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"Can You Hear Me?" - An Autonomous Women's Film Event
17/01/2009 - 18:00
17/01/2009 - 21:30
Location:
Jura Bookshop
440 Parramatta Road
Petersham
Description:
A night for women (including women identifiers) to celebrate creativity. women's history and cultural endeavours.
FREE vegan dinner at 6pm!
Screening of the film "Can You Hear Me? Israeli and Palestinian Women Fight for Peace".
Review:
Lilly Rivlin’s Documentary “Can You Hear Me?” Focuses on Women as Peacemakers
By Robert Hirschfield
AT AN ISRAELI checkpoint on the West Bank, Yehudit Oppenheimer of Machson Watch (the group that mediates with Israeli soldiers to mitigate the abuses of Palestinians at checkpoints) imagines a day in the future when her grandchild will ask her what she did during the occupation.
“I will be able to say I did something,” Oppenheimer reflects.
Lilly Rivlin’s documentary, “Can You Hear Me?: Israeli and Palestinian Women Fight For Peace,” focuses on what the director believes is the untapped potential of women as peacemakers in the conflict—women like Maha Abu Dayyah-Shamas, a Palestinian who runs the Women’s Center For Legal Aid and Counseling in Beit Hanina, and Israeli peace activist Terry Greenblatt. Together they appeared before the Security Council to insist that U.N. Resolution 1325, passed in 2000 and calling for the inclusion of women in all official peace negotiations, be applied to Israeli and Palestinian women in the peace process affecting their two communities.
“Women don’t have a vested interest in maintaining military power and hegemony,” explains Abu Dayyah-Shamas. “And they don’t need guns for their egos.”
Her ill-fated dialogue partner, Leah Shakdiel, an Orthodox Jew and longtime opponent of Israel’s occupation, is alarmed at men’s propensity to resort to violence when talking fails because of rules that are broken. “I think women are different,” she says. “Women’s contribution to the peace process is that we never understand why you have to stop speaking when violence breaks out. That’s when you have to make yourself heard and get back on track.”
In the film’s most riveting and lacerating scene, Shakdiel goes to the home of Abu Dayyah-Shamas to arrange a future meeting about Resolution 1325. The subject of Zionism comes up. Zionism, the Palestinian woman remarks, is a fantasy. A fantasy, she concedes, that was perhaps needed at one time. Shakdiel is stunned.
“Not now?” she demands.
“No.”
Shakdiel feels outrage and betrayal.
“I am a Zionist!” she shouts, sobbing painfully. This is the same woman who considers herself a failure as a mother because her daughter is a settler.
By contrast, the relationship between Nadwa Sarandeh and Robi Damelin of the Parents Circle, an Israeli/Palestinian bereavement group, is an intimate one. The two travel together to Europe and the U.S., speaking of the need for the violence to end, for the occupation to end, for reconciliation to begin.
“When I go to bed at night,” says Damelin, whose son, an Israeli soldier, was killed by a Palestinian sniper in the West Bank, “and the mother of a suicide bomber goes to bed at night in Gaza, we share the same pain.”
Adding to Sarandeh’s pain over her murdered sister is the pain of seeing a photo of an Israeli soldier whose gun brandishes the words, “kill ‘em all.”
In her documentary, Rivlin, a Jewish American feminist affiliated with Meretz USA, walks a tightrope between her vision of the transformative power of Israeli and Palestinian women and the stark reality of Palestinian oppression that puts to shame any triumphalism. Mostly she succeeds, although the film’s tone sometimes is a bit too self-congratulatory. It is not without humor, however. At one point PLO diplomat Lily Habash wryly compares the Israeli/Palestinian relationship to a Catholic marriage. “We are not going to get divorced,” she observes.
(Robert Hirschfield is a free-lance writer based in New York City)
Contact Email:
tree.kneee@gmail.com
Contact Name:
Katrina
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Art vs Music
21/08/2010 - 19:00
21/08/2010 - 23:00
Location:
Jura Library
Description:
Art vs Music
Artists create works as musicians weave live soundscapes. Stay tuned for more info on bands and artists!
Contact Email:
artversemusic@gmail.com
Contact Name:
trini
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Juracoustic
29/07/2010 - 19:00
29/07/2010 - 22:00
Location:
Jura
Description:
This month features:
Stono Caves
http://www.myspace.com/stonocaves
A Dire Dawn
http://www.myspace.com/dewandair
& You?!
On the last Thursday of every month we have an acoustic show in the Fanya Baron Library at Jura Books.
Bring a piece of wood with strings, a tube with holes, your humble vocal chords or just your ears to listen. There’ll be a headline performer, but aside from that, the night is open to whoever turns up. If we get enough people then we may even spread downstairs for some spoken word, poetry or just another performance space.
At every event vegetarian food and refreshments are available. Donations are appreciated to pay Jura’s bills.
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Zines, People's World Cup, (A) Book Club and Abortion Right
Hi Jura friends and supporters,
Mutiny Zine has reached
People's World Cup
12/06/2010 - 14:00
12/06/2010 - 17:00
Location:
Jubilee Park, Glebe
Description:
In the shadow of corporate funding and overt attempts to deny the game's multicultural and working-class history. In opposition to racists and sexist attitudes within and surrounding the game. Jura is organising a match to reclaim football (yes, we mean soccer). A football match like no other you have ever been a part of. A match that will borrow and adapt anarcho-football rules and style of play, with any player able to substitute back for either team without formal restrictions on substitutions. And naturally it will not be gender restrictive, encouraging all to play! The general theme of the event will also aims to subvert the primacy of nationalism and patriotism during the Men’s World Cup period.Come join the Jura people and the anarchist community in a football kick around within an anti-racism, anti-sexism setting. Jura will also organise a people’s kitchen on the day.
Kick Racism out of Football!
Tackle Sexism in Football!
Shoot unethical companies out of Football Sponsorship!
No Winners. No Losers.
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Rally for Abortion Rights
29/05/2010 - 11:00
29/05/2010 - 13:00
Location:
Martin Place
Description:
Time to get active!
It's been more than 10 years since we've had a rally for abortion rights in NSW, but now is the time as abortion rights are under attack both in Australia and overseas.
Why now? Drop the QLD charges
As many of you will know a young QLD couple have been charged under archaic abortion laws and have been committed to stand trial in relation to the use of RU486, an abortion drug, which they obtained from relatives overseas. RU486 is legal in Australia and safe, however distribution remains tightly controlled by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
The QLD government has indicated that the case relates to the importation of the drug and safety concerns about the use of RU486 at home. Why then have the couple been charged under the abortion laws?
Abortion remains a crime in NSW and QLD, however common law rulings have established "lawful" grounds for abortion when a woman's physical or mental health is at risk. We are calling for all abortion laws to be repealed. This is very relevant for people in NSW as the Criminal Code 1899 QLD (ss 224-226) and the Crimes Act 1900 NSW (ss 82-84) are in almost
identical terms.
Why now? Right to Life conference
The rally has also been called in response to an International Federation of Right to Life Associations conference which is scheduled for that weekend. Recent polls show that there is majority support for a woman's right to choose and it is important to remind the public and the media of this at a time when anti-abortionists will be active and vocal.
Why now? US Anti-abortion legislation
Recently US states such as Nebraska and Oklahoma have passed anti-abortion bills, for example, Oklahoma has passed legislation which prohibits a woman from getting an abortion unless she first has an ultrasound, is shown the ultrasound image and listens to a detailed description of the foetus. Other amendments also prevent women from suing doctors who
knowingly withhold information about the foetus, including whether there's a foetal abnormality.
Nebraska has signed a law that bans most abortions 20 weeks after conception or later on the theory that a foetus, by that stage in the pregnancy, has the capacity to feel pain.
These legislative changes are clear attacks on the rights of women to be in control of their bodies and their reproductive choices.
Tell your friends! See you on the 29th!
Reproductive rights are human rights!
For more info check out http://www.waac.org.au/
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'National Andrew Bolt is a Dickhead Day' Bike Ride
03/06/2010 - 18:00
03/06/2010 - 21:00
Location:
Martin Place & George St, Sydney; Outside the old GPO.
Description:
Let's enjoy some of Andrew's favourite things: bicycles, Asian culture and tofu. Andrew has long been on the case that there's too much Asian immigration and he despises cyclists because they all eat tofu.
Celebrate Andrew's dickheadness on these great contributors to our culture with a ride from the city to Marrickville where we can have a beer in Vietnamese staffed pub and go over the road and and have some excellent Vietnamese or Chinese tucker. Tofu is on the menu for those that want go the whole Andrew hog!
Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=374930252229&ref=ts
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Free guitar lessons
27/05/2010 - 14:00
27/05/2010 - 19:00
Location:
Jura
Description:
Jase is offering casual guitar lessons to whoever turns up to Jura books between 2pm and 7pm Thursday. Beginners to intermediates welcome. Willing to exchange services if you have something to offer though not necessary. Call 0413 638 668 for more details.
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