Coming up this wednesday 21st of July we have a fundraiser screening for the Institut A Infohouse in Jakarta.
Peoples kitchen will feed at 7pm as always, and then at 7:30 we will be showing 2 films:
Tijidurian 19: Rumah Budaya Yang Dirampas
(Tijidurian 19: Seized Culture House. A documentary about the Lekra artists during the suharto regime)
By Abduh Aziz & Lasya Susatyo
42mins
Taring Babi (Documentary about the Taring Babi activist collective in Jakarta)
by Mbak Mash
36mins
We will also be displaying more information and photos about Institut A in Little Fish Gallery.
All this at Black Rose Books, 22 Enmore Rd, Newtown.
Institut A has been running since September 2009, and is the first infoshop/social centre of its kind in Indonesia.
They have been running amazing things out of the space in the last year including a book and zine library,
free English classes, re-cycling workshops, film screenings, vegetarian cafe, and a weekly women’s space.
They have also hosted numerous workshops and discussions, benefit gigs, and book/zine/journal launchings, and
all this on top of the major renovations they did to the house just to get it off the ground.
So now they need our help to get them through the next year with some much needed funds, so come on down!
Solidarity to our struggling neighbours!
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Speak out against the war in Afghanistan at Holsworthy Barracks
Speak Out against the Afghan War at Holsworthy Barracks, Sydney
Concerned veterans will conduct a public Speak Out against the Afghanistan War at the gates of Holsworthy Barracks,
from noon Friday 24 September 2010
Macarthur Avenue, Holsworthy
(off Heathcote Rd and adjacent to the Holsworthy Rail Station)
Holsworthy Barracks is home to the 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, the 2nd Commando Regiment and support units.
The Speak Out will be hosted by Stand Fast, the national association of veterans opposing Australia's engagement in the US-led wars on Iraq and Afghanistan. It will be supported by the Greens, the Sydney Stop the War Coalition and other local antiwar activists.
"The Speak Out will be an opportunity for citizens voice their concerns over an open mike and service and ex-service people in particular, will speak and hear the truth about the Afghanistan War," said SpeakOut organiser and Stand Fast member Graeme Dunstan of Peacebus.com.
"We veterans reckon the best thing we can do for Australian soldiers serving in Afghanistan is to bring them home," said Hamish Chitts, veteran of Timor and a founding member of Stand Fast.
"Immediate and unconditional withdrawal was the demand of all participating groups", he said.
"We note that deposed PM and now newly commissioned Foreign Minister, Kevin Rudd, has hurried to Washington to assure the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, that Australia will "stay the course" in Aghanistan.
"From he who never was and never will be a soldier, that's easy for him to say but deadly for soldiers to do," Mr Chitts said.
Stand Fast veterans are appalled by Mr Rudd's arrogance and delusion and know for sure he will not "stay the course" as Foreign Minister if he continues to ignore the worsening of this war and the tide of Australian public opinion running against it.
"As the Wikileaks make clear, the US military and the US Government have lied consistently about the cause, conduct and progress of the Afghanistan war and successive Australian Governments have repeated those lies to the Australian people like ventriloquist's dummies," Mr Chitts said.
"The bitter truth is that for all their killing power, there is no win to be had for the US military and their collaborators in Afghanistan. Just like Vietnam, there never was and never could be.
"Our message to serving soldiers is this: Politicians lie and give not a damn about you. The best way to protect yourself and to protect your mates is to refuse to go to Afghanistan. Desist and resist," Mr Chitts said.
Stand Fast calls on veterans and non-veterans to help end the lies, end the wars and end the US Alliance.
Media call: 12.30 pm Friday 24 September.
Further information:
Hamish Chitts, Stand Fast, 0401 586 923
Graeme Dunstan, Peacebus.com 0407 951 688