LL:DDV: Book launch - Don Watson's 'Death Sentence'
Don Watson - Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language Friends Rosie Tovey and Gerry Tickell, proprietors of Chronicles Bookshop in Fitzroy Street St Kilda have asked me to introduce Don Watson at the launch of his current book Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language on the 8th December at the West St Kilda RSL, 23 Loch Street, West St Kilda at 6.30 pm. As you know Don Watson's last book was Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM and we are very fortunate to have Don Watson return to launch Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language. Don Watson is a charming, witty raconteur, and a social and political critic. His new book is about how our language is under threat and is being butchered by politicians (not me I hope), corporations and the media. I've read it, and I can highly recommend it. I will be introducing Don Watson at the West St Kilda RSL, 23 Loch Street, St Kilda at 6.30 pm on Monday 8th December 2003 and I look forward to seeing you there. Please forward this message to others on your mailing list who won't want to miss this terrific launch of a brilliant book! Call Rosie and Gerry on 9534 1994 to let them know you'll be coming along. Regards Johan Scheffer Member for Monash Province (03) 9529 8334 . -- -- 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]
LL:DDV: BOOK LAUNCH - HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN STUDENT ACTIVISM
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]
LL:DDV: book launch delayed by 1 week
The launch of The Walls that Surround Us: Refugees, Racism and Australian Capitalism has been delayed by 1 week. From this Tuesday to next Tuesday - August 6th 7pm Trades Hall, cnr Lygon and Victoria Sts, Carlton South. Rod Quantock to introduce. Published by Global Books Written by Stephen Jolly, SP For child care or help with transport phone SP on 96399111 -- 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 Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: book launch: Radical Melbourne
Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow have produced a brilliantly original, long overdue unveiling of a great city's true past. Behind Melbourne's old and new mercantile facade, they have unearthed a people's story of struggle, despair and triumph. John Pilger You are invited to join VTHC Secretary Leigh Hubbard at the launch the new Vulgar Press title, Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow's Radical Melbourne: A Secret History (with a foreword by Stuart Macintyre). Radical Melbourne presents a guide through the first hundred years of political radicalism in Melbourne, focusing on the structures, streets and public places that remain today. It concentrates on identifying the physical traces of radical Melbourne, in the hope that geographical familiarity will provide a cultural and political bridge between the struggles of the past and the people of the present. Radical Melbourne is a secret history of Melbourne, illustrated by rarely-seen images from the archives of the State Library of Victoria. The State Library is the book's major sponsor and has allowed the authors access to and use of over 80 fascinating historical images never before published in an historical work. The present-day images of the old sites offer startling and sometimes poignant visual contrasts. 6pm for 6.30 pm Friday Nov 16th Trades Hall Bar Cnr Victoria and Lygon St Carlton Sth RSVP on 9662 3744 Radical Melbourne 224pp 255mm x 190mm 134 illustrations ISBN 0 9577352 4 3 Jeff Sparrow Coordinator New International Book Co-operative Box 18 Trades Hall 54 Victoria St Carlton Sth 3053 tel 03 9662 3744 fax 03 9663 4755 to receive regular updates about bookshop events, click below http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nib-announce -- 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 Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: Book launch - Blue Army: Paramilitary policing in Australia
In the lead up to M1... you are invited to the launch of the new book Blue Army: Paramilitary policing in Australia by Jude McCulloch to be launched by Dr Ian Freckleton (barrister, academic and former counsel assisting the controversial and short lived Victorian Police Complaints Authority) Hosted by Rod Quantock (people's comedian) with Damien Lawson (activist and legal worker) on Thursday 26th April 2001 at 6.00 pm in the Upstairs Bar at Trades Hall (cnr Lygon and Victoria Streets, Carlton) Jeff Sparrow Coordinator New International Book Co-operative Box 18 Trades Hall 54 Victoria St Carlton Sth 3053 tel 03 9662 3744 fax 03 9663 4755 -- 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 Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: book launch
Book Launch In and Out of Port Voices from the Port of Melbourne: An oral history by Sigrid Borke When: Friday 22 December At: 6.30 pm At the New International Bookshop Trades Hall, 54 Victoria Street Carlton Phone 9662 3744 for further information -- 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 Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink LL.VL
LL:DDV: BOOK LAUNCH AND BOOKS AT NEW INTERNATIONAL BOOKSHOP
BOOK LAUNCH Just a reminder of the book launch at NIB Saturday 5 August 2pm of "The First Century" by Doug Aiton and Terry Lane. The First Century : Australia's Ferderal elections since Federation. The book with the lot, 25 Prime Ministers and 6 Opposition leaders. come along and hear Doug and Terry give their insights into our political leaders. Sat. 5 August 2pm at NIB cnr Lygon and Victoria sts Carlton, light refreshments served. TWO NEW BOOKS: Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread, The life of Joice Nankivell Lock By Susanna De Vries, Hale Iremonger, 2000, $34.95. Born during a hurricane on a Queensland sugar plantation in 1887, Joice went on to be Australia's most decorated women. A writer,a freelance journalist and an agent for the Allies during WW11 , she saved thousands of Jews and Poles from the death camps. This classic Australian biography, is a tribute to one of our greatest heroes. WINNER OF THE PREMIER'S PRIZE. Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance, by Howard Pedersen, Banjo Woorunmurra,Magabala Books,1995 and 2000,$21.95. The story of the Kimberley Aboriginal resistance against the colonisers and the slaughter of aboriginal people. The book consists of beautiful colour photographs of the Kimberley region and BW's of the invaders during the late 19th Century. The Bunuba people were never defeated. LL.VH -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: Book launch at New International Bookshop
6.30 pm on Wednesday 28th June at the New International Bookshop at Victorian Trades Hall. The launch of Greg Bailey's new book Mythologies of Change and Certainty in Late 20th Century Australia, with Morag Fraser (editor of Eureka Street). This book analyses the most important of the mythologies used to justify the spectacular social and economic changes of the eighties and nineties -- the market, competition, self-marketing and so on. It draws all of these together under the fundamental myth of capitalism, best expressed in the saying, 'You can always get something for nothing.' Contact NIBS for more details on 9662 3744 LL.VG -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: Book Launch
Henry Reynolds Will launch the new edition of his book "Why weren't we told?" Monday 29 May; 7 pm Trades Hall Corner Victoria and Lygon Streets Carlton Speakers include the author Henry Reynolds and VTHC Secretary Leigh Hubbard Cost: Donation Source: Trade Unionists for Land Rights LL.VE -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: Book launch this Sunday
The new Pluto Press book Running on Empty: 'Modernising' the British and Australian labour parties, by Andrew Scott, will be launched this Sunday, 30 January at 2.00 pm sharp at the Monash University Conference Centre, Level 7, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne. The book will be launched by Doug Cameron, National Secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU). All leftlink subscribers are invited to attend. Please RSVP to [EMAIL PROTECTED] LL.VA -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
