Black Star PA Collective looking for new members.
INTERESTED IN LIVE SOUND?
Black Star PA Collective (Melbourne) has been providing live sound to the Activist, Anarchist, and underground music scene since 1995. Sound for S11 Protest at Crown Casino, Woomera, Such is Life Punk Festival, Anti War Rallies and countless other benefits and causes are a part of Black Stars proud history. We are currently looking for new members to keep the collective a sustainable and vital part of Melbourne’s scene. If You are interested in learning about live sound and want to be involved please Email blackstarpa@groups.facebook.com or subnet69@optusnet.com.au
May Events
Coming up in May...
May Day (Tuesday, May 1)
On May Day, the day of the international workers’ movement, MAC members will be attending the 8 hour monument at 12 midday (cnr Victoria & Lygon Sts, opposite Trades Hall), along with members of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation, and more. Bring along your red and black flags!
Friday, May 4
Fundraiser for Greek Resistance
Featuring a performance by our resident theatre troupe, we will be raising money for medical supplies for a hospital in Kilkis, Greece that has been under workers' control since February 20.
Come one, come all, it’s the perfect May Day fundraiser!
Saturday, May 5
The Workers' Solidarity Network have organised an action to show the fat cat bankers ‘You Can’t Haz Our Weekend’ outside the Commonwealth Bank (cnr Bourke & Elizabeth Sts, CBD). For more details see the WSN website.
Sunday, May 6
Our reading group is up to Chapter VIII, Militant Minority: The Question of Anarchist Political Organisation of the book we are reading, Black Flame. As usual the reading is available online here.
anarchy.org.au up and running
Head on over to anarchy.org.au to see MAC's new project, collating news and items of interest.
Okupacion Film Screening Wednesday March 14th
DOCUMENTARY SCREENING - THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT!
Doors 7:30pm / Film starts 8pm - FREE ENTRY
The Melbourne Anarchist Club presents a screening of the newly completed documentary OKUPACIÓN. The film documents the places and people of the squatted social centres in Madrid, Spain.
An honest exploration of the community appropriation of vacant buildings, the issues of property speculation and squatting, the threat of eviction, and the activists who inhabit these important spaces.
Join MAC and filmmaker Chris P for this exciting look at activist life in Madrid.
Copies of Sedition
The launch of the new Mac-Jura-Organise! journal Sedition on the weekend was a great success. Thank you to all the performers, writers, organisers, and attendees.
Copies are available online from: anarchy.org.au or from the MAC building during opening hours, Sundays 11am-5pm.
If you would like to help distribute Sedition in Victoria, email melbourneanarchistclub@gmail.com or seditionjournal@gmail.com.
Speaking Tour: Israeli Pro-Palestinian activist and member of ‘Anarchists Against the Wall’
7pm Friday 16/3 @ MAC, 62 St Georges Rd, Northcote
Speaking about her experiences on the front lines of the fight for Palestinian rights. Do not miss this opportunity to hear a progressive voice from inside Israel, against the oppression of the Palestinian people.
Deeply involved in the day to day struggle against the apartheid wall being built by the Israeli government since 2003, Anarchists Against the Wall (AAtW) maintain an anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist and anti-state perspective on the conflict. (You've heard about the one-state solution and the two-state solution; let's talk about the no-state solution.) AAtW define themselves as primarily a direct-action group, and "has left propaganda and the drawing of party lines to others". More information about AATW can be found here: http://awalls.org/about_aatw
Organised as part of Israeli Apartheid Week March 19-24 by Students for Palestine. The speaking tour includes:
Melbourne Anarchist Club
7pm Friday 16/3 @ 62 St Georges Rd Northcote
Monash University
Tuesday 20/3
Victoria University
Wednesday 21/3
University of Melbourne
Wednesday 21/3 @ Union Building, 2nd Floor
Latrobe University
1pm Thursday 22/3 @ Agora Cinema
Amor Libertario: Conversational Spanish Class
7pm Thursday 8/03 @ MAC, 62 St Georges Rd, Northcote
Grupo de conversación-lectura-debate en Español sobre “Amor Libertario”.
A group discussion and debate in Spanish about "libertarian love".
Nivel de Español: Medio / Avanzado.
Level of Spanish required: medium to advanced (others welcome but you might not get as much out of it).
Duración: 1 hora.
Donación de $5/$10.
We are asking for a donation of $5 unwaged/students or $10 waged.
Textos disposable en mac.anarchobase.com:
“Sobre Amor y Anarquía”; Errico Malatesta.
“Un breve ensayo sobre Amor y Anarquía”; Sebastian Kno.
Sedition #1
Sedition is a mutual collaboration between three geographically disparate Australian anarchist collectives; Melbourne Anarchist Club, the Jura collective from Sydney, and Organise! – the Adelaide anarchist communist group. This project is a constructive medium for discussing the way forward for anarchist groups and anarchism in Australia, both in theory and praxis. We aim to establish better communication and organisational networks between our groups and to produce thought provoking literature.
The groups involved in creating Sedition do not necessarily agree with the articles published in this journal.
If you’d like to contribute with an article, art or respond to an article in this edition, or if you have any queries, please contact us at seditionjournal@gmail.com
Indian General Strike: Solidarity Rally
5:30-7:30pm Tuesday 28/2 @ Federation Square
On February 28, over 100 million Indians will join together and walk off the job in what is likely be the largest strike of workers the world has ever seen.
Workers around the world will be standing in solidarity with those fighting for economic justice in India. In Melbourne we invite all those who support workers' rights to join together at Fed Square, the site of several inspiring political actions involving Melbourne's Indian community.
Called by Workers' Solidarity Network, supported by the Melbourne Anarchist Club.
MAC library cataloguing day
This Sunday 19th Feb @ MAC, 62 St Georges Road, Northcote:
Oye, our library is in need of a cat-a-loggin' once more. There are plenty of books (plenty, PLEEENTEEEEEE) to be catalogued. Our aim is to get the library fully catalogued and online so that it will be able to serve the needs of anarchists and non anarchists alike to browse the library and find something worthwhile to read.
It will help greatly if you have a laptop with you, but if you don't that's okay too. By cataloguing, not only you will help us build the library but you will also discover books and other literature you may be interested in (also find some odd ones that may need to be discarded).
We have tea, coffee, utensils and a microwave should you bring your own lunch.
See you all there!