Context

Gaza Strip has been under siege since June 2007, when Israel declared it an "enemy entity". A group of international activists organized a siege-breaking movement, the Free Gaza movement. Thanks to their efforts, and despite the Israeli ban on foreign correspondents and humanitarian aid workers to cover and witness operation "Cast Lead" on the ground, a group of international volunteers: self organised members of the International Solidarity Movement were present in Gaza when the bombing started on December, 27th 2009. Together with two international correspondents from Al Jazeera International (Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros), they were the only foreigners who managed to write, film and report for several radio stations what was happening inside the besieged Palestinian strip.

More information at:

http://toshootanelephant.com/

March 7 2010 5:30pm
$5 or Donation entry

In the Black Rose Library
22 Enmore Rd
Newtown

Black Rose Anarchist Library Presents: Fantastic Mr Fox - Wes Anderson
A parable of urbanization, where the creatures of the forest bandits of small, medium and megafarms are also habitants of the hedgerow, catchers of minnows, burrowers in holes.

Fox gleefully hatches elaborate plans to steal from the obviously evil farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean, breaks into a supermarket, encouraging his family and friends to loot it, and those are definately the happiest moments in the film. There are some triumphant moments, but all in all its a humbling story about the countryside being swallowed by the supermall.

It's definitely a Wes Anderson film, with its symmetrical, right-angle set designs and shooting angles, big blocks of primary colors, dysfunctional family dynamics and deadpan subversive humor, bizarre jokes, the colourful, charismatic characters, the deceptively simple yet playful metaphorical plot.

Time magazine interview with Wes Anderson-
When it comes to Mr Fox, you introduce a conflict between him being a wild animal and yet acting like a human – more of a conflict that’s in Dahl’s book.
‘Yeah, that’s our theme. His whole thing is that he likes being wild. Even though he’s well-dressed, it’s important for him to be a wild animal. But I think he means it metaphorically, somehow! [laughs] But it sounds silly saying it.’

http://www.fantasticmrfoxmovie.com/

http://blackandread.wordpress.com/

this month’s discussion will look at climate change, and look at the problems it poses for anti-capitalist struggle.

2pm 21st of march, black rose 22 enmore road.

– ‘Modern Ecologism and its
prospects’-http://www.lasthours.org.uk/articles/two-three-many-apocalypses-modern-ecologism-and-its-prospects/

– ‘Energy, crisis and world wide production relations’ by Kolya Abramsky.
This is at

http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/download/contoursofclimatejus...

This is a link to a whole book so it might take a while to load.

– ‘Green New Deal: Dead End or Pathway beyond Capitalism’ from Turbulence
No.5 http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-5/green-new-deal/

– Tadzio Mueller and Alexis Passadikis wrote a paper recently called
‘Another Capitalism is Possible?’ that expands on some of the ideas here;
I’ll send it to personal e-mails (it’s not available online and is too big
a file to attach).

– ‘A Climactic Disorder: Class and Climate Change’ (it’s basically a
reportback from a conference but is interesting)

http://www.metamute.org/en/content/a_climatic_disorder_class_and_climate...

Cambodia for Sale - Stop the Evictions
Movie screening from 7:30pm
Wednesday March 24 2010
Black Rose 22 Enmore Rd
Newtown (100m from the station)

Imagine this: You and your family are asleep in the safety of your home, when the door is smashed in without warning. Armed thugs hustle you from your house without allowing you to take any belongings. The streets are swarming with armed police, and you watch as your home is bulldozed to the ground. The same thing is happening to your neighbours, and within a short space of time, the community in which you once lived is a wasteland. You receive no compensation for your loss, nor any offer of relocation to another site, and you cannot take your case to court, as the entire exercise has been sanctioned by government.

Scenes such as these are occuring every day in Cambodia. This is the brutal reality of forced eviction – an act that destroys the hopes and homes of millions of people every year.

More than 150,000 people live under threat of eviction in Cambodia, including approximately 80,000 in the capital Phnom Penh. Cambodia for Sale, filmed between 2006 and 2008 by Nana Yuriko, tells the story of some of these communities, through the eyes of the communities themselves, and the Cambodian and international activists working to support them.

It is situations such as these which create extreme poverty and homelessness. Poverty as we well know leads to an increase in petty and social crimes. Unable to buy their way out of prison like many of the wealthy committing similar or worse crimes, these people’s health, and mental well being deteoriates in prison. Suffering daily abuse, malnutrition and isolation , no existing education system or access to health services - life is unkind to a Cambodian prisoner.

This film is being shown as a fundraiser for a prisoner support project in Cambodia. This organisation acts as an advocate for prisoners rights, and works particularly with the families and children of the prisoners who are some of the most vulnerable within this system.

Little Fish Gallery, an artist run accessible art gallery and workspace
Tutu Queers, a radical queer organise and event space
Peoples' Kitchen, waged and unwaged alike weekly donation vegan food prep & serving
Black Rose, Anarchist library, bookshop, meeting & organising space and movie theatre:

Invite you to celebrate this incredible milestone with us from 6pm on Friday 26th March 2010.

For three years these services have been available been at 22 Enmore Rd, supported and run by people like you (probably including you as well) countless events have spawned actions elsewhere, helped overseas campaigns, helped local folks and brought people together out of isolating state capitalism.

Just a few of the amazing things that will be happening on the night:

Live music including a newly formed local Klezmer Band
Spoken Word
An Ephemera Exhibition (for the nostalgia)
Raffle (so we can be here for another 3 years)
Magical Cocktails + More

So tell yer friends, and come help us have the most fun we've had since we opened!