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Four session discussion circle on the newly publishedanthology
Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of GayLiberation
Tuesdays 7:00 pm – 8:45 pm
First session: Tuesday 13th April and then 27th April, 11thMay and 25th May
Solidarity Salon
580 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Take the Upfield train to Anstey Station or Sydney Road tramto Stewart Street. Plenty of free parking is available at the rear. Enter fromStaley Street.
“This book represents a snapshot of that moment when queersweren’t obsessed with tying the knot of picking up a rifle to go off and fight‘terrorists.’ Revolution was in the air.”
Tommi Avicolli Mecca,Editor
These essays by dykes, drag queens, transsexuals, and queersof colour, who built the radical movement of sexual minorities in the 1960s and’70s, provide often overlooked insights into modern queer history and usefullessons for today’s generation Q activists.
Check out a review of the book at: http://www.socialism.com/drupal-6.8/?q=node/249
Everyone is welcome! Come to any or all four sessions.
For more information call Alison on 9388-0062 or e-mail freedom.socialist.party@ozemail.com.auor visit www.socialism.com/Melbourne
Sponsored by the Freedom Socialist Party
Entry by donation ($5 suggested donation)
Drinks and meals available at pub prices
The recent and unprecedented global financial crisis that has deepened the gap between the poor masses and the millionaires, has increased unemployment and poverty. The global capitalist system has shown once again its inability to function without heavy subsidies from the governments. These gaps have however strengthened the tide of progressive and revolutionary movements and governments in Latin America, who say BASTA! (enough!) to foreign domination, exploitation and repression.
From the progressive governments of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador, to the streets of Mexico, the Colombian mountains and the everyday struggle of the Central American people, Latin America is showing another world is not only possible, not only necessary, but is becoming reality.
The Latin American Forum- Victoria has brought together a number of solidarity groups and political organisations who work in support of the struggles in Latin America.
Join us in this night to celebrate the improvements in the lives of millions of Latin Americans through universal healthcare and education, and to show your support to the resistance in countries where people stand together to change their reality.
Enjoy some Latin American live music.
For more information, please contact Lulu 0421 957 341, Roberto 0425 182994 or Sean 0415 122 135.
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About us
LATIN AMERICAN FORUM- VICTORIA
AIMS & OBJECTIVES
The Latin American Forum-Victoria (LAF) was established in November 2009
by solidarity organisations and political parties in
Australia including the Centre for Latin America Solidarity and Studies,
Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network, Peace and Justice for Colombia
(PJFC-Melbourne), Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional
(FMLN-Melbourne), Communist Party of Chile (Melbourne), Unidad
Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca- Movimiento Amplio de Izquierdas
(URNG-MAIZ, Melbourne), Communist Party of Australia, Socialist Alliance
and the Revolutionary Socialist Party.
The LAF recognises the leading role that the revolutionary governments of Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela have played in confronting U.S imperialism in the region.
The LAF also recognises the important role of other progressive governments in the region including Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Uruguay, as well as local governments and revolutionary movements and organisations.
The formation of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas has been a vital instrument for a united response to the attacks on the working people of Latin America by International imperialism led by the United States. An imperialism that with its support to the coup d’état in Honduras and the installation of up to seven military bases in Colombia tries to throttle the hope for liberty and emancipation across the Latin American continent and carries the risk of destabilising the whole region, with a provocation of unforeseeable consequences.
The LAF aims to contribute in the discussion of ideas that oppose the economic political and cultural imperialism of the US and other powers, and supports the anti-capitalist principles in the search of democracy, sovereignty and justice.
SOLIDARITY
The LAF aims to help coordinate and develop united solidarity action and
events in Australia with the working class and progressive movements in
Latin America and work towards building links with the working class struggles of the Asia-Pacific region.
ACTION
The LAF will aim to help coordinate joint seminars, conferences,
cultural events and tours that help educate and inspire ongoing
solidarity action and support with the working people and the
revolutionary and progressive governments and revolutionary movements of
Latin America.
MEMBERSHIP
The LAF is primarily a representative body of solidarity organisations
and political parties in Australia that work in solidarity with the
progressive and revolutionary movements and governments in Latin America.
Participation is however also open to individuals that share the aims and objectives of the Latin American Forum and want to work in a united manner to achieve those aims. Such participation will be determined by a consensus of existing organisations.
Come and discover the treasures of the Casey Cardinia region at the Discover Casey Cardinia Expo on Sunday 18th April at the Berwick Leisure Centre. Family fun, business, giveaways, prizes, professional services, retail, trades, travel, food and wine, massage and beauty, speakers and much more. There will be a treasure trail to keep the kids entertained and there are some great prizes to be won Entertainment from local community groups will be held throughout the day Pamper room with massage, hand pampering, spray tans and much more Fun for the whole family. Admission is FREE! Event being organised by Women Making It Work Inc and sponsered by the City of Casey & Cardinia Shire. Date - Sunday 18th April from 10am - 5pm Where - Berwick Leisure Centre, 79 Manuka Road, Berwick For further information contact WMIW on 0407 009 656 Discover Casey Cardinia Expo 79 Manuka Road, Berwick Victoria Australia. View Map Telephone: 0407 009 656 www.discovercasey-cardiniaexpo.org.au
This is the first time we’ve secured a premiere film, and it’s going to be huge!
Date: Sunday, 18th April 2010
Theme: A Fantastical Journey
Dress: Backpacker
Bring: Your passport and a toothbrush
Location: Revealed three days before via text message and email
Time: 4.00pm - 9pm
Cost: $30
Purchase tickets: http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=35859
For more details head to: http://www.undergroundcinema.com.au
You can also join us on Facebook and Twitter.
Stop Martin Ferguson Dumping on Traditional Owners
Information evening, photo exhibition, film screening
Muckaty Traditional Owners Dianne Stokes and Mark Chungaloo will be in Melbourne to speak at this important event. Please come along and publicise widely.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 – 6.45pm to 8.00pm
Northcote Town Hall, 189 High St, Rooftop Room
Speakers:
Dianne Stokes and Mark Chungaloo - Muckaty Traditional Owners
Natalie Wasley - Arid Lands Environment
Centre, N.T.
Dr. Bill Williams - President, Medical Association for the
Prevention of War.
Dave Sweeney - Australian Conservation Foundation.
Jim
Green - Friends of the Earth
Organised by Friends of the Earth
Contact: Tully McIntyre 0410 388187 starrbusta@yahoo.com.au
The Mental Health Research Institute and One in Five Association invite you to our Comedy Night. Have a laugh and help fund research into serious and disabling mental illnesses such as depression, Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia. * Optional Dinner at 7pm, $15 paid at venue, please advise by email if you will be having dinner. Menu can be viewed online.
Thursday 22 April at 8pm The Comics Lounge 26 Errol St North Melbourne Tickets: $25*
Phone 9389 2945 or visit www.mhri.edu.au to book tickets
You are warmly invited to
Earth Day Cabaret!
Featuring
• Enviro/RebelSongs Go Live!
Paul Karp performs his own songs. He is a passionate cyclingenvironmentalist, a musician, poet and a workplace delegate with the Communityand Public Sector Union.
• Proletarian poets for the planet
Saturday 24 April
• Doors open at 6:30 pm • Program at 8 pm
• Authentic Ethiopian banquet served at 7 pm
• $20 solidarity price • $15 waged • $10 concession
Solidarity Salon
580 Sydney Road,Brunswick
Take a Sydney Road tram to Stewart Street or an Upfield LineTrain to Anstey.
Or share a car with friends — there’s plenty of free parkingat the rear. Solidarity Salon is a licensed venue.
Earth Day Cabaret is a benefit for the Freedom SocialistParty travel fund. In July the FSP will host a Convention at beautifulEvergreen College in Olympia, Washington. We’re raising funds on the 40thanniversary of Earth Day to help as many members and supporters as possiblefrom Australia to attend. If you are interested in participating, call Alisonon 9388-0062.
The first Earth Day took place in the U.S. in 1970.Conceived as a nationwide environmental protest, it set out “to shake up thepolitical establishment.” It succeeded when 20 million took to the streets, todemand a healthy and sustainable environment. In 1990, Earth Day went global, mobilising 200 millionpeople in 141 countries. The situation is urgent. We need system change, notclimate change. After all, good planets are hard to find!
Sponsored by Freedom Socialist Party
For more information, to book or to offer to help make EarthDay Cabaret an unforgettable evening, call 9388-0062 or
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE(Mini festival) - Forest fundraiser.
AT : J studios - 100 Barkly st, nth Fitzroy
WHEN : Sunday 25th APRIL, 4pm till MIDNIGHT.
$10/15
***A PARTY FOR A PURPOSE***
Fundraiser for Tassie, East Gippsland and Philippines forest campaigns.
COME AND ENJOY :over 2 stages......
THE BARONS OF TANG, COMBAT WOMBAT, DJ BASS BIN LADEN, OBLIQUE INDUSTRIES, RAPSKALLION, MATT KELLY, HUGO and TREATS, EL MOTH and THE TURBO RADS, BEWILDERBEAST, 8-BIT LOVE, ZUCCHINI(kids band)
PLUS :
Punch and Judy Puppet show
Rap News
Peppers puzzles game show.
Fire art productions fire show.
Circus performance.
Roaming theatrics.
Beautiful dancers.
For you entertainment and decedent pleasures we also offer you...
Shiatsu massage lounge.
Plan B hair dressing.
Styx Pixi Blue Quasar’s tattoo parlour.
Medium life drawing collective doing portraits.
Two girls and a goat Face and body painting.
Save the forest second hand clothing stall.
Dreaming awake totem exhibition.
The wild things kissing booth.
Phillip Werner Photos booth.
Slave/ singles auctions.
Raining gems fortune telling.
GECO’s vegetarian kitchen.
The Tribal bar
Four session discussion circle on the newly publishedanthology
Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of GayLiberation
Tuesdays 7:00 pm – 8:45 pm
First session: Tuesday 13th April and then 27th April, 11th May and 25th May
Solidarity Salon
580 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Take the Upfield train to Anstey Station or Sydney Road tramto Stewart Street. Plenty of free parking is available at the rear. Enter fromStaley Street.
“This book represents a snapshot of that moment when queersweren’t obsessed with tying the knot of picking up a rifle to go off and fight‘terrorists.’ Revolution was in the air.”
Tommi Avicolli Mecca,Editor
These essays by dykes, drag queens, transsexuals, and queersof colour, who built the radical movement of sexual minorities in the 1960s and’70s, provide often overlooked insights into modern queer history and usefullessons for today’s generation Q activists.
Check out a review of the book at: http://www.socialism.com/drupal-6.8/?q=node/249
Everyone is welcome! Come to any or all four sessions.
For more information call Alison on 9388-0062 or e-mail freedom.socialist.party@ozemail.com.auor visitwww.socialism.com/Melbourne
Sponsored by the Freedom Socialist Party
This year, the Indigenous Doctors'
Association and former Family Court judge Alastair Nicholson have
condemned the Rudd government's continuation of Howard's policy of
"intervening" into Aboriginal communities. This "intervention" has
entailed the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act and
introduction of 'welfare quarantining'.
The Intervention: Katherine NT is a 2008
documentary about the impact, one year on, of this
intervention in the Northern Territory. We are also launching the Socialist Alliance Indigenous Rights Charter.
Speakers will discuss recent
developments in the campaign to stop the intervention:
- Sharon
Firebrace, Black Rights Action Group
- Mick Bull, worked on
the trade union brigade in
soildarity with the Alyawarr people in Central Australia in February
this year and an organiser with the Australian
Manufacturing Workers' Union
Hosted by Socialist Alliance
candidate for Wills, Trent Hawkins.
Thursday 29 April, 6.30pm
Clarrie Wohlers Centre, 51 Albert
Street, Brunswick
(How to get there: Tram no. 1 or 8
along Lygon Street, get off at Albert Street and walk eastwards, the
centre is beside Fleming Park). Info: 96398622 or 0407 023 672.
Medicine for Tibet are holding a fundraiser at 6pm Friday 30th of April at
Elwood Primary School for those affected by the recent earthquake in the Yushu
region of Tibet
For more info
A special panel discussion featuring… Union Militancy & Environmental Activism: The BLF in the 1970s with Professor Verity Burgmann, co-author of ‘Green Bans, Red Union: environmental activism & the NSW Builders Labourers Federation’. Fighting Back Under Labor: QLD Railway Strike 1948 with Mick Armstrong, co-author of ‘The ALP: a Marxist History’. Militant Spirits: the Rebel Women of Broken Hill 1909-1917 with Sandra Bloodworth co-editor of ‘Rebel Women in Australian Working Class History’.
At Trades Hall, Corner Lygon and Victoria St (enter on Victoria St)
May 5th 6.30pm
END SINGLE MOTHER POVERTY RALLY
11 am Thurs 6th May, Bourke St Mall, Melbourne, meet by the big (empty!) purse sculpture and dress in style for our theme:
MOTHER'S DAY BREAKFAST IN BED (PJ's or negligees, hair curlers or aprons) Single mothers are singled out. Single mothers and their children are Australia's poorest families. End our poverty for Mothers Day.
For more information contact Kerry at Council of Single Mothers and their Children, (03) 9654 0327,
CLAN O"MAHONY
Get-Together at the Geelong RSL Club on Saturday 8 May 2010 from 10 am. This Clan day is one to meet other Clan members, discuss family history and discuss missing family connections. Information on the O'Mahony Society yDNA project will be available. Contact Greg Mahony for details at Unit 74 /139 Pring Street, Hendra, QLD 4011 or email . Cost is $20 to cover expenses (name tags, club hire) and food. Anyone wishing to come should provide names of those attending and a family history for all to compare, and to be included in the Australian O'Mahony family names record.
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