Feminist Education Association
Radical Women
Freedom Socialist Party
Solidarity Salon, 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick VIC 3056
03-9388-0062
News release
Monday 19 February 2001
Contact: Alison Thorne, 03-9386-5065, 03-9388-0062
Do not use after 10 March 2001
Socialist feminists launch new organising centre in Brunswick
Three socialist feminist organisations - Radical Women, the Freedom
Socialist Party and the Feminist Education Association - have teamed up to
open a new multicultural socialist feminist organising centre in Moreland.
Solidarity Salon, located at 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick, will be officially
launched at an International Women's Day Celebration on Saturday 10 March.
Alison Thorne, the organiser for the Melbourne Branch of the Freedom
Socialist Party, said "International Women's Day is the perfect occasion to
open Solidarity Salon because IWD, which has been celebrated around the
world since 1910, was initiated by socialist feminists. The Russian
Revolution was started by women textile workers who struck on International
Women's Day and this is the defiant spirit we'll emulate."
Debbie Brennan, who organises the Melbourne chapter of Radical Women said
the three organisations have moved to the visible Sydney Road shop front,
because they'd outgrown their previous office and meeting space at the rear
of a West Brunswick house. "It's a sign of the times," Brennan explained.
"More and more people are fed up with the human consequences of capitalist
globalisation. Politicians try to convince us there is no alternative but
they are dead wrong! Solidarity Salon will be a beacon for everyone who
wants a world based on human need not corporate greed."
Solidarity Salon will be the venue for regular campaign meetings, political
talks, skills development sessions and study groups. It features a well
stocked boo shop with contemporary and classic feminist and Marxist theory
as well as writings by working class people of colour, women, gays and
lesbians. From March 10, the centre will welcome visitors every Tuesday and
Saturday, and at other times by appointment.
Everyone is invited to attend the official opening party. The festive
evening will feature greetings from across the globe, well wishes from
local activists, multicultural entertainment, finger food from five
continents and dancing. Doors open at 5 pm. and the official launch takes
place at 6 pm.
To arrange an interview call Alison on 9386-5065 or 9388-0062
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