[Jura] Hip-hop high tea, climate action

[specialannounce at jura.org.au]

Hi Jura Books friends,

Lots is happening at Jura in the next month...

Coming up on Sunday 8th June, from 2pm: Hip Hop high tea at Jura  
Books. An arvo of vegan high tea, popping lessons with the elegant  
shelly and hip-hop sounds from secret special guests! This shall be  
followed by a discussion of gender, and subversion of gender, in hip- 
hop and dance.

On Saturday 14th June, from 2pm, there'll be a film screening and  
discussion about the Camp for Climate Action. The camp will be five  
days of inspiring workshops and direct action aimed at shutting down  
the world's largest coal port in Newcastle (July 10-15). If you're  
concerned about climate change, and want real action instead of more  
hot air, then we encourage you to come to the camp and bring your  
friends and family! Want to find out more and meet people who are  
going? Come to Jura on Saturday 14th June. We'll be showing an  
inspirational one hour documentary about the need for radical action  
and the 2006 Camp for Climate Action which happened in the shadow of  
one of the biggest C02 emitters in Europe: Drax coal-fired power  
station in Yorkshire.

Out in the community, we've got two book stalls planned for the next  
month:
1) 11am-1.45pm, Sunday 18th May outside Palace Cinema on Norton St,  
where a new film about a Spanish anarchist is screening: Lucio -  
"There are many anarchists in the world, but few have discussed  
strategies with Che Guevara, saved the skin of Eldridge Cleaver (the  
leader of the Black Panthers), and also brought to its knees the most  
powerful bank on the planet by forging travellers cheques, without  
missing a single day of work in his construction job!"
2) 11am-5pm, Sunday 25th May at the Sydney Writers Festival zine  
fair, Museum of Contemporary Art.

Food Not Bombs is continuing to use the Jura kitchen fortnightly to  
prepare food that would otherwise go to waste. Come and help with the  
preparation at Jura (from 1pm), or come and help eat the food from  
4pm on the corner of Forbes St and King St, Newtown. Next dates are  
17th May and 31st May. All welcome!

Come along to our working bees, where we'll be sanding and painting  
the floor, and fixing the skirting boards - the final touches on the  
library renovations. Saturday 17th May and Saturday 7th June, from 12pm.

The Jura Food Co-op continues to provide people with affordable,  
organis fruit and vegie boxes. Order yours or find out more by  
emailing jurafoodcoop at riseup.net

Alarm youth anarchist collective will be holding a meeting at Jura on  
Saturday 7th June. All welcome!

After many meetings and much discussion (thanks again to all who  
participated in the survey!), the Jura Collective has drawn up a new  
strategic plan! Read it here. It lays out our goals for the bookshop,  
library, organising space, property, finances and more.

Here is the vision from the plan:
"At Jura Books, we are working to create a radically different world:  
one based on freedom, equality and justice for everyone, as well as  
environmental sustainability for all life on the planet. We believe  
this can only be achieved by an organised and politically conscious  
social movement, based on participatory democracy and workers  
control. Our collective will help to build this movement.
"This (already growing) movement will revolutionise mainstream  
political ideology, and will develop alternative social structures.  
We will work to establish this new political consciousness in  
Australia, by putting the ideas of anarchism, libertarian socialism,  
social ecology and anarcha-feminism on the political agenda in  
Sydney. This means bringing these ideas to ever-widening circles of  
people. We will also prefigure and nurture the alternative social  
structures through the structures and activities of our collective.  
This means creating a physical and social space that is liberating,  
safe, imbued with our anarchist politics, and a joy to be in. So we  
will focus both outward and inward in order to build a transformative  
social movement. We will work with other groups to achieve our shared  
vision of a better world. Jura Books has been, and will continue to  
help and encourage campaigns and like-minded groups which may or may  
not include members of our collective. In order to build the  
movement, the collective must expand so we will actively seek new  
members and new ideas. We operate as an organised, participatory  
democratic, volunteer collective.
"The core projects of the Jura Books collective are i) the bookshop,  
ii) the library, and iii) the workers control centre / community  
organising centre. Other activities related to these projects are:  
holding stalls, running campaigns, improving our website, putting on  
events (talks, gigs, films, performances), improving the space, and  
publishing pamphlets.
"Freedom without socialism is privilege, socialism without freedom is  
tyranny!"

And finally, everyone is welcome at the Jura Collective Meeting at  
12pm on Saturday 31st May.

Wow - so many great events! To see them all in calendar form, check  
out our website calendar.

Hope to see you soon,

The Jura Collective
440 Parramatta Rd
Petersham
9550 9931

Thursday 10am - 7pm
Friday 2 - 7pm
Saturday 12 - 5pm
Sunday 12 - 5pm





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