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  • Santiago Rising Documentary Screening + Q&A

    • Online

    Santiago Rising (directed by Nick MacWilliam, 89 mins, Alborada Films, 2021) Santiago Rising takes place on the streets of Chile’s capital city in late 2019, as large public protests over economic inequality engulf the country. The film charts the build-up to the historic vote, in October 2020, that saw Chileans vote for a new people’s constitution to replace the one imposed…

  • John Pilger film and discussion: Palestine Is Still the Issue

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Palestine Is Still the Issue, a 2002 documentary written and presented by John Pilger. John Pilger returns to the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza where he filmed a documentary with the same title in 1977. This film looks at the origins of Israel’s current bombing reign and the nature of Israel as a colonial settler state.  Film: 52 minutes, discussion led by…

  • Why Israel is an apartheid state

    • Online

    The latest war against the Palestinians was provoked by Israel's attempts to evict Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem.

  • Public Forum: Covid-19 disaster: Workers fight back

    • Naarm/Melbourne

    Public Forum: Covid 19 disaster: Workers Fight Back. Friday 11 Feb, 6:30pm (dinner from 6pm). In-person:  Maritime Union Hall, 46 Ireland St, West Melbourne Online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85667770763 The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed an arrogant, uncaring federal government desperately trying to shift responsibility for the crisis to others. Now health care workers…

  • Public Forum: People's uprising in Sri Lanka

    • Online
    • Gadigal Country/Sydney
    • Naarm/Melbourne

    The success of Sri Lanka’s mass movement in forcing the removal of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is an incredible demonstration of people power.

  • Ecosocialism 2023 — A World Beyond Capitalism

    • Naarm/Melbourne

    Ecosocialism 2023 will bring together ecosocialists from around the world, particularly from the Asia-Pacific region examining the intersection between the ecological, economic and political crises of this time and draw together activists from various progressive social movements to discuss how we campaign for a world beyond Capitalism.

  • Online forum — In conversation with Bruce Pascoe: The climate emergency and Indigenous land practice

    • Online
    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Bunurong man Bruce Pascoe is an award-winning Australian writer and editor. He is published nationally and internationally and his fiction and non-fiction works have won several national literary competitions. His best seller, Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? explores the history of Aboriginal land management, animal husbandry and culinary and architectural…

  • Public Forum: Repression and resistance in Myanmar/Burma

    • Naarm/Melbourne

    Public Forum: Repression and Resistance in Myanmar/Burma Tuesday April 15, 6:30pm Red & Orange Rooms, Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth Street (opposite the Queen Victoria Market), Melbourne Speakers: Jed Din, Victorian Myanmar Youth Allen Jennings, 91̳ journalist Ronan Lee, International State Crime Initiative (SCI), author of ""Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide - identity,…