2012-02-08T21:35:41+11:00 Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors daily 1 2010-04-29T17:00:31Z 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. pc Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors 2012-01-06T17:13:02Z Video video/x-msvideo 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 ... pc Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors Melbourne Sustainability Global warming Climate change 2012-01-06T17:12:50Z Video video/x-msvideo 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. pc Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors 2012-01-06T17:12:48Z Video video/x-msvideo 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. pc Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors 2012-01-06T17:12:46Z Video video/x-msvideo A slideshow of images from four major protests: 30 June 2005, 15 November 2005, 28 June 2006, and finally the latest, 30 November 2006. pc Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors 2012-01-06T17:12:33Z Video video/x-msvideo 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. pc Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors 2012-01-06T17:12:32Z Video video/x-msvideo 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. pc Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors 2012-01-06T17:11:09Z Video video/x-msvideo 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. pc Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors 2012-01-06T17:10:47Z Video video/x-msvideo Scenes from the third major rally held in Melbourne to protest at the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza in mid-2006... pc Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors 2012-01-06T17:10:46Z Video video/x-msvideo 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 ... pc Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors Apartheid Zionism Racism Howard 2012-01-06T17:10:10Z Video video/x-msvideo 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 pc Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors Childcare Women Abortion Reproductive Rights 2012-01-06T17:10:09Z Video video/x-msvideo Scenes from the walk from Melbourne Town Hall to Parliament House for the smoking ceremony and wreath laying. pc Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors Stolen Generation Sorry Aboriginal Indigenous 2012-01-06T17:10:07Z Video video/x-msvideo 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... pc Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors rights gay workers abortion lesbian women 2012-01-06T17:08:33Z Video video/x-msvideo 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 ... pc Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors APEC Solidarity G20 Indigenous 2012-01-06T17:07:52Z Video video/x-msvideo 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 ... pc Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors Blacklist Melbourne APEC G20 Indigenous 2012-01-06T17:07:47Z Video video/x-msvideo