News,
events, useful links
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Melbourne
Indymedia
A
collective of independent media groups and producers offering grassroots,
non-corporate coverage of struggles, actions and celebrations.
Everyone
is a witness. Everyone is a journalist.
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The
Paper
The
Paper is a fortnightly independent newspaper dedicated to topical
issues and current happenings. It aims to be a forum for critical
thought, where content and presentation of ideas remain unaffected
by corporate and governmental influence.
Australia
has one of the most concentrated levels of media-ownership in the
world, and this inevitably inhibits the diversity and presentation
of issues that we receive. The Paper is a response to this routinely
homogenous presentation of ideas, and is attempting to open a space
for real diversity of opinion.
The
Paper is being produced in Melbourne (Australia) by a group of people
who have experience in alternative media projects. The success of
The Paper will depend entirely on the level of support that it is
given.
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Mayday2001.org
Cluster
of websites dedicated to Mayday festivities
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Melbourne
MAYDAY 2001
Mass
mobile blockades, street parties, music and performances will turn
melbournes CBD into a giant festival for global justice -
tuesday
1 may 2001
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Active
Melbourne - monthly calendar
An
on-line interactive forum for information and inspiration about social
change in Melbourne.
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Infoshop
The
Mid-Atlantic Infoshop has lots of information of interest to anarchists,
anti-authoritarians, and other activists. Put some anarchy into your
life today and learn why anarchists are trying to create a more anarchist
society. This is a cooperative effort. If your project wants to participate
or contribute materials, get in touch!
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A
- I n f o s
A
multi-lingual news service by, for, and about anarchists
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Black
Cross
Black Cross is a collective of health care workers, formed after the
WTO protests because we saw a need for medical care that is specific
to the radical community. We think our needs as radicals are different,
and that groups like the Red Cross don’t give us the skills we need
to keep ourselves and each other safe in the streets.
We believe that health care is political. The kind of care we do or
don’t receive, where and how we receive that care, who provides that
care, who has access to training to provide care, and what kinds of
trainings are smiled or frowned upon, all involve inherently political
issues. We believe the system needs to be changed… the health care
system right along with all the others.
Remember
the most important words you can ever learn to say are “I don’t know.”
Fight
the power, do no harm.
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Links
- environmental, indigenous, social campaigns
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iratiwanti.org
the
poison - leave it
We
are the Aboriginal women Yankunytjatjara, Antikarinya and Kokatha.
We know the country. The poison the Government is talking about will
poison the land. We say “NO radioactive dump in our ngura - in our
country.” Its strictly poison we don’t want it.
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GECO
- Gippsland
Environmental Centre
GECO
is an independent grassroots environment organisation based in East
Gippsland. We are dedicated to protecting the remaining old growth
forests of the region
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www.kooriweb.org
A
place in cyberspace for indigenous peoples of Australia Controlled
and operated by indigenous people. Features
Gary
Foley's Koori History Website
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mirrar.net
"We
will fight to protect our Country. That is a fact of life."
-Yvonne Margarula, Mirrar Senior Traditional Owner
In
1977 the Aboriginal opposition to the Ranger Uranium proposal was
overridden with the words "their opposition shall not be allowed
to prevail". Our people were told that the rest of Australia wanted
uranium mining within Kakadu National Park. Two decades later and
the voices of the Mirrar are again drowned by corporate and government
ineptitude and marginalising processes. We welcome your help to spread
this story before it becomes history.
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Friends
of the Earth - Melbourne,
Australia
FoE
Australia (FoEA) is a federation of local and regional Friends of
the Earth groups. It was formed in 1973, and has campaigned on a wide
range of issues ever since.
Its
aims are the conservation, restoration and rational use of the ecosphere;
and to stimulate social change towards an ecologically stable and
self-managed society.
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TELSTRA
EXPOSED
Such
a charming organisation Testra is; and now that its privatised, EVERY
AUSTRALIAN can own a part of Telstra!
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VICTORIAN
WTO WATCH
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Vic
WTO Watch
Vic
WTO Watch is an informal network of campaigners who are advocates
for fair trade and who oppose radical trade liberalisation.
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Fairwair
- Stopping
exploitation of home based outworkers
In
Australia and other countries around the world women and their families
work at sewing machines to produce the clothes that are sold in our
shops and markets.
Some
people may work in modern factories for award pay. But more often
they work in a small cramped sweatshop or in a room or garage at home
for low wages.
In
Australia, it is estimated that there are over 300,000 home based
outworkers in the textile, clothing and footwear industries. That's
15 homeworkers for every factory worker.
"I
work 14 hours a day, every day of the week. Last week I earned
$1.70 an hour that was with my husband and two children giving
me a lot of help" - Jenny, a homeworker in Australia
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Friends
of Merri Creek
Merri
Creek runs from the north of Melbourne to join the Yarra River at
Dight's fall, Collingwood. Friends of the Merri Creek is a community
group which works to preserve and restore the Merri Creek and its
environs and tributaries.
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Earthworker
Earthworker
is a caucus of trade union and environmental organisations' members
coming together under the auspices of Victorian Trades Hall Council
in the recognition that workers' rights and concern for the environment
are a common issue.
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Links
- if you can't stop thinking about music, culture and politics
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International
Lobster Party
Features
the Global Grassroots Resistance Directory
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ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM
101
"An
introduction to the aims and principles of revolutionary industrial
unionism, and to non-hierarchal non-bureaucratic, anti-political methods
of class warfare for workers self management of production and a global
conferedation of free producers."
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International
Workers of the World - Australia
The
Industrial Workers of the World is a grassroots, member-run union.
Rather than being run by those who make a career out of maintaining
bureaucracies, the IWW is composed of and run by plain old ordinary
working people outside of working hours. It also welcomes working-class
students and the unemployed into its ranks.
The
objectives of the IWW are threefold:
(1) to overcome the divisions which weaken the strength of organised
workers by creating a confederation of labour, a single classwide
union,
(2) to fight in the workplace and around the point of production where
the strength of organised labour is strongest, and
(3) to reesablish the proper reason-for-being of unionism in the eventual
demise of the wage-system, a system which represents the crushing
of individual freedom and dignity by means of bossdom and economic
tyrrany and which forms the basis for the exploitation of one human
being by another.
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CRUST
Local
news, views, events
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Discordia
"If
organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion
is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe." -Malaclypse The Younger
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CrimethInc.com
"CrimethInc.
began in the mid-1990's. I can't report on the original goals of all
the participants, but I can trace my own initial intentions to a discussion
among some friends about the revolutionary organization Winston joins
in Orwell's 1984.
"The
idea came up that it was actually a branch of the government... and
from there, we began to consider what the opposite kind of organization
would be (one that purported to be a part of the culture industry
that rules today, while secretly undermining it), and how to form
one."
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Subgenius.org
"This
is a certified religion of scorn and vengeance directed at all of
THEM, the enemies of us Outsiders. It is "self-help" thorugh scoffing
and blaspheming, frenzied fornication and the Tumping of Graven Images.
The Church provides answers and miracles in the service of SUREAVOLUTION.
The
motto: FUCK THEM IF THEY CAN'T TAKE A JOKE."
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Unofficial
Guide to Critical Mass
Melbourne
Critical Mass rides on the last Friday of every month, we meet at
the State Library in Swanston Walk at 5:30pm We ride for many reasons,
enviornmental, social, for fitness and health, for increased road
safety, we have no definite aims, it helps keep Critical Mass as an
open and diverse social space for all who enjoy the experience of
riding in a Critical Mass.
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antimedia.net
Hosts
XBorder
- about refugees, deportation, human rights, detention centres
- from an australian perspective - as well as other stuff (eg DATA).
Endorsed
by BURPOLA.COM
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The
Blind Authority Manipulation Corporation
A
corporation that belongs to everyone
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ruckus
society
The
Ruckus Society provides training in the skills of non-violent civil
disobedience to help environmental and human rights organizations
achieve their goals.
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Earth
Liberation Front . com
The
Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is an international underground
movement consisting of autonomous groups of people who carry out direct
action according to the E.L.F. guidelines:
- To
inflict economic damage on those profitting from the destruction and
exploitation of the natural environment.
- To
reveal and educate the public on the atrocities committed against
the earth and all species that populate it.
- To
take all necessary precautions against harming any animal, human and
non-human.
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Links
- web related
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ICANN
WATCH
"Nothing
is of greater importance to the future of the global resource that
is the Internet than the way in which ICANN
performs its role as manager of the Domain Name System.
Our
mission is to serve as a central point of reference about what ICANN
is and is not doing, to make this site a kind of hill overlooking
the often chaotic information landscape from which anyone seeking
a better understanding of these developments can survey the ever-changing
terrain."
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GIBSON.NET
"GIBSON-NET
provides Internet access and services. We are a DIY ISP. We are powered
by LINUX and free software only. We support freedom of speech in all
forms and aim to provide unrestricted Internet access to everyone."
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Anarki.net
The
@net is a small network of anarchist bulletin board systems and online
internet sites
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MONKEYFIST
"Monkeyfist
sells an admixture of leftist political perspective and Web-geek interest.
The intersection of our interests and perspectives is often an independent
left view of the politics of technology. If Monkeyfist is unique it
isn't because we're a group of leftie Web geeks. After all a group
of leftie Web geeks is responsible for the daily care and feeding
of IndyMedia,
the most important cluster of left-leaning sites on the Web. What's
different about Monkeyfist is the difference between leftie geeks
building web sites and leftie geeks writing (about) them."
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Also
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http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html
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The
Surveillance Camera Players
Only
someone completely distrustful of all government would be opposed
to what we are doing with surveillance cameras. -- NYC Police Commissioner
Howard Safir, 27 July 1999.
The
Surveillance Camera Players: completely distrustful of all
government.
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The
Definitive Howto - STORMTROOPER ARMOR
Be
the envy of the Tactical Response Group in your space age body armour.
NB: Unlikely to stop Jedi lightsabres.
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Dessert
Storm
*
international month of pie-rect action *
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april 1 to may 1 2001 *
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