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Issue No. 135 | 10 May 2002 |
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The Costs of War
Interview: Squaring Off Industrial: Heroes Betrayed History: At The Coalface International: Wobblies With Chinese Characters? Politics: Dancing with Trotsky Economics: You Are What You Eat Poetry: Alexander's Bragtime Band Satire: Stott Despoja Celebrates Engagement With Minor Party Review: Painting Paradise
The Soapbox The Locker Room Postcard Bosswatch Week in Review Tool Shed
 Heaps and Heaps of Hate MailNo ChoiceWho Rules Australia?No Wrap for Song Comp Abbott's Contempt
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News Activists Notebook
World Wide Link-Up for Call Centre Workers Call centre workers and their union representatives are being invited to take part in a worldwide online forum on their working conditions. The virtual conference, part of the international Confernce "World Wide Work" in Berchtesgaden in Germany, will run from May 22 to 25. The conference intends to pioneer a new approach in international cooperation while continuing the WWDU tradition that began in the year 1986 in Stockholm. The virtual conference about Working Conditions in Call Centers is organized by Call Center Agent Network. Participation at the virtual conference is free. More information at our homepage: http://www.callcenteragent.net ***************************** New Theatre 70th Anniversary Season A series of staged readings of some of our most significant plays from last the 70 years
WE WISH TO LET YOU KNOW.....new theatre is celebrating its 70th Year of continuous operation in 2002. As well as our normal programme for this year, there will be a series of play readings and works previously performed at new theatre - one from each of the previous seven decades of our existence. Each of the readings will be performed for one night only. On the 15th May 2002 there will be a reading of An Inspector Calls by JB Priestly - A landmark drama of the 1940s. This reading will be unique in the series in that the play will be acted as a live performance for radio, in the manner that such plays were broadcast in the 1940s. The text has been especially adapted for radio and we hope to recreate the excitement, ambience, and pleasure that made such events so popular with both the studio and listening audiences in that pre-television era. We are mindful that radio is a vital medium for people with impaired vision. Sadly for us all, by comparison with the pre-television era there are very few drama broadcasts and most that are done are pre-recorded and imported. We would be pleased if you would make it known to your members/listeners of this once-only upcoming performance so that they may avail themselves of a night at the theatre where they can not only step back in time but fully enjoy the performance. DETAILS: Date: Wednesday 15th May 2002 Time: 8pm ( audience to be seated by 7.50pm ) Where: new theatre, 542 King St Newtown Cost: $5 at the door - no bookings Regards New Theatre ***************** Public Seminar - Rebuilding Our Unions Howards Attacks and how to Fight Them - John Buchanan, academic - miachael bull, Victorian CFMEU Workers, Unions and the ALP : Whose Party is It? - Peter McClelland, President NSW CFMEU (on defending 60/40 rule) - Debate on disffiliation issue Saturday, May 11th Parramatta Town Hall 1 tp 4.40 pm Organised by Socilaist Alliance ph 0418450812 or 0412751508 ******************** Palestine Film Night
Today is the great day of remembrance. We are not looking back to dig up the evidence of a past crime, for the Nakba is an extended present that promises to continue in the future. We do not need anything to help us remember the human tragedy we have been living for the past 54 years: we continue to live in the here and now. We continue to resist its consequences, here and now, on the land of our homeland, the only homeland we have.
On the occassion of the 54th year of al-Nakba, the day the Palestinians consider as the first day of their "Catastrophe", the day of the establishment of the State of Israel on the lands, homes and lives of the Palestinian people, the PHRC is holding a film night with money raised to be donated to the Joint Humanitarian Appeal.
When: May 17th, starting at 6pm - 9pm Where: Tom Mann Theatre 136 Chalmers St, Surry Hills Sydney Cost: $10
Films being screened are Behind the Wall, Out of Focus and Jerusalem: Occupation Set in Stone.
The Palestine Human Rights Campaign for further information, contact the PHRC on (02) 8080 8125 or email [email protected] *************************** Commemorate 100 Years of Votes for Women Date of the event: 13 June 2002 EMILY's List Australia invites you to Commemorate 100 Years of Votes for non indigenous women and 40 years of votes for indigenous women. Join the wild women of this century ( Johanna Griggs, Joan Kirner, Jenny Macklin, Jenny George, Susan Halliday, Geraldine Doogue, Anne Summers and Penny Wong) in a frank and funny look at what we have done with our vote at 6.30pm on Thursday June 13th, 2002 at the Metro Theatre, 624 George St, Sydney. Cost is $60/$40 concession (plus booking fee) and includes show, light meal and drinks at bar prices. To book phone 02 9287 2000 or online at http://www.metrotheatre.com.au *********************** WEDNESDAY POLITICS AT BERKELOUW THE SOCIALIST OBJECTIVE: Objectionable object or light on the hill? Wednesday May 22 Speakers include Senator George Campbell, Parliamentary Secretary for Manufacturing Industry; Troy Bramston, former President, NSW Young Labor: Paul Smith, Secretary NSW Fabians; chaired by Tanya Plibersek MP, ALP Member for Sydney. $10/$5 NSW Fabian Society Forum at 6.30PM Berkelouw Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt *************** MEDIA ACTIVISM AND THE INTERNET New Media: New Politics Wednesday June 12 at 6.30 PM Seminar to launch Future Active by Graham Meikle exploring the ways that key activiists are using the internet to affect social and political change. Speakers include Graham Meikle and McKenzie Wark, author of Celebrities, Culture and Cyberspace. $15/$10 Berkelouw Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt Pluto Institute **************** BEYOND CORPORATE GLOBALISM: Is Another World Possible? Wednesday July 17 at 6.30 PM Seminar launch of Protest and Globalisation: Prospects for Transnational Solidarity. Discussion with the book's contributors: Patricia Ranald, Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network; Ruth Philips, Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Sydney; Marc Williams, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of New South Wales; Devleena Ghosh, Senior Lecturer in Social Enquiry, University of Technology, Sydney and James Goodman, Editor of Protest and Globalisation. $10/$5 Berkelouw Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt Pluto Institute ************** KEY THINKERS SERIES AT SYDNEY UNIVERSITY This series introduces you to the people who have revolutionised our ways of thinking. Each lecture will place these important figures in their social and intellectual contexts and summarise the central issues dealt with in their work. The lectures will be given by local scholars with a particular interest and expertise in their thinker of choice. Venue: Old Geology Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney (opposite the Holme Building, just next to the footbridge across Parramatta Road). Time: Wednesday evenings, 6.30-8.00 pm Entry is free, and there is no need to RSVP. Lectures in May Wednesday 15 May M.A.K. Halliday by Jim Martin 'I became interested in Michael Halliday's work as an undergraduate student in Canada; what inspired me most was his social perspective on the ways in which language makes the meanings we use to live. Over time I came to appreciate more deeply the range of interdisciplinary applications enabled by these ideas and how they materialise his concept of linguistics as an ideologically committed form of social action.' J R Martin is Professor in Linguistics (Personal Chair) at the University of Sydney. Wednesday 22 May Julia Kristeva byJohn Lechte Julia Kristeva is best known for her development of the concept of the semiotic, as well as for her famous studies of abjection, love and melancholia. More recently, she has completed work on the nature of revolt and the feminine genius, with studies of Arendt, Melanie Klein and the French writer, Colette. John Lechte is Associate Professor in Sociology at Macquarie University and is a former student of Julia Kristeva (1978-1982
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