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EventsEvents at JuraJura is a radical social space. We put on gigs, films and discussions in order to build a counter-culture outside of (and in opposition to) the capitalist scene. We welcome like-minded groups to put on events in our space. Below is a selection of images from gigs and other Jura events over the last couple of years. Click on any image below to see the full size image or start the slide show (in Firefox). To move between images use the arrow keys or mouse over the images.
"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 » Contagious Strikes - Workers' Struggles in China10/02/2012 - 19:00 10/02/2012 - 21:00 Location: 440 Parramatta Rd Rd Petersham Description: 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. Presentation by Ralf Ruckus, labour researcher/activist with a focus on the conditions and struggles of migrant workers in China (www.gongchao.org) Contact Phone Number: 9550 9931 Contact Email: jura[at]jura.org.au Contact Name: Jura Books » Rally: 8 years since the death of TJ Hickey14/02/2012 - 10:30 14/02/2012 - 13:00 Location: Cnr George and Phillips St, Waterloo Description: TJ Hickey Demand a memorial place in the Block to remember TJ and all other Aborigines who die in custody TJ died in Waterloo in February 2004. 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 and hundreds of Aboriginal people have died since. Join us to demand an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody! Contact Phone Number: Ray Jackson 0450 651 063 / Raul Bassi 0403 037 376 Contact Email: isja01[at]internode.on.net » Forum about Wikileaks: Don’t Shoot the Messenger17/02/2012 - 18:30 17/02/2012 - 20:15 Location: University of Technology, Sydney, Room 02.04.13 Description: Don’t Shoot the Messenger 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: Scott Ludlam, Greens Senator Christine Assange, mother of Julian Assange Humphrey McQueen, Historian, ANU Chaired by Mary Kostakidis FRIDAY 17TH FEBRUARY, 2012, 6.30 pm to 8.15 pm, University of Technology, Sydney, Room 02.04.13 Gold coin donation | For more information: Anne 0404 090 710 / Helen 0413 381 408 Contact Phone Number: Anne 0404 090 710 / Helen 0413 381 408 Contact Name: Support Assange & WikiLeaks Coalition » Over The Edge13/01/2012 - 19:00 13/01/2012 - 22:00 Location: Jura Books Description: Movie-screening of OVER THE EDGE In 1978, more than 110,000 kids under 18 were arrested for crimes of Friday January 13th, 2012 » Presentation: Squatting Struggles in Europe18/12/2011 - 20:00 18/12/2011 - 22:00 Location: 22 Enmore Rd, Newtown. Description: At Black Rose Social Centre. Contact Email: blackrosebooks.org » Gig: Raein30/12/2011 - 19:00 30/12/2011 - 23:59 Location: Jura Books. Description: Italian band Raein playing at Jura, stay tuned for more details. » 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/ » 
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