Come and plan and discuss how to fight against imperialism and racism in this land as anarchists and anti-authoritarians. To truly act in solidarity, seeing your own struggles in the struggles of your fellow humans.
Anarchist and anti-authoritarian assembly for indigenous solidarity

Screening of "One Night in Sofia", documentary about Jock Palfreeman, anti-fascist from Australia imprisoned in Bulgaria.

Wednesday 8pm 16/6/2010 at Black Rose 22 Enmore rd Newtown.

- Anarchists and Anti-authoritarians in Solidarity

SOLIDARITY WITH JOCK PALFREEMAN

Jock Palfreeman is a 23 year old antifascist from Australian currently in prison in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is accused of murder and attempted murder, following an encounter with a group of 16 far-right football hooligans. After 2 years of trial he was sentenced in December 2009 to 20 years imprisonment.

In December 2007, Jock witnessed a gang of fascist football hooligans attacking two Roma men in Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia. Jock went to the aid of the men, putting himself in the middle of the attack. The Roma were able to escape, but the gang then turned on Jock. The fascists kicked and punched Jock, and then started collecting pieces of broken concrete and throwing them at his head. Jock was alone, and forced to defend himself against the gang of 16 drunken, violent fascists. As a result, one fascist (Andrei Monov) was killed and another (Anton Zahariev) injured. Monov’s father, Dr Hristo Monov, is a prominent Bulgarian doctor, with ties to the government and contacts in the legal system.

Jock has been in prison for two years. Police have beaten and threatened to kill him, and have openly lied about his case in court. Much of the evidence that supports Jock’s version of events has been destroyed or has gone missing. For example, a CCTV video tape which showed the brutal attack on Jock has been “lost” by police and then been retrieved, only to mysteriously explode — again while in police custody. The Bulgarian media has labeled Jock a murderer and a hooligan, and has consistently and systematically published lies and distortions about Jock and his case. The court has been repeatedly delayed due to witnesses and court officials failing to turn up.

Attacks against Roma in Bulgaria have spiked in recent years, and the far right has declared that the eradication of Roma from their territories is of utmost political importance. Their anti-Roma campaigns include both propaganda and violence. In February 2009, local fascists organised a rally in Sofia, demanding that Jock be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
We denounce the despicable conditions Jock has been forced to endure, and without hesitation raise our voices in a firm declaration of solidarity. Jock has dedicated his life to fighting against fascism, and is now facing 20 years in a Bulgarian jail because he chose to try to stop a fascist attack.

Of course we expect nothing else from the so called “Justice System”; the laws, the judiciary, the police, the prosecutors and all the various mechanisms and institutions which serve the interests of capital and the state. We are not interested in the construction of “innocent” and “guilty” by civic legality and all its lackeys; those who continually attempt to marginalise and criminalise comrades who with dignity fight for freedom and defend the persecuted.

Like every captive of the state, Jock is not alone. Our acts of solidarity for each other turn out to be acts for all. They affect all the exploited, inside and outside the prisons of capital in our common need to throw down the walls of oppression and misery everywhere, we know true “justice” will not exist until the destruction of all prisons and the culture that creates them.

For further information about Jock's case see www.freejock.net

NO ONE HOSTAGE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE, FIRE TO THE PRISONS

NO COMPLACENCY AGAINST FASCISM

IMMEDIATE FREEDOM TO ANTIFASCIST JOCK PALFREEMAN

-anarchists and antiauthoritarians

Jura is hosting a special talk on "Anarchist workplace organising in Aotearoa New Zealand".
Simon is a unionist and anarchist organiser from across the
Tasman. He will talk about his experiences in a number of successful
worker-run organising campaigns:
- Supersize My Pay youth rates campaign
- Warehouse - organising a retail chain for the first time in 20 years
- Pak n Save - organising workers in a company owned by a right wing libertarian think tank
Discussion will follow around the questions of being an anarchist and
an organiser; organising with, without and despite trade unions; and
how will workers build a revolutionary movement to save the planet.
> Anarchist workplace organising in Aotearoa New Zealand, talk and discussion, 6pm, Thurs 29th April at Jura.

Sheila Autonomista is an independent, non-profit, queer women's art and music festival held in Sydney. First established in 2002, Sheilafest was set up as an easily accessible culturally and politically alternative festival for women identifiers.

For info check out http://scooter.org.au/sheila.html

The European autonomous movement, mainly centred in the German-speaking countries
but spreading into various others, has been a major factor in radical European
politics for about thirty years. Gabriel Kuhn will give an overview of the
movement's history and its current state – questions from the audience are strongly
encouraged!

Growing up along the German-Austrian border, Gabriel was politicized in the
autonomous movement in the late 1980s. He has spent many years abroad and is
currently living in Sweden, but has always maintained strong ties to autonomous
politics. He is part of the editorial collective behind Perspektiven autonomer
Politik [Perspectives of Autonomous Politics], a book due to come out with radical
publisher Unrast Verlag in the spring of 2010. Gabriel has worked on several
publications with Unrast Verlag, and is the founder of Alpine Anarchist Productions.
He also works with PM Press in the US, and with the anarchist journal Brand in
Sweden.

Come and help to create the next edition of the Scooter Collective zine - a collecction of interviews, observations, reviews, cartoons, and anything else related to ladies on stage! It shall be a two colour print run with 8 A6 pages in total.

Bring:

* ideas
* articles
* drawings
* snacks

Scooter: http://www.scooter.org.au/

Please note, this is an autonomous women's event!

Come along for a night of acoustic sounds in the Jura library.

The fabulous Old Galloway Road will be joining us from Melbourne before jetting off your oddles of over-seas adventures.

Along for the ride is Mr Will Wagner, also of southern origin.

Also playing will be the fabulous Anna Vo, and Magnoliaceae.

Music will start at 6.30ish. Bring your winter woolies!!!

daniel striped tiger (USA) playing a raucous show in the library with bare arms, all my circuits (melbourne) and epitomes (nowra). random book readings between bands! scrumptious vegan dinner and show only $10! all ages and species welcome!

from 6pm, tuesday 5th may