Lots is happening at Jura in the next month...

Coming up on Sunday 8th June, from 2pm: Hip Hop high tea at Jura Books. An
arvo of vegan high tea, popping lessons with the elegant shelly and
hip-hop sounds from secret special guests! This shall be followed by a
discussion of gender, and subversion of gender, in hip-hop and dance.

On Saturday 14th June, from 2pm, there'll be a film screening and
discussion about the Camp for Climate Action. The camp will
be five days of inspiring workshops and direct action aimed at shutting down the
world's largest coal port in Newcastle (July 10-15). If you're concerned about
climate change, and want real action instead of more hot air, then we encourage
you to come to the camp and bring your friends and family! Want to find out more
and meet people who are going? Come to Jura on Saturday 14th June. We'll be
showing an inspirational one hour documentary about the need for radical
action and the 2006 Camp for Climate Action which happened in the shadow of one
of the biggest C02 emitters in Europe: Drax coal-fired power station in
Yorkshire.

Out in the community, we've got two book stalls planned for the next
month:

1) 11am-1.45pm, Sunday 18th May outside Palace Cinema on Norton
St, where a new film about a Spanish anarchist is screening: Lucio - "There
are many anarchists in the world, but few have discussed strategies with Che
Guevara, saved the skin of Eldridge Cleaver (the leader of the Black Panthers),
and also brought to its knees the most powerful bank on the planet by forging
travellers cheques, without missing a single day of work in his construction
job!"

2) 11am-5pm, Sunday 25th May at the Sydney
Writers Festival zine fair, Museum of Contemporary Art.

Food Not Bombs is continuing
to use the Jura kitchen fortnightly to prepare food that would otherwise go to
waste. Come and help with the preparation at Jura (from 1pm), or come and help
eat the food from 4pm on the corner of Forbes St and King St, Newtown.
Next dates are 17th May and 31st May. All welcome!

Come along to our working bees, where we'll be sanding and painting
the floor, and fixing the skirting boards - the final touches on the library
renovations. Saturday 17th May and Saturday 7th June, from 12pm.

The Jura Food Co-op continues to provide people with affordable,
organic fruit and vegie boxes. Order yours or find out more by emailing jurafoodcoop@riseup.net

Alarm youth anarchist
collective will be holding a meeting at Jura on Saturday 7th June. All
welcome!

After many meetings and much discussion (thanks again to all who
participated in the survey!), the Jura Collective has drawn up a new
strategic plan! Read it here. It lays out our goals for the
bookshop, library, organising space, property, finances and more.

Here is the vision from the plan:

"At Jura Books, we are working to create a radically different world: one
based on freedom, equality and justice for everyone, as well as environmental
sustainability for all life on the planet. We believe this can only be achieved
by an organised and politically conscious social movement, based on
participatory democracy and workers control. Our collective will help to build
this movement.

"This (already growing) movement will revolutionise mainstream political
ideology, and will develop alternative social structures. We will work to
establish this new political consciousness in Australia, by putting the ideas of
anarchism, libertarian socialism, social ecology and anarcha-feminism on the
political agenda in Sydney. This means bringing these ideas to ever-widening
circles of people. We will also prefigure and nurture the alternative social
structures through the structures and activities of our collective. This means
creating a physical and social space that is liberating, safe, imbued with our
anarchist politics, and a joy to be in. So we will focus both outward and inward
in order to build a transformative social movement. We will work with other
groups to achieve our shared vision of a better world. Jura Books has been, and
will continue to help and encourage campaigns and like-minded groups which may
or may not include members of our collective. In order to build the movement,
the collective must expand so we will actively seek new members and new ideas.
We operate as an organised, participatory democratic, volunteer
collective.

"The core projects of the Jura Books collective are i) the bookshop, ii)
the library, and iii) the workers control centre / community organising centre.
Other activities related to these projects are: holding stalls, running
campaigns, improving our website, putting on events (talks, gigs, films,
performances), improving the space, and publishing pamphlets.

"Freedom without socialism is privilege, socialism without freedom is
tyranny!"

And finally, everyone is welcome at the Jura Collective Meeting at
12pm on Saturday 31st May.

Wow - so many great events! To see them all in calendar form, check out
our website calendar.

The May 08 update to the draft Jura strategic plan with the correct version of section 6.

What an inspiring election!

Not because of the politicians' empty promises, big smiles or dirty deals. But because grassroots activism built a real people's movement against a government that had so much weight on its side. Hundreds of thousands of everyday people got active, persuaded their friends, talked to strangers and organised to change the world - and made a difference! This movement successfully framed the issues: rights at work and climate change. And it was this movement (not a political party or celebrity politician) that got rid of the Liberal Party.

But what did we get in return? A Labor Party that has shifted even further to the right and Kevin Rudd - the party's most economically and socially conservative leader ever. This isn't unexpected - it is simple the logic of power. The only way to win power within the present system is to join those in control - big-business, media, ruling elite etc - and to agree to keep the structures of the State and the capitalist economy essentially unchanged. And now that Labor is in power, it will suit them (just like it suited the Liberals) to keep people fearful of terrorists, distrustful of refugees and ignorant of our own power.

It's up to us to keep on fighting to change the world. To keep the movement alive, and to use the opportunity we have created. And ultimately to change the structures of society so that everyone can really participate in democracy - everyday, not once every three years. This is what we're trying to do at Jura Books, and we need your help...

>Come to our end of year party! Jura Books has been continuously open for 30 years - a significant milestone for an an activist organisation. We're totally committed to social change and we're in it for the long haul! Come along for music, food, drinks and more, from 6pm 22nd December 2007.

>Come to one of our working bees. We want to re-open our library but still have some painting to do. 12-5pm, Sat and Sun, 8th-9th AND 14th-15th December.

>Get organised in your workplace. The only way to hold Labor true to its promises to abolish workchoices and address climate change is to put pressure on them (and the unions) from below. The Eco-workers collective is holding a discussion at Jura on 'organising in our workplaces': 2pm, Saturday 8th December.

>Get a vegie box from Jura. Over the summer months, a vegie box co-op will be happening out of Jura. You put in between $10 and $30 each week (depending on the size of box you want) and you get a big box of yummy organic vegies to pick up from Jura. Just email us for details: jura@jura.org.au

>Shop for your end of year presents at Jura. We have lots of great new books, magazines and t-shirts. Give the gift of good political literature and support an activist space at the same time!

Hope to see you soon!

The Jura Books collective

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

Thursday: 2-7pm
Friday: 2-7pm
Saturday: 12-5pm
Sunday: 12-5pm

This edition of Honi Soit - Sydney University's Student Newspaper - carried a piece about Jura and the political poster exhibition.