Events
Thursday February 25, 2010
Start: Feb 25 2010 6:30 pm
Melbourne Direct Action Forum
Thursday Feb 25, 6.30pm
Direct Action Centre Trades Hall Basement
In November last year, the central leader of the Venezuelan revolution, Hugo Chavez, proposed "to convene political parties and currents to create the Fifth Socialist International as a new organization that fits the time and the challenge in which we live, and that can become an instrument of unification and coordination of the struggle of peoples to save this planet".
Saturday February 27, 2010
Start: Feb 27 2010 2:30 pm
Speakers: Alex Whisson ( COP 15 protest participant); Win Padauk Wah, member of the Revolutionary Socialist Party
Plus video footage of:
* COP 15 protests (filmed by Ray Grenfell & Alex Whisson)
Start: Feb 27 2010 6:30 pm
6:30pm Saturday February 27, DA film screening 'Burn'
Gillo Pontecoro’s classic 1969 film about a fictional Caribbean plantation slave revolt. This film screening will help raise money to assist the contingent of more than 400 Cuban doctors working in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
Thursday March 04, 2010
Start: Mar 4 2010 7:00 pm
Featuring:
Van Rudd - artist, cultural activist and member of the Revolutionary Socialist Party
Brian Senewiratne - long-time campaigner for the rights of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka
Hamish Chitts - Stand Fast, anti-war veterans group
Thursday March 4, 7pm
Saturday March 06, 2010
Start: Mar 6 2010 10:30 am
Rally: Saturday March 6, 10:30am
King George Square, Brisbane
Freedom to choose:
* Drop the abortion charges. Repeal all anti-abortion laws.
* Restore independent midwifery
* Save independent sexual assault services
Freedom from discrimination:
* End the NT intervention
* Same sex marriage rights
* Justice for refugees – let them land, let them stay.
Start: Mar 6 2010 11:00 am
Sat March 6 11am, Town Hall. March to Martin Place.
Start: Mar 6 2010 6:00 pm
6pm Saturday March 6, DA forum 'Revolutionary origins of International Womens Day'
All events at Direct Action Centre Sydney suite 72/65 Myrtle Street, Chippendale (opposite Peace Park), for further information call the office 02 9114 5883 or Marcus 0400 986 709
Tuesday March 09, 2010
Start: Mar 9 2010 1:00 pm
ORIENTATION WEEK FORUM
Tuesday March 9, 1pm
Room to be confirmed
Organised by the Latrobe University Cuba-Venezuela Solidarity Club & supported by Direct Action
Thursday March 18, 2010
Start: Mar 18 2010 12:00 pm
Due to strike action the forum will be postponed to Semester 2, 2010 Date and venue TBA
Canberra Direct Action Forum
Speaker: Dr Clinton Fernandes, UNSW@ADFA
12pm, Thursday March 18
Engineering Lecture Theatre, ANU
ANU
Sponsored by ANU Cuba-Venezuela Solidarity Club and Direct Action
Contact: Ray 0435 003 713, 0403 920 394
Saturday March 20, 2010
Start: Mar 20 2010 12:00 pm
Sat Mar 20, noon, Town Hall
Saturday March 27, 2010
Start: Mar 27 2010 6:30 pm
Featuring performances by: Phil Monsour, Jumping Fences, Mark Cronin and photos of the Brisbane protest movement by Dod Roshanbin, Owain Jones, Ted Reithmuller and more.
Saturday March 27, 6:30pm till late
Kurilpa Hall, 174 Boundary St, West End
Tickets: $25/$15 (solidarity price $50) - includes light meal.
A fundraiser for Direct Action
Phone: 3391 1903, 0400 720 757
Email: brisbane@rsp.org.au
Thursday April 08, 2010
Start: Apr 8 2010 6:30 pm
Speaker: Indonesian socialist activist Zely Ariane
6.30pm, Thursday April 8
All events at Direct Action Centre Sydney suite 72/65 Myrtle Street, Chippendale (opposite Peace Park), for further information call the office 02 9114 5883 or Marcus 0400 986 709
