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Thankyou so much for your very interesting newsletter,
glad you're there, keep up the good work,
it can only get bigger and better.
thanks again
Linda Ray

On 3/6/07, info at melbourne.indymedia.org <info at melbourne.indymedia.org>
wrote:
>
> Melbourne Indymedia Newsletter 03/03/07
> http://melbourne.indymedia.org/
> http://oceania.indymedia.org
>
> : : New Features : :
>
> : : Events/Actions : :
>
> : : Next Meeting : :
>
> : : Suggestions/Feedback/Contact/Donate : :
>
> ===================================
>
> : : New Features : :
> All features can be viewed in full at:
> http://melbourne.indymedia.org/
>
> Hicks Determined to Fight Charges
> 05/03/2007
> David Hicks, "an Australian son abandoned by the nation and his
> government has decided to fight the fabricated charges brought against
> him by the criminal Bush regime." reports the Cleaves Editorial team.
> Hicks has rejected a plea bargain. Major Michael Mori has called for
> the Howard Government to challenge the charge of 'providing material
> support of terrorism'. "It's a made-up charge, it has a really
> impressive name, but it never existed in the law of war, in any of the
> US law of war manuals, or in any Australian law of war manual," he said.
> On 26 February Lawyers for David Hicks fronted the Federal Court in
> the ongoing case against the Commonwealth for failing to protect an
> Australian citizen abroad. Justice Brian Tamblin reserved his decision
> citing the complexity of the case.
>
>
> Rushing to a Climate Disaster
> 3/03/2007
> January 2007 was the World's Hottest January Ever Recorded and 2006
> was the fifth hottest year on record, with ice cream imported from
> half a world away while Glaciers and ice sheets melt. In Queensland
> the Land and Resources Tribunal has found that Fossil fuels are not
> linked to global warming in a judgement on a new coal mine developed
> by Xstrata. The Tribunal was also sceptical of the Stern Review and
> the latest report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
> according to an ABC report.
>
>
> Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers Fighting Against Refoulement
> 28/02/2007
> The Howard Government appears intent on Refoulement of 83 Sri Lankan
> Asylum Seekers, after allegations of Secret deals with Indonesia for
> their repatriation. The Asylum Seekers are being detained at "Camp
> Howard" - Australia's very own Guantanamo Bay on Christmas Island.
>
>
> Mining Lobby Censors Parody Website
> 27/02/2007
> A parody website focussing on Mining and its contribution to climate
> change has been forced offline due to legal threats by the NSW
> Minerals Council under Regulation 20J of the Copyright Regulations
> (1969). The Parody website sought to expose the current public
> relations campaign of the NSW Minerals Council over the expansion in
> coal mining and its contribution to Greenhouse gases and climate Change.
>
> ===================================
>
> : : Events/Actions : :
>
> The Melbourne Indymedia events calendar is up and running at:
> http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/calendar/
> Go to the calendar for full details or add your own event.
>
> (1) Sedition Charter vigil lunchtime at ASIC
> Wednesday Mar. 7, 11:30am ? 12.30pm
> Australian Securities & Investment Commisssion 135 Collins Street,
> melbourne
> Event Topic: Civil Liberties
> Event Type: Protest
> Sedition Charter weekly vigil to demonstrate opposition to the
> Australian Government removing rights and liberties citizens have
> enjoyed for generations.
> http://www.seditioncharter.org
> next week Commonwealth Prosecutors Office
>
>
> (2) Green Wolf
> Wednesday Mar. 7, 6:30pm ? 7.30pm
> Carlton Courthouse, 349 Drummond St Carlton
> Event Topic: Social Movements
> Event Type: Theatre
> Set in Germany, a play exploring the relations within a environmental
> activist organisation as tensions rise and politics and actions heat....
>
>
> (3) IWD lunchtime GPO Bourke Street Mall
> Thursday Mar. 8, 12:00pm ? 2.00pm
> Corner Bourke and Elizabeth Streets, Melbourne
> Event Topic: Gender&Sexuality
> Event Type: Protest
> Women Work
> In factories, schools, health care, offices, call centres, retail,
> childcare, aged care, on building sites and at home Women work
> everywhere!
> Join us for a fun and lively rally. Bring flags, placards, wear
> purple, white and green
> Women want
> Safe, secure and permanent work, Equal pay, Predictable working hours,
> Quality part-time work, Quality child care, Rostered days off,
> Overtime payments, Paid maternity leave. And Mr. Howard, we want back
> our lost wages ? 2% since you introduced your IR laws!
> more info: Ellen 0408 339 720
>
>
> (6) The Art of Change
> Thursday Mar. 8, 12:00pm ? 2.00pm
> RMIT City Campus Building 12 Level 5 Room 2 Stair access from Swanston
> Street Lift access from Bowen Street
> Event Topic: Other
> Event Type: Other
> A free public seminar series exploring the role of cultural action and
> the arts in movements for social change.
> Thursday 1 March, 5.30-7.30pm - Graphic Design
> Thursday 8 March, 5.30-7.30pm - Music
> Thursday 15 March, 5.30-7.30pm - Film
> Thursday 22 March, 5.30-7.30pm - Theatre
> Thursday 29 March, 5.30-7.30pm  -New Media
> Further information from the RMIT Community Advocacy Unit -
> http://advocacy.tce.rmit.edu.au
>
>
> (7) 9/11 Documentary Showing - Morwell
> Thursday Mar. 8, 7:00pm ? 8.00pm
> Gippsland Multticultural Services (former Gippsland Migrant Resource
> Centre) 100-102 Buckley Street, Morwell
> Event Topic: Anti-War
> Event Type: Film Screening
> Volume 6 of Coalition for Peace and Justice documentary film showing
> will be held at the Gippsland Multicultural Services in Morwell on
> Thursday 8th of March.
> We will show you a combined documentary of Professor Emeritus Dr.
> David Ray Griffin and Dr. Stephen Jones explaing why the official
> story of September the eleventh is fraud.
> Dr. Jones was forced to resign his post at the Brigham Young
> University as a professor of physics, due to his active roll in
> spreading the truth about that tragic day.
> Both have been very popular among 9/11 Truthers(people who are
> demanding the truth), and have been lecturing in various places. They
> also belong to the Scholars for 9/11 Truth(
> http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/ ) which recently has grown into
> two groups.
> Entry by donation.
> If you wish to learn more about 9/11 Truth, join our mailing list:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Aus911Truth/
>
>
> (8) Women's Web International Women's Day celebration
> Thursday Mar. 8, 7:00pm ? 10.00pm
> The Old Homestead Inn, 170 Queens Parade, Clifton Hill Tram 86, turn
> from Smith St to Queens Parade
> Event Topic: Other
> Event Type: Festival
> CLAIM THE NAME WOMAN -
> JOIN US and celebrate our identity as women; give us a 2 minute talk;
> hear good music; share our information table, find goodies to buy and
> network.
> COST; donation - food, drinks at reasonable prices
>
>
> (9) Green Wolf
> Thursday Mar. 7, Friday Mar. 8, Saturday Mar. 9, 8:00pm ? 9.00pm
> Carlton Courthouse, 349 Drummond St Carlton
> Event Topic: Social Movements
> Event Type: Theatre
> Set in Germany, a play exploring the relations within a environmental
> activist organisation as tensions rise and politics and actions heat....
>
>
> (10) enviro craft @ MMW
> Saturday Mar. 10, 10:00am ? 2.00pm
> alexander gardens
> Event Topic: Ecology
> Event Type: Workshop
> melbourne moomba waterfest special guest Enviro Craft (melb) with
> environmentally sustainable recycling workshops making all things
> magical see full program melb city council web site its not all
> comercial
> All the fun of the (atlernative ) fair
>
>
> (11) John Pilger film festival
> Saturday Mar. 10, 3:00pm ? 8.00pm
> Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City. opp RMIT
> Event Topic: Social Movements
> Event Type: Film Screening
> John Pilger is a world-renowned journalist, author and documentary
> filmmaker, who began his career in 1958 in his homeland, Australia,
> before moving to London in the 1960s. "It is too easy," he says, "for
> Western journalists to see humanity in terms of its usefulness to
> 'our' interests and to follow government agendas that ordain good and
> bad tyrants, worthy and unworthy victims and present 'our' policies as
> always benign when the opposite is usually true. It's the journalist's
> job, first of all, to look in the mirror of his own society."
> He believes a journalist also ought to be a guardian of the public
> memory and often quotes Milan Kundera: "The struggle of people against
> power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." Noam Chomsky
> wrote: "John Pilger's work has been a beacon of light in often dark
> times. The realities he has brought to light have been a revelation,
> over and over again, and his courage and insight a constant
> inspiration."
> Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City. $15/$10 for the
> whole festival or $6/$4 per film. Fundraiser for Green Left Weekly;
> presented by Resistance, socialist youth organisation. Ph 9639 8622 or
> 0439 694 505.
>
>
> (12) enviro craft @ MMW
> Sunday Mar. 11, 12:00pm ? 4.00pm
> alexander gardens
> Event Topic: Ecology
> Event Type: Workshop
> enviro craft australia (melb) doing all things recycled eco logical
> and reuse see melb city council for web site info.
>
>
> (13) Melbourne Moomba Water Festival
> Monday Mar. 12, 12:00pm ? 10.00pm
> on the banks of the yarra
> Event Topic: Ecology
> Event Type: Workshop
> see melb city council web site
> enviro craft australia workshops melbourne group
> http://www.envirocraft.com.au
>
> ===================================
> : : Next Meeting : :
>
> To be advised.
>
> You can always find out when the next Melbourne Indymedia Meeting is
> by emailing the collective. info at elbourne.indymedia.org
>
> ===================================
>
> : : Suggestions/Feedback/Contact/Donations : :
>
> It takes money to run Indymedia. If you are able to make donations of
> functioning equipment or money to keep the site going please do. If
> you have feedback you can contact the Melbourne Indymedia collective.
> FEEDBACK: <http://melbourne.indymedia.org/contact.php>
> DONATIONS: <http://melbourne.indymedia.org/process/support.php>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> imc-melbourne mailing list
> imc-melbourne at lists.indymedia.org
> http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-melbourne
>

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Thankyou so much for your very interesting newsletter,
glad you're there, keep up the good work,
it can only get bigger and better.
thanks again
Linda Ray

On 3/6/07, info at melbourne.indymedia.org <info at melbourne.indymedia.org>
wrote:
>
> Melbourne Indymedia Newsletter 03/03/07
> http://melbourne.indymedia.org/
> http://oceania.indymedia.org
>
> : : New Features : :
>
> : : Events/Actions : :
>
> : : Next Meeting : :
>
> : : Suggestions/Feedback/Contact/Donate : :
>
> ===================================
>
> : : New Features : :
> All features can be viewed in full at:
> http://melbourne.indymedia.org/
>
> Hicks Determined to Fight Charges
> 05/03/2007
> David Hicks, "an Australian son abandoned by the nation and his
> government has decided to fight the fabricated charges brought against
> him by the criminal Bush regime." reports the Cleaves Editorial team.
> Hicks has rejected a plea bargain. Major Michael Mori has called for
> the Howard Government to challenge the charge of 'providing material
> support of terrorism'. "It's a made-up charge, it has a really
> impressive name, but it never existed in the law of war, in any of the
> US law of war manuals, or in any Australian law of war manual," he said.
> On 26 February Lawyers for David Hicks fronted the Federal Court in
> the ongoing case against the Commonwealth for failing to protect an
> Australian citizen abroad. Justice Brian Tamblin reserved his decision
> citing the complexity of the case.
>
>
> Rushing to a Climate Disaster
> 3/03/2007
> January 2007 was the World's Hottest January Ever Recorded and 2006
> was the fifth hottest year on record, with ice cream imported from
> half a world away while Glaciers and ice sheets melt. In Queensland
> the Land and Resources Tribunal has found that Fossil fuels are not
> linked to global warming in a judgement on a new coal mine developed
> by Xstrata. The Tribunal was also sceptical of the Stern Review and
> the latest report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
> according to an ABC report.
>
>
> Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers Fighting Against Refoulement
> 28/02/2007
> The Howard Government appears intent on Refoulement of 83 Sri Lankan
> Asylum Seekers, after allegations of Secret deals with Indonesia for
> their repatriation. The Asylum Seekers are being detained at "Camp
> Howard" - Australia's very own Guantanamo Bay on Christmas Island.
>
>
> Mining Lobby Censors Parody Website
> 27/02/2007
> A parody website focussing on Mining and its contribution to climate
> change has been forced offline due to legal threats by the NSW
> Minerals Council under Regulation 20J of the Copyright Regulations
> (1969). The Parody website sought to expose the current public
> relations campaign of the NSW Minerals Council over the expansion in
> coal mining and its contribution to Greenhouse gases and climate Change.
>
> ===================================
>
> : : Events/Actions : :
>
> The Melbourne Indymedia events calendar is up and running at:
> http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/calendar/
> Go to the calendar for full details or add your own event.
>
> (1) Sedition Charter vigil lunchtime at ASIC
> Wednesday Mar. 7, 11:30am ? 12.30pm
> Australian Securities & Investment Commisssion 135 Collins Street,
> melbourne
> Event Topic: Civil Liberties
> Event Type: Protest
> Sedition Charter weekly vigil to demonstrate opposition to the
> Australian Government removing rights and liberties citizens have
> enjoyed for generations.
> http://www.seditioncharter.org
> next week Commonwealth Prosecutors Office
>
>
> (2) Green Wolf
> Wednesday Mar. 7, 6:30pm ? 7.30pm
> Carlton Courthouse, 349 Drummond St Carlton
> Event Topic: Social Movements
> Event Type: Theatre
> Set in Germany, a play exploring the relations within a environmental
> activist organisation as tensions rise and politics and actions heat....
>
>
> (3) IWD lunchtime GPO Bourke Street Mall
> Thursday Mar. 8, 12:00pm ? 2.00pm
> Corner Bourke and Elizabeth Streets, Melbourne
> Event Topic: Gender&Sexuality
> Event Type: Protest
> Women Work
> In factories, schools, health care, offices, call centres, retail,
> childcare, aged care, on building sites and at home Women work
> everywhere!
> Join us for a fun and lively rally. Bring flags, placards, wear
> purple, white and green
> Women want
> Safe, secure and permanent work, Equal pay, Predictable working hours,
> Quality part-time work, Quality child care, Rostered days off,
> Overtime payments, Paid maternity leave. And Mr. Howard, we want back
> our lost wages ? 2% since you introduced your IR laws!
> more info: Ellen 0408 339 720
>
>
> (6) The Art of Change
> Thursday Mar. 8, 12:00pm ? 2.00pm
> RMIT City Campus Building 12 Level 5 Room 2 Stair access from Swanston
> Street Lift access from Bowen Street
> Event Topic: Other
> Event Type: Other
> A free public seminar series exploring the role of cultural action and
> the arts in movements for social change.
> Thursday 1 March, 5.30-7.30pm - Graphic Design
> Thursday 8 March, 5.30-7.30pm - Music
> Thursday 15 March, 5.30-7.30pm - Film
> Thursday 22 March, 5.30-7.30pm - Theatre
> Thursday 29 March, 5.30-7.30pm  -New Media
> Further information from the RMIT Community Advocacy Unit -
> http://advocacy.tce.rmit.edu.au
>
>
> (7) 9/11 Documentary Showing - Morwell
> Thursday Mar. 8, 7:00pm ? 8.00pm
> Gippsland Multticultural Services (former Gippsland Migrant Resource
> Centre) 100-102 Buckley Street, Morwell
> Event Topic: Anti-War
> Event Type: Film Screening
> Volume 6 of Coalition for Peace and Justice documentary film showing
> will be held at the Gippsland Multicultural Services in Morwell on
> Thursday 8th of March.
> We will show you a combined documentary of Professor Emeritus Dr.
> David Ray Griffin and Dr. Stephen Jones explaing why the official
> story of September the eleventh is fraud.
> Dr. Jones was forced to resign his post at the Brigham Young
> University as a professor of physics, due to his active roll in
> spreading the truth about that tragic day.
> Both have been very popular among 9/11 Truthers(people who are
> demanding the truth), and have been lecturing in various places. They
> also belong to the Scholars for 9/11 Truth(
> http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/ ) which recently has grown into
> two groups.
> Entry by donation.
> If you wish to learn more about 9/11 Truth, join our mailing list:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Aus911Truth/
>
>
> (8) Women's Web International Women's Day celebration
> Thursday Mar. 8, 7:00pm ? 10.00pm
> The Old Homestead Inn, 170 Queens Parade, Clifton Hill Tram 86, turn
> from Smith St to Queens Parade
> Event Topic: Other
> Event Type: Festival
> CLAIM THE NAME WOMAN -
> JOIN US and celebrate our identity as women; give us a 2 minute talk;
> hear good music; share our information table, find goodies to buy and
> network.
> COST; donation - food, drinks at reasonable prices
>
>
> (9) Green Wolf
> Thursday Mar. 7, Friday Mar. 8, Saturday Mar. 9, 8:00pm ? 9.00pm
> Carlton Courthouse, 349 Drummond St Carlton
> Event Topic: Social Movements
> Event Type: Theatre
> Set in Germany, a play exploring the relations within a environmental
> activist organisation as tensions rise and politics and actions heat....
>
>
> (10) enviro craft @ MMW
> Saturday Mar. 10, 10:00am ? 2.00pm
> alexander gardens
> Event Topic: Ecology
> Event Type: Workshop
> melbourne moomba waterfest special guest Enviro Craft (melb) with
> environmentally sustainable recycling workshops making all things
> magical see full program melb city council web site its not all
> comercial
> All the fun of the (atlernative ) fair
>
>
> (11) John Pilger film festival
> Saturday Mar. 10, 3:00pm ? 8.00pm
> Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City. opp RMIT
> Event Topic: Social Movements
> Event Type: Film Screening
> John Pilger is a world-renowned journalist, author and documentary
> filmmaker, who began his career in 1958 in his homeland, Australia,
> before moving to London in the 1960s. "It is too easy," he says, "for
> Western journalists to see humanity in terms of its usefulness to
> 'our' interests and to follow government agendas that ordain good and
> bad tyrants, worthy and unworthy victims and present 'our' policies as
> always benign when the opposite is usually true. It's the journalist's
> job, first of all, to look in the mirror of his own society."
> He believes a journalist also ought to be a guardian of the public
> memory and often quotes Milan Kundera: "The struggle of people against
> power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." Noam Chomsky
> wrote: "John Pilger's work has been a beacon of light in often dark
> times. The realities he has brought to light have been a revelation,
> over and over again, and his courage and insight a constant
> inspiration."
> Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City. $15/$10 for the
> whole festival or $6/$4 per film. Fundraiser for Green Left Weekly;
> presented by Resistance, socialist youth organisation. Ph 9639 8622 or
> 0439 694 505.
>
>
> (12) enviro craft @ MMW
> Sunday Mar. 11, 12:00pm ? 4.00pm
> alexander gardens
> Event Topic: Ecology
> Event Type: Workshop
> enviro craft australia (melb) doing all things recycled eco logical
> and reuse see melb city council for web site info.
>
>
> (13) Melbourne Moomba Water Festival
> Monday Mar. 12, 12:00pm ? 10.00pm
> on the banks of the yarra
> Event Topic: Ecology
> Event Type: Workshop
> see melb city council web site
> enviro craft australia workshops melbourne group
> http://www.envirocraft.com.au
>
> ===================================
> : : Next Meeting : :
>
> To be advised.
>
> You can always find out when the next Melbourne Indymedia Meeting is
> by emailing the collective. info at elbourne.indymedia.org
>
> ===================================
>
> : : Suggestions/Feedback/Contact/Donations : :
>
> It takes money to run Indymedia. If you are able to make donations of
> functioning equipment or money to keep the site going please do. If
> you have feedback you can contact the Melbourne Indymedia collective.
> FEEDBACK: <http://melbourne.indymedia.org/contact.php>
> DONATIONS: <http://melbourne.indymedia.org/process/support.php>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> imc-melbourne mailing list
> imc-melbourne at lists.indymedia.org
> http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-melbourne
>
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