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Anti-imperialismAction in solidarity with the Freedom Flotilla and Palestine - 2pm Sat05/06/2010 - 14:00 05/06/2010 - 16:00 Location: Sydney Town Hall Description: As you've probably heard, a few days ago Israeli Government Forces attacked the Freedom Flotilla that was carrying aid to Gaza. The Flotilla was attempting to break Israel's maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip. As many as 20 activists were killed. An emergency action in Sydney drew 2000-3000 people - many different races and politics united in solidarity with Palestine. The rally had a strong energy and rage. See the report here http://www.smh.com.au/national/sydney-marchers-in-global-wave-of-protest... Join Jura people and thousands of others at another public action this Saturday (5th June), 2pm at Town Hall (new time). For more info: » Invasion/Sovereignty Day 2012With Invasion/Sovereignty Day approaching and talk of a referendum for the Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people, it's worth noting that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra. The Embassy, on the lawns of Old Parliament House, was set up, fought for and has been maintained by generations of Aboriginal activists to organise for Aboriginal sovereignty and justice. On 26th January, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is inviting Aboriginal people and allies to meet, have discussions, and to get involved in the struggle for Aboriginal sovereignty. If you can’t make it to Canberra, come along to the Invasion Day gig at Jura, featuring revo folk punk from Melbourne's A Commoners Revolt, alongside local favourites the BLAST, and Death Ghat from Aotearoa. Other upcoming events at Jura include a talk on workers’ struggles in China on 10th February, and stay tuned for more details about an anarchist discussion series, our forthcoming inter-state publication, and as always, check out the new books in the shop and get involved at Jura! This newsletter also contains news of community rallies and events, from the rally on 14th February to mark 8 years since the death of TJ Hickey, to Camp Anarchy in Melbourne on 10th-12th March. We hope that your 2012 has gotten off to a good start, happy Chinese New Year, and happy 100th day of Occupy Sydney! In this newsletter: -----=---- We're gradually developing and enhancing our Web 2.0 skills. Click on the links below to follow us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jura.books Jura RSS feed: http://www.jura.org.au/rss.xml /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/- Invasion Day gig Melbourne's A Commoners Revolt will be bringing their revo folk punk to Jura, alongside the BLAST, and Death Ghat from Aotearoa. -----=---- Contagious Strikes - Workers' Struggles in China In mid-2010, a strike wave rolled through China's factories, the most widespread and militant struggle of China's internal migrant workers so far. The struggle shook the Chinese regime and provoked a world-wide debate: Is this the beginning of the end of the low-wage-model that stands behind China's rise to the "factory of the world" and provides the rest of the world with cheap consumer products? The strikes continued in 2011, and together with riots and peasant uprisings they are indicators for the increasing pressure for social change in China. Jura is pleased to host this presentation by Ralf Ruckus, labour researcher/activist with a focus on the conditions and struggles of migrant workers in China (www.gongchao.org) -----=---- TJ Hickey rally: 8 years since his death - still no justice! TJ Hickey died in February 2004 when his bike was rammed by a Redfern police vehicle driven by then-Constable Hollingsworth. There has been a Coronial inquiry cover-up, police and government cover-ups, and continuous protests, but 8 years later still no justice for the young Aboriginal man and his family. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991 made 339 Recommendations to stop Deaths in Custody. Not one of them has been implemented. Hundreds of Aboriginal people died before the report and hundreds of Aboriginal people have died since. Join the Indigenous Social Justice Association in demanding an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody. Meet to demand a memorial place in the Block to remember TJ and all other Aborigines who die in custody. -----=---- Don’t Shoot the Messenger: WikiLeaks, Assange and Democracy WikiLeaks, a free press publishing and media organisation, has revealed human rights abuses, war crimes and corruption in governments across the world. Yet the US Administration wants to close WikiLeaks down and prosecute its founder Julian Assange. International financial services organisations have blocked payments to WikiLeaks, denying them vital income. The Australian government has failed to take a stand against the political persecution of Assange. PM Gillard's assertion that WikiLeaks activities were illegal was proved to be false by an Australian Federal Police investigation. What does all this say about our democracy? Come to a public forum presented by the Support Assange & WikiLeaks Coalition, with: -----=---- Camp Anarchy Camp Anarchy is organised by the same people who brought you the Anarchist Melbourne Bookfair in August 2011. Its inspiration is Pinksterlanddagen: an anarchist camp held in the northern Netherlands for nearly 90 years (http://www.pinksterlanddagen.nl/). At the Dutch camp there are stalls, workshops, anarchist theatre and music and we hope to replicate this at Camp Eureka over the Labour Day weekend (March 10-12) in 2012. Our aim is to bring anarchists, their families, friends and those new to the wide anarchist community together in a welcoming bush setting; to relax and share ideas, news, resources, skills, food and laughter. If you want to book a stall, suggest a workshop, contribute to the camp reader, help out including with promotion, have a large marquee we can use for the weekend or can make a donation to the camp, please get in touch! : https://www.facebook.com/events/208612012524433/ -----=---- Anarchist Discussion Series 2012 Jura Books will be organising a series of discussions this year on various aspects of anarchism. The series will begin in March, with discussions taking place on a Sunday afternoon. Stay tuned to this great opportunity to get together and learn more about anarchism in theory and practice! -----=---- New books at Jura Come check out all the great new books at Jura! Here are a few exciting titles: -----=---- Slingshot Organisers and Black Wallaby Diaries If you haven't yet picked up a diary for 2012, there are still a few Slingshot Organisers at Jura, featuring radical dates from people's struggle, beautiful artworks and political articles. Or you can pick up a beautiful Black Wallaby diary, created by activists and artists in Australia. -----=---- Play Kool DVDs If you're looking for alternative television shows for children, check out the 'Play Kool' DVDs that are available at Jura Books. The DVDs were made for an Australian community television station and attempt, in a DIY-way, to critically engage with children on things like the environment and gender. -----=---- Pseudo Space Our new neighbours at Pseudo Space dropped by to let us know of their new cross-disciplinary experimental art gallery in Leichhardt. See http://www.pseudospacegallery.blogspot.com/ -----=---- 100th Day of Occupy Sydney Today is the 100th Day of Occupy Sydney! Despite challenges like police harassment and inclement weather, Occupy Sydney maintains a 24-hour presence at Martin Place, near Elizabeth St. Visit the site, participate in a Working Group, or join a General Assembly to get involved in the local and global movement against economic injustice and political corruption and to build alternatives from the bottom up. You can also leave a message of support at http://messagesofsupport.tumblr.com/, or send us a postcard!: Occupy Sydney : http://www.occupysydney.org.au/ : Occupy Sydney Free School - https://www.facebook.com/groups/313074415382939/ : Occupy Sydney Legal Support - https://www.facebook.com/groups/343057322380372/ -----=---- Get involved at Jura! Jura Books always welcomes new people to find out more about the volunteer-run shop, our projects, and the political possibilities around the Jura space. Visit the shop, speak to someone in the Jura collective, and come along to a Jura collective meeting! Our next meeting is Friday 24th February, 7.00pm. -----=---- There are now 1217 people on this Jura monthly email announcement list and 823 fans on facebook. Please continue to tell your friends about Jura and to 'like' us on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/jura.books Love and rage from the Jura Collective. : 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham : Opening Hours: Jura Books is on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. The Jura Collective acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the Land and pays our respect to Elders past and present. We support the ongoing struggle of Aboriginal people for land rights, self-determination, and justice. 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) » Solidarity with the prisoners in Chile - film and party15/04/2011 - 18:00 15/04/2011 - 23:00 Location: Jura Books Description:
The Chicago Conspiracy Trailer (English Version) from Subversive Action Films on Vimeo. SOLIDARITY WITH PRISONERS IN CHILE ON HUNGER STRIKE SINCE 21.2.11 On August 14 2010 an absurd spectacle of suppression took place in the cities of Santiago and Valparaiso in Chile that resulted in the prosecution of 14 people, 8 of whom are held facing charges for all the armed, explosive, and incendiary attacks that took place during the last three years against the state and capitalist targets inside the country. The only evidence is their political identity. Andrea Urzua, Camilo Perez, Carlos Riveros, Felipe Guajardo, Francisco Solar, Monica Caballero, Rodolfo Ratamales, Venicio Aguillera, and Omar Hermosilla began a hunger strike on 21/2/11 demanding their release as well as the abolishment of the anti-terrorism law. Through this struggle they make clear that they are not willing to be submissive in the cages of democracy. The arsenal of laws possessed by all modern totalitarian regimes are a tool for the elimination of anybody who is a conscious enemy of authority. Our solidarity and passion for freedom we share cannot be contained byborders. FREEDOM TO THE PRISONERS OF 14A AND ALL OTHER PRISONERS OF THE SOCIAL WAR, EVERYWHERE SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON ****** INFO NIGHT/ FUNDRAISER 18:00 Film and discussion (The Chicago Conspiracy) ****** http://www.subversiveactionfilms.org/the-chicago-conspiracy/ » 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 Capitalism, Crisis, Utopia & the Left11/02/2011 - 18:00 11/02/2011 - 20:00 Location: Jura Books Description:
Jura is excited to host an evening discussion with acclaimed US broadcsater Sasha Lilley, host of the program of radical ideas Against the Grain and editor of 'Capital and its Discontents Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult', recently published by PM Press. Join us for an evening of discussion of capitalism, crisis, and the left. Capitalism is stumbling, empire is faltering, and the floods and cyclones are intensifying. Yet many people are still grappling with understanding these multiple crises and to find a way forward to a just future. Into the breach come the insights of Capital and Its Discontents, which cut through the gristle to get to the heart of the matter about the nature of capitalism and neoliberalism, capitalism's vulnerabilities at this conjuncture and what can we do to hasten its demise. Through a series of incisive conversations with some of the most eminent thinkers and political economists on the Left including David Harvey, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Mike Davis, Leo Panitch, Tariq Ali, and Noam Chomsky, Sasha Lilley's Capital and Its Discontents illuminates the dynamic contradictions undergirding capitalism. The left luminaries in Capital and Its Discontents look at potential avenues out of the mess as well as wrong turns and needless detours drawing lessons from the inner workings of capitalism, the history of post-colonial states in the Global South, struggles against imperialism past and present, the eternal pendulum swing of radicalism, the corrosive legacy of postmodernism, and the potentialities of the radical tradition. This discussion evening is FREE! UPDATE: Sasha will also be on Workers Radio on Radio Skid Row - 88.9FM. Thursday morning from 8.10am to 8.40am. Check it out! http://www.radioskidrow.org/ »  |
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