Public meeting:
Student radicals and the Vietnam War:
WHY WE HAD TO BREAK THE LAW TO BUILD A MOVEMENT
The protest at the Woomera detention centre has highlighted the central
role of civil disobedience actions in building a movement to free the
refugees.
Today's movement can learn important lessons from the stuggle against
the Vietnam war, the most successful movement in modern times in
Australia, which combined defiant actions of civil disobedience with
mass mobilisations on the streets and industrial action by workers.
A panel of activists from the 1960s and 70s will draw the links.
Speakers include:
MICHAEL HYDE -- leading radical activist from Monash Uni, central to the
famous July 4 US embassy protests & to the collection of aid for the NLF.
MARTIN HIRST -- former editor of Honi Soit at Sydney Uni, expelled from
uni for leading anti-racist protests.
DIANE FIELDES -- activist at ANU in Canberra during the volatile 70s.
WHEN: 7.30pm Friday 19 April
WHERE: Trades Hall, cnr Lydon & Victoria Sts, Carlton (Melbourne)
This meeting is the launch meeting of the Socialism 2002 conference
organised by Socialist Alternative which will be held at Trades Hall
over the weekend of Friday 19 to Sunday 21 April.
For more info ph 9348 0766 or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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