DAC Global Noise Afterparty
The Direct Action Collective is hosting an afterparty at MAC after the day of Global Noise, which is a celebration of the anniversary of the Global Occupy and European Indignado movements.
https://www.facebook.com/events/374117852665337/
The Melbourne event is being co-ordinated by Real Democracy Australia and the day of protest will adopt the 'casserolada' technique of banging pots & pans. The Direct Action Collective will meet @ the 8 Hour Monument from 11am and march to City Square, so join us with your black flags, black & red flags and pots & pans.
Back @ MAC we will be having a BBQ and of course, rehreshments will be available from the bar. There may also be spontaneous performances by poets, comedians & musicians...
Fantin is back
We've decided to re-commence meetings of the Fantin Reading Group.
The Group next meets at 2pm on Sunday, September 9 when we will be discussing direct action.
For more details see the Fantin Reading Group blog.
MAC infoshop opening this Saturday!
Super exciting! Melbourne’s only anarchist infoshop will be launching this Saturday evening from 7pm until late.
Infoshop is go! Launch party, Saturday, August 11
MAC has decided to launch an infoshop at the space and to help begin the process we're holding a launch party on Saturday, August 11. We'll have words and music, books and beats. From 5pm, bands, radical slam poetry and spoken word will celebrate the newest - and possibly (?) only - Melbourne-based anarchist book/infoshop. We'll have a wide collection of classical, recent and historical anarchist texts available for purchase, as well as drinks and food. Bands include:
• Dead Peasants
• A Commoner's Revolt
• Bernard Young from Pirate Satellite
• More TBA.
The Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair 2012
The Melbourne Anarchist Club, Anarres Books and the Anarcho Syndicalist Federation will be sharing a stall at the bookfair in August.
The Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair will be a free event held at Abbotsford Convent (St Heliers Street, Abbotsford) from 10am-6pm on Saturday 4th of August. The bookfair consists of up to 40 stalls of independent book-sellers and activist groups. Alongside the stalls there will be about 21 one-hour workshops running all day on all kinds of anarchist and direct action topics. There is also a small kids' space with volunteers to help carers, or for carers to self-organise child minding, or if the kids just want to play indoors.
New opening hours
MAC is now open from 11am–4pm on Saturdays instead of Sundays.
[NOTE: AS OF AUGUST 2012, MAC IS OPEN ON SUNDAYS NOT SATURDAYS, FROM MIDDAY TO 5PM.]
May Events
Coming up in May...
May Day (Tuesday, May 1)
On May Day, the day of the international workers’ movement, MAC members will be attending the 8 hour monument at 12 midday (cnr Victoria & Lygon Sts, opposite Trades Hall), along with members of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation, and more. Bring along your red and black flags!
Friday, May 4
Fundraiser for Greek Resistance
Featuring a performance by our resident theatre troupe, we will be raising money for medical supplies for a hospital in Kilkis, Greece that has been under workers' control since February 20.
Come one, come all, it’s the perfect May Day fundraiser!
Saturday, May 5
The Workers' Solidarity Network have organised an action to show the fat cat bankers ‘You Can’t Haz Our Weekend’ outside the Commonwealth Bank (cnr Bourke & Elizabeth Sts, CBD). For more details see the WSN website.
Sunday, May 6
Our reading group is up to Chapter VIII, Militant Minority: The Question of Anarchist Political Organisation of the book we are reading, Black Flame. As usual the reading is available online here.
Okupacion Film Screening Wednesday March 14th
DOCUMENTARY SCREENING - THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT!
Doors 7:30pm / Film starts 8pm - FREE ENTRY
The Melbourne Anarchist Club presents a screening of the newly completed documentary OKUPACIÓN. The film documents the places and people of the squatted social centres in Madrid, Spain.
An honest exploration of the community appropriation of vacant buildings, the issues of property speculation and squatting, the threat of eviction, and the activists who inhabit these important spaces.
Join MAC and filmmaker Chris P for this exciting look at activist life in Madrid.
Speaking Tour: Israeli Pro-Palestinian activist and member of ‘Anarchists Against the Wall’
7pm Friday 16/3 @ MAC, 62 St Georges Rd, Northcote
Speaking about her experiences on the front lines of the fight for Palestinian rights. Do not miss this opportunity to hear a progressive voice from inside Israel, against the oppression of the Palestinian people.
Deeply involved in the day to day struggle against the apartheid wall being built by the Israeli government since 2003, Anarchists Against the Wall (AAtW) maintain an anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist and anti-state perspective on the conflict. (You've heard about the one-state solution and the two-state solution; let's talk about the no-state solution.) AAtW define themselves as primarily a direct-action group, and "has left propaganda and the drawing of party lines to others". More information about AATW can be found here: http://awalls.org/about_aatw
Organised as part of Israeli Apartheid Week March 19-24 by Students for Palestine. The speaking tour includes:
Melbourne Anarchist Club
7pm Friday 16/3 @ 62 St Georges Rd Northcote
Monash University
Tuesday 20/3
Victoria University
Wednesday 21/3
University of Melbourne
Wednesday 21/3 @ Union Building, 2nd Floor
Latrobe University
1pm Thursday 22/3 @ Agora Cinema
Amor Libertario: Conversational Spanish Class
7pm Thursday 8/03 @ MAC, 62 St Georges Rd, Northcote
Grupo de conversación-lectura-debate en Español sobre “Amor Libertario”.
A group discussion and debate in Spanish about "libertarian love".
Nivel de Español: Medio / Avanzado.
Level of Spanish required: medium to advanced (others welcome but you might not get as much out of it).
Duración: 1 hora.
Donación de $5/$10.
We are asking for a donation of $5 unwaged/students or $10 waged.
Textos disposable en mac.anarchobase.com:
“Sobre Amor y Anarquía”; Errico Malatesta.
“Un breve ensayo sobre Amor y Anarquía”; Sebastian Kno.