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Institut A Infohouse fundraiser screening

Submitted by crapdawg on Mon, 19/07/2010 - 1:31pm

Date and Time:

Wed, 21/07/2010 -

7:00pm to 9:30pm

Location:

Black Rose Anarchist Library 22 Enmore Rd, Newtown

Contact Email:

blackrosebooks@yahoo.com.au

Website:

www.blackrosebooks.org

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.

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Sydney

Sydney Vice Chancellors Pay tops $1m

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 20/06/2010 - 11:03pm

The NTEU says the pay packets of Uni chiefs are "obscene" with some getting more than $1m per year.

As face- to- face time with lecturers decreases and class sizes expand, those in senior management positions at top public universities are enjoying increasingly healthy pay packets..

Data tendered to the NSW Government this week revealed what has been described by The National Tertiary Education Union as a ‘salary explosion.’

Geography:

Sydney

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education

fastBREAK - What Now?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 18/06/2010 - 10:53am

Date and Time:

Fri, 25/06/2010 -

7:45am to 9:00am

Location:

Powerhouse Museum - The Boiler Room

Contact Name:

Carmen Bowker

Contact Phone:

(02) 9660 6591

Contact Email:

marketing@vibewire.org

Website:

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/bookings/fastbreak.php

The 2010 fastBREAK innovation series an exciting addition to Sydney's event calendar that has sent a buzz through local creative and entrepreneurial communities. The first four sold-out instalments of fastBREAK have injected life, inspiration and a flurry of fastBREAKing conversation into the Powerhouse Museum's best-kept secret, the Boiler room Mezzanine.

Geography:

Sydney

RALLY TO WELCOME REFUGEES

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 15/06/2010 - 5:42pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 26/06/2010 -

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Location:

Sydney Town Hall

Contact Name:

Rachel E

Contact Phone:

9687 5134

Contact Email:

sydwest_sa@yahoogroups.com

Website:

http://refugeeactioncoalitionsydney.wordpress.com/

RALLY TO WELCOME REFUGEES

SAY NO TO ANOTHER TAMPA ELECTION
NO VISA FREEZE
CLOSE THE DETENTION CENTRES

Rally 1pm Saturday June 26, Sydney Town Hall

Speakers include:
Andrew Bartlett (The Greens)
Shiko Zaher (Afghan refugee)
Fashid Kheirollapour (former Curtin detainee)
John Dowd (President, International Commission of Jurists Australia)
Bala Vigneswaran (Tamil community)
Plus performances by Solidarity Choir and Sydney Trade Union Choir

Geography:

Sydney

Racism and the Elections: Fighting Against Rudd and Abbott’s Anti-Refugee Hysteria

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 15/06/2010 - 5:38pm

Date and Time:

Wed, 16/06/2010 -

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Parramatta Activist Centre 29 Macquarie Street (Upstairs), Parramatta

Contact Name:

Rachel E

Contact Phone:

9687 5134

Contact Email:

sydwest_sa@yahoogroups.com

Website:

www.socialist-alliance.org

Racism and the Elections: Fighting Against Rudd and Abbott’s Anti-Refugee Hysteria

While war in Afghanistan and brutal repression in Sri Lanka against the Tamils, perpetrated by Western governments, continues unabated - refugees flee to seek asylum. This meeting will examine how Rudd and Abbott are attacking refugees to win the upcoming elections.

Speakers include Socialist Alliance Senate candidate Soubhi Iskander, national
co-ordinator for Australian Tamil Council women’s advocacy group Kalyani Inpakumar and Liz Tysoe, refugee activist & Queer officer at Macquarie University

Geography:

Sydney

Film Screening: One Night in Sofia

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 15/06/2010 - 3:37pm

Date and Time:

Wed, 16/06/2010 -

8:00pm to 10:00pm

Location:

Black Rose 22 Enmore rd Newtown

Contact Name:

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Contact Phone:

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Website:

www.freejock.net

Screening of "One Night in Sofia", documentary about Jock Palfreeman, anti-fascist from Australia imprisoned in Bulgaria.

Wednesday 8pm 16/6/2010 at Black Rose 22 Enmore rd Newtown.

- Anarchists and Anti-authoritarians in Solidarity

SOLIDARITY WITH JOCK PALFREEMAN

Geography:

Sydney

Solidarity intervention for anti-fascist Jock Palfreeman

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 15/06/2010 - 3:22pm

On Monday 14 of June 2010 took place a solidarity intervention for Jock Palfreeman in The Hub, Newtown. We occupied the square for several hours, displaying banners and flags, handing out many texts (below), and playing anarchist and anti-fascist music. There will be a screening of a documentary about Jock's situation- "One Night in Sofia" at Black Rose 22 Enmore rd, Newtown 8pm 16/6/2010

SOLIDARITY WITH JOCK PALFREEMAN

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Worker Faces Six Months in Jail Solidarity with Ark Tribe

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 13/06/2010 - 12:37am

Date and Time:

Tue, 15/06/2010 -

12:00pm to 3:00pm

Location:

Assemble behind Trades Hall, corner of Bathurst and Dixon streets, Sydney

March to the ABCC

On Tuesday June 15, a rank and file building worker, Ark Tribe, faces trial. Ark is charged with not attending a secret interrogation with the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) about a workplace safety dispute. Ark has displayed courage – we need to display solidarity. The Rudd Labor Government has not yet fulfilled its promise to abolish the unfair laws imposed on construction workers by the Howard Government.

Geography:

Sydney

Troops out of Afghanistan & Pakistan now

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 11/06/2010 - 12:30am

No more troops in Afghanastan & Pakistan. No more road blocks on the silk road that goes from the middle east to chinese ports, no more roadblocks on the silk road & no more troops . . . . .

Geography:

Sydney

June 10th national day of action for equal pay for women

Submitted by Flowerpower on Thu, 10/06/2010 - 6:43pm

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