Sydney branch
Sydney Central Resistance
Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale Mail: PO Box 515, Broadway 2007 Ph: (02) 9690 1977 Web: http://www.resistance.org.au/sydney Email: sydney@resistance.org.au MySpace: www.myspace.com/resistance_sydney E-mail list:Sydney West Resistance
Activist Centre, Upstairs, Office 7, 29 Macquarie St, Parramatta Ph: (02) 9687 5134 Web: http://www.resistance.org.au/sydney Email: sydwest@resistance.org.au E-mail list:Resistance Campaigning Stalls:
City: Fri 4-6pm (George St opp Town Hall) University of Sydney: Tues, Wed, Thurs 11am-1pm (outside Fisher Library) University of New South Wales: Tues 12-2pm (outside the Library)
1. Sat June 14 - campaigning!
11am-1pm: Campaigning at Glebe Markets - help put up posters, hadn out leaflets, distribute alternative media (Green Left Weekly), and join the fight for a better world!
2. Sat June 14 - "Justice: Where the bloody hell are you? Race and class in Australia"
2pm, Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale
Part of an educational series, hosted by Resistance and Democratic Socialist Perspective, every second Saturday.
More than two hundred years ago, Australia was declared "terra nullius" — empty land, belonging to nobody. Never mind the hundreds of Aboriginal nations: the British needed another colony to get rid of prisoners and as a source of raw materials.
Now we have a military intervention into the Northern Territory (which the Rudd government is expanding), and Aborigines live in Third World conditions within Australia.
Where does racism come from, and how is it economically important to capitalist governments? This educational will provide a theoretical backdrop to modern racism, and racist policies that have continued since colonisation.
3. You are invited to a Green Left Weekly and Blue Mountains
Socialist Alliance forum:
Beyond sorry -- The racist NT intervention, land rights & real
justice
Greg Eatock, founding member of the Aboriginal Rights Coalition, will
discuss the reality of the racist NT intervention and address the
question of real justice under the new Rudd government.
Saturday, June 14, 2pm.
Family Hotel bistro, Parke St, Katoomba.
Organised by Green Left Weekly and the Blue Mountains Socialist Alliance.
Ph 4787 7859 for more information.
Read Socialist Alliance's draft Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Rights Charter at http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=753
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5. Green Left Weekly/Blue Mountains Socialist Alliance stall at Winter
Magic June 21
Green Left Weekly and the Blue Mountains Socialist Alliance is back at
the annual Winter Magic Festival.
Drop by and pick up a copy of GLW, some books and some badges, and have
a chat about politics.
If you can stay a while and help out, please do.
Winter Magic is on Saturday, June 21. Our stall will running from 8am
until at least 5pm. Phone Terry on 4787 7859 if you'd like to lend a hand.
5. ¡Resistance 2008! national conference
War, racism, environmental destruction, homophobia, sexism......
Turn Anger into Action!
¡Resistance 2008!
Friday June 27 - Sunday June 29
Guthrie Theatre, University of Technology
Entrance
on Harris Street (near Central Station)
Click here to register online!
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While many of us heralded the end of the Howard regime, we know the fight for justice has not ended. We know the struggle for real and sustained justice has to go on. Resistance has been heavily involved the struggles for social change and environmental justice in Australia. We are a socialist youth organisation that is committed to building broad based movements, to further our goal of fighting for a better world.
¡ Resistance 2008! will bring together young activists, from all over Australia to make decisions on furthering progressive campaigns and discuss how we build a socialist alternative to capitalism. It will give participants the opportunity to hear eyewitness accounts from two young Resistance members that have spent the last year living in Venezuela; Fred Fuentes- an aid to an adviser in the Chavez government and Kiraz Janicke - correspondent for Venezuela Analysis & Green Left Weekly in Venezuela. Also attending the conference will be Isaac Shuisha: a Palestinian activist from Israel, whose experiences are timely, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of Al Nakba (the Catastrophe).
Workshops will also include; Sexism and the struggle for women's liberation today; El Salvador at a crossroad ; The Northern Territory intervention - Justice: where the bloody hell are ya?; Combating homophobia and the case for same-sex marriage rights. The history of the ALP - a sorry history of selling out;;Troops out now: Iraq and Afghanistan today; Nepal: the newest republic.
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Seeya around!
Lauren
