Melbourne

Film screening and discussion

Screening of new documentary Uranium: Is it a Country?

Followed by discussion with Jim Green, National Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth

With debates about energy sources and how to tackle climate change, there has been a push for Australia to take up the nuclear option in power generation. Ziggy Switkowski, head of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation says, Australia is ‘out of step’ in rejecting nuclear energy. There is also a push to expand Australia's uranium mining.

The Obama Presidency: Illusion and Reality
Featuring special guest from the United States, Nellie Wong.

Nellie Wong, delegate to the San Francisco Labor Council* and visiting Freedom Socialist Party leader, will share her insights from the front lines of multiracial working class resistance in the United States.

Wong’s talk will highlight:
• the fight to deliver on health, education and housing
• feminists, queers and immigrants facing off the right wing
• the myth of Obama’s post-racial society

Cannon was an extraordinary class struggle fighter and founder of the U.S. Trotskyist movement. This meeting will feature a tribute and include edited audio-visual highlights from a 2009 May Day speech by historian, Bryan Palmer. Palmer’s biography, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890 – 1928, vividly depicts this inspiring, plain-spoken radical who devoted his life to creating a better world.