Hobart Forum with Ian Angus

Climate war and the billionaire class: Capitalism versus humanity in the fight to save the planet

This forum will address the "climate war" that has begun and the ecosocialist solutions needed to address it. More than ever, the line between rich and poor is a line between survival and death, as inequality and climate change combine to create new extremes of oppression. A handful of people live in obscene luxury, while billions are condemned to permanent poverty and hunger – and rich governments build fences, walls and concentration camps to keep the poor away. 

                                

Speaker Ian Angus is a long-time activist in socialist and environmental movements in Canada and internationally.

Editor 

"Climate and Captalism"www.climateandcapitalism.com

Editor 

The Global Fight for Climate Justice: Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction (Resistance Books, 2009).

Author

Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016)

Co-Author with Simon Butler

Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis (Haymarket Books, 2011) Belem Ecosocialist Declaration.

Ian Angus is also a featured speaker at the Socialism for the 21st Century Conference:http://www.socialismforthe21stcentury.org/

RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/1084426938287133/

End of Year BBQ

The Hobart Branch of Socialist Alliance invites you to their End of Year BBQ, which will be also be a farewell for Linda and to their last Salamanca stall for the year so please come along and join us. 

Our special guest will be Shamikh Badra who is currently touring Australia as he's the youth and students coordinator for the Palestinian People Party in the Palestinian Gaza Strip - so definitely an event not to be missed!

Come along to the Hobart Premiere of Disruption

"Not quite sure you feel like taking to the streets to spur action on climate change? This new movie aims to change your mind.

In the lead-up to the People's Climate March later this month, filmmakers are releasing a new documentary called "Disruption," which highlights the consequences of ignoring climate change. The film features well-known environmental leaders such as Bill McKibben and Dr. James Hansen, and documents activists' efforts to mobilize people for what may be the largest climate change march in history.

"We’re the first generation to feel the impacts of climate disruption, and the last generation that can do something about it," the film's synopsis reads." Huffington Post. 

To participate in Hobart's Climate Picnic see https://www.facebook.com/events/847020905317252/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

Vigil for Gaza, Friday 15th August, 5pm at the corner of Murray and Macquarie Streets, Hobart

This Friday we will hold a vigil to stand with the people of Gaza!  We call on the Australian government to: condemn Israel's attack on Gaza and impose diplomatic and trade sanctions on Israel. We call for support for the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.   Please wear red, green or black (Palestinian colours) to the vigil and bring your voices, Palestinian flags, banners, placards, friends and family.  

According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in Gaza (PCHR), 9086 people have been injured, Israel has now killed 1922 people during its 33 day assault on Gaza the vast majority of them civilians. More than 300 of those killed have been children.   Israeli targets have included homes, mosques, schools, hospitals, medical centres, ambulances and power and water treatment plants. Even a UN-run school was targeted, killing 15 people and injuring hundreds of women and children who had sought refuge.  

Say NO to Abbott's budget!

Election Night Party 2014 and we'll also be celebrating the 1000th issue of Green Left Weekly

Meet the Socialist Alliance Candidates in the Tasmanian Election 2014

End of Year BBQ

Celebrate our year of struggle to change Tasmania and the world for the better with the hope that people and the environment count more than corporate capitalist greed at our end of year BBQ. Relax with some scrumptious food, company, drinks and maybe a bit of politics!

LATIN AMERICAN DINNER AND SLIDE NIGHT

Climate Change-Social Change conference

http://climatechangesocialchange2011.wordpress.com/

Humanity is in a race against time to avoid environmental catastrophe and social collapse.
We sometimes seem to be losing that race. Climate change, no longer just a prediction, is already extinguishing species, destroying essential food production and forcing thousands of people to flee their island homes. More people are directly affected by more wars than ever before in history. And while the structural causes of last year’s global financial crisis continue unabated, governments are imposing vicious austerity policies on the majority in both the Global North and South to pay for the capitalists’ bail-out.
Sponsored by the Office of Environmental Programs, Melbourne UniversityOrganised by Green Left Weekly and the Socialist Alliance

Announcing the Premiere Screenings in Tasmania of John Pilger's controversial new film

 

'The War You Don't See' is a powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war, tracing the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq. As weapons and propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an 'electronic battlefield' in which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims.

Includes an interview with WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange.

View trailer at: http://www.johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-you-dont-see-trailer

Organised by Green Left Weekly - People Powered Media

www.greenleft.org.au

Ph 6234 6397, 0418 643 133

hobart@socialist-alliance.org

Socialist Alliance Hobart Branch Conference – ‘System Change, Not Climate Change’ and ‘the Role of the Revolutionary Press’.

Aboriginal rights forum - Socialist and Aborigines working together - how do we do it and what are the current and upcoming campaigns?

With speakers from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre including Nala Mansell-Mckenna, Aaron Everett, Adam Thompson & Sara Maynard.

On Thursday Feb 24, 6pm - 7pm

Followed by a cheap dinner at 7pm (informal discussion could continue).

Followed by a screening of: "Our Generation" at 7.30pm. - $8/5 conc (50% of profits to TAC). Come to the forum, dinner or film or if you can, come to all three!

For more info or to watch the trailer go to: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/

To read an excellent interview with the filmakers and Jeff McMullen go to: http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/45227

RSVP to hobart@socialist-alliance.

Ph Susan Austin on 6234 6397 or 0418 643 133 

Film Screening of South of the Border by Oliver Stone

Socialist Teach In

`Shining the spotlight on capitalism and theories of how to challenge it'

Thursday 21^st October

11am-4pm

11am-12pm: The Shock Doctrine – seeing our system in a new light. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" is the gripping story of how America's "free market" policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. Have you read the book and want to talk about it? Or have you not yet read the book but would like to learn the gist of what it's all about by exploring an example case study in the book with us?

12pm: Lunch break (bring your own)

12:30 – 1:30pm: The Global Financial Crisis – the failure or resilience of capitalism?

1:30pm: Break

1:45 - 2:45pm: The Marxist view of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex oppression … and how to fight it!

2:45pm: Break

3 -4 pm: How to challenge capitalism: Effective activism, popular power and unity in struggle - Learning from leading Latin American Marxist activist and intellectual Marta Harnecker's 12-part `Ideas for the Struggle' published this year.

Please email hobart@socialist-alliance.org or call 0418 643 133 to register for one class or the full program.

Classes are free and will be held at the Hobart Activist Centre, 225 Murray St, Hobart. All welcome!

Poster for October Environment Film Festival

Come along and bring your friends to see these must-see award winning environmental films


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The Yes Men Fix the World - Last Film of Environment Film Festival

	09 October · 19:00 - 21:00
	225 Murray St Hobart, Australia

Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are two guys who just can't take "no" for an answer.

They have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, the Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in ever more extreme ways - basically doing everything that they can to wake up their audiences to the danger of letting greed run our world.

One day Andy, purporting to be a Dow Chemical spokesperson, gets on the biggest TV news program in the world and announces that Dow will finally clean up the site of the largest industrial accident in history, the Bhopal catastrophe. The result: as people worldwide celebrate, Dow's stock value loses two billion dollars. People want Dow to do the right thing, but the market decides that it can't.

In this film they visit the twisted (and accidentally hilarious) underworld of the free-market think tanks, where they figure out a way to defeat the logic that's destroying our planet. And as they appear on the BBC before 300 million viewers, or before 1000 New Orleans contractors alongside Mayor Ray Nagin, the layers of lies are peeled back to reveal the raw heart of truth - a truth that brings with it hope.

Showing on the big screen at the Hobart Activist Centre as part of Green Left Weekly's Environment Film Festival. Money raised goes towards producing the alternative newspaper Green Left Weekly.

Entry $12/$8 concession per film or $25/$15 conc for a festival pass.








Delicious cheap meals available at 6:30pm.

Call 03 62346397 for more details.

End of the Line - Second Day of Environment Film Festival

	09 October · 16:00 - 18:00
	225 Murray St Hobart, Australia

The End of the Line is the first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans.

In the film we see firsthand the effects of our global love affair with fish as food.

It examines the imminent extinction of bluefin tuna, brought on by increasing western demand for sushi; the impact on marine life resulting in huge overpopulation of jellyfish; and the profound implications of a future world with no ...fish that would bring certain mass starvation.

Filmed over two years, The End of the Line follows the investigative reporter Charles Clover as he confronts politicians and celebrity restaurateurs, who exhibit little regard for the damage they are doing to the oceans.

Filmed across the world – from the Straits of Gibraltar to the coasts of Senegal and Alaska to the Tokyo fish market – featuring top scientists, indigenous fishermen and fisheries enforcement officials, The End of the Line is a wake-up call to the world.

Showing on the big screen at the Hobart Activist Centre as part of Green Left Weekly's Environment Film Festival. Money raised goes towards producing the alternative newspaper Green Left Weekly.

Entry $12/$8 concession per film or $25/$15 conc for a festival pass.

Phone  03 6234 6397     

FOOD, INC. - First Film of Environment Film Festival

Time	08 October · 19:00 - 21:00
Location	225 Murray St Hobart, Australia

The way we eat has changed more in the past 50 years than it did in the previous 10,000 years; that's the opening claim of this powerfully didactic documentary FOOD, INC. which looks beyond the supermarket shelves to see how the food Americans eat is prepared.

It's a shocking indictment of an industry which has been taken over by greedy, litigious, multi-national corporations who not only want to put small farmers and food suppliers out of business, they want to keep quiet about the dangerous practices they use in the slaughtering of animals for food and other farming practices.

It looks at the stories of a woman whose two year old son died of E-Coli poisoning after eating a hamburger; a Latino couple who simply can't afford to buy healthy food because it's dearer than junk food; and a small farmer sued by a giant company for wanting to use his own seed for planting; the company owns the rights to genetically modified soybeans.

You'll never look at dinner the same way again.

Showing on the big screen at the Hobart Activist Centre as part of Green Left Weekly's Environment Film Festival. Money raised goes towards producing the alternative newspaper Green Left Weekly.

Entry $12/$8 concession per film or $25/$15 conc for a festival pass. 

Delicious cheap meals available at 6:30pm.

Phone 03 62346397 for more details.

 

Come Along and Support Mel Barnes at Election Campaign Benefit Gig

Mel Barnes, Socialist Alliance Candidate for Denison Election Campaign benefit gig

Thursday 19th August 8pm Alley Cat Bar, North Hobart

Featuring 'Peter Hicks' and 'Rory and the Riot Act'

$15 / $10 concession and extra donations welcome

Note there's also a $10 burger and beer deal available inside 

Call 0418 643 133 end_of_the_skype_highlighting for more info or email hobart@socialist-alliance.org