PREVIEW BOOK LAUNCH - HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN STUDENT ACTIVISM Graham Hastings long awaited history of student activism, "It Can't Happen Here" will be launched on Wednesday June 4th at the New International Bookshop, Victorian Trades Hall at 6.30 pm.
There will be a Panel with lively anecdotes from the annals of the student activism : -Graham Hastings - Graham has been a long term campus activist and socialist in Adelaide and currently works as a research officer at the Melbourne national office of the National Union of Students; -Tom Cargill - Tom was General Secretary of the Flinders University Students' Association at the height of the campaign against the Vanstone cuts to higher education and was a National Welfare Officer of NUS. Tom currently has been working a a staffer for various ALP MPs. -Ken McAlpine - Known as 'Red Ken' during his student politics days in NSW and SA in the seventies and early eighties and was on the Australian Union of Students national executive during successful student fightback against Malcolm Fraser's student fees/loans scheme and the crisis which led to AUS's ultimate demise. Ken is currently the national industrial officer of the NTEU. -Camille Barbagello - Camille has been a leading student activist in the Queensland and has been very active in recent anti-capitalist and Baxter protests. She was the National Education Officer of NUS in 2002 and currently is the co-ordinator of the Victorian Young Unionist Network -Chaired by Jeff Sparrow - as well as being the co-ordinator of the NIBS collective Jeff was active in the Victorian student activism in the 1990s and was one of the infamous Austudy 5. The book, the first comprehensive history of Australian student activism, covers the Vietnam/Springbok protests, the wave of campus occupations in 1973/4 - including the 29 day occupation at Flinders University, a history of national student unionism from the 1920s till now, VSU, the free education movement and the recent anti-capitalist protests. The funding for this book was provided by the Flinders University Students' Association and the Flinders Student Organisations Committee. Copies of the book, literally hot off the press, will be available for $25. -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Graham Hastings Education Research Coordinator National Union of Students Suite 64, Trades Hall 54 Victoria St, Carlton South, Victoria, 3053, Australia. Phone (03) 9650 8908 (International +61 3 9650 8908) Fax (03) 9650 8906 (International +61 3 9650 8906) Mobile 0421 635 828 (International +61 421 635 828) mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.unistudent.com.au ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jeff Sparrow Coordinator New International Book Co-operative Trades Hall Box 18 54 Victoria St Carlton Sth 3053 Mon-Fri 9am-6.30 pm Sat 11am-5pm tel 03 9662 3744 fax 03 9662 4755 www.nibs.org.au to receive regular updates about bookshop events, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The sweet smell of decaying paper appeals to me no longer. It is too closely associated in my mind with paranoiac customers and dead blue-bottles. George Orwell .. -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
