Forum: Why we need to defend the Tent Embassy

Wednesday 1st February 6pm (cheap meal) 6:30pm start @ Resistance Centre 22 Mountain St, Ultimo

Join us to hear from Pat Eatock, Aboriginal elder, 1972 Tent Embassy activist and participant in current Tent Embassy protest and Kathy Eatock Aboriginal activist, organiser of recent Tent Embassy protests in Canberra plus Ray Jackson Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA) spokesperson and participant in Tent Embassy protests in Canberra about peaceful protests that took place in Canberra on Invasion Day.

All speakers will give an eyewitness account of the protests on Invasion Day in Canberra, refuting the racist media furore launched against the Aboriginal community, and explain the real issues addressed at the Embassy anniversary.

Call 8070 9331 for more information

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New Resistance Centre GRAND OPENING!
This Saturday July 16, with drinks from 4pm.
22-36 Mountain Street, Ultimo

Come along to this historic event! Toasts from David Shoebridge (Greens NSW MP); Antony Loewenstein (independent journalist); Peter Boyle (Socialist Alliance); Mark Goudkamp (Refugee Action Coalition); Lek (Thai Red Australia) + many others. Live music, dance, delicious food and drinks!

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Resistance Conference Launch

People power confronting the empire
Friday May 6, 6pm
Redfern Community Centre, 29 Hugo St, Redfern

* Matthew Cassel, Assistant Editor of Electronic Intifada, is a photojournalist who reported from Egypt during the revolutionary upsurge that toppled the Mubarak dictatorship. Matthew has worked in Palestine and Lebanon, including for human and prisoner rights organisations. http://electronicintifada.net/

* Antony Loewenstein, Independent freelance journalist & author, has been active in the campaigns to defend Wikileaks, and for a free Palestine. He is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. Author of My Israel Question, Antony is working on a book about disaster capitalism in Australia and beyond. http://antonyloewenstein.com/

* Kate Ausburn, Green Left Weekly & Resistance is a journalism student and Resistance member who has written extensively for Green Left Weekly about Wikileaks and Bradley Manning. http://www.kateausburn.com/

The Resistance Conference will continue on Sat May 7 and Sun May 8 with panels, workshops & debate. Topics include equal marriage rights; Wikileaks; climate action; refugee freedom; Aboriginal justice; Middle East people power; feminism; capitalism's crisis; Latin America's revolutions; alternative media; socialism + much more. Other keynote speakers include Heleyni Pratley from UNITE New Zealand and a speaker from the Socialist Party of Malaysia.

For the full agenda & to register:
Web: www.resistance.org.au/conference2011
Phone: 9690 1977; Ben 0400 878 322; Mel 0423 978 518 Email: resistancenationaloffice@gmail.com

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John Pilger Q & A screening of his new film

John Pilger Q & A screening of his new film The War You Don't See

Tuesday April 19, 5:30 for 6pm

Teachers Federation Auditorium 23-33 Mary St, Surry Hills (near Central Station).

Renowned anti-war journalist and filmmaker John Pilger will introduce, discuss and take questions on his powerful and timely new film.The War You Don't See is an investigation into the media's role in war, from the carnage of WWI through to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq. As weapons and propaganda become more sophisticated, war is developing into an 'electronic battlefield' in which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims. Includes an interview with WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange.

Tickets $7. Organised by Green Left Weekly. Info/bookings

Phone 9690 1977 or Paul 0410 629 088

Email: sydney@greenleft.org.au
Facebook event here

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