Skip to content. | Skip to navigation

EngageMedia is a website for video about social justice and environmental issues in Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Engage Media

Sections
Personal tools
You are here: Home Members pc Videos Stop VSU Protests
Navigation

 
Document Actions

Stop VSU Protests

by Peter last modified 2007-12-17 17:55

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.

Genres
Categories
Country
Video information
Directed by pc
Produced 2006/09/30
Duration 5 minutes 55 seconds
Copy the following to embed the movie into another web page:

Full description

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. Melbourne saw a series of public rallies, many of which were reported on Melbourne Indymedia, if largely ignored in the mainstream media. This video is a compilation from coverage of three of these protests; reports on these and others can be found on Melbourne Indymedia as follows: April; a further report here;  May - protest at Casselden Place - no report found on Melbourne Indymedia; August 10 (not included in this video) -  and here; August 25; September (this was also a protest at the arrest and deporting of US peace activist Scott Parkin).

Anti-VSU site

Copyright 2007, by the contributing author. Cite/attribute Resource. pc. (2007, March 02). Stop VSU Protests. Retrieved October 13, 2008, from EngageMedia Web site: http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/pc/videos/vsu-engage.avi. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License