Resistance conference: videos and pictures

May 9, 2011
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Video: Activist media as a form of resistance. Matthew Cassel, former editor of Electronic Intifada, speaks on activist media and the Arab Spring. YouTube/peterboyle53.

The "Take the power back" conference of the socialist youth organisation Resistance was held at the Redfern Community Centre in Sydney on May 7-9. Below are videos of sections of talks given by some of the speakers.

Video: Antony Loewenstein: Israel and the Arab revolutions (Part 1 of 2). Peter Boyle.

Video: Antony Loewenstein: Israel and the Arab revolutions (Part 2 of 2). Peter Boyle.

Video: People's power vs gas companies. Peter Boyle.

Video: 'Peter Gray - more than the guy who threw his shoes at Howard'. Peter Boyle.

Video: Australia as a rich country should not send asylum seekers to Malaysia.  Peter Boyle.

Ravindran Munusamy, a youth activist with the Socialist Party of Malaysia who was a guest at the Resistance conference. he is being interviewed by Resistance member Duncan Roden on the Gillard Australian government's plan to send asylum seekers who come to Australia to Malaysia, which is is not a signatory to the Refugee Convention.

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Resistance conference participants
Resistance conference participants. Photo: Alex Bainbridge

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Antony Loewenstein speaking
Antony Loewenstein speaking. Photo: Alex Bainbridge

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Heleyni Pratley speaking
Heleyni Pratley speaking. Photo: Alex Bainbridge

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