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Community"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 » Inner Sydney Writers' Salon13/12/2011 - 19:00 13/12/2011 - 21:30 Location: Library space at Jura Books Description: Write for pleasure - short creative exercises - and share what we write. Sign up with Inner Sydney Writers' Salon meetup group at http://www.meetup.com/Inner-Sydney-Writers-Salon/ Contact Name: Leanne » Occupy Parramatta Forum17/12/2011 - 15:00 17/12/2011 - 17:00 Location: The Amphitheatre, Church St Mall (Macquarie St end), Parramatta NSW. Description: Why do we live in a society that has never been so unequal? Contact Email: http://www.occupysydney.org.au/ » Occupy Sydney Free Skool17/12/2011 - 13:00 17/12/2011 - 15:00 Location: Top of Martin Place, between Macquarie and Phillip St's outside of the Reserve Bank of Australia and Westpac buildings. Description: Stay tuned for details of what will be in school! About the Free School Free School is: a space for honest, frank and respectful discussion and the open for everyone to present or join sessions and workshops a collective way to address questions about Occupy Sydney's an approach to building the movement and keeping it an occasion to discuss how we relate to existing movements, a place of learning about practical skills and interests helpful an opportunity for enjoyable group conversations and fun in Contact Email: http://www.occupysydney.org.au/ Contact Name: Occupy Sydney » Occupy Sydney Human Rights Festival Day, including Free Skool10/12/2011 - 13:00 10/12/2011 - 21:00 Location: Top of Martin Place, between Macquarie and Phillip St's outside of the Reserve Bank of Australia and Westpac buildings. Description: Occupy Sydney invites individuals, families and inviting community groups to join us for a festival at Martin Place on 10 December – the Global Day of Action and Global Human Rights Day. This family friendly festival will feature music, art, workshops (free school), open mic, talks and participation from a variety of communitiesSydney talking about global human rights and social justice issues. The Festival will be held between 1pm and 6pm. The event is family friendly and all are welcome. What has been so positive about Occupy Sydney is that it is an alternative space where diverse communities and individuals can come together to discuss ideas, issues and current struggles with the public in a public place. The 10 December Festival will provide a positive opportunity for communities, families and individuals to connect with people in Sydney, and engage, discuss and share information about global injustice and human rights in a friendly, family orientated atmosphere. The basic run of the day will be: Theatre from Kinetic Energy Theatre Company Workshops from the Free School 2.45 – 3.45pm 4 – 5pm Music from 5pm: 10 December Global Day of Action site: http://dec10.takethesquare.net/english/ Facebook event - http://www.facebook.com/events/125879054192065/ Contact Email: http://www.occupysydney.org.au/ Contact Name: Occupy Sydney » OCCUPY QANTAS: Protest millionaire CEO, show your support for workers22/11/2011 - 17:00 22/11/2011 - 19:00 Location: City Recital Hall Angel Place Description: Qantas CEO Alan Joyce is speaking in Sydney at a UNSW School of Business "Meet the CEO" event at City Recital Hall, Angel Place (http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/events/pages/) Joyce is a clear symbol of the greed and ruthlessness of the 1% - join our protest outside the meeting to show him how we feel, and demand that Qantas meets workers' demands to keep their jobs and have decent wages that keep up with the cost of living. Joyce, whose salary $5.1 million a year, is trying to cut jobs and conditions from workers on as little as $38,000 a year. He wants to cut 1000 jobs, outsource baggage handlers' jobs, and employ new staff on lower and wages and conditions than the rest. Yet Qantas is making booming profits from those workers - $552 million in the last year, plus another $169 million from the wholly-owned subsidiary, Jetstar. Joyce locked out his entire workforce in late October, and succeeded in winning a termination to all industrial action to fight his profiteering. Lets build support for the Qantas workers and send a message that we won't stand for this at Qantas or anywhere else. Human need not corporate greed! https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=522071467#!/events/191486417596747/ Contact Phone Number: Amy 0430 554 263 Contact Name: Hosted by Occupy Sydney » Stop Coal Seam Gas Rally22/11/2011 - 12:00 22/11/2011 - 14:00 Location: Hyde Park North fountain, Near Elizabeth & Macquarie Sts, next to St James Station, Sydney, Australia Description: March to State Parliament, Macquarie St, to hand over 15,000 petitions against CSG to Premier Barry O'Farrell! Speakers include: Drew Hutton (Lock The Gate president); Jess Moore (Stop CSG Illawarra) + other community speakers Over 15,000 residents of NSW have signed a petition for: Premier Barry O'Farrell has pledged that any petition with over 10,000 signatures will trigger a debate in parliament. Be there when the voice of more than 15,000 people from across NSW is presented to Barry O'Farrell in person! Demonstrate community opposition to CSG, help ensure the spotlight is on this debate and remind the government who they work for! Please spread this event and spread the word to make this a huge "peoples convergence" on parliament to handover the petitions and increase the pressure to Stop CSG! https://www.facebook.com/events/274245552612757/#!/events/216985828371159/ Contact Phone Number: Paul 0410 629 088, Isabel 0412 407 472, Jess 0416 232 349 Contact Email: info[at]nogasmininginsydney.com Contact Name: Lock the Gate and NSW Stop CSG groups » 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. Cross Border Collective: reading and writing group30/10/2011 - 15:00 30/10/2011 - 17:00 Location: Jura Description: The Cross Border Collective, based in Sydney, works to create a world where people’s movement is not controlled in the interests of capital. Our reading and writing group gets together once a month to talk about a few articles we have read and to work towards writing articles, zines and other materials that we can use in our 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. The readings are linked below. It is not essential to read these, although participants will gain much more from the conversation by having a look at them prior to coming. 1) »  |
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