CUBAN FILM FESTIVAL

August Thursday 14 & Friday 15

LASNET - CUBA FILM FESTIVAL

From 6:30 PM SHARP

At Backlot Cinema
65 Haig St. Southbank
(corner of Cecil and Haig streets)
Melways Map 1C-F8

First Day by Film $15, two Films & $25
Second Day: $15, Three Movies $30
Bookings essentials:
please call:
0425 539 149, 0477 598 437, 0414 970 418
or Email: lasnet@latinlasnet.org

NO TO TPPA!! - Solidarity Gathering/Building Bridges - Multinationals Out!

NO TO TPPA!! - Solidarity Gathering/Building Bridges - Multinationals Out!
Saturday November 30, from 9:30am
RMIT University [Building 80, Level 3, Room 6] - Melbourne City
https://www.facebook.com/events/174724712724572/

The Latin American Grassroots Movements Solidarity Gathering,
“Defending people’s rights from the voracity of Multinational corporations and global capital”,
“Listening our peoples from below”.

Melbourne Latin American Documentary Film Festival 2013

Inspiring... Resisting... Creating...New possibilities for humanity

Across Latin America, dynamic and diverse social movements are finding creative and inspiring ways to create a better and truly democratic world.

These movements are on the front line in the battle against injustice and they are making some inspiring and impressive gains.

This festival aims to promote and inform what the main frame media hides, this is what people are fighting for.

Solidarity LATIN FIESTA-PARTY -August 31st

Supporting Grassroots People

Saturday August 31st, 7pm
Supporting Melbourne Chile 40 years Activities & Multinational Out! 9-10 November Gathering/Conference

A night to dance and supporting Latin American people in Struggle with the amazing bands

THE CONCH
A 10 piece band playing a dynamic mix of ska, reggae, Latin, funk, hip-hop, swing + more.

SON3
Latin band play songs from Cuba Sons, Salsa to dance all night.

Film Festival April 19-20

Latin America Stands Up!
Documentaries film Festival 2013

April Friday 19 [6pm for 6:30pm]
Saturday 20 [1:30pm for 2pm]
LHMU ground floor,
117-131 Capel St.,
North Melbourne

... We would like to thanks the LHMU union for facilitate the meeting room to show these amazing documentaries, please be aware that this is not a commercial festival.

Sign Mapuche Letter-Petition

As part of the Mapuche Solidarity Campaign on February 19 at 12noon we are presenting a letter-petition (below) of concern to the Chilean Government through the Chilean Consulate in Melbourne-Australia (Level 13, 390 St. Kilda Rd. Melbourne) to stop the repression against Mapuche people, the anti-terrorist law and the release of Mapuche political prisoners.

You can download the Letter-Petition here

Mapuche Solidarity Campaign Second Week

Third Week, February 15th, Melbourne State Library.
International campaign in support of the Mapuche Nation, Indigenous people from the south of Chile & Argentina

“Stop the repression and militarisation on Mapuche people, freedom for the Mapuche Political Prisoners”

More the 500 years of struggles for peace, self-determination and autonomy; resisting and struggling first against the Spanish empire, who recognised in many treaties their borders and as a Nation, from 1860 fighting against the Chilean State for their ancestral rights.

‘Them and Us’

‘Them and Us’: four new essays by Subcomandante Marcos by ROAR Collective on January 25, 2013

We’re the ones who make the rules. We’re more powerful, although there are fewer of us. We don’t care what you say-hear-think-do, as long as you are mute, deaf, immobile.

We can impose halfway intelligent people in the government (although they’re already getting to be difficult to find within the political class), but we chose one who can’t even pretend to know what he’s talking about.[1]

Why? Because we can.

2012 Solidarity Conference Resolutions

Latin American Grassroots Movements Solidarity Conference Resolutions to continue moving forward & commitments 2012-2013.

During the Latin American Grassroots Movements Solidarity Conference held in Melbourne, Australia, during 9-11 of November 2012, the meaning of the existing economic and social development model in Latin America was discussed and debated. It was concluded that neoliberal capitalism is NOT the way forward and that alternative models to neoliberal development should be generated as are already proposed in Latin America by poor and indigenous grassroots organisations.