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Tarnished Rings
Interview: Trading Places Safety: Snow Job Politics: In the Vanguard Unions: Gentle Giant Goes For Gold Bad Boss: 'Porker' Chases Blue Ribbon International: Cruising For A Bruising History: Under the Influence Economics: Working Capital Review: Fahrenheit 9/11 Poetry: Bad Intelligence Rap Satire: Osama Bin Manchu
Parliament The Soapbox The Locker Room Tribute Postcard
 An Officer And A TeacherTom Goes AsexualRoad Rage At WorkDemocracy In ActionAsbestos Bastadry
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Activists Activists What’s On!
Boycott and Picket the Safari Restaurant SUPPORT UNPAID SUBCONTRACT BUILDING COMPANIES IN THEIR CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE How can you help? Boycott the Safari Restaurant Sign our Supporters Petition Make a donation to the campaign Picket nightly from 6.15pm - 28 King Street, Newtown. Dream on! National competition for students - term 3 The Australian Council of Trade Unions' Worksite for Schools website (www.worksite.actu.asn.au) is currently running a national competition for school, TAFE and RTO students - Your Dream Job. To enter, students must write about the job of their dreams. There is $100 for the student winner, $50 for 2 runners-up, and $25 for the winner of the special effort category. The competition will not only give students a chance to win, it's a great way for them to learn about the workforce and get them excited about their working future. Worksite is a terrific source of information about the workforce, providing statistics, encouraging debate, creativity and analysis. The competition closes Friday 22nd October 2004. More information and an entry form can be obtained from the Worksite website - www.worksite.actu.asn.au. Please call 1800 659 511 (toll free) or email [email protected] if you have any questions. hoWARd the arseLIcKEr -Written by D.B.Valentine - Directed by Mark Cleary -The Edge Theatre - Cnr King & Bray Sts Newtown -Advance previews Wed 4th & Thurs 5th August. -Opening Friday 6th Aug to Sunday 29th Aug. -Time: 7.30pm (tbc) -Bookings 9645 1611 or www.mca-tix.com -More info go to: www.newtowntheatre.com.au click on "The Edge" HIROSHIMA DAY MARCH Friday 6 August, 6.00pm at Town Hall, marching to Archibald Fountain in Hyde Park for a Crane and Candle ceremony. Information: Hiroshima Day Committee, telephone Bronwyn Marks, 9982 4192. Earthdance 2004 Earthdance Sydney Launch Party Saturday 7 th August, @ Newtown 52 Enmore Road, Newtown (ex - Newtown RSL - bring ID with address to sign in)
Metaform kinetic sculpture Exhibition 8pm Earthdance Documentary Screening 9.00pm Two rooms of gorgeous grooves: Sveta Sub Bass Snarl Bentley Matt n Kayla Meem Eegor Rif Raf The Loops aka Grey Area VJs: Spook Eyebyte Eskatonia Helen C
Doors Open 8 pm $8 before 9 pm $15 After
Proceeds will help to ensure the best possible Earthdance Community Festival for Peace Sunday 19 September Sydney Park (Cnr King St and Princes Hwy) Saturday 18th September at Federation Square! Full Programme to be announced shortly
www.earthdance.org.au
Give Peace A Dance The Republican Movement and Reconciliation ARM Sydney Speakers Series #2: author and academic Mark McKenna - Tuesday 10 August 2004 Further details at http://www.republic.org.au/ARM-2001/news&events/Sydney_Speakers_Series_Flyer.PDF Labor and Community Organising in Los Angeles: a popular education approach 12 August Kent Wong seminar - Pop Ed in LA for unions and community organisations Centre for Popular Education Seminar Kent Wong Director UCLA Centre for Labor Research and Education How do unions and community organizations organise in Los Angeles? What role can a University center play as a bridge between the University and the Labor community in Southern California? And how have the dramatic changes in the Southern California economy in recent years shaped this relationship? Kent Wong, the Centre Director, will talk about the Center and its concentration on working with unions, immigrant worker and other community unions/associations, and how its research - which encourages and draws upon community scholars - provides an important source of information for unions and community organisations. Perhaps this explains why the Center's future has been threatened by Governor Arnold Schwarzennegger's proposed 2004-05 state budget, which aims to dramatically reduce its funds. When: Thursday 12 August Where: Centre for Popular Education, UTS 5th Floor Conference Room 235 Jones St, Broadway Time: 3-5pm followed by drinks RSVP: [email protected] 9514 3866 IRISH WORKERS TD (MP)TO SPEAK IN NSW Joe Higgins TD (Socialist Party, Dublin West) is to tour Australia in August 2004. Jailed last year for a month for his involvement in the Bin Tax dispute, Higgins - who worked as a construction worker in Sydney in the 1970s - will be speaking at meetings of the Irish Community, workplace meetings, at a National Union of Workers delegates‚ meeting and at public meetings in Newcastle, Sydney, Perth and Melbourne about recent workers‚ and community struggles in Ireland and Europe. Against an international backdrop of understandable cynicism and distrust of politicians of all political persuasions, Joe Higgins stands out as one politician prepared to back his words with action. Joe is nationally known as a fighter for working class people and for standing for working class unity and socialism, in the South and North of Ireland. Working class people in Ireland know of Joe‚s reputation as a class fighter ˆ they have witnessed him fighting for their communities for years, including being sent to prison, along with Socialist Party Councillor Clare Daly, and other activists, during mass anti-bin charges protests, last year. WHEN AND WHERE: NEWCASTLE: 6.30pm on Friday August 13th at the Commonwealth Hotel, 35 Union St, Cooks Hill, Newcastle. SYDNEY: 3pm on Saturday 14th August at the Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire St, Sydney (near Central station). The Occupation Of Cockatoo Island 1989 Militant union film showing A film by Frances Kelly and John Tognolini In 1989 dockyard workers staged a 93-day long strike and occupation to defend Australia's oldest workplace, Cockatoo island dockyard. Then Prime Minister Bob Hawke and then Defence Minister Kim Beazley shut the yard down, leaving 1600 workers jobless. Speaker: John Tognolini, former Cockatoo island painter & Docker, now High School teacher and NSW Teachers Federation State Councillor. Plus help launch the new Socialist Alliance Workers Charter 6,30pm, Tuesday 17th of August Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie Street Chippendale Hosted by Socialist Alliance Ph: 9690 1977 - 0428 826 347 Qld Consevation Council state conference: August 20, 21 AND 22 AUGUST - Mercure Hotel, Brisbane QCC STATE CONFERENCE 2004 BOOK NOW!! Different Voices: Common Cause? Different Voices: Common Cause promises to deliver an environmental conference with a twist. The theme reflects an attempt to find common cause between differing perspectives on environmental issues. Can developers and environmentalists agree on anything? Is there room for the union movement to work with conservation groups to achieve better environmental and employment outcomes? AGENDA Friday Night: Dinner/Forum - The Environment and the Election. Speakers include: Senator Kerry Nettle (Greens); Mr Kelvin Thomson MP (ALP); and Senator Lyn Allison (Democrats). Places going quickly, so book now to hear what politicians have to say about the importance of the environment at election times. Includes dinner and drinks. Saturday and Sunday - Two Streams Environment Stream: Climate Perspectives; Urban Perspectives; Employment Perspectives; Water Perspectives; Northern Perspectives; Wildlife Perspectives. Training and Development Stream: Managing Sponsorship; Managing Organisations; Managing Volunteers; Managing People; Managing Fundraising; Managing Media. PRICING - includes GST Dinner/Forum Only $70 (no concession available) Full Conference Sat & Sun $120 ($100) + dinner $180 ($160) Full Day - includes buffet lunch $70 ($60) Half Day - includes tea & coffee $40 ($30) Single Session - includes tea & coffee $ 20 ($15) (Concessions available for current Full-Time Students and Health Care Card holders only). www.qccqld.org.au/conference.htm Places are limited. Contact Michael at [email protected] for booking details or call 07 3221 0188. Qld Conservation Council 166 Ann Street, Brisbane, Qld 4000 Ph: 07 3221 0188 Fax: 07 3229 7992 www.qccqld.org.au www.qccqld.org.au/conference.html Rock Against the Free Trade Agreement
Wednesday August 25th. Annandale Hotel A night of excellent, up-and-coming artists showing the talent and promise of the local music industry, threatened by a Free Trade Agreement with the United States. Come and enjoy a mixture of sublime acoustic and pop music, punk, electronic wizardy, hard-rock and funk. Celebrate it and save it! 8:15-8:45 Night-hour Mezzinine stage 8:45-9:15 Wons Band Stage 9:15-9:45 Urban Guerillas Mezzinine stage 9:45:10:15 Joshua Band Stage 10:15-10:30 Talk about FTA Mezzinine stage 10:30-11:00 Andorra Band Stage Wednesday August 25th. Annandale Hotel Parramatta Rd (Crn Nelson St), Annandale $8 at the door Republican Film Night - Tuesday 31 August 2004 Further details at http://www.republic.org.au/ARM-2001/news&events/NSW_Film_Night_31_August_2004_Flyer.PDF Films, politics and learning conference Organization: OVAL Research, Faculty of Education, University of Technology Dec 6 & 7 These nights aim: - To bring together radical film-makers, radical film buffs, and radical educators. - To inspire educators about ways they can use film in their work. - To inspire film-makers about ways they might facilitate learning about politics. - To foster discussion and advocacy about this field of practice. We are seeking videos and films under 2 categories: 1. Agitprop: protest, guerrilla, activist, political, subversive short films /videos. 2. Participatory film-making: community films/videos as social intervention. The nights will focus on short films and video from artists, activists and educators from the international scene. Your work will be presented to an audience of educators, activists and artists delegates from of the "Education and Social Action" international conference and the general film buffs interested in activism. The nights are a non-profit event without competition. There are therefore no prizes and no pay involved, but of course you keep the rights. There is no limitation of geographic origin but speaking Films/Videos must be in English, or subtitled in English. Fiction, documentary, animation or experimental are accepted. Videos must be no more than 10 minutes. The only format accepted is DVD. Send copies with entry form to Celina McEwen, The Centre for Popular Education, UTS, PO Box 123, BROADWAY NSW 2007 AUSTRALIA. Entry copies will not be returned, so don't send originals. To confirm receipt your video/film, send a self-addressed stamped postcard. Deadline for entries is September 30, 2004. Individuals and organisations can submit unlimited number of films, but should complete a separate entry form for each film. All the films may be put on the same tape. Entry forms can be downloaded from www.cpe.uts.edu.au/pdfs/FPLentry.pdf For further information email Celina on (02) 9514 3847 or [email protected]
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