Sydney

Rally against racism

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Mon, 2013-03-04

<p>Stop the Stronger Futures, No to 10 more years of the Intervention. Stop the expansion of income management: Not in the NT, not in Bankstown, not anywhere. Stop black deaths in custody, justice for Kwementyaye Briscoe and all victims.</p>
<p>Thursday March 21, 12:30 at office of Tanya Plibersek MP 150 Broadway, opposite Broadway shops. Speakers Sue Gillett, Ray Jackson.</p>

Stop the War Coalition special public forum: Iraq 10 years on: Remembering when the world said no to war

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Mon, 2013-03-04

<p>With Donna Mulhearn (just returned from Iraq); Elizabeth Humphrys (researcher); Simon Butler (Books not Bombs) &amp; Hall Greenland (Greens)</p>

Protest: Lock the state on Coal Seam Gas, Protect our land and water

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Mon, 2013-03-04

<p>The Liberal-majority on Campbelltown City Council voted 8-7 to renege on its support for an upcoming rally against CSG in the area.</p>
<p>However, local councilors and residents from CSG Free Ingleburn will be going ahead with protest.</p>
<p>They already have the support of Stop CSG groups from across western Sydney.</p>
<p>Koshigaya Park, Hurley St (opp Campbelltown City Library)</p>

Forum: Face to Face with Fukushima Australian Tour

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Mon, 2013-03-04

<p>Sydney Commemoration Concert Sunday March 10, 5-7pm.</p>
<p>To commemorate 2 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster, people directly affected will visit Australia to share their stories.</p>
<p>Speakers: Akira Kawasaki, Peace Boat Organisation, Tokyo Hasegawa Kenichi, a farmer from the Iitate Village, Fukushima Tomohiro Matsuoka, Japanese for Peace, Melbournenoon.</p>

Protest: Zombie-A-Frack against Coal Seam Gas

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Mon, 2013-03-04

<p>As CSG is a threat to our communities, our health and our livelihoods. The Nepean River is bubbling with methane and the multibillion dollar companies claim innocence.</p>
<p>Dust off some old clothes that you don't mind getting some red paint on and join us in the heart of Blacktown to make it clear that we demand water free from arsenic, benzene and leaching methane.</p>

Forum and Films: Democracy in Malaysia

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Mon, 2013-03-04

<p>Featuring two short dissident documentary films from Malaysia.</p>
<p>Also speaking are Senator Xenophon (after having been deportated from Malaysia), Greens NSW MP Jamie Parker (who recently visited Malaysia), independent journalist Wendy Bacon and Malaysian democracy activist William de Cruz.</p>

Festival for the Kimberley: raising awareness to protect the Kimberley

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Mon, 2013-03-04

<p>Free entry. Live music, market stalls, dances, food and drink, camels, a life-size Kimberley whale &amp; much more. Organised by the Wilderness Society.</p>
<p>Martin Place, Sydney 7am-7pm</p>

Support the NTEU's strike

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Mon, 2013-03-04

<p>The National Tertiary Education Union are taking industrial action at Sydney University and students and the Public Sector Union are supporting them.</p>
<p>NTEU members at the University of Sydney voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking industrial action over their claims for a new Enterprise Agreement.</p>

Sydney uni forum: 100% renewables by 2020? How we can win

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Mon, 2013-03-04

<p>Climate change is a reality - as the majority of climate scientists tell us. Yet, the government is dragging its feet on making the switch to renewable, sustainable energy. Why?</p>
<p>Speaker: Duncan Roden, Green Left Weekly journalist and climate activist</p>
<p>Come along to this forum, hosted by Resistance, at the University of Technology Tower. Room 318, 1pm</p>

Resisting the occupation: eyewitness from Palestine

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Mon, 2013-03-04

<p>Resistance Forum at the University of Sydney.</p>
<p>Tues March 12, 1pm Holme Building Common Room</p>
<p>Speaker: Vivienne Porzsolt, Jews Against the Occupation and who has recently returned from five months volunteering in the West Bank.</p>
<p>In the face of hunger strikes, protests, sit-ins and boycotts, the Israeli occupation of Palestine is growing more and more untenable.</p>

Protest: Geert Wilders' visit to Sydney: No to Islamophobia, No to Racist Hate

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2013-02-14

<p>Friday February 22</p>
<p>Protest: Geert Wilders' visit to Sydney: No to Islamophobia, No to Racist Hate</p>
<p>The location of of Wilders' speech will be kept secret until shortly before the event, but will be near the Sydney CBD. Please add yourself as attending the event on facebook to get updates about the exact venue.</p>

East Timor Lecture, book launch and dinner: 8th Dr. Andrew McNaughtan Memorial Lecture, The Politics of Timor Leste book launch and tribute dinner

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2013-02-14

<p>Gleebooks (upstairs) 43 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe, 6pm-6.30pm on Thurs 21 February 2013 and Spanish Tapas Restaurant, 26 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe.</p>

Music, Politics, Culture: Barrio Latino

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2013-02-14

<p>Tuesday February 19 - Tuesday February 26<br />
Music, Politics, Culture: Barrio Latino</p>
<p>Six days celebrating Latin American Culture. The Addison Road Community Centre is inviting you to the ‘BARRIO LATINO FESTIVAL’ which will take place at the Centre -142 Addison Rd Marrickville.</p>

Public meeting: Stop CSG Sydney hosts Sharyn Munro, author of Rich Land Wasteland

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2013-02-14

<p>Learn first hand about the devastating impacts of coal and coal seam gas extraction in Australia, particularly on people, and particularly in NSW. Hear how Sydney's own water supply is being threatened by both longwall coal mining and coal seam gas drilling.</p>

Forum: Tortured for giving care: Bahrani nurse tells her story

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2013-02-14

<p>Rula Al'Saffar, President of the Bahrain Nursing Society, was named the 11th most influential person in the Middle East. In 2011, she was tortured by the Bahraini government after treating protestors injured during anti-government uprisings. Rula will tell the story of how a campaign for better wages turned into a crisis when her hospital was militarized.