How to get active

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MELBOURNE

Come to Rage for refugees, a fundraiser for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre:. Lineup: Anchors; Raccoon City Police Department; Tired Minds; Summer Blood; Pitt the Elder; Knife Hands. Tickets: $10 online; $15 at door. Sunday August 2 at 1pm. Wrangler Studios, 8C Whitely Pde, West Footscray. Tickets: visit oztix.com.au.

Watch a film: Hiroshima. About 90,000 Hiroshima residents performed as extras in the film, helping recreate the horrific scenes of August 6, 1945. Tickets: $15/$25. Thursday Aug 6 at 6.30pm. Kaleide Theatre, 360 Swanston St, City. Bookings: visit trybooking.com.

NEWCASTLE

Join us at Sunday Marxism: Women of Steel. The story of 34 migrant women who rolled steelmaker BHP in their struggle for jobs in the male-dominated steel industry in Wollongong in the 1980s. Sunday August 2 at 2pm. Resistance Centre, 1st floor, 472 Hunter St Newcastle. Ph 0406 296 141. Email lekaniko@gmail.com.

SYDNEY

Participate in a Forum: Whistleblowers challenge Border Force Act . Speakers: Nicole Judge, former worker on Manus Island who features in SBS TV’s Go Back To Where You Came From; Alanna Maycock, former nurse at Nauru; Prof David Isaacs, who recently visited Nauru as a doctor. Monday August 3 at 6pm. NSW Teachers Federation, 23-33 Mary St, Surry Hills.

Come to the Hiroshima Day candlelight procession. Mark the 70th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Organised by the Hiroshima Committee. Thursday August 6 at 6pm. Corner of Elizabeth & Park Sts, city.

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