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.
MAC on Facebook
Did you know that MAC has a page on Facebook?
Well we do, and you'll find it here.
In other news, please note that the Fantin Reading Group has suspended activities until later in 2012/early 2013.
Black Light zine (#1)
Hola,
The deadline for submissions for the MAC zine Black Light (#1) is JULY 15.
The previous edition (#0) is available for download here.
If you have something you'd like to contribute send it to:
blacklightzine@gmail.com
The theme for this issue is anarchy and organisation.
The issue will be available for distribution at the Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair, August 4.
Cheers.
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.]
Black Star PA Collective looking for new members.
INTERESTED IN LIVE SOUND?
Black Star PA Collective has been providing live sound to the Activist, Anarchist, and Underground Music scene since 1995. Sound for S11 protests at Crown Casino in 2000, Woomera protests in 2001, Such is Life Punk Festivals, anti-war and peace rallies and countless other benefits and causes are a part of Black Star’s proud history. We are currently looking for new members to keep the collective a sustainable and vital part of Melbourne’s scene.
If you are interested in learning about live sound and want to be involved please email: blackstarpa[at]groups.facebook.com or subnet69[at]optusnet.com.au
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.
anarchy.org.au up and running
Head on over to anarchy.org.au to see MAC's new project, collating news and items of interest.
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.
Copies of Sedition
The launch of the new Mac-Jura-Organise! journal Sedition on the weekend was a great success. Thank you to all the performers, writers, organisers, and attendees.
Copies are available online from: anarchy.org.au or from the MAC building during opening hours, Saturdays 11am-5pm [AS OF AUGUST 2012 MAC IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FROM MIDDAY TO 5PM EVERY SUNDAY].
If you would like to help distribute Sedition in Victoria, email melbourneanarchistclub@gmail.com or seditionjournal@gmail.com.