Join SA members and supporters from Wollongong, Newcastle, Armidale, Northern Rivers, Blue Mountains & across Sydney for panels and workshops on the anti-privatisation campaign; NSW - coal graveyard or zero emissions state?; Youth and race - behind the law and order hype + planning for a socialist campaign & preselecting an upper house ticket for the March 2011 NSW election.
Sydney Resistance Centre, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale. Rego $10 waged, $5 conc
Draft Agenda
9:45am-10:00am: Registration, coffee & morning tea
10:00am-11:15pm Opening panel: NSW – crisis & resistance
Susan Price (NTEU President UNSW & SA Eastern Sydney)
Paul McAleer (Sydney branch secretary MUA)
Zane Alcorn (Environmentalist, hip-hop artist & SA candidate for the seat of Newcastle)
11:30-12:45pm Campaign Workshops
· NSW: Toward sustainability or waterless quarry?
Nick Soudakoff (SA Agriculture spokesperson & Northern Rivers branch), Jess Moore (Wollongong Climate Action Network & SA)
· Victimised, Remanded, Tasered – scapegoating & the ‘law and order’ push
Ben Kohler (Wollongong Resistance)
· Community resistance & building people’s power
Irene Doutney (Greens councilor on Sydney Council), Chris Williams (Wollongong SA activist involved in the anti-corruption campaign)
· The religious right in NSW and struggles for queer & women’s rights
Karl Hand (SA activist and Pastor of MCC Crave), Paola Harvey (Convenor of Equal Love Wollongong & Wollongong SA), Kiraz Janicke (SA Sydney)
12:45-1:45pm Lunch
1:45-3pm Panel: Another NSW is possible
Irene Doutney (Greens councilor on Sydney Council)
Rachel Evans (refugee & queer rights campaigner, SA Western Sydney)
Adam Lucas (Beyond Zero Emissions)
Dick Nichols (Socialist Alliance National Executive)
3:15-4 – Multimedia/Discussion: Building a socialist election campaign
Peter Boyle (SA National Convenor)
4-5pm Election of SA Upper House ticket; Adoption of NSW policy; Election of NSW Office Bearers
5pm on – post conference drinks & dinner
Paul 0410 629 088 or Will 0425 329 963 sydney@socialist-alliance.org Donation entry $10/5conc or what you can afford.