parishioners. She will identify successes so far and challenges everyone can help overcome. 

At the Study Centre, Yarra Theological Union, 34 Bedford Street, Box Hill (best entry via 34 Bedford Street). Tea/coffee and snacks provided afterwards. Your donations welcome.
For the flyer for this event, click HERE.

Thursday 8 August, 7 pm: 

Public Forum: Truth-Telling: Criminalised by Our Government & Suppressed by our Media. 

Hear Julian Assange via live video link from London. Speaking together with a candidate for the WikiLeaks Party (TBA) and Bill Deller, host of 3CR Radio’s Solidarity Breakfast Show. Fitzroy Town Hall, 201 Napier Street, Fitzroy. Entry: $10 conc / $20 full. SPECIAL $5 entry for 3CR subscribers http://www.3cr.org.au/subscribe. All proceeds go to 3CR Radio. Presented by WikiLeaks http://waca.net.au/ & 3CR Radio’s Solidarity Breakfast Show http://www.3cr.org.au/. For more info contact Bill Deller: 

Phone: 0429 792 274

Email: billdeller49@gmail.com

 Saturday 10 August, 3 pm – 5 pm: 

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Concert. 

This year Japanese for Peace will be holding their Peace Concert at Deakin Edge, Federation Square. It will feature Tim Costello, Hiroshima Junior Marimba Ensemble,Australian Percussion Academy, Jenny Biddle, Bart Willoughby, Orchestra 21, and Wadaiko Rindo. 

Bookings at Trybookings or at the door. Tickets: $20 (full), $15 (conc.). Website: www.jfp.org.au ...

10 August, 12 October, 10 & 11 November: 

Community Development. 

A 4-day short course from one of the world's leading community development practitioners. Working with Dr Jacques Boulet, students will explore concepts, strategies and practices associated with community development. This course looks at ways to empower community not just for survival but with the aim that they will thrive in a way that is sustainable and life enhancing. 

For more info & to register, click here. Venue: Oases Graduate School, Community Learning and Research Centre, 2 Minona Street, Hawthorn.

11 August, 8 & 9 September, 13 October:

Sustainable Relationships in a Technological Age. A 4-day short course at the heart of what it means to live well. How are your relationships with others and the rest of the living world being affected by this age of extraordinary technological progress? Under the guidance of one of Australia’s leading experts in social development, Dr Jacques Boulet, you will reflect on the last 600 years of human history and understand how to create better relationships and communities. For more info & to register, click here. Venue: Oases Graduate School, Community Learning and Research Centre, 2 Minona Street, Hawthorn.

Sunday 18 August to Wednesday 21 August: 

JCMA’s 10^th Winter Conference: Sorry is the Hardest Word: Forgiveness and Repentance. JCMA conferences are intended for anyone from one of the three Abrahamic faiths. Participants include men and women, academics, those working in support or welfare roles, tertiary students, and members and leaders of faith communities. 

Sunday TasterOpportunity:1 pm - 9.45 pm. Cost: $55. 

Sunday, the first day of the conference, will provide an overview of the main themes. People who are unable to attend for the whole conference welcome to come to this Sunday Taster.

Applications closing date: Friday 19 July 2013. 

Conference Centre, Pallotti College, Millgrove Melways 289 A2. 

An application form for registration is available www.trybooking.com/CFGA.

  

Friday 23 August – Sunday 25 August: 

Pax Christi Australia National conference:

Peacemaking, an Alternative Narrative! 

Venue: Edmund Rice Centre, Homebush, Sydney. 

More details soon.

Tuesday 17 September, 7 pm refreshments, 7.30 pm start: 

International Day of Peace Community Program. 

To celebrate what is commonly known as 'Peace Day' around the world, the Boroondara Interfaith Network, in partnership with Burwood and District Inter-Church Council, invites you to a forum bringing together people of all faith backgrounds to discuss how we bring peace in today's society. The forum panellists are established and well known in their communities including a Director of the Islamic Museum. School Principal, Victoria police inspector, Multicultural Program coordinator at Wesley Mission and a University Law/Arts student who recently played Fraanz in ‘The Producers’.

 Venue: Church of Christ Hartwell, 246 Highfield Road (close to Toorak Road) Camberwell, (75Tram. Burwood station, MEL 60E5). 

This event is free, however bookings are essential. 

Phone 9278 4753 or register online: www.eventbrite/idp.com.au

Thursday 19 September (time & location TBA): 

Satish Kumar to visit OASES & present a talk in the evening. 

A former monk and long-term peace and environment activist, Satish Kumar has been quietly setting the Global Agenda for change for over 50 years. He was just nine when he left his family home to join the wandering Jains and 18 when he decided he could achieve more back in the world. Satish is Editor of Resurgence Magazine & a Visiting Fellow at the Schumacher College, a close affiliate of the OASES Graduate School. We hope you can join us for an evening with this warm, creative and highly respected man.

  

Saturday 12 October: 

March Against Monsanto. 

Please organise or join the next March Against Monsanto in your town. The movement for GM-free is now grass roots and global! Find the cities already participating at: http://bit.ly/ZTDsk8.

  

Saturday & Sunday 19 & 20 October, 16 & 17 November:  

Creating Connections & Opening Up Creativity. 

A 4-day short course learning deeply about our inherent creativity. An aesthetic experience can spark an enlightening moment where things become clearer and make more sense. This course will guide participants to create your own bridges towards clarity. For more info & to register, click here. Venue: Oases Graduate School, Community Learning and Research Centre, 2 Minona Street, Hawthorn.