Brisbane Radical Events Diary 16/07/25
Get amongst it!
Before we get into this week’s events, I just want to take a moment to say there are an incredible variety of events coming up - a testament to the community in here in Magandjin Brisbane who are doing the hard work of organising for a better world. Hopefully we can all support that hard work by getting to a few of these events!
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Friday July 18
Acacia Ridge NAIDOC Family Fun Day
10am-2pm at Aboriginal & Islander Independent Community School, 1277 Beaudesert Road, Acacia Ridge
Join the Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School (The Murri School) to celebrate the 2025 NAIDOC theme of ‘The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy' with traditional dance performances, information and food stalls, community stalls, children’s rides and activities.
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Community Movie Night - “Rocking The Foundations”
Event by Community Union Defence League
6pm at 2/63 Annerley Road, Woolongabba (Access via carpark off of Crown St).
Come down and help raise funds for our ongoing housing campaigns and to support striking workers!
We'll be watching the film Rocking The Foundations which highlights the work of the BLF especially around the Green Bans which saw the union place bans on work that would negatively effect their communities.
6pm for a 6:30 start. Food and drink available. $10 at the door but nobody turned away for lack of funds.
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Saturday July 19
Peoples Pride
Event by Magandjin People's Pride
1pm at King George Square, later at Jagera Hall [Facebook event]
Join your community for a day celebrating the Queer community. Start with a rally at 1pm at King George Square, march to Jagera Hall with your banners and friends. Check out the Markets stalls of your local Queer artist and venders, Join in the weaving workshop and listen to live music from bands such as: Pegging, Chemical Prisoner, Queerbait, and Apo//o. After 6pm its adults only with surprise bands and Drag performances to finish the night!
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1985 – 2025 – Forty years since SEQEB
Event by the Brisbane Labour History Association
2pm at Electrical Trade Unions, 41 Peel Street, South Brisbane
Speakers: Bob Carnegie - Chucked in Boggo Road by Bjelke-Petersen. Craig Buckley -Meatworkers union lawyer (AMIEU). Stuart Traill - Helped the ETU rebuild after SEQEB.
1985: Political thug Johannes Bjelke-Petersen sacks 1000 Electrical Trades Union (ETU) employed by the South East Queensland Electricity Board (SEQEB) and throws hundreds of protesters into jail.
Meat workers in Mudginberri become “ the watershed case for using secondary boycott laws to cripple effective industrial action”.
Legal hit man, Peter Costello, repeats the union bashing at Dollar Sweets. He later becomes the Howard government Treasurer.
What was it like to fight those battles? How hard has it been to rebuild? What happens now?
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We’re Going to Ibisa (Save Barrambin/Victoria Park)
12pm at Victoria Park [Facebook event]
Come down to Ibis Island in the area of Barrambin (Victoria Park) known as York's Hollow. In conjunction with 4ZZZ Eco Radio and Wildlife Ambulance Magan-djin we're going to (re) claim the area and appreciate the beauty of this green space.
We're having DJs Jane Grigg, Punk Flamingo and others, art (nature journaling/drawing), wildlife rescue info, and more.
Choose your own Ibisa adventure and explore the park.
This event is also promoting envisioning something better for the future of Magan-djin/Brisbane than the Olympics.
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Sunday July 20
Sanction Israel Now
Event by Justice for Palestine Magan-djin
1pm at King George Square [Facebook event]
From the 20th to the 22nd of July, grassroots solidarity groups will converge on Canberra for the opening of the 28th Parliament. Here in Magan-djin we want to offer our support and together let’s demand the Labor Government end its support and complicity in genocide and sanction Israel now!
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CRAFTERNOON WITH MAGANDJIN RISING TIDE!
Event by Rising Tide
2-4pm at Dutton Park Lookout [Facebook event]
Join us for an afternoon of creativity, connection and good food as we print a next batch of DIY Rising Tide t-shirts! Come along to meet like minded folk, have some laughs and find out more about Rising Tide, the People’s Blockade and ways to be more involved if that interests you.
Dutton Park Lookout (here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Rfa15MADF2DHhEHo8)
WE'LL HAVE: printing blocks, ink, snacks and vibes. YOU BRING: T-shirts, totes or anything fabric you’d like to screen print (don’t stress if you don’t have any - we’ll have extras!)
Come for the craft, stay for the cause, let’s make art and make waves. Everyone is welcome. Come along, bring your nan or your mates!
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Monday July 21
Rally - No new coal: Whitehaven Vs the Climate
8:30-10am at Qld Land Court, 363 George St Brisbane [Facebook event]
Whitehaven Coal is proposing Australia’s largest new coal mine on the doorstep of the Great Barrier Reef.
The world needs to step off the climate wrecking gas and coal pedal. That’s why ACF and Mackay Conservation Group (MCG) are heading to the Queensland Land Court to stop this polluting project from derailing Australia's renewable-powered future.
Hear from speakers across the movement including the Australian Conservation Foundation, Mackay Conservation Group, Move Beyond Coal, and Youth Verdict.
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Tuesday July 22
Grassroots Action Network
5:30pm at House Conspiracy, 42 Mollison St South Brisbane
The Grassroots Action Network is a weekly gathering of local people and groups committed to organising against the destruction and systemic exploitation of the planet and its peoples.
Join us Tuesdays from 5:30pm onwards for a free feed and to start building towards our collective liberation.
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Wednesday July 23
Protest against Boeing
Meet 12 noon at 123 Albert St (cnr Charlotte st), Brisbane City
Boeing makes a killing manufacturing and selling weapons to countries such as Israel, and our government is supporting them to do it.
Join the weekly protests outside the Boeing offices in the city and let them know you will not be complicit in their war crimes.
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Public Meeting: Action for Palestine - Boycott Caltex Edition
6pm at Albion Peace Centre, 102 McDonald Rd, Windsor. [Facebook event]
Help build solidarity with the people of Palestine.
Opportunities to join actions and upskill in activism and organising roles. If you have been wanting to do more for Palestine, this is your opportunity to make a difference here in Magan-djin - Brisbane
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Thursday July 24
Palestine solidarity concert with Ministry of Culture (David Rovics & Kamala Emanuel) and Phil Monsour.
6pm at Albion Peace Centre, 102 McDonald Rd, Windsor [Facebook event]
Doors open 6pm for a sumptuous vegan meal. Show starts 7pm.
Tickets: $25 regular, $20 concession, $50 solidarity, cheap and delicious vegan meal available, nobody turned away https://www.trybooking.com/DDGNJ
All funds raised go to Justice for Palestine Magan-djin and Green Left.
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Friday July 25
La Haine (1996) - Film screening at the Commons
Event by Growing Forward
6pm at Kurilpa Commons, 250 Boundary St West End [Facebook event]
Join us Friday July 25th at 6:00pm for a screening of La Haine (1996).
La Haine follows three young men and their time spent in their poor French suburb over the course of 24 hours. The men are Vinz, a young Jewish man with volatile temperament, Hubert, an Afro-French boxer who wants a better life for himself, and Saïd, a North African Muslim who acts as the mediator between the two others. The three grapple with poverty, boredom, hatred and the police as they go about their directionless daily routine. After local riots a man named Abdel Ichaha is gravely injured from interrogation in police custody. Events heat up as Vinz finds a policemen’s lost revolver and swears to kill a cop if Abdel dies.
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Saturday July 26
Protest US led Talisman Sabre military exercise
8am at Jagera Hall, heading to Amberley Air Force Base (Just west of Ipswich) [Facebook event]
Talisman Sabre, the US led rehearsal for war against China, starts 13 July. Brisbane peace activists will hold a protest at RAAF Amberley air base on Saturday 26th July. Amberley has been utilised by the US air force stealth bombers in recent months.
Join us in a cavalcade of vehicles from South Brisbane to Amberley air base where TS25 bombers are likely to be involved in the exercise.
Leaving From: Jagera Community Hall, 121 Cordelia Street at 8am. Join the cavalcade in your own car or jump in with someone else at Jagera Community Hall. Good to have as many cars as possible in the cavalcade.
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Voices of the Earth - International Ecocide Fundraising event
11:30am at Llew Edwards Building, University of Queensland, St Lucia [Facebook event]
Tickets $10-15 [Tix link]
Please join us for this community day hosted by BDS Youth Magandjin and Justice for Palestine Magan-djin.
This in-person event will feature various indigenous and environmental activists, sharing their insights on how colonisation is one of the largest drivers of the climate crisis.
This is a Fundraiser event with 80% of revenue being donated to Zaytoun, a Fair Trade organisation that plants olive trees in Palestine.
SCHEDULE
11.30am: Doors Open
12.00pm: Film Screening – The Wanted 18 tells the story of Palestinian resistance in Beit Sahour during the First Intifada, where residents started a small dairy collective with 18 cows for greater self-sufficiency and in response were designated a threat to Israel's national security.
1.30pm: Lunch and games
3.00pm: Boycott Caltex Discussion
3.30pm: Panel on Environmental Violence – Colonial Violence across the Global South with esteemed guests
5.00pm: Games and Community Discussion
Don't miss this opportunity to be part of the conversation and make a difference for the future of our planet!
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Moneyless Markets Winter Edition
2-5pm at Orleigh Park, West End [Facebook event]
It’s time for the Winter edition of the Moneyless Markets - shake off those seasonal blues with a moneyless exchange of goods and/or services... take what you need, share what you got!!
Bring whatever funky threads, epic books, or fun trinkets you no longer have use for, maybe even your own baking or homegrown limes. OR perhaps you’ll run a dance class, story sharing session, dream collecting or cupcake decorating activity - there are so many possibilities. Or bring nothing and just come hang out - it's free!
We encourage you to get creative! This event is about a circular economy model that advocates sharing ☆ You don't need 'Stuff' to be able to contribute; we all have creativity, knowledge, experience, skills, time, and love to share. We encourage people to bring along a creative service as we are often overwhelmed with “stuff”.
Bring a rug, suitcase or whatever is needed to display your goodies or perform/carry out/present your service.
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Sunday July 27
2025 Reclink Community Cup
12pm at Everton Wolves JAFC, 93 Mott St Enoggera [Facebook event]
Tickets $15 [Tix link]
Footy. Music. Mayhem. The Brisbane Reclink Community Cup returns!
Brisbane’s favourite day of chaos, camaraderie and community is back for its 10th year — and you're invited.
Join us at Everton Wolves JAFC as The Rocking Horses (Brisbane musos) go head-to-head with The Brisbane Lines (4ZZZ & media) in a fierce but friendly footy showdown — all to raise vital funds for Reclink Australia, supporting people facing hardship through sport, art and social connection. Featuring live music from Girl And Girl, Arugula, and DVD.
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Protest against the Police State and the LNP’s Racist Laws
Event by Solidarity and Resistance Collective
1pm at King George Square
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Saturday August 2
PACIFIC PEACE CONFERENCE
9am-5pm at QNMU Brisbane Branch, 106 Victoria St, West End QLD [Facebook event]
Tickets $20 [Tix link]
The conference will address: Talisman Sabre - largest ever war games in Australia with 19 countries and 30,000 troops. Pacific states concerns about rising militarism, climate change, social and economic injustices. The 80th anniversary of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
Listen, learn and engage with Pacific and local peace activists. Help build a stronger nuclear free, peace and social justice movement in the Pacific
SPEAKERS INCLUDE: The Hon Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu. Mere Tuilau, PANG Fiji. Sheila Babauta, Northern Mariana Islands. Prof Marianne Hanson, ICAN. Prof Donna Weeks, Japan Peace Studies. Elliot Darcy, Labor Against War. Alison Broinowski, World Beyond War
SUPPORTED BY: Pacific Peace Network, ICAN, WILPF, QNMU, IPAN, Just Peace Qld, World Beyond War and International Peace Bureau (IPB)
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Ongoing Events:
The unbroken spirit of the Kalkadoons exhibition
slq Gallery, level 2, State Library of Queensland, South Brisbane
The unbroken spirit of the Kalkadoons is a tribute to survival and the enduring power of culture to heal both the land and its people.
Colleen Sam, Kalkadoon (Kalkadunga) woman and visual artist, and her mother, Aunty Ena Sam, share the powerful story of the Kalkadoon people’s resilience, survival, and unwavering strength.
Colleen’s artworks and animations, along with a series of digital stories, recount oral histories of her families' resistance during one of the darkest periods in Queensland’s colonial past.
For generations, Colleen and Aunty Ena’s ancestors safeguarded their cultural knowledge in secret, ensuring that the Sam family’s identity remained strong, despite persistent efforts to erase it.
The exhibition features a dedicated learning and healing space, including a yarning circle for community discussions.
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Save Friends of the Earth Brisbane - a vital activist hub
https://chuffed.org/project/save-foe-brisbane
Friends of the Earth Brisbane has been a hub for environmental and social justice activism and campaigns for more than 25 years.
First meeting in West End cafes, we rented the West End building in 2000 and created Reserve Garbage and the Bicycle Revolution social enterprises.
Our campaigns include pioneering climate change campaigning in Queensland, hosting our first climate community meeting in 2001. We have maintained an active anti-nuclear campaign from that time. Our successes include local wins, from creating the Oxley Creek Commons and starting Food Connect.
Bigger picture success includes our aggressive coal and gas campaign, establishing the Lock and Gate campaign to challenge CSG, our Wandoan court case to protect the Great Barrier Reef, and our recent win that stopped Waratah Coal’s Galilee coal fired power station approval in 2023.
Located above Reverse Garbage in Woolloongabba, the hub has been a much loved home for many iconic campaigns from Six Degrees pioneering efforts exposing the impact of Queensland’s coal exports in the 2000s, to the #StopAdani movement and School Strike 4 Climate.
But now, like many community spaces, this grassroots hub is under threat. A 330% rent increase will come into effect on 1 July, and unless we can raise the funds needed to cover the latest hike, we will need to move out.
We’ve managed to cover most of next financial year’s rent through contributions of groups that currently use the space (including Tipping Point and Rising Tide). But we are still $3,300 short of our rent needs.
With your support we can save FoE and maintain it as an important activist space to keep the Brisbane environmental justice movement thriving.
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Prevent the Closure of Fleur Street Social eXchange
The Fleur Street Social eXchange (FSSX) by-donation cafe at the Moorooka Social Space in Annerley holds a special place in our hearts and in the heart of our community. It is more than just a location; it is a lifeline for many.
It has brought the local community together for nearly five years now. It runs only with volunteers and is funded only by donation - it has truly been established by and for the Moorooka and Brisbane community.
Despite the community services the FSSX has rendered, we have been told to take an indefinite closure from the 30th of June, due to some complaints brought to council. But we cannot let this important place go.
We must keep the Fleur Street Social eXchange alive. Please sign this petition to highlight to the Brisbane City Council and our local Councillor Steve Griffith that
- FSSX is an important, beloved and positive part of the Moorooka community
- to request that the Café remains open, or takes a short winter holiday, instead of an indefinite closure.
If we can keep FSSX alive and open, we can continue serving people locally and we can ensure that it can continue to serve as a sanctuary and resource for those who need it most.