Really Really Free Market (RRFM) is a food rescue collective based on the principles of mutual aid, which gathers and redistributes as much food as possible to the wider community. It aims to shed light on both food waste and alternative models of distributing resources. RRFM is an open organisation that encourages anyone with capacity to join in and help with the collection and distribution on food. Come along on a Wednesday and/or join our signal chat below to get involved!
Currently, food rescue runs are on Tuesdays - meeting at the rear garden of Catalyst Social Centre at sunset.
The market is open from 11.30am-12.30pm on Wednesdays. Best to come at the start for the best food! We also run a free breakfast from 9.30am on Wednesdays.
Our public community chat can be accessed via signal here.

Food Not Bombs is a collective of people throughout the city that collect, cook and deliver vegan food to the streets, to protests, fundraisers and events. In Narrm/Birraranga people started organising Food Not Bombs in around 1996 and since then it has grown to 2 servings every week as well as special events catering. The regular weekly servings are held on the streets so that anyone who is hungry, homeless or in need of food can eat without restriction. It is important to FNB that everyone who wants to eat with us can, as well as to ensure there is no hierarchy or division between the people who cook and the people who eat.

Currently in Naarm/Birraranga we share food on:

Tuesdays, from 7pm: shared meal outside North Richmond Housing Estate, near cnr of Elizabeth & Lennox St, Richmond.
Wednesdays: the Catalyst FNB group is currently operating monthly, not at Catalyst, until our new kitchen is ready. Check the socials for updates on our next monthly dinner.

Learn more about Food Not Bombs and how to get involved on the Food Not Bombs website and social media.

In Australia, LASNET aims to raise awareness of the struggles of Latin American people and works to support these initiatives through local and national activism.
We also aim to bring the Latin American example as a way of providing hope to those of us struggling in Australia against greed and increasing authoritarianism. Also, we are totally against capitalism and patriarchalism, we support all collective struggles that promote equality in the diversity of the world we are living, without discrimination and borders.

See some of our past here, social media and our website, or if your interested in getting involved email us lasnet.solidarity(at)gmail.com

LIFT collective is an outdoor health, fitness and training group working towards increasing capacity and skills for community defence.

IRL is a collectively run independent community space, library/infoshop, and an organising collective - an umbrella of many projects including:

Incendium Radical Library

Incendium Radical Library Press

IRL radical zine fair

IRL workshop series

IRL prison solidarity network

IRL mutual aid alongside people in prison

We are an eclectic mix of people from diverse backgrounds, experiences and interests but we all believe that what is happening in our lives and all around us needs to be challenged. We want to create a space where we can make connections with other people and find ways to do this.

We live on stolen land, in a place where Indigenous ways of knowing and living are constantly attacked. Many First Nations peoples are living in poverty, many children are taken from their families and police harassment and violence for some people is a common experience. The waiting list for public housing is ridiculous, community housing barely exists, rent is rising constantly, leases are insecure and short and homelessness is increasing. People are imprisoned indefinitely by the Australian government for trying to find safety here. Trauma and mental health affect many people, and suicide is too common. Family violence happens across all communities at astonishing rates and many women (particularly trans women and First Nations women) and children are hurt by those closest to them. The oceans are filling up with plastic, the western grasslands of Victoria are being destroyed by urban sprawl and animals and plants are going extinct. The world is heating up in a scary way. Many of us spend so much time working, doing things that mean very little to us until we can't even imagine what it is we would actually want to be doing. For some of us it's hard to meet people and easy to feel isolated and alone.

These are just some of the things that affect us in deep and different ways. We don't have answers, sometimes everything feels overwhelming and it's hard to know what to do. However we want to create a space where people can learn, challenge and disrupt the systems that maintain oppression and imagine other possibilities for how the world could be.

We are interested in learning through stories of people and communities, from various theories, from perspectives based on histories that explore self-determination, collective care and organising. We hope to create networks of solidarity and support people experiencing and resisting oppression. We hope that at IRL, people will come together, organise and run things themselves. We want the space to be used to discuss ideas, challenge each other and our understandings of ourselves and the world, learn through these experiences, and share skills and thoughts but also be a place to meet people, have fun, relax, laugh, hang out, and do things that are exciting.

Visit our website at irlinfoshop.org

Since 2013, the Melbourne chapter of Riff Raff Radical Marching Band has been hitting the streets supporting movements for social and environmental justice, and bringing music and colour to rallies and marches. We are an inclusive community band, inviting people of all musical skill levels and ages to join us to support activist causes that we believe in. We play at protests, parades, campaign launches, fundraisers, and an assortment of other gigs.

We currently rehearse fortnightly Wednesday nights 6-8 PM at Coburg Senior Citizens’ Centre, 21 Harding St, Coburg. Just pick up an instrument, and come down! If you want to play an instrument, but don’t own one, contact us via email, and we’ll arrange a percussion instrument for you and teach you how to use it! Alternatively, you could sing with us (we even have megaphones for that) or form a supporting dance troupe.

For more information, check out our website http://riffraff.club/melbourne/

The Catalyst Cabbage Patch is a shared community garden space open to everyone and anyone to use. Its aim is to grow delicious, healthy, free food in a way that engages our communities to learn and share skills and resources in the process. We shouldn't have to put millions into the hands of the big greedy people just to eat healthy food...We are excited to learn together how to resist our reliance on big companies. The gardens design means that gardening can be accessible to all abilities and everything planted is communal.

Please feel welcome to come and check out the patch at the Catalyst Social Centre and get in touch via Instagram! @catalyst_cabbage_patch

The Trans Action Network is a collaboration of activists in Naarm working to fight for transgender liberation through community building, political campaigning, and mass mobilisation.

Free alternative education. You will be taught how to think, not what to think.

Education is one of the key drivers to developing social change to improve the lives of the masses. Education can be the facilitator of transforming society if it is analytical, dialectic, individualised and expressive. Although anarchy has no set doctrine; despite some shared principals, it is a perspective that changes with each individual. The same is true of education.

We have seen the current schooling system effectively hinder independent and critical thought. This is purposefully done to ensure a society that is unwilling or unable to challenge the authoritative structure.

Not a Set Doctrine classes encourage students to engage in information with their intellect, their emotion and their social self. This is an unlikely experience in the usual alienation of formal education settings. It is however an integral aspect of our pedagogy as we critically engage in discussions with students with knowledge that is not limited to theory. Students and teachers share knowledge and experiences horizontally. That is, when a student speaks, we listen with the same interest as when a teacher speaks. The teacher is there to instigate new ideas and conversations and not prescribe a set notion of ideologies.

No prior knowledge needed for attending classes. Classes are not lectures. They are structured to be beneficial to all walks of life. Please advise us of any disabilities that you have so that we can ensure the classes function best ways possible for you.

Instagram: @notasetdoctrine

Email: notasetdoctrine@proton.me

GRANN (Grassroots Action Network Naarm) is a network of organisers and activists working on unceded Wurundjeri land.

Our work focuses primarily on facilitating learning, dialogue, and connection between different groups and individuals — with the aim being to create a stronger, more generative, grassroots ecosystem, which can tackle the full range of issues facing our communities.

Through community dinners, workshops, and convergences, we seek to foster more intentional, political spaces — recognising the significance of coming together not only for direct action, but also for the sake of knowledge sharing, relationship building, upskilling, and strategic deliberation.

We believe that mutual aid, direct action, and radical education are all part of the strategic picture — and building our capacities to both talk about and do these things is essential.