HIGH TECH HIGH TEA

Sunday 3rd August
@ Jura Bookshop
from 2pm til 5pm

An exploration of technology and ways to build a alternative structure if media and information technology.

There'll be short films, electronic music workshop, high tech vegan treats and a discussion of alternative structures of media.

This will be a fundraiser for the Kinaiyahan Unahon Collective in Davao City, Phillipines, and their new info show / social centre.

HUGE show and zine fair fundraiser for Food Not Bombs.

There will be:
* rad bands(check back for updates!) including cripple gypsy, the thaw and bare arms
* spoken word (including fez)
* food food food!
* baked sweet treats
* zine stalls
* pinata
* other associated awesomeness!

Help us make money to purchase a van for rad dumpstering trips, more servings and other community uses.

Cakes (vegan!) and music (by Lena, Anna, Lousie, Katrina) and a discussion of the current role of women in activist / diy music circles (mostly Sydney, but also other places) and reasons why they might not participate as much as men. Also, strategies to increase this participation.

Welcome to Jura's ORGANIC FOOD CO-OP!
We offer weekly boxes of mixed, seasonal organic fruit and vegies at $10, $20, and $30 per box. Recommendation: most people settle into $10 boxes which suit small-medium households.

HOW TO ORDER
email: jurafoodcoop@riseup.net by wednesday afternoon.
phone: Jura Books during open hours (02) 9550 9931
in person: drop by 440 parramatta Rd, PETERSHAM

Orders are to be made by WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS. We suggest customers make new orders when they collect their boxes to save them from re-ordering over email or phone. We appreciate folks paying in advance if possible, but we are very flexible!

TO COLLECT
Pick up your box from the shop from 1pm Thursday until 1pm Saturday. Boxes not collected will be donated to Sydney Food Not Bombs. http://sydfoodnotbombs.blogspot.com/

If you have trouble collecting your box, please let us know as some clients have expressed interest in car pooling/delivering boxes in their area.

GET INVOLVED
Let us know if you would like to assist in ordering, sorting, delivering boxes or publicising the co-op. Spread the word to friends, family and workmates, as more clients means greater variety in produce.
Also, please feel free to make suggestions as to what items you would like to receive in the weekly boxes. We will try our best to satisfy those.

Peace & Health
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A discussion open to all interested in the formation of an anarchist federation, on the proposal for a regional anarchist federation in Oceania.
Comments, criticisms, questions, etc.
Also to discuss means of getting to the big convergence in Melbourne.

At this workshop we will discuss Jura's future - what we should do, what we shouldn't do, what we'd like to do and what we can do. We hope to set some solid priorities for the next year and some more ambitious goals for the next few years. We really want as much involvement as possible - that means YOU! This is a 'Jura User's Meeting' - it's for everyone who has any interest at all in the project, not just the regular collective members. Please come along and have your say!
In preparation, make sure you do the electronic survey (The results will be discussed at the workshop). And also have a look at the draft plan.
What do you think?

NB: DATE CHANGED TO SUNDAY MARCH 9th IN ORDER TO AVOID CLASH WITH INTERNATIONAL WOMYNS DAY

See you there!

Come and enjoy music and food to raise money for Sydney's anarchist bookshops. All welcome!

Next Jura Collective meeting is at 2pm, Saturday, Sept 22nd, at Jura.

Art for struggle! Struggle for art!

Picture this: a government smashing student unions, big business crushing workers, police beating up anti-war protesters. But at the same time there are people are fighting back: women marching against violence, students shutting down uranium mines and Aborigines re-claiming their land. This isn’t just 2007, it’s 1997, 1987, and 1977. And at key moments, art has played a crucial role in the struggle - illustrating and inspiring the power of social movements.

In 2007 Jura Books turns 30, and this exhibition is part of the celebration. For three decades Jura has been a base and an expression of many campaigns and movements, and has been collecting political posters. Let the Walls Speak: 30 Years of Passionate Dissent will be an exhibition of the best of political posters from the last thirty years of social struggle in Australia. Jura is co-presenting the exhibition with the University of Sydney Union over the APEC period – to bring art to the protest, and the protest to the art gallery.

The poster collection was re-discovered a few years ago gathering dust in the archives of the Jura Books. This will be the first time they have been exhibited outside of Jura. There are now over 3,000 in the collection, from a diverse range of struggles ranging from early Aboriginal Land Rights struggles, the feminist movement, the Green Bans, anti-uranium mining, anti-Fraser and many many more. We’ll be showing a careful selection of about 100 posters.

Some of the most stunning posters are from the artist collectives which operated in the 1980s out of the (then squatted) Sydney Uni Tin Sheds. Powerful, eloquent and moving, these full colour posters use silk screening craft and artistic techniques unique to Australia and which have rarely been used since.

The collection contains many Earthworks pieces - the seminal group of activist political artists in Sydney. There are also posters from Lucifoil, Without Authority Posters, Redback Graphix, Toby Zoates and many others.

Not only are the subjects of the posters political, but the method used to produce them was democratic and non-elitist – anyone could produce a poster with a little training and a lot of passion and dedication. The Earthworks Poster Collective would invite student and community groups to use the facilities, and often shared their skills with those who were just starting out using the silk screen processes.

At the same time as APEC politicians discuss prolonging the war, profiting from environmental devastation and silencing dissent, come and feast your eyes on the alternative: art which demands action and envisages a better world. Let the walls speak!

When? From the 5th September to the 19th. The opening night is on Wednesday 5th September from 6pm, with talks by some of the original artists at 6.30pm, food and drinks available. After that it will be open 10am till 7pm weekdays, and 10am to 4pm weekends, except closed on the 7th, 8th and 9th.
Where? Sydney University Holme Building, the Bevery (on the Parramatta Rd side of the campus)
How much? Entry is by donation. And all proceeds will go to preserving the posters, which may not survive for another thirty years otherwise.

Jura Books
440 Parramatta Rd
Petersham
9550 9931
www.jura.org.au

For more posters go to images.

Less talk, more action!

The ceiling is falling apart, the walls are peeling and the bookshelves are overflowing. Time to change all that! Come along and be part of a fun day that actually creates change you can see. We'll paint, we'll use power tools, we'll laugh, we'll cry (but hopefully not too much!) and eventually the library will re-open!

But we need you, even just for an hour...