Jura Books is a volunteer-run anarchist bookshop. We provide people in Sydney (and Australia-wide) access to materials anarchist and libertarian information that isn't available at other bookshops - not even on special order. We also open the shop to libertarian and anarchist groups as a meeting, organising and working space. Our costs greatly outweigh our income. Don't let our spiffy website fool you: each month we struggle to pay the bills.

You can help us to continue providing anarchist books and organising space by donating a small amount on a regular basis. Consider becoming a Jura Supporter. If you do decide to support us, you will receive a 20% discount on books and merchandise in the shop.

Or you can make a deposit to our bank account - (email us to find out how - jura@jura.org.au)

--2007 Fundraising Campaign--
In July the Collective began an urgent Special Fundraising Campaign.
In the Jura Newsletter we asked for $7500 for urgent expenses and we would like to put in something to pay off a bit more of the mortgage on the building ($20,000). Since then, we have found out that the repair of the awning is going to be a lot more than we thought ($2,500 as against $500), and extra work was needed for the back roof due to additional (old)termite damage caused flooding to the back room organising space - due to this we had to get experts in.

So far supporters of the Jura project have donated the following amounts. We are very grateful for their generous donations and will allocate the amounts that have been specified for particular necessities to those jobs.
This is so encouraging, please keep it up:
ML: $1,700
PS: $600
Jose: $100
Gonzalez: $100
Anon: $10
Anon: $15
JW: $100
JG: $50
PR: $300
'Unspoked Words'event: $270
AL: $1,000
Jack: $50
HM: $1,450
Enviro/Worker Forum: $54
PS#2 $100
Anonamouse $200
Punk gig $230
SS $1,000
PS $500

Total so far: $7,775 (as at 29/03/2008)

AS AT THE END OF MARCH, WE STILL NEED ABOUT AND EXTRA $1000 TO FINISH THE WORK NEEDED ON THE BUILDING.

Work done:
-Upstairs middle room plastered and painted - work completed.
-Much plastering, access hole, & some painting of the Fanya Baron Library.
-New awing outside (with new top, centre & bottom)
-New ceiling and extra work in roof cavity of library (ceiling and roof joists needed replacing due to old termite damage).
-All electrical work completed.
-Back yard cleaned up.
-Rain leaks in back room and extra work in ceiling done (again, due to old termite damage timber structures needed to be replaced).

Here is a more detailed report of the latest working bee 19/02/2008, with a report elsewhere about the working bee on the previous Sunday, and another report about the 'bee on 28-30 March elsewhere, too:
Hi all,
it was great to hear of the progress of the working bee last Sunday - thanks to all.
Shane & I went in to do some more work yesterday, here is a report:
Main job was to fix the increasingly bad leaks from rain in the back room - we think we did it. But when we went onto the roof, it suddenly sunk a little - nervy situation! As it turned out, a major timber beam that supported the roof had old termite damange and gave way. That has been the problem all along - the roof corner under the kitchen window had sunk about 8cm, so rain flowed back towards the wall instead of away and to the gutter.

It took all day to replace the timber and put in new iron work, loads of silicon etc...should be fixed now - we just need rain to test it out.

Unfortunately (1), we put a foot through the ceiling in trying to support the roof while replacing the damaged timber....you may notice a repair job in the ceiling of the back room, too. At least until the plastering and painting is finished.

Unfortunately (2), having to do all that extra work meant that we did not have enough time to do the work in the library...had to leave it for next week.

If any more donations can come through, please send it to our account (on the website) or by mail to Jura. All this extra work due to the old termite damage (in the library ceiling and now the backroom ceiling) has cost more than budgeted for.
Ciao, Sid.