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		<title>The Human Rights Arts &amp; Film Festival Launches Full Program #HRAFF #Melbourne #geekgirl</title>
		<link>http://geekgirl.com.au/blog/2012/05/07/the-human-rights-arts-film-festival-launches-full-program-hraff-melbourne-geekgirl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 02:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fifth Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) will open on Tuesday 15 May with the highly anticipated documentary Under African Skies by award winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger.

Twenty-five years have passed since Paul Simon broke a UN cultural ban and entered South Africa to make the album Graceland. The album would go on to be a global phenomenon, salvaging his career while also polarising audiences. To mark this anniversary, Simon returns to South Africa to reunite with the Graceland musicians, and clear the air with his greatest critic, Artists Against Apartheid founder Dali Tambo. Under African Skies pays homage to this time.]]></description>
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		<title>Poster for Kony 2012. Love the message &#8211; #bring #invisible #children #home #video #geekgirl</title>
		<link>http://geekgirl.com.au/blog/2012/03/22/poster-for-kony-2012-love-the-message-bring-invisible-children-home-video-geekgirl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JOSEPH KONY IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S WORST WAR CRIMINALS AND I SUPPORT THE INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO ARREST HIM, DISARM THE LRA AND BRING THE CHILD SOLDIERS HOME.]]></description>
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		<title>Rayna Fahey’s politically dangerous exhibition &#8211; It’s Never Too Late To Mend #radical #craft #Melbourne #geekgirl</title>
		<link>http://geekgirl.com.au/blog/2012/03/22/its-never-too-late-to-mend-exhibition-melbourne-geekgirl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s Never Too Late To Mend - an exhibition of Rayna Fahey’s politically dangerous and exciting application of conscious craft love. A survey of Rayna's commitment to the radical application of craft through the method of cross stitching. Editor of radicalcrossstitch.com, co-founder of the infamous Craft Cartel and founder of the Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle, Fahey is best known for reclaiming ugly industrial settings and transforming them through conscious craft love. Exhibition showing at the Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds, Melbourne starts April 13, 2012.]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Visual Contributions:  #Anthology // #Occupy #Amsterdam #tactics #geekgirl</title>
		<link>http://geekgirl.com.au/blog/2012/02/17/call-for-visual-contributions-anthology-occupy-amsterdam-tactics-geekgirl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of artists, writers &#038; activists is currently writing an Anthology of ideas, tactics, &#038; concepts, inspired by our experience at Occupy Amsterdam. One goal of this anthology is to offer proposals, visions and reflections. We want to investigate the elements of the political visions that functioned within Occupy, in terms of aims, strategies, analysis as well as tactics – so that the Occupy experience can help to nourish future forms of activism. How can Occupy be extended – beyond the camp, into the future, into the rest of the city, the country, the world? ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Barbielicious&#8221; LEGOs. Does LEGO design only for boys? Or does it sell stereotypes? #dontdumbdown #lego #geekgirl</title>
		<link>http://geekgirl.com.au/blog/2012/01/13/barbielicious-legos-does-lego-design-only-for-boys-or-does-it-sell-stereotypes-dontdumbdown-lego-geekgirl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bailey and Stephanie's fight to get LEGO to return to its gender-neutral toys is already making waves, with the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Time weighing in on the issue. But LEGO is stubbornly holding its ground and told Business Week that the LadyFigs launch is a "strategic" move to "reach the other 50 percent of the world's children," as if girls have never been part of LEGO's focus.]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome Obama -wherever you lay your hat is home! #lol #geekgirl</title>
		<link>http://geekgirl.com.au/blog/2011/11/16/welcome-obama-wherever-you-lay-your-hat-is-home-lol-geekgirl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this picture of all the war mongers wearing Princess Beatrice's hat from the Royal Wedding. I suspect there's deals to be made in Canberra during Obama's visit. None that will I am sure help the livelihood or the well being of the average Australian. More $$ in the coffers of the military industrial complex (sigh).]]></description>
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		<title>Animal welfare &amp; compassion in world farming activist Peter Stevenson guest lectures in Australia in August.</title>
		<link>http://geekgirl.com.au/blog/2011/08/01/animal-welfare-compassion-in-world-farming-activist-peter-stevenson-guest-lectures-in-australia-in-august/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a leading European expert on animal welfare, Peter describes Australia’s live export trade as “the world’s worst”. He explains that conditions in Indonesian abattoirs could not have improved in just one month and that the resumption of trade was met with shock in Europe.

In Australia for Voiceless’s Animal Law Lecture Series, Peter discusses European Union (EU) bans on some factory farming practices and how this cruelty continues in Australia. He suggests that better animal welfare can actually be more profitable for farmers and that changing consumer sentiments are driving more ethical products in Europe.]]></description>
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		<title>CHERCHEZ LA FEMME: FEMINISM AND SLUTS #Melbourne #slutwalk #debate #geekgirl</title>
		<link>http://geekgirl.com.au/blog/2011/05/17/slutwalk-melbourne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 00:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 24th, 2011, a representative of the Toronto Police gave shocking insight into the Force’s view of sexual assault by stating: “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized”.

Feminists in Toronto took to the streets, spontaneously calling the action SlutWalk, to protest against victim-blaming, slut-shaming and the rise of rape culture in their society. The movement triggered waves of SlutWalks all over North America, Europe and recently, Australia, with Melbourne's SlutWalk taking place on 28 May.]]></description>
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		<title>Jumps: Victoria &#8211; the place to be ashamed #protest #killingfields #rspca #geekgirl</title>
		<link>http://geekgirl.com.au/blog/2011/05/03/jumps-victoria-the-place-to-be-ashamed-protest-killingfields-rspca-geekgirl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 10:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We need you to the be the voice for jumps horses.  Especially with a new government and a new season upon us, we need your help writing to the respective decision makers.  Personal letters carry great weight and the more these stakeholders receive, the more they are likely to listen to our concerns.  In your own words, be an advocate for jumps racing horses by detailing the issues.

A demonstration will be held by the Coalition For The Protection of Jumps Racehorses in Bourke St Mall, Melbourne at midday on Friday 6 May, 2011
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		<title>Mardi Grass Mind Candy #Nimbin #hippies #pot #maryjane #woohoo #geekgirl</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mind candy? Afternoon distraction or hours of brain bending banter? You decide! This year the Nimbin Mardi Grass is playing host to a series of panel discussions to be held in the Town Hall from midday to 6pm on Saturday 30 April, focusing on the big issues: the legal, medical, spiritual, cultural &#038; political aspects of plant life. For this reason we've assembled a cast of academics, intellectuals, professionals, politicians, public servants, activists, hippys, poets, career bullshit artists and just plain ol' troublemakers to stir the pot (as it were). ]]></description>
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