The 24hour Non-stop Community Speak Out for Refugee Rights starts TODAY from 12:00pm at Federation Square: 12pm Acknowledgement of Country Launch of Live Wire for Refugees Refugee Action Collective discuss the ‘PNG Solution’ 1pm Chats with Father Bob Maguire Maxine Clarke (Writer) 2pm Margarita Windisch (Socialist Alliance) Kate Borland (Public Housing Advocate) Michelle O’Neil (National Secretary, TCFUA) Peter Job (Refugee Activist & Advocate) 3pm Joffa Corfe (AFL personality) Darren Parker (Refugee activist) Radical Knitters Amnesty International Professor Klaus Newmann (Swinburne University) 4pm Radical Women Tess Lawrence (Journalist/3ZZZ) MUSIC: Tinpan Orange 5pm Secondary School Students for Refugees Open Mic MUSIC: Selina Jenkins 6pm 3CR Queering the Air Dr Kidd (Former AMA President, Doctors for Refugees) Arnold Zable (Acclaimed Human Rights Advocate & Writer) 7pm Rebecca Eckard (Refugee Council of Australia) Margaret Mayhew (Activist) Chris Henriss (Stand-Fast Anti-War Veterans Association) Cam Walker (Friends of the Earth) 8pm PERFORMANCE: Melbourne Spoken Word 9pm MUSIC: Penelope Swales MUSIC: L’il Leonie Lionheart MUSIC: Les Thomas 10pm MUSIC: Harry Angus (The Cat Empire) 11pm MUSIC: Citrus Jam SATURDAY AUGUST 31ST PROGRAM While enjoying the program, we would love you to: 1) tweet tweet tweet away on our twitter page @LW4Refugees 2) upload photos and updates to Facebook 3) Pledge any pozible donation to our event project on pozible/project/32478 AND MORE…. MAYBE EVEN YOU!? While enjoying the program, we would love you to: 1) tweet tweet tweet away on our twitter page @LW4Refugees 2) upload photos and updates to Facebook 3) pledge any pozible donation to our event project on pozible/project/32478 SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 1ST PROGRAM 12am Midnight Meeting of the Movement: Stories from the Struggle 1am Midnight Meeting of the Movement cont’d MUSIC: Sherezade Patel 2am London & Europe Calling: Reports from Overseas Discussion on Italy & Refugees 3am The Filibuster Hours: Open Mic 4am The Filibuster Hours: Open Mic 5am Beyond Borders 6am Chats with Anna Funder (Pre-record) Victoria Stead (RMIT Researcher) 7am Duncan Wallace (Refugee Action Collective) Laurel MacKenzie (Lecturer & Activist) 8am Giselle Newton (ChilOut) Jeannie Rea (National President, NTEU) Jews for Refugees 9am Colleen Bartolemei (Western Region Ethnic Communities Council) Alex Bhathal (Greens candidate for Federal Seat of Batman) Kids from Batman Talk about Refugees Barri Phataford (Doctors for Refugees) Dean Andreas (Dean of Melbourne) 10am 10:00-10:30 - 3CR Refugee Radio LIVE from Fed Square Aran Mylvaganam (Tamil Refugee Council) Sanmati Verma (Refugee Lawyer) Misha Coleman (Yarra City Councillor) Open Mic 11am MUSIC: Little Foot Refugee Action Collective Discusses People Smugglers Mohammed Ali Baqiri (Refugee detailed as a child on Nauru) 12pm: 24 hours of non-stop speaking out for refugee rights complete! AND MORE…. MAYBE EVEN YOU!? We encourage you to come in person, but if you really cant make it we will be live streaming here https://new.livestream/accounts/5206360/livewire4refugees
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 22:41:35 +0000
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