Thursday, September 23, 6:30 PM

Freedom Socialist Party meeting: A decade since the S11 protests – What will victory look like?

Ten years ago the World Economic Forum planned a meeting at Melbourne’s Crown Casino. This gathering of capitalist big wigs sparked the first major protest against corporate globalisation in Australia. The Freedom Socialist Party was a part of the huge mass movement that blockaded Crown and prevented delegates from entering. Less than a year earlier, enormous protests had shut down the World Trade Organisation in what became known as the Battle of Seattle. Join in the discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of this movement and what’s needed to bring capitalism to its knees.

Dinner served at 6:30 pm for an $8 donation. This meeting will be held at Solidarity Salon (address and travel information is above).

For more information, call 9388-0062 or email freedom.socialist.party@ozemail.com.au

Saturday, September 25, 10:00 AM

Help Defend the Fertility Control Clinic

In Victoria, the anti-abortion backlash persists: the Catholic Church is preparing to challenge last year’s decriminalisation legislation, and religious fanatics continue to harass clinics that perform terminations.

On the fourth Saturday of every month the Freedom Socialist Party joins Radical Women and other abortion rights activists to defend the Fertility Control Clinic from anti-women bigots calling themselves the Helpers of Gods’ Precious Infants.

The Fertility Control Clinic is located at 118 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. For more information, contact Radical Women: radicalwomen@optusnet.com.au or phone 03-9388-0062.

Saturday, October 9, 12:00 PM

Rally: Hit the streets for abortion rights

Keep abortion legal in Victoria! Drop the Cairns abortion charges!

On October 9 this year, the Right to Life will mark two years since the legalisation of abortion in Victoria by holding a “March for the Babies” as part of a campaign to recriminalise abortion.

The Catholic Church has launched a legal challenge in Victoria, claiming an entitlement of conscientious objection for anti-abortion health professionals who are now legally required to refer a woman seeking an abortion to a provider and, in the case of an emergency, to assist in a termination.

It’s no coincidence that six months after Victoria’s legalisation of abortion, the Queensland Police charged a 19-year-old woman and her partner for procuring an abortion under the state’s 19th century criminal code. She is the first woman in the country to be prosecuted under anti-abortion statutes.

The trial is set for October 12 in Cairns, and pro-choice rallies across the country on October 9 will demand that the charges be dropped.

Assemble at noon on the steps of Parliament House, Spring Street, Melbourne.

For more information call 9388-0062 or email radicalwomen@optusnet.com.au