GLW Calendar, 2010-08, Sydney

Date: Tue 3 Aug, 6:00pm

Every Tuesday SA members, supporters and friends are encouraged to drop into the Resistance Centre headquarters to help plan the election campaign and help with a working bee - make signs, banners, go postering, make rally placards, do ring arounds, make polling day kits, rally stalls, media work and more! @ Resistance Centre 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale.

Phone: 9690 1977 or Fred 0412 556 527

Email: sydney@socialist-alliance.org

Website: http://www.socialist-alliance.org/sydney/

Date: Fri 6 Aug, 6:00pm

Candlelight procession and rally. Time to abolish nuclear weapons! Australian troops out of Afghanistan! Belmore Park (near Central Railway).

Date: Fri 6 Aug, 7:00pm

On Hiroshima day- a public forum with Senator Scott Ludlam, Sylvia Hale MP and Lee Rhiannon, NSW Senate candidate. Surry Hills Community Centre, Cnr Crown and Collins sts.

Date: Sat 7 Aug, 1:00pm

Rally to stand up for refugees; no to offshore processing - let the refugees in; Close the detention centres. Sydney Town Hall. Organised by Refugee Action Coalition

Phone: Ph Ian 0417 275 713

Website: http://refugeeactioncoalitionsydney.wordpress.com/

Date: Sun 8 Aug, 2:00pm

A collection of poetry by Mohsen Soltany Zand. Live music and reading. Speakers include Leichhardt Mayor Jamie Parker, Rosie Scots and Ian Rintoul. Leichhardt Town Hall.

Date: Tue 10 Aug, 6:30pm

International Free Gaza Movement meeting to help organise a contingent from Australia to join the hundreds of people from over 30 countries to join the next Gaza Freedom Flotilla expected to sail around October. Artline Design & Print, 140 Haldon Street Lakemba (entry from rear)

Phone: Bashir 9759 1666

Date: Thu 12 Aug, 6:00pm

Launch of a plan for a zero emissions economy by 2020. MC Quentin Dempster (ABCTV Stateline) Sydney Town Hall for free on Thursday 12 August.

Phone: Adam 0411 199 213

Date: Sat 14 Aug, 1:00pm

Sydney will commemorate the 6 anniversary of the ban on same sex marriage rights with a rally and march, with a host of celebrities supporting equal right, including stand up comedian Wil Anderson who will MC the event. Sydney Town Hall

Website: http://www.caah.org.au/

Date: Sat 14 Aug, 3:00pm

Sydney premiere of a new film on the coup in Honduras against the elected pro-poor government of Manuel Zelaya, and the ongoing resistance of the people against the coup plotters. Maritime Union Office, 365 Sussex St, Sydney. Organised by the Latin American Social Forum.

Phone: Santiago 0402 764 454 or Victor-Hugo 0425 324 621

Email: lasfsydney@gmail.com

Date: Sun 15 Aug, 12:00pm

Bring your friends, banners and placards! In the lead-up to the federal election, we're asking Australia's political leaders to: "Walk with the people, not the big polluters" Let's put an end to the political delays and backflips on climate action, rising pollution and the free ride for the big polluters. Organised by the Nature Conservation Council. Belmore Park, across the road from Central Station.

Phone: 9516 1488

Website: http://walkagainstwarmingnsw.org.au/

Date: Sun 15 Aug, 4:30pm - Sun 15 Aug, 8:00pm

Join progressive & inspirational folk singer David Rovics for an afternoon of rousing, revolutionary rhythms! David has travelled the world, playing at cafes, pubs, universities, churches, union halls and protest rallies. He has shared the stage in two dozen countries, and his music has featured on Democracy Now!, BBC, and Al-Jazeera. His songs - which touch on social justice, anti-war, Palestine, environment, anti-racism and much more - have been downloaded online more than a million times. An event not to be missed! Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale (off Broadway). $18 waged, $12 concession - funds raised to Australia's leading alternative media, Green Left Weekly.

Phone: 0410 629 088; 9690 1977

Email: paulb@greenleft.org.au

Website: www.greenleft.org.au

Date: Sat 21 Aug, 8:00am - Sat 21 Aug, 6:00pm

Socialist Alliance is running in the seats of Grayndler in Sydney's inner west and Parramatta in western Sydney, and all help is welcome - for an hour or a whole day!

Phone: Fred 0412 556 527 (Grayndler) Duncan 0431 586 588 (Parramatta)

Email: sydney@socialist-alliance.org

Website: http://www.socialist-alliance.org/sydney/

Date: Sat 21 Aug, 6:30pm

The only S.A.N.E party around! Join us after polling day for plnety of cooling drinks, warming foods, music & watching the election unfold.....no guaranteed victories but guaranteed solidarity! Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale

Phone: 9690 1977 or Fred 0412 556 527

Email: sydney@socialist-alliance.org

Website: http://www.socialist-alliance.org/sydney/

Date: Wed 25 Aug, 6:30pm

David Shoebridge (Greens Woollahara Councillor and lead Greens candidate for NSW upper house at 2011 state election); Peter Boyle (Socialist Alliance national convenor) will introduce a discussion on politics post the 2010 Federal Election and ideas on what now for the progressive movements. With a hung parliament & the Greens holding the balance of power in the senate, it is a time of significant possibilities for the Left. Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale. Cheap dinner avail from 6pm.

Phone: 9690 1977 or Fred 0412 556 527

Email: sydney@socialist-alliance.org

Website: http://www.socialist-alliance.org/sydney/

Date: Sat 28 Aug, 3:00pm

For new members or those interested in finding out more about Australia's largest and broadest socialist organisation. Who is the Alliance and where did it come from? What does SA stand for and how do we organise? Come along to discuss, raise questions, and get involved. Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale. (A further intro session will be held on Wed evening, Sept 1, for those who can't make this one)

Phone: 9690 1977 or Paul 0410 629 088

Email: sydney@socialist-alliance.org

Website: http://www.socialist-alliance.org