GLW Calendar, 2010-10, Sydney

Date: Sat 2 Oct, 2:00pm

John Lennon captured the imagination of millions when he sang "Imagine there's no countries, nothing to kill or die for". Decades on, borders, racism, the refugee situation and immigration are intertwined as the first world rapidly raises fortresses to deny access from the poor south - including from people fleeing wars and dictatorships backed by the first world. The next installment in Socialist Alliance and Resistance's regular fortnightly socialist ideas discussions will look at the root causes behind the issues, and how we can challenge the injustices. Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale

Phone: 9690 1977 or Fred 0412 556 527

Email: fred.fuentes@gmail.com

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

Date: Fri 8 Oct, 5:30pm

After nine years of slaughter, we demand: Welcome Afghan refugees; Reparations for the Afghan people; Stop threatening Iran. Speakers include Lee Rhiannon (NSW Greens senator); Habiba Roshan (Afghan community); Jim Casey (FBEU); Phil Glendenning (Edmund Rice Centre). Organised by Stop the War Collective

Phone: Pip 0412 139 968 or Adnrew 0409 959 014

Website: www.stopwarcoalition.org

Date: Fri 8 Oct, 6:30pm

Friday October 8, 6.30pm. CFMEU, Level 2. 10 Railway Street, Lidcombe Special guests - JJ Son con Idalbelis from Santiago de Cuba As well as the farewell CFMEU Officer, Rita Mallia, will report on her recent two week visit to Colombia. Rita was a guest of Sinaltrainal, the food manufacturing union that represents workers employed by multinationals, such as Coca Cola, Kraft and Unilever. In addition to visiting picket lines and trade unions across Colombia, Rita visited imprisoned trade unionists and filmmaker Liliana Obando. Liliana has now been in jail for nearly two years unconvicted of any crime. Entrance - $5.00. Dinner on sale. All proceeds for human rights in Colombia

Date: Sat 9 Oct, 12:00pm

National day of action in solidarity with the Cairns couple and all Qld women. A young Qld couple goes to trial on Oct 12 charged under archaic abortion laws that should not exist - abortion is not a crime. Organised by Womens Abortion Action Campaign and supported by a wide range of women's, community, union and political groups.

Phone: Marg 0407 665 857

Email: contact_waac@yahoo.com.au

Website: WAAC

Date: Sun 10 Oct, 9:00am - Sun 10 Oct, 3:00pm

Second hand books and books for social change, novels, fiction and non-fiction + much more, at very cheap prices (most books $2 and under!) Addison Rd Community Markets - opposite Sidetrack Theatre. 142 Addison Rd Marrickville.

Phone: 9690 1977 or Paul 0410 629 088

Email: paulb@greenleft.org.au

Date: Tue 12 Oct, 6:30pm

Special meeting that will make plans for the Alliance's work in a range of campaigns, for the NSW election, and for building the reach of the Socialist Alliance. The meeting will also preselect for the seat of Marrickville in the March 2011 NSW Election, and elect an coordinating committee. All SA members and supporters welcome! Dinner from 6pm, meeting from 6:30pm. Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale.

Phone: 9690 1977 or Fred 0412 556 527

Email: paulb@greenleft.org.au

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

Date: Sat 16 Oct, 9:00am - Sun 17 Oct, 5:00pm

Featuring guest speakers from: Bolivia - Alina Canaviri Sullcani Leader of the Indigenous and Rural Women Federation of Bolivia “Bartolina Sisa” & Morale´s MAS; El Salvador- Dr. Guillermo Mata Bennett (FMLN representative to the Lower House); Venezuela - Angel Navas (Electrical Workers Federation FETRAELEC); Uruguay - Washington Belleti (Movement for Land and against Poverty). NSW Teachers Federation, 23-33 Mary St, Surry Hills. Organised by the Latin America Social Forum.

Phone: 0413 310 452

Email: lasfsydney@gmail.com

Date: Sun 17 Oct, 12:00am

Our art can change the world! Calling for all artists and activists to make submissions for a radical art exhibition and competition. The theme of the exhibition is ‘another world is possible , but we must fight for it’. There is $3500 in prize money to be won. Sun Oct 17. Addison Road Community Centre, Marrickville. Supported by GLW’s Cultural Dissent, Music Feeds, Art Resistance & Kinetic Energy Theatre Company. Visit <www.LiveRedArtAwards.net>.

Date: Sun 17 Oct, 12:30pm - Sun 17 Oct, 8:30pm

The Live Red Art Awards and Festival is a new arts project that seeks to promote and recognize art that investigates a radical social and political perspective. The LRAA promises to be a fearless, inspiring convergence of all those who are interested in the collision of social change and jaw-dropping art. A prize of $3000 (with a people’s choice award of $500) will be awarded to an individual artist or group of artists whose work of art best reflects the motto: “Another world is possible, but we must fight for it”. Entries are open to artists across Australia. A condition of entry is that, regardless of the type of art entered, it must be protest art. It must also be able to be performed, installed or mounted by the entrants at the festival itself — hence the concept of “live red art”. The exhibition/festival will feature art as diverse as: - visual art - performance art - time-based art - photomedia - street art - textiles - theatre There'll also be a zine fair and live music. All the artworks will explore how we can live together in a new way; have the potential of having a mass impact; and aim to inspire social change and raise political awareness. LRAA presents a unique opportunity for local artists and cultural activists who recognise the connection between art, culture, social life and political change. Entries are open now until September 1 - go to the website for more info on how to submit an artwork.

Phone: 0449 866 119

Email: liveredartawards@gmail.com

Website: Live Red Art Awards

Date: Tue 19 Oct, 6:30pm

Free Public Lecture from Anna Baltzer, author of 'Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories', activist for Palestinian rights, granddaughter of Holocaust refugees. She has been a volunteer with the International Women’s Peace Service in the West Bank and supported Palestinian-led nonviolent resistance to the Occupation. Among many public appearances she has featured most recently on the Jon Stewart Daily Show alongside Palestinian presidential candidate and nonviolence leader Dr. Mustafa Barghouti. In 2009, Baltzer received the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee's prestigious Annual Rachel Corrie Peace & Justice Award. Central Lecture Block Theatre 8, The University of New South Wales, Kensington.

Email: p.slezak@unsw.edu.au

Date: Sat 23 Oct, 1:00pm

To coincide with the 9 year anniversary of the the SIEV-X tragedy in which 353 refugees drowned, and the ongoing injustices faced by refugees. Close the detention centres; no offshore processing; no deportations. Protest @ Sydney Town Hall. Speakers include Lee Rhiannon (NSW Greens); Phil Glendenning (Edmund Rice Centre) + Afghan refugee speaker + more. Organised by Refugee Action Coalition.

Phone: Ian 0417 275 713 or Diane 0413 003 148

Website: RAC Sydney

Date: Sat 23 Oct, 6:00pm - Sat 23 Oct, 8:45pm

Plunder: The crime of our times is a hard hitting investigative film by former CCN producer Danny Schechter, who predicted the global financial crisis in his previous film. Here the "News Dissector" explores how the financial crisis was built on the biggest white-collar crime in history. PLUS short film Shock Doctrine, in which Naomi Klein and Alfonso Cuaron combine to reveal how capitalism has consistently been forced upon disaster shocked people. Donation entry $10waged/$6conc. Cheap dinner avail from 6pm, films start 6:30pm Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale

Phone: 9690 1977 or Paul 0410 629 088

Email: paulb@greenleft.org.au

Website: www.greenleft.org.au

Date: Wed 27 Oct, 1:00pm

Directed by the mysterious "Banksy", Exit Through the Gift Shop is a brilliant examination of the underground street art culture, and an intriguing look at commercialisation of art. The multi-layered film is humorous art itself, poking fun at the "trendiness" of street art, the millionaires who want to purchase it, and revealing the contradictions of the art form. Free film screening as part of the Resistance Club AGM Isabel Fidler Room, Manning House, Sydney Uni (next to Manning Bar)

Phone: Aaron 0434 540 903

Email: roden.a.j@gmail.com

Date: Thu 28 Oct, 6:00pm

Speakers include Hadi Zaher, Afghan refugee & anti-war campaigner; Helen Patterson, activist in Stop the War & Socialist Alliance. \After nine years of war and occupation tens of thousands of Afghan civilians are dead and more than 2000 US-led troops – including 21 Australians – have been killed. Billions of dollars are being spent while the world slides into economic crisis. Bipartisan support from the ALP and the Coalition has meant there has been no real debate on Australia's role. Supporters of the war insist the war is necessary to fight terrorism and bring democracy to Afghanistan. Yet a clear majority (61% according to Essential Poll) is opposed to Australian involvement. Newly elected independent MP, Andrew Wilkie argues “there can be no hope of enduring peace until foreign troops are withdrawn.” Organised by Socialist Alliance & Green Left Weekly Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale (cnr Blackfriars). Dinner from 6pm, meeting 6:30pm.

Phone: Ph Pip 9690 1977 or 0412 139 968

Email: piph@greenleft.org.au

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

Date: Fri 29 Oct, 12:01pm

Featuring Mark Fordham, Former CDEP co-ordinator Ampilatwatja community. Rally demands: guarantee the 500 treatened Shire jobs; End compulsory income management; End forcing Aboriginal people to work for the Basics Card; Massive investment in job creation & services in all Aboriginal communities. Sydney Town Hall. Organised by Stop the intervention Collective Sydney

Phone: Jean 0449 646 593

Website: www.stoptheintervention.org

Date: Sat 30 Oct, 2:00pm - Sat 30 Oct, 4:00pm

While forces from Fred Nile through to some on the Left call for "banning the burqa" for supposed liberation, just how emancipated are 21st century Australian women? Women do most of the unpaid work in the home; earn just 66% of the male wage; lack affordable child care; 1-in-4 suffer domestic violence; abortion remains illegal in most states; and problems such as poverty disproportionately effect women. On top of and reinforcing this, a massive industry of sexist media and advertising turns women into nothing more than commodities. A new aspect of this is "raunch culture", which promotes itself as liberating women's sexuality. Come to a discussion on women in 21st century Australia, from the burqa hysteria to raunch culture, and how we need to confront sexism as part of the struggle for a better world. The latest in a regular series of Socialist Ideas discussions hosted by Socialist Alliance and Resistance. All welcome! Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale

Phone: 9690 1977 or Fred 0412 556 527

Email: fred.fuentes@gmail.com

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

Date: Sat 30 Oct, 7:00pm

Latin American musicians, DJs, dancers and food! Special appearance by Danny Sanchez, Reggaeton: Pocho Man, Jorge Martinez, DJ Gato Felix. Salsa, Samba, Cumbia, Merengue, Reggaeton! Tickets $15 or $10 conc (children under 10 free). Organised by the Latin American Social Forum. The Great Hall, Addison Rd Community Centre, Addison Rd, Marrickville.

Phone: Victor-Hugo 0425 324 621 or John 0413 310 452

Email: lasfsydney@gmail.com

Date: Sun 31 Oct, 5:30pm

With Pedro Monzon Barata (New Cuban Ambassador to Australia); Reinaldo Garcia Perera (New Cuban Consul General to Australia); JJ Son (touring Cuban Salsa Band). Tickets $25 ($50 solidarity). Upstaris at the Cyprus Club, 58 Stanmore Rd, Stanmore

Phone: Nick 0414 691 732

Email: secretary@sydney-acfs.org