Working bee to make AFED banner and flags to carry on demos.

Meeting for all those interested in building a federation of anarchists in the area, to increase cooperation and mutal aid between groups and seek ways to work together on common projects, and/or common causes.

Come along to the regular food not bombs serving.

Cooking from 1pm at the Jura kitchen every second Saturday, and then serving 4.30pm at the Martin Luther King Mural on King Street in Newtown (just next to the hub).

Washer uppers ALWAYS welcome!!

TIMETABLE
tuesday 4th:

6pm-late opening hang out night
direct action training

wednesday 5th:

10am–12pm welcome to country + global state of war discussion
12pm–1pm lunch
1pm–2:15pm attacks on indigenous communities
the net linux*
activist trauma support*
innercity suburban divide
2:30–3:45pm work, dignity and social change
massage*
workers and the environment*
sex worker activism
4–5:15pm where's all the queer & feminist organising?
activist burnout*
who really controls the world?
5:30–8pm affinty group organising + dinner
6–8pm direct action training
8pm–late spokescouncil

thursday 6th:

10-11:15am work organising, informal work & international
solidarity
radical map of sydney*
discussion on white priviledge*
legal training
11:30am-12:30pm 2008 G8 summit
community response to sexual assault
revolutionary art*
co-operatives
12:30-1:30pm lunch
1:30-5:30pm
6-8pm direct action training
830pm-late action meeting*

friday 7th:

9:30-10:30am action meeting
10:30am-12pm building networks of resistance: beyond APEC
12-1pm lunch
1-2:15pm discusson of F.L.A.R.E. Reader*
palestine*
state of peace/state of war
2:30-3:45pm legal training
MASN [Mexican Australia Solidarity Network]
Food not Bombs – past to present*
4-5:30pm spokescouncil + dinner
6pm-late stopbush spokescouncil at St. Joseph's church, Newtown

location:
- main location for the convergence is tooth gallery, 67 sydenham rd
marrickville [a 2 mintue walk from sydenham station]
the other workshop space is at 40 jersey st, marickville [a short walk
from tooth gallery] please note that any workshop held at this space
has an asterik marked after it

more info:
for further info on the workshops being held and general info about
F.L.A.R.E. in the void check out flareinthevoid.wordpress.com or call
0434 585 264

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callout for the FLARE in the void reader:

The struggle for liberation involves an array of strategies of
resistance and subversion. We hope that the reader will
provide a glimpse of the many struggles that we carry out
against global capital, everyday. This reader will also hopefully provide a form of dialogue around these struggles.

Indeed, it is useful to be able to look at both our weaknesses and our strengths, so that we may be able to celebrate our resistance, as well as be critical of it.

Teaching and learning from each other is a way that we can, not
only inspire one another, but also construct new networks of
resistance and strengthen those that already exist.

We know that everyone is struggling in their own way: what we want is to share these experiences. We want to be able to gather these struggles to look at what shape and form they presently exist in.

Submit what you know, what you doubt, what you question and what
you think.

Email flare_in_the_void@graffiti.net
with articles, pictures, photos or whatever else by July 31st

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Troops out of Iraq, Afghanistan
Stop Global warming: Renewables not uranium & coal
Defend workers' rights: Scrap WorkChoices

US President George W. Bush will be in Sydney in September 2007. He will be joining John Howard and other 21 world leaders at a major meeting of the Asia Pacific forum on Economic Cooperation (APEC).

Their agenda will be to further corporate globalisation as the expense of the livelihoods of workers and small farmers. Wars around the globe, their “anti-terrorism” agenda, terrorism, lifting trade restrictions and climate change will be high on their agenda.

We can be sure that these leaders will not come up with solutions.

While in power, Bush and Howard have presided over a new world disorder. Both have involved their countries in an unpopular occupation in Iraq
which has resulted in the deaths of well over 650,000 Iraqis and thousands of US and British troops, as well as cost over $1 billion per week to maintain. If the US' occupation of Afghanistan is anything to go by, so long as foreign troops stay, Iraq can look forward to years of impoverishment and devastation.

Hyping up the rhetoric of the “war on terror”, Bush and Howard have ignored the far greater threat to humanity posed by climate change. Both have refused to provide support and leadership for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and renewable energy, preferring to promote the nuclear industry.

While trying to convince us that removing our basic civil liberties and legalising torture are the best ways make us secure, Bush and Howard have systematically removed our basic working rights. They have shifted the balance in favour of employers making it harder for employees to have the basic pay and conditions needed to support themselves and their families.

This world view represented by George Bush and John Howard is as destructive as it is unsustainable.

Another world is not only possible – it is necessary! In September 2007 we are inviting you to join the millions of people around the world standing up for peace, democracy, clean energy and the rights of working people everywhere. Add your organisation’s support for this call to action, and to the demonstration and other activities being planned for this September in Sydney. Email stopbushsyd@gmail.com with your endorsement and/or to make a financial contribution to the event.

Directed by Elia Kazan, this 1952 film follows the life of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) from his peasant upbringing, through his rise to power in the early 1900s, to his death. The film romanticizes Zapata and in doing so unfortunately distorts the true nature of the wars he waged. Zapata fought, not to conquer Mexico but to free the land for the peasants of Morelos and other southern provinces. The screenplay by John Steinbeck ignores some historical details in order to focus on the corruptive influence of power.