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 -- 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