Environment Victoria and Victoria’s Climate Action Groups have organised The Melbourne Walk Against Warming.

In December world leaders will meet in Copenhagen to decide what to do about climate change. Join this year’s Walk Against Warming, and help form a massive HUMAN SIGN over Princes Bridge.  A sign so big, they’ll get the message all the way over in Copenhagen!

Over the last four years, Environment Victoria have mobilised 100,000 Victorians to walk against warming, and for a safe climate future.

Visit the Walk Against Warming website for more information and to RSVP.

Details:

12pm, Saturday, 12 December 2009
State Library, Swanston St,  Melbourne

‘Meeting the Millennium Development Goals: Old Problems, New Challenges’.

The public plenary session will be held on Sunday, 29 November 2009, at the State Library Village Roadshow Theatrette, from 6-7.30pm.

The conference will be opened by The Hon Bob McMullan MP, Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance. The keynote speech will be by Dr Jan Vandemoortele, former UNDP Resident representative in Pakistan and one of the architects of the MDGs.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a United Nations partnership initiative to eradicate extreme poverty and other forms of disadvantage and human crises by 2015.  The global financial crisis, rising food prices and climate change have significantly impacted the achievement of the MDGs. This conference will critically engage the MDGs and the processes or possibilities for change. One key aim is to bring together development practitioners, academics, policy makers and the business community.

More information is available on the Institute for Human Security website; or register online.

The La Trobe Media and Cinema Studies Program will be holding the Radical Beginnings Symposium on Thursday, 26 November from 9.30am-5.30pm, in the Undercroft Lecture Theatre, at La Trobe’s Bundoora Campus.

Radical Beginnings is an oral history project exploring La Trobe’s own cultural and screen studies history during the late 1960s and 1970s. Symposium speakers will include the filmmakers and other key media and education figures of the time.

There will be  a pre-symposium screening of two films made at La Trobe in the 1970s: ‘Beginnings’ (a documentary directed by Scott Murray in 1971) and ‘Yakkety Yak’ (an experimental film directed by Dave Jones in 1974).  Screenings will take place  in  the Undercroft Lecture Theatre on Wednesday, 25 November, from 4-7pm.

Members of the public are invited to attend these events.