LL:DDV: SECOND ANNIVERSARY - EAST TIMOR INDEPENDENCE BALLOT
SPECIAL PANEL ON THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE EAST TIMOR INDEPENDENCE BALLOT Wednesday 28th August 6.30 pm New International Bookshop Meeting Room Trades Hall, 54 Victoria St, Carlton Sth As part of the regular Wednesday night at the New International Bookshop series, NIBS presents a discussion of the past, present and future of the newest Pacific state. After comments from a panel of Timor experts, the topic will be opened for discussion and debate from the floor. Speakers include: Gerson Alves, a graduate in Agricultural Economics from the University of Timor Loro Sa'e, has worked in microfinance, in public health and as District Facilitator of the Community Empowerment Project. He is currently a Masters student in Environmental Management at Victoria University, St Albans and Vice-President of the East Timor Students Association. Joao Cancio Freitas, Lecturer at the University of Timor Loro Sa'e in Public Administration and Deputy Director of the National Research Centre, PhD candidate at Victoria University and Chair of the East TImor Think Tank on Local Government. Dr Helen Hill, Senior Lecturer in Asia-Pacific Sociology at Victoria University, convenor of the VU East Timor Working Group and President of the Australia-East Timor Association. She wrote a Masters thesis on FRETILIN in the 1970's, recently published as Stirrings of Nationalism in East Timor: FRETILIN 1974-78, and currently researching a book on the transition to independence. She has spent almost a year in TImor in the post-ballot period. Alex Tilman, Secretary of the East Timor Students Association, has worked for the Department of Serious Crimes in the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor, he is currently working on an Honours thesis at Victoria University on the politics of Constitution Making in East Timor. Entry: members/subscribers $5, others $6, concession, $2 for more information, call 9663 4744 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff Sparrow Coordinator New International Book Co-operative Trades Hall Box 18 54 Victoria St Carlton Sth 3053 Mon-Fri 9am-6.30 pm Sat 11am-5pm tel 03 9662 3744 fax 03 9663 4755 www.nibs.org.au to receive regular updates about bookshop events, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comrades, cling to your principles! Be men and women! We are fighting for freedom; why should we falter? J.W.Fleming, 1889 . -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: Coming Soon at Trades Hall
GET IT LIVE - GET IT AT TRADES HALL ARTS, bringing class back into the class struggle . . . HURRY . . . 3 GREAT SHOWS MUST FINISH THIS WEEKEND!! - ROD QUANTOCKíS BOREDOM PROTECTION POLICY: An Inaugural State of the Nation Address and Evening of Comic Vengeance - Must end this Friday . . . 'Brilliant observations only whet our appetite for more, like the description of Ruddock's cryogenic charm . . . Once again, Quantock delivers telling blows to the right with disarming humour, cunningly disguised intelligence and idiosyncratic charm.' - Hellen Thomson, The Age Monday 5/8/02 Direct from his 2002 Comedy Festival triumph, ëScum Nationí, Melbourne comedy legend and the comedian they said killed Kennett is ready to take up his hatchet-of-humour once more and get stuck into everything from our Incredible Shrinking P.M. to The War on Trevor. Rod Quantock applies himself to the geo-eco-socio-political post-S11 landscape. . . because a comedian has to do what a comedian has to do. The New Council Chambers 8:15pm Thursday Friday, Aug 22 23 Tickets: $30 Full/ $22.50 Conc Bookings Ph: 1300 136 166, visit www.ticketmaster7.com.au or buy at the door on the night Stage Left Review FAINTING 33 TIMES presented by La Trobe University Student Theatre Must end this Sunday . . . Fainting 33 Times explores the last five years of the life of the great Russian director, Vsevelod Meyerhold - one of the 20th century's greatest theatrical innovators and the pioneer of Biomechanics. It begins with his 1935 production of 33 Swoons, which comprised three short farces by Anton Chekhov. The production follows his struggles with the Soviet authorities, the closure of his theatre and ends with his trial, torture and execution by the NKVD in 1940. Fainting 33 Times will evoke the spirit of the cultural explosion that occurred in Russia in years following the revolution. Written by Adam Cass, Directed by Bob Pavlich The New Ballroom 8pm Wed - Sat 6pm Sundays, until August 25th Tickets: $14 Full/ $8 Conc Bookings Ph: 9479 1198 - FEMALE PARTS presented by Difficult Women Theatre Company - Must end this Sunday . . . Welcome to a funny night at the theatre . . . Female Parts is a production which draws attention to female oppression but is, at the same time, shamelessly entertaining. Drawing on the traditions of Brecht, Burlesque, Performance art and Day-time television, Female Parts promises to take audiences on an exciting and wicked adventure into hyper domesticity. Female Parts shines a comic light onto the reality of working women and mothersí lives. It explores the daily domestic chaos of a woman preparing herself for work and her baby for childcare, the dilemmas of a middle class house-wife who is trapped and abused, and the struggles of an articulate, upwardly mobile newly pregnant intellectual woman. WAKING UP: daily domestic chaos winds itself into the beginning of a revolution. THE SAME OLD STORY: a late in the day, left wing, intellectual pregnancy becomes a twisted fairy-tale. A WOMAN ALONE: trapped cabin fever housewife armed with an iron attempts to wrest control of her oppressive environment. THIS IS FEMINIST FARCE! Fast, funny, smart and sexy. They may be chained to the kitchen sink, but beware! The drawers are full of sharp things! The Old Council Chambers 7.30pm Tues - Sat, 6pm Sunday Aug 20 - 25 Tickets: $18.50 Full/ $13 Conc Bookings Ph: 9417 0776 --- THE PARTY ROOM - A Keep Left Theatre Benefit Fundraiser --- Everything is stuffed . . . so, for one night only, The Keep Left Theatre Company is turning the Trades Hall Bar into THE PARTY ROOM! Featuring new and pre-loved comedy skits from Frank Otis, scenes from (and news of the return of) Safe Haven, a sneak preview of the new Keep Left Theatre full length play, music from Spotswood Swing and The Keep Left Quartet plus much, much more. Money raised will assist the funding the next Keep Left Theatre production which will be announced on the night. Remember . . . Keep Angry, Keep Active, Keep Left! Here is what famous people think about Keep Left Theatre:- They put the T in Terror - George W Bush They should lighten up and call themselves The Give Way To The Right Theatre Company - Meg Lees I heard some of them even shower in the nude - George Pell What they are doing is illegal and it is threatening
LL:PR: Refugee Embassy closes down
Refugee Embassy Closes Down submitted by Dave McKay The Refugee Embassy which has been based at Woomera since Easter of this year, has announced that it is closing down. Ross Parry and Dave McKay started the bus-based embassy as an attempt to provide better communication and moral support between asylum seekers imprisoned at Woomera and members of the general public. They announced their intentions to visit detainees on a regular basis, as well as putting fellow Australians in contact with detainees for the purpose of writing to and telephoning them. An indefinite ban (by the Department of Immigration) on the two men visiting detainees has restricted them in their efforts, but did not stop them from arranging visits for many other people, and from campaigning for better conditions inside the detention centre. Eventually, with help from his wife, Cherry, who was allowed to visit detainees, Dave produced a book of profiles about specific residents of the desert concentration camp, called The Worst of Woomera. Sales of the book are now approaching 50,000. It has been a powerful tool in introducing the general public to the human face of asylum seekers. We knew from the start that we could not stay on here indefinitely, Ross Parry said today. And we have been trying to encourage others to come and take over what we have started. The Embassy's efforts to assist detainees were seriously hampered when an opponent of the embassy turned up in town and was granted free access to detainees, some of whom she convinced that the Refugee Embassy was out to get them or their relatives killed. This woman has been here for more than two months now, complained Dave Mckay, and she has done little if anything to help the detainees. Her main contribution has been to undermine our efforts. Detainees are being torn in two, and we cannot function under this kind of opposition. Both McKay and Parry say that fresh faces could be the answer to both of their problems. If someone else were to set up in Woomera, they might be able to get permission to visit, and they might be able to shake the stigma which the agitator has generated with regard to the Refugee Embassy. It is understood that the woman herself has now been banned from visiting detainees, because of the distress that her presence has generated amongst asylum seekers there. Both Ross Parry and Dave McKay will continue to maintain contact with detainees by mail and post from the East Coast, and they will continue to produce The Freedom Banner, a newspaper consisting of contributions from the detainees themselves. (It is composed and printed outside the prison, and then posted in to the detainees for distribution.) In addition, Ross and Dave will continue to promote and distribute copies of The Worst of Woomera to people around Australia. Copies may be ordered singly, or in bulk (up to 880 copies at one time), from the email address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] or via Box A678, Sydney South 1235. There is no set price on the 32-page A4 sized books, which have been produced for less than fifty cents each. People are asked to contribute as little or as much as they feel they can afford. Even if you cannot afford to pay fifty cents, do not let it stop you from ordering copies to distribute in your neighbourhood, at work, or at school, they said. Dave McKay 0422-142-702 Ross Parry 0407-238805 -- All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to remain silent and do nothing. . -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: Is wind power disadvantaged in the Electricity Market?
The Energy Action Group presents Is wind power disadvantaged in the National Electricity Market? Professor Hugh Outhred wind power, security of supply and the 'market' Dr Hugh Outhred is from the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Renewable Energy at the University of New South Wales and has written extensively on the national electricity market. The Energy Action Group represents electricity users on the Reliability Panel of the National Electricity Code Administrator. Thursday 5th September 2002 6.00pm Victoria University Conference Centre level 12, 300 Flinders St Melbourne RSVP Energy Action Group Inquiries: 041 736 2709 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vicnet.net.au/~eag1/ Want to do some pre-reading? http://alpha400.ee.unsw.edu.au/elec9223/Program%2002%20S2.htm This is a free event -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
