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Duck Season – stop these lame shooters from killing our waterbirds #fb
DUCK SEASON
Despite much opposition to Victoria’s recreational duck shooting season it is still going ahead opening on the weekend of March 20th/21st (2010) across Victoria.
You still have time to write to John Brumby and let him know how you feel about it.
Please write, email or phone
Premier John Brumby
john.brumby@parliament.vic.gov.au
Level 1, 1 Treasury Pl, Melbourne 3002
Tel: 9651 5000Primarily politicians need to hear from Victorians (provide your address) saying that this brutal activity must be stopped. Interstate and overseas supporters could say that Victoria should follow the other Labor states which have banned duck-shooting and that the issue is now one of national environmental significance.
Thank you from the Coalition Against Duck Shooting CADS
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Help Rocky the Red Kangaroo to escape his living hell! Please sign the petition. #fb
You may have already read or heard about Rocky, a big red kangaroo who’s life is spent performing with a clown who goads him into boxing, but then is pulled back by a harness and tether. It is truly saddening to see these magnificent animals being reduced to a side show spectacle. If you don’t know about Rocky’s story please visit the story.
Please support this petition to free Rocky from his living hell and send it on to your friends.
http://www.gopetition.com/online/34525.html
Thank you from the Australian Society for Kangaroos.
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Body Canvas 2010 helping the National Breast Cancer Foundation #Melbourne #geekgirl
Saturday 27th March 2010 – Body Canvas invites you and your guests to celebrate a spectacle of art and colour in an extraordinary event brought to Melbourne for the first time.
Body Canvas is Australia’s largest body paint festival. The event features artists from around Australia who come together to showcase their talent and support a charitable cause. This year’s event is proud to support the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
The festival is organised as a competition that will include professional and amateur artists fighting it out in front of a packed crowed and panel of celebrity judges for thousands of dollars in cash and prizes. Artists will create their masterpieces in the public forum at the St Kilda Sea Baths, followed by an exhibition and a catwalk parade. There will be a range of category winners announced from most creative to the most outrageous which will be decided by recognised judges from within the entertainment, fashion and artistic community.
Body Canvas festival is open free to public from 12pm to 6pm. The finals will run at the St.Kilda Sea Baths from 6pm to 1am, tickets for the finals cost $35.
Tickets can be purchased on the website http://www.bodycanvas.com.au/.
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World Naked Bike Ride – Australia
At least 7 Australian towns and cities will participate in the next southern hemisphere leg of the World Naked Bike Ride in March 2010. More cities may be added to the list if volunteers are found to organise the ride in new towns and cities. The official southern hemisphere ride date is Saturday 13 March 2010.
The dates and locations are:
Saturday 13 March 2010: Sydney and Adelaide
Sunday 14 March 2010: Newcastle
Sunday 21 March 2010: Canberra and MelbourneWORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE MELBOURNE 2010
The Union Club Hotel, 3:00pm – 8:00pmCorner of Gore and Webb Streets FITZROY, Melbourne
http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/wiki/Australia
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Ada Lovelace Day, March 24 #geekgirl
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science.
Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines, whatever they do. It doesn’t matter how new or old your blog is, what gender you are, what language you blog in, or what you normally blog about – everyone is invited. Just sign the pledge at Finding Ada and publish your blog post any time on Wednesday 24th March 2010.
Who was Ada Lovelace?
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron, was an English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine; as such she is often regarded as the world’s first computer programmer.
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Humane Chain forum – stop Australian exports of live animals #fb
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore is hosting a Humane Chain forum to highlight the ongoing inhumane and economically damaging live animal export industry in Australia.
The event will also present evidence collected during WSPA’s recent investigation into the mistreatment of Australian sheep. Investigators have documented cruelty throughout the live export supply chain, from transportation on ships, through to holding yards and abattoirs in the Middle East.
Grant Courtney, Federal President of the Australiasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) will be discussing the negative economic and social impact of live animal exports on rural communities. And will highlight the more humane and economically viable alternatives to the trade and how the Australian Government can protect Australian jobs.
All are invite to come along and learn more about the live sheep export trade, meet like-minded people and find out how you can help end the intolerable cruelty of live exports.
Where: Parliamentary Theatrette, NSW Parliament House, Macquarie St, Sydney, Australia
When: 10am for a 10.30 start until 12pm, Wednesday, March 10, 2010
RSVP: Limited seats available and allocated on a first come, first served basis. Please RSVP by emailing jessicaborg@wspa.org.au. WSPA will email all RSVP’s approximately one week prior to the event to confirm seat allocation.
Together we can end this unnecessary cruelty – http://www.humanechain.org.au/
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PICNIC OF THE DAMNED – a fond farewell to Kyeemagh beach
Kyeemagh beach, at the mouth of the Cooks River, Botany Bay, has never been a Bondi or Manly, but recently, this small, working class beach has simply disappeared. A victim, not of rising tides and climate change, Kyeemagh beach succumbed to the NSW Government’s desalination juggernaut (whose pipe runs from the plant itself at Kurnell, under Botany Bay to Kyeemagh).
On March 6, 4pm, there’ll be a picnic to commiserate this disappearance, next to this ghostly strip, outside the perimeter of the security fence marking the no-go zone. Bring a picnic basket and blanket, and come dressed a la Picnic at Hanging Rock. Documentation from the picnic will be used for an exhibition in May by Greg Shapley.
WHAT: Picnic of the Damned
WHERE: Near where the beach used to be, next to the Cooks River – opposite General Holmes Drive & O’Dea Ave, Kyeemagh (near Brighton Le Sands), Sydney, Australia
WHEN: Saturday March 6, 4pm-6pm
WHO: Contact Greg Shapley on 0401 152 434 or email gshapley@gmail.com
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#DJ Spooky Live Performance, March 5th, #Melbourne
Experimenta, Open Channel, Shed 4, Stable and RBMA Radio present:
DJ SPOOKY, THE NAURU ELEGIES
As part of the Nauru Elegies, DJ Spooky will give an exclusive live performance in Melbourne’s iconic Docklands warehouse, Shed 4. Composed by Paul D. Miller (aka. DJ Spooky), the performance reflects colonial and postcolonial issues facing the digital economy of the 21st century translated by DJ Spooky and a string quartet.
Tickets on sale now, $25, $20 concession + booking fee:
http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=34591&ref=Shed4Friday 5 March, 8pm
Shed 4, North Wharf Road, Docklands, Melbourne
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SquatFest #Film Festival is on again
It’s the TENTH year of The SquatFest Film Festival
The basic info is:
*21 Feb, 730pm (same time and day as TROPFEST)
*Secret exciting venue (check our website on the day for location)
[could be anywhere but more likely Sydney]
*BYO films and videos to show*Do get in touch if you want to help out with organising (dog knows we need it!) on info@squatspace.com
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Stop Iceland’s #whale hunt – Act Now!
Iceland’s whaling season began recently, kicking off a bloody whale hunt that could lead to the death of 100 minke whales.
Iceland is one of only two countries (the other Japan) worldwide that still authorizes commercial whaling. About half of the whale meat from this year’s hunt is intended for domestic sales in Iceland, while the rest of the quota will be sold to Japan.
Sign the petition and tell the Icelandic government to reduce this year’s whale hunt quotas immediately – and to ban whaling forever.
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