rioters bloc
16th April 2006, 05:59
sorry about the late notice. come along if you're in sydney.. or nearabouts *looks at monty catsin and hiero*
STUDENT LEFT CONVERGENCE
What:
After the Villawood and Lake Cowal protests, get together with student activists from around the country involved in campaigns for Universal Student Unionism, the environment, rights for womyn, queers and refugees, and against war, neoliberalism, racism and Indigenous genocide. Share, learn, strategise, organise, build links and build the activist movement for radical social change.
When:
Tuesday 18th-Wednesday 19th April, 10am onwards
Where:
Sydney University. Exact venue TBC, for now meet on the lawns on the left of Manning Bar when you stand if front of the Bar, otherwise please contact 0402 564 862 / 0416 121 616 / 0425 255 184.
Tuesday 18th
10am: Meet, approve agenda for the conference or make changes if need be. Please see * (below)
10.30-11.15am: VSU - How is the campaign going? Reports from NUS NSW education officers, campus reportbacks including an update on restructures, evaluation of the NDA, reportback from the newly formed activist grouping at Sydney Uni to campaign against the new IR laws, not least by drawing the explicit connections between WorkChoices and VSU. Hayley and Wenny can facilitate
11.15-11.30am: Break
11.30-12.45pm: VSU cont. - Where to from here? Open discussion, strategic planning, potential actions, list action points from this session. Hayley and Wenny can facilitate
12.45-2.45pm: Lunch + Sydney Uni Education Action Group meeting 1-2pm Front Lawns to debrief from the NDA and organise from here
2.45-4.15pm: Looking at the student movement: How to involve more womyn, queers and ethnics in activism. Knowledge sharing, open discussion and action-focused workshop facilitated by Clancy, Jono, Hayley and others.
4.15-4.30pm: Break
4.30-6.30pm:Non-violent direct action workshop. The politics of direct action and taking effective direct action. Facilitated by Tash Verco (thank you!).
NB: 2.45/4.30 onwards can be time for OPEN SPACES if people want
Wednesday 19th
10am: Meet, approve agenda for the day or make changes if need be. Please see * (below)
10.15-11.45pm: Building our movement: Organising the left on campus; building the student left around the country, particularly in regards to the alienation of rural and regional campuses; building activist networks eg the Australian Student Environment Network; organising outside of bureaucracies. Skill-share and open discussion facilitated by Ange and Carl.
11.45-12pm: Break
12-1pm: OPEN SPACES
1-3pm: Lunch
3-6pm: OPEN SPACES
How does OPEN SPACES work?
What do you want to learn? What do you want to discuss? Put a call-out for a workshop you'd like to participate in, or put on a workshop you'd like to happen. Whatever workshops happen will only happen because YOU make it happen! We provide the space - you decide how you would like to participate!
Requests thus far:
- Campaign strategy - would anyone like to put on a workshop about campaign strategy?
Proposed workshops thus far:
- Student organising overseas: Case studies from the U.S. - Energy Action and United Students against Sweatshops (Anna)
Potential workshops on:
- Anti-war campaigning
- Anti-racism campaigning
- Stopping mining on sacred land - rebuilding black/green alliances around gold mining at Lake Cowal, the moves to expand uranium mining and the proposed nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory, the proposed redevelopment of the Block, and Sovereignty Embassies - Melbourne, Canberra, Kuradji
- Womyn's issues
- Queer issues
- The refugee campaign
- Environment campaigns eg climate change (clean energy and anti-coal), anti-nuclear, forests, paper
- G20 in Melbourne, November; APEC 2007
- Overseas movements eg France, in Mexico, in Latin America
+ Skill-shares! Eg facilitation, media, sustainable organising, stencils and culture-jamming
But remember these workshops will only happen if you want them to! Wenny is happy to support you with putting on a workshop or calling out for one - contact her on 0402 564 862.
* IMPORTANT: At some point we should have a meeting of the student left network. People have suggested Wednesday 12-1pm or later on that afternoon :: Meeting of student left network. A reportback on this network to date; further discussion of the politics and goals of this network; a discussion on how we can organise together on an ongoing basis; setting up structures for this network; discussion of convenors, and potentially elections; discussion on how we engage in campus and NUS elections; resolve the lists and name debate; reading groups?; website?; future events
For more information, contact Wenny 0402 564 862, [email protected]
STUDENT LEFT CONVERGENCE
What:
After the Villawood and Lake Cowal protests, get together with student activists from around the country involved in campaigns for Universal Student Unionism, the environment, rights for womyn, queers and refugees, and against war, neoliberalism, racism and Indigenous genocide. Share, learn, strategise, organise, build links and build the activist movement for radical social change.
When:
Tuesday 18th-Wednesday 19th April, 10am onwards
Where:
Sydney University. Exact venue TBC, for now meet on the lawns on the left of Manning Bar when you stand if front of the Bar, otherwise please contact 0402 564 862 / 0416 121 616 / 0425 255 184.
Tuesday 18th
10am: Meet, approve agenda for the conference or make changes if need be. Please see * (below)
10.30-11.15am: VSU - How is the campaign going? Reports from NUS NSW education officers, campus reportbacks including an update on restructures, evaluation of the NDA, reportback from the newly formed activist grouping at Sydney Uni to campaign against the new IR laws, not least by drawing the explicit connections between WorkChoices and VSU. Hayley and Wenny can facilitate
11.15-11.30am: Break
11.30-12.45pm: VSU cont. - Where to from here? Open discussion, strategic planning, potential actions, list action points from this session. Hayley and Wenny can facilitate
12.45-2.45pm: Lunch + Sydney Uni Education Action Group meeting 1-2pm Front Lawns to debrief from the NDA and organise from here
2.45-4.15pm: Looking at the student movement: How to involve more womyn, queers and ethnics in activism. Knowledge sharing, open discussion and action-focused workshop facilitated by Clancy, Jono, Hayley and others.
4.15-4.30pm: Break
4.30-6.30pm:Non-violent direct action workshop. The politics of direct action and taking effective direct action. Facilitated by Tash Verco (thank you!).
NB: 2.45/4.30 onwards can be time for OPEN SPACES if people want
Wednesday 19th
10am: Meet, approve agenda for the day or make changes if need be. Please see * (below)
10.15-11.45pm: Building our movement: Organising the left on campus; building the student left around the country, particularly in regards to the alienation of rural and regional campuses; building activist networks eg the Australian Student Environment Network; organising outside of bureaucracies. Skill-share and open discussion facilitated by Ange and Carl.
11.45-12pm: Break
12-1pm: OPEN SPACES
1-3pm: Lunch
3-6pm: OPEN SPACES
How does OPEN SPACES work?
What do you want to learn? What do you want to discuss? Put a call-out for a workshop you'd like to participate in, or put on a workshop you'd like to happen. Whatever workshops happen will only happen because YOU make it happen! We provide the space - you decide how you would like to participate!
Requests thus far:
- Campaign strategy - would anyone like to put on a workshop about campaign strategy?
Proposed workshops thus far:
- Student organising overseas: Case studies from the U.S. - Energy Action and United Students against Sweatshops (Anna)
Potential workshops on:
- Anti-war campaigning
- Anti-racism campaigning
- Stopping mining on sacred land - rebuilding black/green alliances around gold mining at Lake Cowal, the moves to expand uranium mining and the proposed nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory, the proposed redevelopment of the Block, and Sovereignty Embassies - Melbourne, Canberra, Kuradji
- Womyn's issues
- Queer issues
- The refugee campaign
- Environment campaigns eg climate change (clean energy and anti-coal), anti-nuclear, forests, paper
- G20 in Melbourne, November; APEC 2007
- Overseas movements eg France, in Mexico, in Latin America
+ Skill-shares! Eg facilitation, media, sustainable organising, stencils and culture-jamming
But remember these workshops will only happen if you want them to! Wenny is happy to support you with putting on a workshop or calling out for one - contact her on 0402 564 862.
* IMPORTANT: At some point we should have a meeting of the student left network. People have suggested Wednesday 12-1pm or later on that afternoon :: Meeting of student left network. A reportback on this network to date; further discussion of the politics and goals of this network; a discussion on how we can organise together on an ongoing basis; setting up structures for this network; discussion of convenors, and potentially elections; discussion on how we engage in campus and NUS elections; resolve the lists and name debate; reading groups?; website?; future events
For more information, contact Wenny 0402 564 862, [email protected]