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Posted: 07-May-2008 Video duration : 1 minute 30 seconds
Ziggy says: Dump Ferguson not Nuclear Waste
Ziggy the anti-nuclear white elephant joined activists from FoE, the Greens and others in a lunchtime picket of the office of Federal ALP Member for Batman Martin Ferguson in protest at his pro-nuclear stance ... Read more…
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Posted: 16-Dec-2007 Video duration : 6 minutes 20 seconds
Fairwear Sweat-free carols in the Mall - 14 December 2007
A medley of modified carols from the annual Fairwear Sweat-free carol 'service', with an interlude provided by members of the John Howard Ladies Auxiliary Fan Club ... Read more…
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Posted: 12-Dec-2007 Video duration : 4 minutes 47 seconds
International Day of Action for Community Responses to Sexual Assault
This video shows only the opening and closing sections of the speakout at the State Library. Although the event was open and held in a public place, I have not felt it appropriate to place the personal statements from the 'open mic' section on public record. Read more…
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Posted: 27-Nov-2007 Video duration : 10 minutes 50 seconds
"Time to Rebel" - Eureka Rebellion Anniversary Rally 23 November 2007
Footage from a rally held at the State Library in Melbourne on the eve of the Federal election to protest at attempts by the Howard Government's Australian Building and Construction Commission to ban the Eureka flag from building sites ... Read more…
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Posted: 22-Nov-2007 Video duration : 5 minutes 26 seconds
Ziggy's anti-nuclear tour, or 'Vote the Bastards Out!'
Ziggy the 'no nukes' white elephant toured Melbourne on Thursday 22 November to spread the message before the election; at the GPO he was part of the audience for a performance of 'Vote the Bastards Out' given by an impromptu choir directed by Stephen Taberner of the Spooky Men's Chorale ... Read more…
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Posted: 20-Nov-2007 Video duration : 3 minutes 33 seconds
LEST WE FORGET - HOWARD'S HELLHOLES
Footage from Curtin Immigration Detention Centre showing treatment of Afghani asylum seekers placed in 'separation detention' following their arrival in Australia ... Read more…
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Posted: 15-Nov-2007 Video duration : 10 minutes 40 seconds
Stop Repression in Pakistan - Rally 15 November - Melbourne
Extracts from speeches made at a rally held in Melbourne at the old GPO building on Thursday 15 November, expressing solidarity with the people of Pakistan and calling for an end to Australian Government support for the Musharraf dictatorship ... There was a long list of speakers, including two who spoke in Spanish with an interpreter, so individual speeches are unavoidably truncated. Read more…
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Posted: 11-Nov-2007 Video duration : 7 minutes 0 seconds
Walk Against Warming 2007 - Melbourne
Scenes from the second annual Walk Against Warming in Melbourne, starting with a rally at the State Library, followed by a very leisurely stroll down Swanston Street to the Alexandra Gardens. There was an astonishing range of placards, costumes, banners, props, not to mention age groups and affiliations - all demanding action from politicians on the burning issue of climate change. Read more…
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Posted: 03-Nov-2007 Video duration : 7 minutes 58 seconds
'Extraction' at Port Hedland detention centre, May 2001
The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre recently leaked a training video by Australasian Correctional Management at the time of the Port Hedland detention centre riots of 2001. It shows instruction being given to staff on how to remove an asylum seeker from a detention centre. Read more…
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Posted: 29-Oct-2007 Video duration : 10 minutes 0 seconds
Melbourne Solidarity with Aotearoa arrestees - 27 October 07
Footage from the rally held at Federation Square at noon on Saturday 27 October 2007 as far of a global day of action in support of activists arrested in Aotearoa/NZ since Monday October 15th. Read more…
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Posted: 16-Oct-2007 Video duration : 7 minutes 59 seconds
Solidarity protest at NZ Consulate - support 15 Oct arrestees
Following the crackdown on dissent in Aotearoa protests are being held widely - this is roughly cut footage from a speakout and street theatre outside the NZ Consulate in Melbourne at 11am on Tuesday 16 October See further coverage on NZ Indymedia - http://www.indymedia.org.nz/ Read more…
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Posted: 11-Oct-2007 Video duration : 3 minutes 21 seconds
Australian Citizanshit test ... 11 October 2007
Immigration Minister was speaking this morning at a conference in Melbourne's Hotel Sofitel, which seemed a good occasion for public spirited citizens to lend a hand with the drive to enrol new citizens ... Read more…
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Posted: 28-Sep-2007 Video duration : 7 minutes 32 seconds
"Protect Your Kid's Future" - Unions rally against WorkChoices and the Howard Government, 26 September 07
Ignoring threats of fines for taking part, thousands of workers, many with their children - it being school holidays - rallied at Trades Hall in Melbourne on Wednesday 26 September, before marching through the CBD to Flinders Street, under the banner "Don't give Howard another shot! - Protect your Kid's Future." Some roughly cut scenes from the event ... Read more…
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Posted: 07-Sep-2007 Video duration : 6 minutes 47 seconds
Anti-APEC solidarity speakout (AC/DC) - Melbourne 7 Sept
Melbourne Alliance for Civil Disobedience Co-ordination (AC/DC)held a speakout at the APEC Finance Centre in Collins Street in solidarity with protesters in Sydney ... There were speeches, poems, a song, police horses in training - and Geoge W. was reported to the terror hotline ... Read more…
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Posted: 02-Sep-2007 Video duration : 4 minutes 29 seconds
G20 Solidarity protest at Melbourne Magistrates' Court 31 Aug 07
The Ongoing G20 Solidarity Network (Ogasn) organised a show of solidarity outside the Melbourne Magistrates' Court during the latest hearing - an event disrupted by police over-reaction to a totally unthreatening action ... Read more…
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Posted: 30-Jul-2007 Video duration : 5 minutes 59 seconds
Campaign for Women's Reproductive Rights in action 28 July 2007
Supporters of the Campaign for Women's Reproductive Rights took up position on the steps of Parliament House to counter the march on Parliament organised by Right to Life and other opponents of the Bill to decriminalise abortion... Read more…
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Posted: 30-May-2007 Video duration : 6 minutes 23 seconds
'Sorry Day' 26 May 2007 in Melbourne
Scenes from the walk from Melbourne Town Hall to Parliament House for the smoking ceremony and wreath laying. Read more…
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Posted: 28-May-2007 Video duration : 1 minute 5 seconds
'Defend the Fertility Control Clinic'
A mini-documentary of the most recent in the ongoing series of actions to block harassment of clients of the East Melbourne Fertility Control Clinic by anti-abortionists Read more…
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Posted: 28-May-2007 Video duration : 2 minutes 55 seconds
'Howard's Wood' - anti-Zionist picket at Crown Casino 20 May 07
If he had not chickened out of entering by the front door, John Howard would have been met by a peaceful but vigorous protest at Crown Casino when he arrived for a ceremony in his honour marking the naming of a forest after him in the Negev ... Read more…
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Posted: 26-Apr-2007 Video duration : 6 minutes 28 seconds
Rally for Peace - 30 July 2006
Scenes from the third major rally held in Melbourne to protest at the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza in mid-2006... Read more…
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Posted: 24-Apr-2007 Video duration : 7 minutes 10 seconds
Nuclear Fools Day in Melbourne, 1st April 2007
On Palm Sunday, 1st April 2007, nearly one hundred groups and organisations combined to hold a peace parade and anti-nuclear demonstration in Melbourne under the title 'Nuclear Fools Day'; similar events took place across Australia. Read more…
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Posted: 02-Mar-2007 Video duration : 5 minutes 55 seconds
Stop VSU Protests
A compilation of student protests against VSU in Melbourne. The Howard Government's attacks on students, crystallized in legislation introducing so-called Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU), were met with determined opposition from students across the spectrum, as well as from education unions and supporters in the community. Read more…
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Posted: 04-Dec-2006 Video duration : 6 minutes 40 seconds
Fill the 'G' - rally and march 30 November 2006
The most recent day of protest in Melbourne against the Howard Government's WorkChoices legislation took the form of a mass rally at the Melbourne Cricket Ground followed by a march to Federation Square. About 40-50 000 took part. There were parallel protests across the country. Read more…
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Posted: 04-Dec-2006 Video duration : 4 minutes 38 seconds
Protests against Howard's IR laws, June 2005 to November 2006
A slideshow of images from four major protests: 30 June 2005, 15 November 2005, 28 June 2006, and finally the latest, 30 November 2006. Read more…
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Posted: 27-Nov-2006 Video duration : 9 minutes 13 seconds
Solutions to Climate Change Community Festival 7 October 2006
Friends of the Earth and the City of Yarra Environment Education Program organised an afternoon of speakers, workshops, music, games, food ... around the theme of ways of preparing for, combatting, and coping with climate change. Read more…
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Posted: 27-Nov-2006 Video duration : 4 minutes 8 seconds
Buy Nothing Day 26 November 2004
Melburnians went shopping crazy today, but they were offered help - a free credit card cutting-up service outside Myer in the Mall from midday to about 6pm, courtesy of the Melbourne BND Committee, supported by Environment Victoria, Friends of the Earth Melbourne, and the Australian Conservation Foundation. Read more…
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Posted: 27-Nov-2006 Video duration : 4 minutes 25 seconds
Walk against Warming Melbourne 2006
Thousands marched from the Town Hall to the river at Birrarung Marr in Melbourne's contribution to an international Day of Action on Climate change ... Read more…
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Posted: 25-Nov-2006 Video duration : 7 minutes 9 seconds
Carnival beyond Capitalism 18 November 2006
Some extracts from this footage have been posted already on this site. Much mainstream coverage chose to ignore the carnival, so this is a bit of what they missed. Read more…