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02 / 26 Cards & Sangria Start: 7:00 pm End: 9:00 pm It's been a while and we miss you! Fridays are our nights for events at 22 and we figure people must wanna go out and have fun instead of watchn a heavy movie or get involved in political discussions, yeh? So instead of going for fun at a pub or a club and giving your money to the capitalists who don't need it and don't care about you. We're creating space for chilled out fun with emphasis on safer spaces where we can be engaging with others who use the Black Rose facilities over something like a game of cards or a boardgame. Even if you're going elsewhere and just popping in to warm up around the Sangria beforehand. So Cards & Sangria is: listening to insane 80's megapop hits playing your favourite card game with us (or get in on our favourite 'Surprise Factor!') enjoying the concept of the Sangria Bucket thinking about an event you'd like to do at 22 checking out what book you might wanna read next supporting an awesome collectively organised, accessible radical library that cares more info
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03 / 7 Black Rose Movie 'To Shoot an Elephant' by Alberto Ace Start: 5:30 pm End: 8:00 pm Context Gaza Strip has been under siege since June 2007, when Israel declared it an "enemy entity". A group of international activists organized a siege-breaking movement, the Free Gaza movement. Thanks to their efforts, and despite the Israeli ban on foreign correspondents and humanitarian aid workers to cover and witness operation "Cast Lead" on the ground, a group of international volunteers: self organised members of the International Solidarity Movement were present in Gaza when the bombing started on December, 27th 2009. Together with two international correspondents from Al Jazeera International (Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros), they were the only foreigners who managed to write, film and report for several radio stations what was happening inside the besieged Palestinian strip. More information at: http://toshootanelephant.com/ March 7 2010 5:30pm $5 or Donation entry more info
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03 / 14 Fantastic Mr Fox Start: 7:00 pm End: 9:30 pm In the Black Rose Library 22 Enmore Rd Newtown at 7pm for $5 or similar donation Black Rose Anarchist Library Presents: Fantastic Mr Fox - Wes Anderson A parable of urbanization, where the creatures of the forest bandits of small, medium and megafarms are also habitants of the hedgerow, catchers of minnows, burrowers in holes. Fox gleefully hatches elaborate plans to steal from the obviously evil farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean, breaks into a supermarket, encouraging his family and friends to loot it, and those are definately the happiest moments in the film. There are some triumphant moments, but all in all its a humbling story about the countryside being swallowed by the supermall. It's definitely a Wes Anderson film, with its symmetrical, right-angle set designs and shooting angles, big blocks of primary colors, dysfunctional family dynamics and deadpan subversive humor, bizarre jokes, the colourful, charismatic characters, the deceptively simple yet playful metaphorical plot. Time magazine interview with Wes Anderson- When it comes to Mr Fox, you introduce a conflict between him being a wild animal and yet acting like a human – more of a conflict that’s in Dahl’s book. ‘Yeah, that’s our theme. His whole thing is that he likes being wild. Even though he’s well-dressed, it’s important for him to be a wild animal. But I think he means it metaphorically, somehow! [laughs] But it sounds silly saying it.’ http://www.fantasticmrfoxmovie.com/ more info
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03 / 21 Black & Re(a)d Discussion Group Start: 2:00 pm End: 4:00 pm http://blackandread.wordpress.com/ this month’s discussion will look at climate change, and look at the problems it poses for anti-capitalist struggle. 2pm 21st of march, black rose 22 enmore road. – ‘Modern Ecologism and its prospects’-http://www.lasthours.org.uk/articles/two-three-many-apocalypses-modern-ecologism-and-its-prospects/ – ‘Energy, crisis and world wide production relations’ by Kolya Abramsky. This is at http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/download/contoursofclimatejus... This is a link to a whole book so it might take a while to load. – ‘Green New Deal: Dead End or Pathway beyond Capitalism’ from Turbulence No.5 http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-5/green-new-deal/ – Tadzio Mueller and Alexis Passadikis wrote a paper recently called ‘Another Capitalism is Possible?’ that expands on some of the ideas here; I’ll send it to personal e-mails (it’s not available online and is too big a file to attach). – ‘A Climactic Disorder: Class and Climate Change’ (it’s basically a reportback from a conference but is interesting) http://www.metamute.org/en/content/a_climatic_disorder_class_and_climate... more info