The Case for Abortion Law Repeal. Politics in the Pub. Thursday September 9, 6-7.30pm, Green Ant Cantina, Bunda St. Organised by Pro-Choice Cairns

Event date:  Thu, 09/09/2010 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm Phone:  Carole 4039 2720

Friends of Baucau and Friends of Aileu are proud to invite you to a new Australian play by Mari Lourey and directed by Nadja Kostich, which will premiere at fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, as a special La Mama presentation.

The play is set in the world of photojournalism and set in East Timor, the Balkans and Iraq. The play was shortlisted for the 2008 Patrick White award and was the recipient of the R.E. Ross Trust Award.

For more about Bare Witness see the forty-five downstairs website.

Event date:  Fri, 17/09/2010 Event time:  Fri, 17/09/2010 - 7:30pm Website:  Forty Five Downstairs - Bare Witness 2

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Asylum seekers have no connection to population boom, unemployment, debt, terrorism or interest rates, but you wouldn’t know it watching the nightly news.
We receive so few refugees compared to the global community yet time and again we are told to be scared.

Why do so many Australians feel a sense of entitlement to turn back people fleeing for their lives? What does it mean to be Australian if we offer no just sanctuary for refugees? Why have we allowed a moral issue to become a political one?

Presenter: Kon Karapangiotidis established the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre in 2001.

Event date:  Thu, 09/09/2010 Event time:  Thu, 09/09/2010 - 12:45pm Website:  Wheeler Centre

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Equal Pay Day 2010 marks all the extra days each year it takes women to catch up to men’s annual earnings.

Women earn 18% less than men on average. This year it will take an extra 65 days to make up that pay, starting from the end of the financial year (30 June 2010).
Therefore Equal Pay Day is 3 September 2010.
Next year it could take even longer!!!

9.30am -11.00am, Trades Hall, Carlton, 54 Victoria Street Carlton South.
Wear red.

Event date:  Fri, 03/09/2010 Event time:  Fri, 03/09/2010 - 9:30am Email:  cfruscalzo@vthc.org.au Website:  Equal Pay Day Phone:  9659 3576

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A Q&A-style panel discussion featuring international refugee law experts: Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill (Oxford); Professor Geoff Gilbert (Essex); Professor Kate Jastram (Berkeley); Associate Professor Jane McAdam (UNSW). Moderated by Professor George Williams (UNSW).

Where: UNSW Law Theatre, UNSW, Kensington

Event date:  Tue, 21/09/2010 - 6:15pm Website:  http://www.law.unsw.edu.au

The Burma – Women’s Voices for Peace anthology focuses on the stories of women’s experiences living within Burma and as refugees. Their stories are heartbreaking and moving, and we are privileged that these women have been willing to share so many painful, suspenseful and inspiring experiences with compassion, humility and wit.

This is the 7th compilation of writings by Women from Burma.

We are delighted to be able to share this night with you.

6.30 pm, Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton.

Free, no need to book.

Event date:  Tue, 07/09/2010 Event time:  Tue, 07/09/2010 - 6:30pm

LABJACD, The Conch, Pataphysics, Madre Monte, I Heart Cusack.

Five of Melbournes hottest bands together for a special night to commemorate 37 years since the terrible period in Chilean history with the overthrow of democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende, and to draw out the inspirational struggle that the chilean people and the rest of Latin America have undertaken to fight for a better world.
...It's also a part of 80 Gigs In 80 Days in support of the Victorian music scene.

Event date:  Fri, 10/09/2010 Event time:  Fri, 10/09/2010 - 7:00pm

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Students for Palestine raise funds to buy cement to rebuild infrastructure ruined by the Israeli invasion of Gaza.

Live music & halal food.
6.30pm. Members Lounge, Melbourne University Student Union Building.
$10/$8. For more info ph 0423 407 910.

Event date:  Sat, 11/09/2010 Event time:  Sat, 11/09/2010 - 6:30pm Phone:  0423 407 910

In 1948, more than 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homeland by the Zionist forces becoming the world's biggest refugee population. The Palestinian refugees in Iraq experienced brutality from the hands of US forces and militia in 2003, resulting in a mass exodus from their homes in Baghdad.
The meeting examines the question resettling them in Australia.

Speakers: Yousef al Reemawi (refugee advocate), Robin Laycock (Palestine Solidarity Campaign), and others.

7pm. New International Bookshop, Trades Hall, cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton.

Event date:  Thu, 09/09/2010 Event time:  Thu, 09/09/2010 - 7:00pm Phone:  0431 738 271

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Featuring guest speakers from: Bolivia - Alina Canaviri Sullcani Leader of the Indigenous and Rural Women Federation of Bolivia “Bartolina Sisa” & Morale´s MAS; El Salvador- Dr. Guillermo Mata Bennett (FMLN representative to the Lower House); Venezuela - Angel Navas (Electrical Workers Federation FETRAELEC); Uruguay - Washington Belleti (Movement for Land and against Poverty).

Organised by the Latin America Social Forum.

Event date:  Sat, 16/10/2010 - 9:00am - Sun, 17/10/2010 - 5:00pm Email:  lasfsydney@gmail.com Phone:  0413 310 452

Sun, 29/08/2010

Wed, 25/08/2010 By Fred Fuentes

Rather than giving us the government we deserve, the August 21 federal election delivered an outcome the two old parties deserved.

Because both Labor and the Coalition focused on negative campaigning, sloganeering and scapegoating refugees and other minorities, a large number of voters decided to vote for alternatives with some vision.

A hung parliament with the Greens holding the balance of power in the Senate was only a partial reflection of this growing disenchantment with the two-party system.

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Fri, 20/08/2010

Victorian Socialist Alliance Federal election candidates strongly condemn the Australian Federal Police raids on the Kurdish Association of Victoria and community members as a cynical pre-election maneuver and yet another attempt to sow fear and suspicion into the boarder community.

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Fri, 27/08/2010 By Peter Boyle

The death of Lance-Corporal Jared Mackinney in Oruzgan province in Afghanistan on August 25 brought the death toll of Australian soldiers to 21 — 10 of whom have died since June. Mackinney was the third Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan in four days.

Defence minister Senator John Faulkner defensively admitted at a media conference the same day that Australians are increasingly questioning the near nine-year old war.

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Struggle Street is a long running program organised by the Unemployed Workers Union to help highlight the problems facing the less fortunate in our local, national and global communities, and to be their advocate. Discussion is varied, ranging from the effects of capitalism to politics, legislation, government action and inaction, and corruption.

Event date:  Sat, 28/08/2010 - 5:00pm Event time:  Sat, 28/08/2010 - 5:00pm Email:  admin@voxfm.org.au Website:  Vox FM Phone:  02 4226 9393

Mon, 23/08/2010 By Tim Anderson

Unexpectedly, it seems to me, a great opportunity for social change has emerged. This might seem strange, with another neo-fascist on the verge of becoming Australian Prime Minister. However remember that real change comes from widespread social participation, over longer periods.

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Wed, 25/08/2010 By Graham Matthews

There are very few certainties about the federal Parliament over the next three years. The stunning rejection of both Labor and Liberal by the voting public has left neither likely to form a government in their own right. Whichever party governs, it will have to rely on the support of at least three and probably four independents (with Andrew Wilkie's chance of taking Denison from Labor firming).

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The Sydney premiere of Oliver Stone's new film which reveals the emergence of progressive governments in Latin America. Screening alongside the hilarious "Awkward" by Canadian filmmaker Kellie Ann Benz. Ticket includes film, complimentary food and beverages.

Green Left Weekly special two-event offer ("South of the Border" (Sept 9) + GLW 3 course dinner (Sept 11)): Both events only $35conc, $50waged, $70solidarity [Regular price for film festival opening night alone is $35]

Factory Theatre, Victoria Rd Marrickville.

Event date:  Thu, 09/09/2010 - 6:00pm Email:  briannap@greenleft.org.au Website:  http://southoftheborderdoc.com/ Phone:  9690 1977 or Brianna 0439 694 505

Speakers include Chris Graham (Director, Media & Marketing, NSW Aboriginal Land Council) who will critique the ABC Lateline program titled "Sexual slavery reported in Indigenous community"; Tjanara Goreng Goreng (Aboriginal community activist who blew the whistle on the NT Intervention).

UTS Universtiy Hall, Harris St entrance (opp ABC), Ultimo.

Organised by Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney (STICS)

Event date:  Fri, 03/09/2010 - 6:00pm Website:  http://www.stoptheintervention.org Phone:  Jean 0449 646 593

For new members or those interested in finding out more about Australia's largest and broadest socialist organisation. Who is the Alliance and where did it come from? What does SA stand for and how do we organise? Come along to discuss, raise questions, and get involved.

Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale. Cheap dinner available from 6pm.

(An earlier intro session is being held on Sat afternoon, August 28, for those who can't make this one)

Event date:  Wed, 01/09/2010 - 6:00pm Email:  sydney@socialist-alliance.org Website:  http://www.socialist-alliance.org Phone:  9690 1977 or Brianna 0439 694 505