Black Rose Anarchist Library & Bookshop

Discussion will be from 2pm. Sunday September 20, at Black Rose (22 Enmore
Rd, Newtown).

Here are some readings:

The (infamous/fashionable) The Coming Insurrection by some French folk calling themselves The Invisible Committee. http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/texts/the-coming-insurrection/

An American in Greece (Peter Gelderloos) wrote Insurrection vs. Organisation: Reflections on a Pointless Schism.
http://mostlywater.org/insurrection_vs_organization_reflections_on_a_poi...

Chronicles of Insurrection: Tronti, Negri & the Subject of Antagonism by Alberto Toscano.
http://classagainstclass.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i...

Suggestions for further readings & questions for discussion can be posted at http://blackandread.wordpress.com/

The readings should be available to pick up in Black Rose.

Also organizing some of the really great activities that came out of our community meeting a month ago such as a Political Poster Exhibition - which we'd love to receive and exhibit your ideas for posters and we hope will encourage more political posters to be seen made while work from home on the street. So that's where we're at and we almost missed rent, actually we did not have enough money in the shop but we filled it from our own pockets this time around. We don't want this to continue, we want the space to be sustainable and a usable tool to you/us - our community.

We're aware that this event has already been advertised on this page. Since then we've missed rent, gained a couple of new regular collective members, had a few fundraiser type events and now we see the need to refocus on what we're doing here and what that means in a broader context.

Agenda for this Sundays "End of the Month" discussion meeting Sunday August 30 4pm

part 1,
what is the state of the libary right now? a question to be anwered by regular collective members in relation to the usability and practicality of Black Rose

part 2,
what does it mean to have an effective anarchist library in sydney? reflecting on the answer to the first question and broadening the discussion to include the political climate and situation of sydney (2 anarchist libraries?) and given that we find a common understanding of effectiveness: how this affects the ability to continue to run the space effectively.

part 3,
what does a vibrant anarchist library look like? is this something that we want? to reflect upon the the question of effectiveness in relation to revolutionary action.

given that we want to, how can we achieve this?

Lets explore these reflections and possibilities together. Lets share some of the work inherent in being active. Lets always be both affectionate and effectual.

Remember that after this discussion @6pm we'll be screening an amazing vibrant feminist film Sedmikrásky (Daisies) made by Vera Chytilová in 1966

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060959/

Friday August 14 at 6:30 $5 donation entry
Cards
Nachos
Sangria
and the possibility of a movie if it is wanted on the evening, either:

The Wild Bunch http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065214/ or
Public Enemies http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152836/

We who make time to attend regular Black Rose organising meetings, have been involved in some longer term events for the space at 22 Enmore Road. We'll be doing some renovations over the next couple of months to soundproof the separate rooms (which we'll need some help doing 2pm Saturday 15 August will be our fist working bee). Also organising some of the really great activities that came out of our community meeting a month ago such as a Political Poster Exhibition - which we'd love to recieve and exhibit your ideas for posters and we hope will encourage more political posters to be seen on the street. Yea!

We have also experienced a lull in events being organised by you the people who use the space -which we consider is one of the main objectives of continuing to run a physical space that is proudly Anarchist.

So thats where we're at and we almost missed rent, actually we did not have enough money in the shop but we filled it from our own pockets this time around. We don't want this to continue, we want the space to be sustainable and a usable tool to you/us - our community.

We hope to make a fun evening, that will encourage usage of the space for similar (or even more political) events in the future.

The Black Rose Collective

We are all ordinary people: rebels. We eat and we cook.

Bring your recipies into Black Rose for eternal glory!*

*You may not achieve eternal glory. You will however have your recipie printed in the new Black Rose recipie book!

Be sure to join the Black Rose Events list (https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/blackrose.events) to hear when it will be that we are launching the recipie zine!

August 30 - 4pm
In an attempt to learn from our local community and to encourage more involvement in keeping the library open, Black Rose will have its last organiseing meeting of each month on the Sunday instead of the usual Thursday. We will mix boring bookstore organisational discussions/decisions with tasty, inspirational talks of events, politics and revolution!

August 30 - 6pm
All this will be followed by the longstanding tradition of our monthly movies. Our August movie will be Sedmikrásky (Daisies) by Vera Chytilová. A satirical, wild and irreverent story of teenage rebellion. Two young women rebel against a degenerate and oppressive society, attacking symbols of wealth and bourgeois culture. A riotous, punk-rock poem of a film that is both hilarious and mind-warpingly innovative, Daisies was banned in native Czechoslovakia and director Vera Chytilová was forbidden to work until 1975.

Community meeting will begin at 4pm
Sedmikrásky, Vera Chytilová will begin at 6pm and we ask a $5 donation.

August Discussion: Local and International autonomous, revo left groups reflections on organising with other groups/communities.
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Discussion will be at Black Rose, Sunday August 23 at 2pm.

Here’s a reading:
http://libcom.org/library/our-activity-late-1980s-1990s-activity-balance...

They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. THEY LIVE.

A rugged loner (“ROWDY” RODDY PIPER - remember? the 80’s WWF wrestler of great fame with the kilt and the hotrod t-shirt) stumbles upon a terrifying discovery: goulish creatures are masquerading as humans while they lull the public into submission through subliminal advertising messages. Only specially made sunglasses make the deadly truth visible.

sunday 6pm July 26 following the collective meeting

Insurrection and Organisation

6:30pm, Friday, July 10th

A discussion with an anarchist comrade from Greece abaout:

- the December 2008 uprising (with footage and photos from the streets).
- a history of revolutionary action in Greece.
- differences in the political context between Greece and here.

Critiques of Social Democracy

'Following the economic crisis in October 2008 social democratic and Keynesian ideas have regained prominence. Governments have begun implementing 'stimulus packages' and substantial regulation. Keynes was even declared Time Magazine's Man of the Year.

It's crucial therefore to critique social democracy and to ask questions. What were the historical origins of social democracy? How has it been used by capital to recuperate struggles? How do social democratic ideas permeate, and weaken, movements and struggles today?

Come along to the Black and Read discussion group to learn and share your ideas....

http://blackandread.wordpress.com/

Sunday 2pm, June 28th Black Rose Books 22 enmore road, Newtown.

links to the readings:

Aufheben-‘Social Democracy: No Future’
http://www.geocities.com/aufheben2/auf_7_socdem.html

Negri, A ‘Keynes and the capitalist theory of the state’ http://classagainstclass.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i...

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This Sunday the 14th of June at 5pm come and see a screening of Who is Bozo Texino? A documentary about hobo culture in the US. Followed by a show and tell of Squatting in Sydney!

Keep your pants on - it's entry by donation!

A benefit for Crowbar My Heart Squatting Zine.

Black Rose Bookshop and Library movie nights present:
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
A black comedy about power and paranoia by Stanley Kubrick starring Peter Sellers.
Come to Black Rose and enjoy this classic film in our cosy library.
Entry and beer by donation
6pm, Sunday June 21
22 Enmore Rd, Newtown
Accessibility info: There are three steps at the front - the toilet is not easily accessible.
Black Rose is having an open community meeting the same day at 2pm - do come!

2pm Sunday, June 21st
What’s the point of having an anarchist library? How should Black Rose
relate to other political activity in Sydney? What do we need to do to
make the space more exciting and accessible? Please come along and
discuss these questions and more; and help Black Rose become even
more fabulous and relevant!

Followed by a screening of Dr Strangelove at 6:30pm.

Some of you might have heard about the community unionism weekends that happened in Melbourne recently.

They were three really exciting weekends that brought together long-time radicals involved in unions and workers' struggles with community activists and revolutionaries for reflection, relationship building and discussion.

For more details you can check out
http://communityunionweekends.wordpress.com/

Tristan Epstein, one of the organisers, is going to give a talk about his experience of them Wednesday May 27 6.30 at Black Rose Books, 22 enmore road newtown (5 mins walk from the station).

I think there's a lot we can learn from them so it would be really great to see you all there!

On May 10 at 6:30pm MASN (the Mexico Australia Solidarity Network - http://www.masn.org.au) will be hosting a film night at Black Rose screening The 4th World War.
The film outlines struggles from front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, the North; from Seattle to Geneva, and the War on Terror in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The Fourth World War is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war.
Five bucks donation (or there abouts) will get you in to see this great an inspiring film.

On Friday the 8th of May from 5pm to 9pm CANCELLED due to emergency tooth extraction - sorry!
Find yourself at Black Rose writing solidarity letters to Lex Wotton (or whom you please) listening to Punk tunes being pumped out by DJ's Griffen, John, Sophie and Jack.
You will find writing materials provided.
There will be food and beer by donation.
You will be elated.

A fun evening of acoustic Music at Black Rose library featuring Magnoliaceae and Camilla Hill (more to be confirmed). It's gonna be great!

2pm on May 3rd
Entry by $5 donation. O.N.O.

Little Fish will also be hosting DIY Markets so be sure to check them out too!

Sir! No Sir! Tells the long suppressed story of the GI movement to end the war in Vietnam. This is the story of one of the most vibrant and widespread upheavals of the 1960’s.

The film is screening on the 26th of April at 6:30PM at Black Rose.

Entry by $5 donation.

Rachel Johnson, an activist recently returned from Palestine, talks about the assault, the aftermath, the siege and ongoing attacks...

Thursday April 9 @ 7pm
Black Rose Books - 22 Enmore Rd, Newtown

Well, slap your thigh and tap you heels: It's time for the monthly Black Rose shindig!

This time featuring:

RASCAL AND BONES (violin and accordion)
RENEE FALEZ (guitar and vox wickidity)
GIRAFFE COLLAGE (folk pop electro)

Its on sunday, April 5th. Kicks off at 3pm, $5 ono entry donation.

At Black Rose Anarchist Books, 22 Enmore Rd, Newtown

Basically, its gonna be awesome . . .

At 7pm on Tuseday March 17 we will be hosting a reading of the zine On Subbing by the author, American zine maker, Dave Roch. His stories are funny and thought provoking - teaching children that they don't need to be boring or jerks. More information can be found at http://zines.wordpres.com/

And our regular film screening will be Matewan on Sunday the 29th of March at 6:30 PM. Matewan is a documentary film about a labor union organiser that comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company for which they work.

Join us at the Black Rose screening of Persepolis, the animated movie, at 6pm on Sunday the 8th of March, International Womyns Day (IWD)!

IMDB writes:
Marjane Satrapi grew up wearing sneakers and beating up boys. She wanted to grow up to be a saint. When she was ten years old, her world changed overnight. Girls and boys had to use different doors to enter the school. She had to cover herself with a long dark robe. Grownups around her began to disappear. Marjane has several close encounters with the country's morality police and her teachers at school. Iraqi bombs fall on the street where she lives. Eventually her parents send her abroad to receive a European education, but she is miserable: she loves her family and country, despite their flaws, too much to stay away for long. After a brief return and a failed marriage, Marjane leaves Iran for good.
This is a heartbreaking true story of a childhood coinciding with regime change and war in Iran. It's a story that everyone who counts themselves as a human being should read or watch.

Entry by $5 donation.

See you there!

15th February @ 2pm

Black Rose Books second Tea Party. Instead of a Bake Off this time we're just playing games! Bring a favourite or join in on some of the Black Rose Collectives staples of hot dice, various card games and great music.

There will be food around, the tea may turn alcoholic later in the evening.

$5 donation or Free

Black Rose movie nights return!

Sunday the 22nd Feb we will be showing the Spike Lee film 'When the Levees broke'. The film focuses on the suffering of those affected by the devastation of New Orleans due to the failure of the levees during hurricane katrina in 2007.
The film points out that the disaster in New Orleans was preventable, caused by levees poorly designed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, with the suffering afterwards greatly compounded by failures at all levels of government, most severely at the Federal level.

$5 6:30pm Sun Feb 22

anarcho-fetishist cabaret!

spreading the good word and bringing revolution back to the people.

Sing, Dance + Drink

Wednesday 17th December @ 7.30

November the 2nd @ 6.30,

Leila Khaled: Hijacker. About the Hijacking of TWA flight 840 in 1969. The destination was Tel Aviv, Israel. A short while after take off Leila Khaled leaves her seat and threatens the crew with hand grenades and enters the cockpit. She takes hold of the microphone;

"Ladies and gentlemen, your attentions please, kindly fasten your seat belts. This is your new Captain speaking. The Che Guevara commando unit of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine..."

www.leilakhaled.com

October the 26th @ 6.30
$5 donation

Black Rose will be screening Battle In Seattle. A hollywood version of the intense and inspiring events of 1999 when the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meetings in Seattle were shut down by a large cross-section of the american community - families, unions, lawyers, eco-activists, anti-racist groups and anarchists :) protesting the existence of the WTO amidst volleys of rubber bullets and tear gas from riot squad police.

www.battleinseattlemovie.com/

this film is directed, written and produced by Stuart Townsend, the same person who directed The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Aeon Flux and is the voice of Lucky Charms Leprechaun on Robot Chicken.

because of daylight savings, throughout summer movie times at black rose will be at 6:30

Be Kind Rewind - Michael Gondry (2008)

From the director who in 2006 posted a Youtube video of himself solving a rubiks cube with his feet

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16v4r_michel-gondry-solve-rubik-cube-w...

and then in 2007 with his nose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB8XedMowDU

Comes the feel good community tale of a small VHS only video store facing foreclosure in a poor community (Pasaic, New Jersey). While watching the store for the owner, a blundering employee's friend accidentally erases all of the tapes. In order to keep their blunder from becoming apparent, the duo of Mos Def and Jack Black begin remaking the films themselves using homemade special effects and outdated filming techniques.

the coming together of a poor community in the face of class struggle,
big business threats and local government red tape.

its a good laugh and a good cry.

it’ll make you want to go and shoot the movie yourself!

October 5th @ 5pm for $5 (maybe start at 5:30)
pop corn might be provided

21st September @ 2pm

Get your aprons ready! Black Rose Collective's next amazingly tasty event involves cooking by YOU! Enter a Cake, Muffin(s), Pie, Dessert or other baked good of your choice for your chance to win a prize.

Next in our monthly discussions at Black Rose. Post-Climate Camp and the environment. What is happening collectively (locally and globally) what support does this require, how this relates to a revolutionary politic and why that connection -and action- is important.

Saturday 11th October @ 2pm

September 7th @ 5pm

Lukey's Biased History of Sydney - Kellots Street

first part of an infinite to come series.
in the 1920's and 30's in inner Sydney, some of the most terrifying criminals in Australia waged war with razor & gun & grog.
Including interview with Larry, writer of 'Razor'

“Waterloo”- a 50 minute documentary completed in 1981, is an historical account of the 1970’s battle by residents of this inner Sydney suburb to save the area from slum clearance and redevelopment by public housing authorities.
In the early 70’s the state government initiated a massive scheme to pull down inner city terraces (slums) to build the new public housing estates that the government now wants to redevelop. “Waterloo” sets out to understand the residents fight-back in terms of the history of the suburb itself: The poverty and overcrowding at the turn of the century, and the impractical, idealistic solutions proposed by the planners. It also looks at Waterloo in the context of urban housing struggles in Sydney: the anti-eviction campaigns of the 30’s, the rise of the Resident Action movement in the late 60’s and the alliance it formed with building unions resulting in the now world famous Green Bans.
In the process the film reveals the history of the Housing Commission and the inner city Labor machine, prompting questions about the planning process, community involvement and bureaucratic accountability. How did the Housing Commission, a public housing authority set up by the State Labor Government in the forties, get to the stage of evicting workers to build more public housing?

http://www.tomzubrycki.com/

Film screening & discussion, with footage from the 1991 AIDEX protests:
Sunday August 31
5pm

The Black Rose Collective have some members who eat vegan diets and some who do not, but this debate is not about us!

It's a chance for anyone in the community to come and share their views on the speciesist nature of carnism or the elitist ignorance of veganism, all in reference to revolutionary politics of course! oh yea and to partake in some great vegan food and beer.

2pm Saturday the 23rd of August

Friday 25 July 6-9pm

Melbourne poet PI OH talks about literature, culture & anarchism in Australia + spoken word + open mike

$5 (or something like) entry @ Black Rose

(a joint presentation from Black Rose & Jura: your two local anarchist infoshops)

Sunday August 3rd

Office Space
5 pm, $5 Donation Requested
@ Black Rose, Snacks Provided

Sunday July 6th

Sacco and Vanzetti
5 pm, $5 Donation Requested
@ Black Rose, Snacks Provided

Immigration. Justice. Ethnicity. Politics.

A film by Peter Miller, Sacco and Vanzetti tells the story of two Italian born anarchists executed for a murder in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. Millions of people and unions in the US and around the world protested on their behalf. Still relevant, the voices of Sacco and Vanzetti are read by John Turtorro and Tony Shalhoub with Howard Zinn, Arlo Guthrie, Studs Terkel and others ... (2006)

"A first-rate, engrossing documentary. The parallels with today are chilling and depressing." - Flaunt Magazine

Check out the film's website: http://www.willowpondfilms.com/sacco_and_vanzetti.html

Sunday June 14th

It's on again! The second whenever-we-feel-like-it fundraiser for Sydney's two anarchist infoshops, Black Rose and Jura. Featuring the insurgent sounds of

• Hee Haw (yep, they're playing again!)
• Melaleuca Memorial
• Squid
• Do Not Resuscitate and (our very own)
• Voting with Bricks.

All happening at 1pm on Sunday, June 15th in Jura Books (440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham). $5 entry and snacks provided.

Did you miss the show? No worries! Check out this Voting with Bricks Youtube video: To the Wanderers