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Dear Mandela – South African shack dwellers film and talk

Thursday, June 30, 2016 -
7:00pm to 9:00pm

Thursday Menace is pleased to be screening 'Dear Mandela', a 2011 film about Abahlali baseMjondolo – a post-Apartheid social movement in South Africa. They are a radically democratic and grassroots movement, fighting for dignity and basic services (water, electricity, refuse disposal) for the poor. Abahlali grew out of a road blockade organised by residents of the Kennedy Road Shack Settlement in the City of Durban in early 2005. The words Abahlali baseMjondolo are Zulu for 'people who stay in shacks'.

The film will be introduced by Gerard – a comrade who spent time working with Abahlali.

"Abahlali’s call for land and housing in the cities has become a threat to the authorities, some NGOs and some academics who still believe that social change cannot come from the bottom, who still believe that democracy is all about being loyal to their authority. Such top down system has terrorised our society. In fact it is an insult to assume that poor people can not think for themselves, that someone else must talk for them without their concern. In view of a rejection of this understanding a new living politic of the poor has been born.”
– S’bu Zikode, October 2007

For more info on the film see http://www.dearmandela.com/ and https://vimeo.com/26538549

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1022585834505219/


Thursday Menace is a space to gather, meet, hang out and plot. It starts at 7pm, then chats and hanging out till later. Food by donation.

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Celebration of Jack 'The Anarchist' Grancharoff's life

Saturday, July 2, 2016 -
5:00pm to 8:00pm

As many of you know, Jack 'The Anarchist' Grancharoff died on the 15th of May 2016, at his home in Quaama, South Coast of NSW, aged 91. He died 'with his boots on' – he seemed to have risen from a chair, with an open book and a glass of something interesting on the table, collapsed onto the floor and was found a day or two later. Maybe he was researching an article on Bakunin he'd been talking about... in any case, doing one of the things that he loved. Self educated in the finer things of life, from a shepherd's background, he loved thinking, discussing, arguing, nature, farming and revolutionary change, among many other things.

Jura Books will hold a celebration of his life at 5pm on Saturday, 2nd July – close to his birthday on the 5th.

All those who knew Jack are welcome to attend; and all those who wish to learn a bit more about this remarkable person. He was an important part of our communities and lives. Members of the Sydney Push (in which Jack played a significant role) will be in attendance, and are welcome.

There will be a slide show of photos, a photo exhibition, and two short films, one at Quaama in his backyard praising his sheep, and one in Italy of Jack singing 'Bella Ciao' in Italian (a real hoot!). If anyone would like to say a few words in his memory, that would be welcome to commemorate his amazingly full and fascinating life.

We'll provide some nibblies and drinks, feel free to bring something along too, if you wish.

Event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/545353185652728/

For more about Jack, check out this nice short article which compiles a few writings about him: http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=39907

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