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Feminism"Can You Hear Me?" - An Autonomous Women's Film Event17/01/2009 - 18:00 17/01/2009 - 21:30 Location: Jura Bookshop Description: A night for women (including women identifiers) to celebrate creativity. women's history and cultural endeavours. FREE vegan dinner at 6pm! Screening of the film "Can You Hear Me? Israeli and Palestinian Women Fight for Peace". Review: Lilly Rivlin’s Documentary “Can You Hear Me?” Focuses on Women as Peacemakers AT AN ISRAELI checkpoint on the West Bank, Yehudit Oppenheimer of Machson Watch (the group that mediates with Israeli soldiers to mitigate the abuses of Palestinians at checkpoints) imagines a day in the future when her grandchild will ask her what she did during the occupation. “I will be able to say I did something,” Oppenheimer reflects. Lilly Rivlin’s documentary, “Can You Hear Me?: Israeli and Palestinian Women Fight For Peace,” focuses on what the director believes is the untapped potential of women as peacemakers in the conflict—women like Maha Abu Dayyah-Shamas, a Palestinian who runs the Women’s Center For Legal Aid and Counseling in Beit Hanina, and Israeli peace activist Terry Greenblatt. Together they appeared before the Security Council to insist that U.N. Resolution 1325, passed in 2000 and calling for the inclusion of women in all official peace negotiations, be applied to Israeli and Palestinian women in the peace process affecting their two communities. “Women don’t have a vested interest in maintaining military power and hegemony,” explains Abu Dayyah-Shamas. “And they don’t need guns for their egos.” Her ill-fated dialogue partner, Leah Shakdiel, an Orthodox Jew and longtime opponent of Israel’s occupation, is alarmed at men’s propensity to resort to violence when talking fails because of rules that are broken. “I think women are different,” she says. “Women’s contribution to the peace process is that we never understand why you have to stop speaking when violence breaks out. That’s when you have to make yourself heard and get back on track.” In the film’s most riveting and lacerating scene, Shakdiel goes to the home of Abu Dayyah-Shamas to arrange a future meeting about Resolution 1325. The subject of Zionism comes up. Zionism, the Palestinian woman remarks, is a fantasy. A fantasy, she concedes, that was perhaps needed at one time. Shakdiel is stunned. “Not now?” she demands. “No.” Shakdiel feels outrage and betrayal. “I am a Zionist!” she shouts, sobbing painfully. This is the same woman who considers herself a failure as a mother because her daughter is a settler. By contrast, the relationship between Nadwa Sarandeh and Robi Damelin of the Parents Circle, an Israeli/Palestinian bereavement group, is an intimate one. The two travel together to Europe and the U.S., speaking of the need for the violence to end, for the occupation to end, for reconciliation to begin. “When I go to bed at night,” says Damelin, whose son, an Israeli soldier, was killed by a Palestinian sniper in the West Bank, “and the mother of a suicide bomber goes to bed at night in Gaza, we share the same pain.” Adding to Sarandeh’s pain over her murdered sister is the pain of seeing a photo of an Israeli soldier whose gun brandishes the words, “kill ‘em all.” In her documentary, Rivlin, a Jewish American feminist affiliated with Meretz USA, walks a tightrope between her vision of the transformative power of Israeli and Palestinian women and the stark reality of Palestinian oppression that puts to shame any triumphalism. Mostly she succeeds, although the film’s tone sometimes is a bit too self-congratulatory. It is not without humor, however. At one point PLO diplomat Lily Habash wryly compares the Israeli/Palestinian relationship to a Catholic marriage. “We are not going to get divorced,” she observes. (Robert Hirschfield is a free-lance writer based in New York City) Contact Email: tree.kneee@gmail.com Contact Name: Katrina » Occupy Sydney
A global movement is growing. From Egypt to Spain, from Greece to the United States, hundreds of thousands of everyday people are occupying. Occupy Sydney began on 15 October, with hundreds of people reclaiming Martin Place. Flanked by the imposing towers of the financial and political elites, where a handful of people make decisions which affect the whole society, a new democratic space was established. Occupy Sydney created a non-hierarchical forum for open debate, where people began to have discussions and make decisions about things which affect our lives and communities. The occupy movement democratises the dominated and elitist spaces in our cities. Even if it is partly symbolic, it is immensely dangerous to the status quo. And although the structures of participation are in their early stages, this is still an extremely significant project - a playground of anarchism and democracy. For the first time in years, the occupy movement has legitimised an anti-capitalist discourse - usually submerged in society and stifled by the media. At Occupy Sydney, people developed relationships based on mutual respect, and voiced our shared outrage at the greed and illegitimate power of the 1% who rule us. People from diverse walks of life visited the occupation, painted signs, donated food and participated. Between 50 and 100 people stayed overnight for 8 nights. In the early hours of Sunday 23 October, the police forcefully evicted Occupy Sydney from Martin Place. It was a clear reminder that State repression goes hand in hand with capitalism. Police took action to recapture the space for elites - symbolically and physically. But within hours, an emergency meeting was organised, attended by over 200 people. And we made the decision to re-occupy. Occupy Sydney continues. Who are we? We are the workers; we are the indebted; we are the immigrants and the indigenous; we are the homeless; we are the students; we are the unemployed; we are the under represented people of the world. We are the 99%. And we invite you to join us. At 12 midday on Saturday 5 November we will meet at meet at Town Hall and march to re-occupy. The Occupation is not over. It has only just begun. -> Re-Occupy Sydney rally and march, 12pm Saturday 5 November, meet at Town Hall square. Noam Chomsky recently visited Occupy Boston, and wrote, 'Just back from Occupy Boston, in its third week of occupation of a public square near the financial center, with a wonderful spirit of cooperation, lively discussions, and great promise, like many hundreds of others in the US, and a great many more elsewhere – though some are violently dispersed, as in Bahrain and, I read now, Australia.' Next week Chomsky will be in Australia to accept the Sydney Peace Prize. Both of his speaking events in Sydney are sold out, however Jura has three tickets that we would like to offer to three people on this email list. The tickets are one full and two concessions to the event at 7pm on Wednesday 2 November at Sydney Town Hall. If you are interested, please reply to this email with your name, phone number, and whether you have a concession or not. We will allocate the tickets randomly to three people who email us by midday on Sunday 30th October. We'll let the winners know on Sunday afternoon. The Chomsky forums have been going very well. Together, Jura, Mutiny and Cross Border Collective have organised 12 Chomsky events over the last three months. The smaller talks attracted between 10 and 20 people each, while the larger forums at UNSW, Sydney Uni and UTS were attended by 60, 80 and 100 people respectively! We have also handed out over 5,000 leaflets about Chomsky's politics (including his anarchist ideas) at 11 stalls, and put up over 1,000 posters around Sydney. We will be giving away 500 copies of Chomsky's 'Notes on anarchism' for free at Chomsky's speaking events. Dozens more gnomes have also been appearing around Sydney as part of the 'gnome rebellion'. For photos, check out http://www.chomskyforum.net/gnomes. To help us keep up this important work, please make a donation at http://www.jura.org.au/donate. We have also been in touch with Noam himself, and he has agreed to meet with a few organisers of the Chomsky Forum to do a short interview with us. If you have a question that you would like us to ask Chomsky, please reply to this email with your ideas. We will be doing a debrief from this meeting and Chomsky's visit in general, where the interviewers will report back and play the interview. All welcome to come along and join the discussion. Reclaim the night! Rally at Town Hall at 6pm before marching to Martin Place for an evening of wonderful women speakers and performers canvassing issues of violence against women. Featuring investigative journalist Nina Funnell, Karen Willis from the Rape Crisis Centre, Sirens big band, Candy Royale. All welcome. http://www.jura.org.au/node/1659 Juracoustic is back and will enjoy the diverse sounds of Paul Mcadam (ukulele-slingin' acoustica), and Cameron Birt (folk punk), plus an open mic. It'll be Halloween too so get awesome and dress up! We'll have spooky jugs of iced tea and snacks by donation. The Cross Border Collective, based in Sydney, works to create a world where people’s movement is not controlled in the interests of capital. Their reading and writing group gets together once a month to talk about a few articles they've read and to work towards writing articles, zines and other materials that they can use in the on-going campaign to break down borders at the nation-state level as well as other social, cultural, political and economic borders which operate to divide us. All welcome. The readings are linked at http://www.jura.org.au/node/1662. It's not essential to read these, although participants will gain much more from the conversation by having a look at them prior to coming. The Jura library has been going through an amazing transformation, with thousands of radical journals re-emerging from dusty storage. Lots of new books also need to be put on the shelves for borrowing. Help us to complete the process at our next library working bee. Jura is pleased to host a casual gathering for creative writing exercises and sharing feedback - the Inner Sydney Writers' Salon. Please inquire or RSVP via the Meetup group http://www.meetup.com/Inner-Sydney-Writers-Salon/ Calling all Community Workers, Students, Activists and Thinkers! Can community organisations actually be a part of their community, instead of an arm of Government? Can our work contribute to transforming the social and economic realities that creates the need for ‘services’ in the first place? Community Work for Social Change invites you to take part in a collective process of reinvigorating our practice, from the bottom up. Speakers include Jack Mundey, Kate Lee, Christina Ho, Paula Abood, Lina Cabaero and more. http://www.jura.org.au/node/1642 Come and party to celebrate Jeremy leaving the country and the coming global revolution! Featuring The Blast and others. http://www.jura.org.au/node/1649 All are also welcome to come to the next Jura Collective meeting to observe and/or get involved. We always need new ideas and new volunteers! Music can help build a better world: to express common and different values, dreams and stories through song. The 'Songs of Meaning and Power' weekend will create time and space for us to raise our voices and remember the songs that kept our ancestors and past social movements strong, including movements for peace, liberation and civil rights. The weekend will include a Friday night concert, theme-based music-sharing circles, workshops and a general music session on Saturday night. http://songweekend.wordpress.com/ Punk show at Jura, with Insepia, Intentions, Thorax, Zita Grimm. There are now 1,180 people on this Jura email announcement list, and 751 fans on facebook. Please sign up to the email list at http://lists.jura.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/specialannounce and like us on facebook. And keep telling your friends about Jura. Reclaim the night28/10/2011 - 18:00 Location: Rally at Town Hall then march to Martin Place Description:
Reclaim the night! Stop violence against women. Rally at Town Hall then march to Martin Place for an evening of wonderful women speakers and performers canvassing issues of violence against women. » WAAC Forum - 40th Anniversary of Levine Ruling23/10/2011 - 13:00 23/10/2011 - 17:00 Location: NSW Teachers Federation Description:
The forum, on Sunday, 23rd October, 2011 from 1.00 pm to 5 pm, will take place at the NSW Teachers Federation in Surry Hills. While remembering the hardships Australian women faced when abortion was illegal, and commemorating the progress women have made in the last 40 years, the speakers will also take up today’s challenges in the fight to defend and extendreproductive rights. Recognising that the fight for abortion is worldwide we have aspeaker to outline the fight in Latin America,where many women continue to die from unsafe abortions. There will betime for discussion and questions. Afternoon teawill be provided. » Capitalism and its discontentsCapitalism is stumbling, empire is faltering, the floods and cyclones are intensifying. Yet many people are still grappling to understand these multiple crises and to find a way forward to a just future. It is the time to arm ourselves with knowledge and develop the skills we need to make a new world. A good place to start is with the educational events at Jura this month (not to mention hundreds of newly arrived radical books)! Jura welcomes acclaimed US broadcaster Sasha Lilley, host of the program of radical ideas 'Against the Grain' and editor of the recently published 'Capital and its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult'. The insights of 'Capital and Its Discontents' get to the heart of the matter about the nature of capitalism and neoliberalism, capitalism's vulnerabilities and what can we do to hasten its demise. Come and be part of an evening of discussion with Sasha, on capitalism, crisis, utopia and the left. More info at http://www.jura.org.au/node/1448 What types of relationships are needed to build a better world? To what extent can new social media contribute to social change? What does the historical evidence suggest? How can we implement this in our organising today? Jura welcomes Nicholas Harrigan, social network researcher, to facilitate a discussion about the types of relationships that have the potential for positive social change. The starting point for the discussion will be a recent article by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker magazine ‘Small Change’. Participants are encouraged to read the article and bring along their comments and criticisms for the discussion: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell Anarchist Summer School is here! This three-day educational convergence of ideas and practices will be held from 18-20 February at Jura, Black Rose, Stucco and Leichhardt Library. Anyone is welcome to come and learn and be part of the discussion. There will be dozens of workshops on all sorts of topics - Indigenous struggles, anarchist theory and practice, anarcha-feminism, workers control, postcolonialism, identity politics, insurrectionary anarchism, capitalism, Latin America, patchmaking and printing, and anarchist spaces. There will also be tours of Jura and Black Rose, a film night, tea party and zine fair. And it's all free! Check out the program and register at http://anarchistsummerschool.weebly.com The Jura Food Buyers' Co-op is excited to be screening FOOD, Inc - a recent documentary that looks inside the corporate controlled food industry. The global food production business delivers enormous profits and power to a handful of multinational corporations. All at the expense of the health of the food, animals, workers and consumers. See http://www.jura.org.au/node/1447 for more info. The Jura Food Co-op provides affordable access to organic vegetables. We offer weekly boxes of fresh fruit and vegies sourced from Alfalfa House in Enmore. If you live nearby, you should get your vegies at Jura. Why? Because you'll be supporting a local food buying alternative and spreading the politics of co-operation. You'll also be getting healthy organic vegies at a very low price, because the Alfalfa people choose the best priced, seasonal vegies and give us an added discount because we're a fellow co-op. The Workers Solidarity Network meets regularly and would like your involvement. Engaging with people who haven't come into contact with the ideas of anarchism before is one of the most important things we do at Jura. Over the last three months people from Jura, Black Rose and other anarchist collectives organised 15 bookstalls across Sydney - from Newtown to Parramatta, Chatswood to Cabramatta, and Bankstown to Hurstville. At these stalls we gave over 5,000 people leaflets on anarchism, sold $1288 worth of books and pamphlets, and had hundreds of honest and productive conversations with interested people. Jura volunteers and friends have been also been hard at work fixing up our shopfront. The shopfront is another important way to reach new people. We've got a glowing new sign, and we've re-painted part of it (red and black of course!). But we need your help to re-paint the upper floor and put up a sign so people can notice us from across the road (the awning still says 'Doctor's Surgery' - from more than 15 years ago!). Please come along to our March Mega working bee - even just for a hour. We'll be doing stuff every afternoon from 2 till 7pm from 2nd March to 6th March. If you can't make it along to help, but would like to support our work, why not make a one-off or regular donation? In exchange for donating $10 per month, you get 20% off anything you buy in the shop - and you're helping to build the revolution! Slingshot and Black Wallaby Organisers for 2011 are now on special. Cheaper and better than an iPhone! We don't have all the colours left, but there are still lots to choose from. Not just any diary, they're filled with radical dates from people's struggle, beautiful artworks, and political articles. The small slingshot is now only $4! And the Black Wallaby is also on special - $8! As always, anyone is welcome to come along to the Jura collective meeting - to get involved or just to have a look at how we run an anarchist space. UPCOMING ACTIONS Join the loud chorus of protest against the NSW government's sale of electricity retailers and trading rights for generators that will have severe impacts on household bills, the energy workforce and the environment. http://www.jura.org.au/node/1460 Peaceful demonstration to support the Egyptian Revolution. The people of Egypt are not stopping, coming out day after day to demand change, democracy and freedom, despite hundreds being killed and wounded. Join them in solidarity. http://www.jura.org.au/node/1461 Defend WikiLeaks! Support Julian Assange! Free Bradley Manning! Support freedom of speech all Around The World! This year marks the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day! The theme for the Sydney rally is around pay equity under the slogan, 'Equal Pay: Big Changes not Small Change'. The march will be followed by a festival at First Fleet Park. For more info and to help spread the word, check out: Join hundreds of people in a fun, peaceful, and effective action against Australia's single biggest contribution to climate change. We'll be occupying Newcastle Harbour, and preventing the passage of coal ships. At the last three blockades we successfully stopped all ship movements in the harbour for the entire day, and no-one was arrested. There'll be plenty happening on the shore too. Enjoy live music, inspiring speeches... and the marching band! Good food will be available by donation. If you want to travel up to Newcastle with some friends from Jura, drop us an email. Moreinfo: http://www.jura.org.au/node/1459 -> People's Blockade of the World's Biggest Coal Port. 10am onwards, Sun 13 March, at Horseshoe Beach, Newcastle. Love and rage from the Jura Collective. 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham Friend us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jura.books Opening Hours:
Wednesday 2 - 7pm Sydney Anarchist Summer School18/02/2011 - 00:00 20/02/2011 - 23:59 Location: Jura, Black Rose and other venues to be confirmed Description: Sydney Anarchist Summer School will be an educational conference and convergence happening on the 18th-20th February 2011, at Jura Books, Black Rose Books and other community venues in Sydney (to be confirmed). Anyone is welcome to come and learn and be part of the discussion. The summer school is being organised by a collective of people with backgrounds in radical reading groups and student environmental groups, and various anarchist collectives in Sydney. There will be three days of workshop and forums on different aspects of anarchist theory and practice. Some current topics that are proposed are: classical and modern anarchist theory, autonomous Marxism, the overlap and differences between anarchism and socialism, mutual aid, anarchist influence and involvement in social movements, and different streams of anarchist thought and action. The organising collective would like to hear your ideas on what you would like to see happen at the convergence, what topics you would be keen to learn about, and to invite you to submit workshops that you can run. You can submit your ideas and workshop plans by emailing anarchistsummerschool [at]gmail.com or by submitting a short form at Interested folks are also invited to join the organising collective. The collective meets weekly to organise things like venue, program content and workshops, and food. On the final day of Summer School, anarchist groups and collectives are invited to an assembly on the anarchist movement in Australia, where groups can exchange ideas and plan new ways of working together in the future. And it's all FREE! See you in February! »  |
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