LL:DDS: Good Global Governance - Can the UN deliver?
Please distribute this notice widely among your networks A public meeting Good Global Governance ... Can the United Nations deliver? Speakers: Dr Anthony Burke, Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Politics, University of Adelaide and author of In Fear of Security: Australia's Invasion Anxiety, published Pluto Press Australia, 2001 Dimity Hawkins Formerly of Reaching Critical Will, a nuclear disarmament project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, WILPF United Nations Office, New York Tuesday 18th June 2002 7.15 pm for a 7.30 start. Finishing at 9.30 pm Coglin Street Community Centre 23 Coglin Street, Adelaide (Please note the change of venue) Entry by gold coin donation Live music Supper provided Organised by: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (SA) and the United Nations Association of Australia (South Australian Division) Further information: phone 08 8296 4357 -- -- 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 Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDQ: film featuring refugees in detention premiere may 14th
BIT MULTIMEDIA and INDYMEDIA BRISBANE present a VIDEO TEPPISTA production 'WAKING UP THE NATION: Journal from the Freedom Bus a film by Amex During the summer months a group of people, concerned about the mistreatment of asylum seekers inside Australia's detention centres, decided to embark on a journey around the continent to visit the people in the camps, and to raise more awareness in the community, especially in rural towns. 'Waking up the Nation: Journal from the Freedom Bus' takes you on the journey, and introduces you to many of the hundreds of people still incarcerated. WUTN premieres in Brisbane on May 14th, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Fortitude Valley more info on www.angry.at/videoteppista (this site is uncomplete yet, so please keep checking back) further screenings of WUTN are planned in the following towns and cities: Bellingen, NSW Armidale, NSW Sydney Melbourne complete information to be announced soon (the site is uncomplete yet, so please keep checking back) \/ | |) (- () TEPPISTA UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER = This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects.
LL:DDV: Coming Soon at Trades Hall
GET IT LIVE - GET IT AT TRADES HALL, the home of conscience culture ... M1 2002 FILM SCREENING - presented SKA TV Come see the footage from Melbourne May Day 2002 - hot from the edit suite. Sure to grab your attention . . . 8pm, Monday May 6th Trades Hall Bar FREE Event - donations to SKA TV more than welcome BED presented by Syntax Theatre Company Do you know what you Nana is doing tonight? In one giant BED lay seven elderly people, all tucked in tight. As all seven drift in and out of sleep, all is not as it seems behind their elderly facade . . . Transported back to their youths through their dreams. Mundane situations become surreal, even the simplest task of getting a glass of water becomes a great Great Escape. BED offers a visual feast of exotic bra jugglers, acrobats and a traumatic voyage under the sea . . . all taking place in one BED! Jim Cartwright is one of the mavericks of British theatre - Daily Telegraph Cartwright writes better about old people than anyone I know, except perhaps Beckett. This is an odd, harrowing and hilarious piece, entirely without sentimentality, sturdy but moving. - John Peter, Sunday Times Directed by Renee Palmer - Performed by Kurt Mottershead, Clare Danahur, Clinton Ahern, Germaine Wattis, Jennifer Natale, Mark Bruin, Emma Valenta 8pm, Wed - Sat May 8th - 11th The Old Council Chambers * 3 SHOWS ONLY * $15 Full/ $12 Conc - Bookings Ph: 9685 5111 WOOMERA CD LAUNCH The exciting, new Melbourne band Little Red Look are launching their first single WOOMERA at Trades Hall. This song is sure to become one of the great Australian social justice tunes. Little Red Look will be joined by Aiden Roche for this great evening of new music. Some of the proceeds from the event will be donated to the Refugee Action Collective and the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre. 7:30pm, Friday May 10th Trades Hall Bar Entry $15 - includes a copy of the CD single WOOMERA THE WAITING ROOM presented by Melbourne Workers Theatre and Platform 27 Why does Australia fear the world's most helpless and vulnerable citizens? MWT Platform 27 dare you to look past the razor wire into the white face of of Australia's refugee policy. THE WAITING ROOM is hardhitting political theatre that aims to debunk the racist myths about refugees and confront audiences with the reality of existence inside detention centres. Melbourne Workers Theatre, Melbourne's workshop for new writing and theatre, celebrates its 15th birthday this year with a continuing committment to working class issues and struggles and those of people from disadvantaged and disenfranchised communities. THE WAITING ROOM is the first partnership between Melbourne Workers Theatre and Platform 27. Previews May 13, 14 @ 6:30pm - Tickets ONLY $10 6:30pm Mondays Tuesdays - 8pm Wednesday - Saturday, May 15 - June 1 The New Ballroom $20 Full/ $13 Conc/ $10 Previews groups 10+ Bookings Ph: 9326 8371 www.melbourneworkerstheatre.com GET IT LIVE - GET IT AT TRADES HALL 54 Victoria St (Cnr Lygon St) Carlton Ph: 9662 3555 Trades Hall Bar - open nightly from 5pm 'til late Friday Happy Hours 4-7pm more info visit www.tradeshallarts.com.au - Pass it on -- 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 Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:INFO: revolutionary history
Some books that might be of interest to those in or studying the Trotskyist movement: Trotsky and the Origins of Trotskyism, Alfred Rosmer at al, Francis Boutle, $41.70 An interesting account of the so-called 'first-wave' of Trotskyism, as well as rare material concerning Trotsky's biography. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Marxism, RS Baghavan (with preface by CLR James), Socialist Platform, $12.00 The underpinnings of Marxist theory by a leading Sri Lankan Trotskyist. War and the International: A History of the Trotskyist Movement in Britain 1937-1949, Sam Bornstein Al Richardson, Socialist Platform, $25.95 How the tiny forces of revolutionary Marxism in Britain coped with WWII. Harry Wicks: A Memorial, Ted Crawford (ed), Socialist Platform, $5.00 A selection of articles by and about one of the pioneers of British Trotskyism. The Warsaw Commune: Betrayed by Stalin, Massacred by Hitler, Zygmunt Zaremba, $13.75 A participant's account of the legendary uprising, focusing on the political character of the struggle. The Arturian Uprising: Fifteen Days of Socialist Revolutoin, Manuel Grossi, $18.50 An account of a largely forgotten experiment with workers' control in the years just before the Spanish Civil War. Jeff Sparrow Coordinator New International Book Co-operative Box 18 Trades Hall 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] -- 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 Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: tariq ali speaks on palestine
British anti-war activist Tariq Ali speaks on After September 11: The Crisis in Palestine Tariq Ali is an acclaimed political theorist, activist, novelist and film maker. An editor of New Left Review, he has written over a dozen books on world history and politics. His new book The Clash of Fundamentalisms -- an analysis of the context behind September 11 -- will be on sale on the night. Tuesday 4 June 6.30 pm New Council Chamber Trades Hall Cnr Lygon and Victoria Sts Carlton Sth for more information, call 9662 3744 entry by donation Chaired and introduced by Taimor Hazou, Co-secretary, Friends of Palestine Sponsored by New International Bookshop/ Friends of Palestine Jeff Sparrow Coordinator New International Book Co-operative Box 18 Trades Hall 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] -- 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 Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
