LATIN AMERICAN DINNER AND SLIDE NIGHT

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!

Film Screening - Quien Dijo Meido - Inside the Honduran coup

Date:	Saturday, 24 July 2010
Time:	16:00 - 18:00
Location:	225 Murray St, Hobart

Fathoming the Coup in Honduras. The documentary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp_1tdE8pIM
Directed by Katia Lara, Produced by Carlos Del Valle

Synopsis:
René is a Honduran amateur actor who appeared on television spots promoting the referendum on convening the National Constituent Assembly in Honduras. On June 28th, 2009, instead of a referendum, there was a brutal coup d'état: the army abducted President Manuel Zelaya and had him flown abroad. Along with thousands of other Hondurans, René joined the National Resistance Front against the Coup d' État. An unprecedented Honduras arises: a people who resist despite media bias, violence and death, and take to the streets to stand up for their rights. This is their story.

108 minutes

http://quiendijomiedofilm.blogspot.com/

Launch - `Defend Trades Unions in Colombia campaign' "If you love life, don't drink Coca-Cola products!"

Key note speaker:
Edgar Paez, National Director of Colombia Food Union

Thursday 13^th May 2010

6:30pm

Hobart Activist Centre, 225 Murray St, Hobart

Edgar will be in Australia in a speaking tour organised by Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET) from April 26th to May 18th, he will visiting Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Tasmania, Interested for interviews, meetings in these cities with Edgar send an e-mail to: lasnet@latinlasnet.org or call 0400 914 944 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0400 914 944      end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

In recent years, hundreds of workers at Coca-Cola bottling plants have been tortured, kidnapped, illegally detained, and even assassinated by violent right-wing paramilitary groups who work closely with plant management.

Edgar Paez has dedicated his entire life to organizing workers and has worked actively in connecting social struggles both in Colombia and the world over. He has been closely involved in the campaign to expose the role of Coca-Cola in murdering Colombian trade unionists.He is a member of the Operating Committee for the Social Observatory of transnational businesses, megaprojects, human rights and the Permanent Tribunal of the Pueblos Sesión, Colombia.