Friday: SIMPla (Stop Income Management in Playford) campaign meeting and educational – ‘The Recent History of Welfare Reform – And What Will Abbot Do?’ Munno Para Library, Munno Para Shopping Centre, 600 Main North Road, Smithfield. 12:30-2PM.

Friday: Friday is a pre-election rally for refugees. 5PM Parliament House.

‘VOTE WITH YOUR FEET this federal election – Rally and March in Adelaide of the Eve of the Federal Election to show that Refugees are Welcome, and Racist refugee policy is NOT!

NO to the ‘PNG/Nauru Solution’
NO to Mandatory detention
NO to Offshore Processing…
Welcome Asylum Seekers – Seeking asylum is not Illegal!’

Saturday:  Sat night is a Riot Grrrl fundraiser gig. 8PM at mad Mouse Alley, 129 Currie St (enter off Light square).

‘RIOT GRRRL ADELAIDE’S FIRST CHARITY GIG. B THERE OR B █
Gig is at MAD MOUSE ALLEY. Bring all yer frenz, proceeds go to the SA Northern Domestic Violence Service.
Entry is $2 for girls and $3 for boys unless wearing a dress and donations are welcome obvz.
Bandz are:
Bitchspawnn
The Avess
+ an acoustic set by Lipsmackk
ALL AGES + UNLICENSED’

Sunday: The next Black Swan reading group will be the first of four readings on the Spanish Revolution.

The text we are reading is here.

We will have copies of the text and will be reading it out loud and discussing it on the day, so you do not need to read it beforehand.

Anyone is welcome. 2 til 4PM Sunday September 1, Mad Mouse Alley, behind 129 Currie St (enter off Light Square).

Sunday night What’s Up Doco are screening the film Zapatista! 6PM Mad Mouse Alley.

‘****GOLD COIN DONATIONS GET YOU THE FOLLOWING…
*TEA/COFFEE
*HOT FOOD
*GREAT FILM
*IN DEPTH DIALOGUE AND DISCUSSSION!

and dont forget ….

WHATS UP DOCO FOOD SWAP TABLE!!!
BRING SOME GOODS AND GO HOME WITH SOME STUFF YOU DIDNT HAVE!

6PM, MAD MOUSE ALLEY, BRING FRIENDS, FAMILY STRANGERS!!’

Saturday: EQUAL LOVE ELECTION RALLY. Parliament House 1PM.

‘Rally for Marriage Equality!

Tell your friends, family, workmates, everyone you know, get to to this important event. We need to tell the politicians that nothing short of marriage equality is good enough.

Lets place real pressure on Rudd who personally supports marriage equality by turning public support into a collective roar on the streets of Adelaide.

Bring banners, placards and your loud voice. It is time again to take on homophobia, Adelaide. Please go nuts getting people to attend this Equal Love rally! ‘

Sunday: Our next reading group will be looking at Russia from 1917-1930.

The text we are reading is here.

We will have copies of the text and will be reading it out loud and discussing it on the day, so you do not need to read it beforehand.

Anyone is welcome. 2 til 4PM Sunday September 1, Mad Mouse Alley, behind 129 Currie St (enter off Light Square).

Our next reading group will be looking at Russia from 1850-1917.

The text we are reading is here.

We will have copies of the text and will be reading it out loud and discussing it on the day, so you do not need to read it beforehand.

Anyone is welcome. 2 til 4PM Sunday August 25, Mad Mouse Alley, behind 129 Currie St (enter off Light Square).

Our next reading group will be looking at an article by anarchist anthropologist David Graeber on anarchism and globalisation.

The text we are reading is here.

We will have copies of the text and will be reading it out loud and discussing it on the day, so you do not need to read it beforehand.

Anyone is welcome. 2 til 4PM Sunday August 18, Mad Mouse Alley, behind 129 Currie St (enter off Light Square).

Friday: Rally for refugees.

‘On August 3 we held yet ANOTHER spirited rally to show our support for refugees locked up in detention, and our opposition to the new racist policies of the two major parties!

Yet again, the people who came voted to protest once more! On Friday August 9th, 5:00pm in Rundle Mall (Mall’s Balls). Abuse of refugees has become a bipartisan affair, and we’re coming out in protest once again to show both Rudd and Abbott that we’re NOT going to let them get away with this, and we’re not letting this slide in our name.

Come to the Mall on Friday night. Bring your loudest voices, your brightest placards, and your best chants. Keep showing that we will not be silent!’

Sunday: For our next reading group we will be studying the original IWW (Industrial Workers of the World), nicknamed the ‘Wobblies’. They are the most well-known syndicalist union (if not exactly anarcho-syndicalist) and the most interesting revolutionary organisation in Unites States history. The text we are reading is here. We will be reading the text out loud and discussing it on the day, so you do not need to read it beforehand. Anyone is welcome. 2 til 4PM Sunday, Mad Mouse Alley, behind 129 Currie St (enter off Light Square).

Sunday night, What’s Up Doco are screening the movie The Coconut Revolution.

‘THE COCONUT REVOLUTION is a modern day tale of an indigenous people’s victory over western colonial powers. The Pacific island of Bougainville rose up armed with little more than stones and arrows against mining giants Rio Tinto. Tired of seeing their environment destroyed and their people mistreated, the people took control of the island. With the government cutting supplies to the island and surrounding them with a floating military blockade, the people once again took matters into their own hands , creating what has been refered to as the worlds first ‘eco-revolution!

SATURDAY: Another protest at Rudd’s grotesque Papua New Guinea refugee plan. The previous rallies have been big and energetic. Keep fighting! 1PM Saturday, starting at Parliament House.

SUNDAY: Our first reading group looked at the rise of capitalism. This time we’ll be studying the birth of anarchism! The text we are reading is here. It would help if you printed off a copy for yourself but we will be reading the text out loud and discussing it on the day, so you do not need to read it beforehand. Anyone is welcome.  2 til 4PM Sunday, Mad Mouse Alley, behind 129 Currie St (enter off Light Square).

SATURDAY: A second protest at Rudd’s grotesque Papua New Guinea refugee plan. The rally and march on Sunday July 21 had 500 people and was the most energetic rally seen in Adelaide for years. Keep fighting! 1PM Saturday, starting at Parliament House.

SUNDAY: First Black Swan reading group. We are starting from the beginning – the origins of capitalism. The text we are reading is here. It would help if you printed off a copy for yourself but we will be reading the text out loud and discussing it on the day so you do not need to read it beforehand. Anyone is welcome.  12-2PM Sunday, Mad Mouse Alley, behind 129 Currie St (enter off Light Square).

It’s near election time so hatred of refugees needs to be stirred up by the pollies and used for electioneering.

Kevin Rudd’s latest plan is for all asylum seekers who come here by boat (‘without a visa’) to be taken to Papua New Guinea (permanently, not just for processing). Regardless of the level of poverty in Papua New Guinea, and the cost of this program, what’s important to the ALP is that people can’t seek asylum in Australia.

Protests are being held across Australia. Adelaide’s is 2PM Sunday July 21, Parliament House.

Further reading – Against Nationalism.

A few weeks ago Black Swan screened the documentary Street Politics 101, on the Quebec student strikes.

‘In the spring of 2012, a massive student strike in opposition to a tuition hike, rocked the streets of the Montréal for over six months. Protests and militant street actions became part of the daily and nightly reality of this Canadian metropolis. Several times during this tumultuous spring, the numbers in the streets would reach over one hundred thousand. Police routinely clubbed students and their allies, and arrested them by the hundreds. Some were even banned from entering the city. But every time the cops struck, the student movement got bigger and angrier.

This is a story about how the arrogance of a government, underestimated a dedicated group of students, who through long term organizing laid the foundation for some of the largest mass demonstrations in Canada’s history. But it is also a story of how a crews of determined anarchists, educated a new generation of students, in the importance of owning the streets.’

For those who missed it or want to re-watch it, it is available to download here at Submedia TV.

Libcom.org also has some useful articles:

The history of the Quebec student movement and combative unionism.

Quebec student strike – important victory, however partial it may be.

How can we emulate the Montreal students?

StudentStrike is a website dedicated to the Quebec events with a detailed history to download.