Howl (revisited by Audry on Australian Censorshit Day)

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by filter, starving hysterical filtered, dragging themselves through the filtered web at dawn looking for a rubber fetish blog......who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the fascist filter haze of Conroy......who choked endlessly trying to speak but wound up with a sob behind a filter in a censored web when the violent and corrupt government came to blind them with a filter......who demanded sanity trials accusing the government of censorship and were left with their insanity and their filter and a nation of apathetic moronic cowards... AA 1984

Boobs, booze and Muslim feminists - Eureka Street

We all know this image: A young, orange-tinted woman, dressed in a pale satin ribbon, teeters drunkenly in soaring heels. She is eating chips, smearing the sauce on her knuckles, and is occasionally yelling obscenities at her boyfriend. We laugh at her, but forgive her, because, well, it's been a long day of drinking at the races. Her boyfriend is just as drunk, and is urinating at a tram stop. But for some reason we don't really notice him.

Although her behaviour indicates she'd rather be wearing thongs and jeans, she feels compelled to dress like a sexual Christmas tree for the Spring Carnival. This compulsion probably has a number of roots, one being an earnest desire to be desired. Another more cynical reason is that her desire to be desired on the terms of the depth of her cleavage is nominated by the designs of the men in her society, and upheld by the women.

Read the artic le by Ellena Savage here

Breaking The Australian Silence

In a speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of Australia's human rights prize, the Sydney Peace Prize, John Pilger describes the "unique features" of a political silence in Australia: how it affects the national life of his homeland and the way Australians see the world and are manipulated by great power "which speaks through an invisible government of propaganda that subdues and limits our political imagination and ensures we are always at war -- against our own first people and those seeking refuge, or in someone else's country".

Read Johns Article here

Raul Benoit | Fear and Loathing in the Wake of Fort Hood

Raul Benoit, Diario La Prensa (Spanish Translation: Ryan Croken): "It should not come as a surprise to us that a US Army psychiatrist, stationed at a military base where soldiers come and go to fight in irrational and pointless wars, [allegedly] killed 13 people and left 30 others wounded, as happened Thursday, November 5, at Fort Hood, Texas. These wars themselves are insane, and the US military practice of plucking people from Hispanic, African-American, other minority and poor white communities to send them off to fight for 'freedom,' offering them the promise of a 'brighter future,' is abusive, offensive and harmful to the health of this nation and this world."

Read the article by Raul Benoit here at Truthout

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting
convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
-- Bertrand Russell

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
-- Krishnamurti

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
-- Margaret Peters

Do not consider painful what is good for you.
-- Euripides

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
-- Mark Twain

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
-- Confucius

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
-- Franklin P. Adams

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is
nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which
he is clothed, and not to be able to estimate the worth and degree of each
thing accordingly?
-- Michelangelo

The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates
that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a
majority of the people.
--David Edwards, British columnist, "Burning All Illusions"

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human
intelligence long enough to get money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is.
And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.
-- Auguste Rodin

I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
-- Linus Van Pelt, Peanuts

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
-- Jay Leno

another version:
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day;
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime;
give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress
requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
-- Russell Baker

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
-- Oscar Wilde

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action,
where it often substitutes for both.
-- John Andrew Holmes

"Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment."
--Ira Gassen

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
--William James

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than
to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition to stand up for it.
--A. A. Hodge

Sanatana Dharma or Vedic Dharma (Vedicism) is the proper name for Hinduism. The terms Hindu and Hinduism are misnomers, just as Mohammedan and Mohammedanism are misnomers for Muslims and Islam. The term Hindu is originally a geographic definition used by the ancient Iranians to label all the peoples living in the lands of the Indus Valley or east of the Indus River regardless of religious affinity or faith. The term Hindu was later adopted by the Arabs who conquered Sassanid Iran and then expanded towards the the Indian sub-continent. As the Altaic peoples, such as Mongolian and Turkic-speaking tribes, migrated westward in Eurasia they also adopted the term through interaction with both the Iranians and the Arabs. At this time in history and up to the rule of the Mugal Dynasty in India the term Hindu started gaining popular and recurrent usage, but was still used as an ethnographic term and not a religious identification label. The Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, and Vidicists of India were all called Hindus. It was during the colonial era that the British, who ruled India, coined the English-language term/word Hinduism and assigned the already existing and ancient Iranian term/word Hindu in 1830 to describe and designate the faiths and peoples of India belonging to Vedicism. Hindus are in reality all the people of India. The term Hindi, also used to label Indians and one of the main Indic languages, comes from Hindustani which also reflects the geographic nature and origins of the term Hindu; Hindustan means land of India and Hindustani people of India.

Thought For Day

"Suppose you had had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now! Whatever you would do then, do it now. When you run up against obstacles, people, or things that won't let you live that way, then begin to think about how to get over or around or under that obstacle, or how to push it out of the way, and your politics will be concrete and practical."
~ Paul Goodman

"You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone."
~ George W Bush

International Libertarian Declaration of Solidarity with the Struggle of the Amazonian Peoples of Peru!

We ask our libertarian comrades to organise mobilisations and demonstrations outside
Peruvian embassies in every country, in coordination with other sectors in struggle, in
order to denounce the actions of the State and the multinationals in this country.

The following statement is an international libertarian solidarity initiative with the
indigenous and Amazonian peoples of Peru, in their struggle for the defence of their lands
and their ancestral culture. These lands and this culture are being violated and
threatened by the Peruvian government in alliance with Imperialism, the multinationals and
the Right (mainly the APRA - Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana, Unidad Nacional and
Fujimorism), through unconstitutional Executive Orders, in the context of Peru’s signing
of the NAFTA agreement with the USA.

The Unión Socialista Libertaria calls on anarchist, libertarian and other similar
organisations throughout the world to sign this document, adopt it as their own and
publicize its contents online, on mailing lists, in magazines, newspapers, bulletins,
statements, murals, forums, public cultural and political events, and so on, with the aim
of establishing a clear libertarian, militant position on what is taking place in Peru.

We thus ask our libertarian comrades to organise mobilisations and demonstrations
outside Peruvian embassies in every country, in coordination with other sectors in
struggle, in order to denounce the actions of the State and the multinationals in this
country.

We have faith in the solidarity that typifies us as libertarian revolutionaries, that
we can make common cause with our indigenous brothers and let them know they are not
alone, that their struggles are our struggles, until such times as we can make a true
society of full freedom, autonomy and human progress, without exploited or exploiters.


Solidarity with the Struggle of the Amazonian Peoples of Peru!

The Amazonian and indigenous communities of the Peruvian jungle (especially in Loreto, San
Martín, Amazonas, Ucayali, Huánuco, Cuzco and Madre de Dios) are once again sounding their
war drums of struggle and resistance against the onslaught of the neoliberal economic
model supported by the Peruvian government (with the Aprista party at its head). They have
launched a call to popular rebellion through an Indefinite Popular General Strike which
has been going on with mass participation since 9th April this year. They have thus been
on the war foot now for over 50 days, a clear example of their valour, their organisation
and their heroism.

This intense process of indigenous and Amazonian struggle has come about because the
Peruvian State, in contravention of its own international treaties, is systematically
violating the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples' Convention (Convention No.169) of the
International Labour Organisation (ILO), which provides for obligatory consultation in
advance with indigenous peoples on any planned intervention on their lands, through the
appropriate community bodies.

In other words, the Aprista government has begun (or rather, has recommenced) a new
campaign of stealing and selling off to the best multinational offer, lands which
tradition and history have placed in the hands of all the communities (Wajún-Wampis,
Kichuas, Arabelas, Huaronis, Pananujuris, Achuar, Murunahus, or Chitonahuas, Cacataibos,
Matsés, Candoshis, Shawis, Cocama-Cocamilla, Machiguengas, Yines, Asháninkas, Yaneshas and
others, including the “uncontacted” peoples), who today are demanding their right to exist
and to resist.

The role of the Peruvian State

Law No.20653, the General Law on Native Communities, which was passed by General Juan
Velasco Alvarado's military regime in June 1974, recognised the "legal existence and
juridical identity of the indigenous Amazonian people and their territories, declaring
them to be inalienable, indefeasible and inviolable". This was confirmed in the 1979
Constitution. However, it was removed at the strike of a pen by the Fujimori Constitution
of 1993, to open the way for dispossession and plundering by successive governments,
opening the door to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and becoming law
following the Executive Orders of the second Aprista government.

We must not forget the fact that with Fujimori's 1993 Constitution the door was left open
for the plundering of resources, as mentioned above. So it is clear that work has already
begun to suffocate and isolate the communities, for the greed of the multinationals in
gaining concessions for oil, gas, mining, tourism and logging in areas traditionally
belonging to the peoples living there.

In other words, it paved the way for the State to declare the lands of the native peoples
"negotiable, in accordance with the market economy" by means of executive orders, thus
bypassing the legislature (Parliament).

Once again, the Peruvian State has shown itself to be an instrument of domination and
exploitation in the hands of the exploiting classes of this country, who are seeking to
continue to expropriate not only the political rights but also the resources of our
indigenous (native) peoples, who are now rising up in revolt against the oppressor power.

As libertarian communists, we declare that the native communities' right to free
self-determination is the exercising of popular power, as it is based on communitarian
principles, the utilization and collective use of natural resources, and on those forms of
work and collective benefit that they have traditionally preserved in the Amazon, home to
31 of the 114 world ecosystems, 95% of the country’s forests and an important potential
water and water-powered energy resource.

The struggle of the indigenous people of the Abya Yala

In the context of the Indigenous Popular General Strike, there was an important meeting of
native Andean communities in one of Peru’s southern regions, Puno. This encounter was
called the 4th Continental Summit of the Indigenous Peoples and Nations of the Abya Yala
and came to a conclusion Sunday last, 31st May), with a unanimous agreement to respect the
mother earth and its natural resources for the benefit of human beings, a strong rejection
of the privatisation of water, the presence of multinational corporations and the
neoliberal economic model.

All of this was included in the “Declaration of Mama Quta Titikaka” (Lake Titicaca, on the
Peruvian-Bolivian border), in which there was agreement to mobilise the various social and
indigenous organisations in June, in defence of the Amazonian peoples, as was a call for
marches and protests outside Peruvian embassies in every country.

It is important in itself to emphasise the nature of this indigenous summit, which is
essentially self-managed, the sort of organisation promoted by libertarian militants. In
its Concluding Recommendations, it called for “the construction of Plurinational Peoples’
Communities, based on self-government and the free determination of every people”.

Likewise, it denounced the efforts of the official press which is dedicated to
misinforming, misrepresenting or hiding the just means that are being attacked in the
Peruvian jungle, in collusion with the current neo-liberal government and its leaders -
Alan García; the vice-president and retired admiral responsible for the prison massacres
during the first Aprista government of the 1980s, Luis Giampietri; the prime minister,
Yehude Simon, previously a left-wing leader who had even been imprisoned for his beliefs
and who is now the faithful guardian of the Aprista reaction.

It is clear to see that for the bourgeoisie that controls the State under imperialist
orders, the path lies through the dispossession of the communities. It is at the same time
a plan to destroy their type of social organisation and the relationship that links them
to their land, a relationship that in essence clashes with the Western understanding of
property and is therefore a brake on the voracity of multinational Capital which is trying
to take root in these zones, usurping them in alliance with the State and turning them
into fiefdoms in order to guarantee the exploiters’ prosperity and domination.

President Alan García is lying “subtly” when he says that of the 63 million hectares of
Peruvian jungle, only 12 million belongs to the Amazonian communities, when instead it is
around 25 million, as confirmed by the leader and highest representative of the
communities in struggle, Alberto Pizango, who has been accused of “endangering the common
security and damaging public services” together with other indigenous leaders, Marcial
Mudarra, brothers Saúl and Servando Puerta, Daniel Marzano and Teresita Antazu.
Furthermore, Pizango has already been charged with “rebellion, sedition and other
offences” by the Provincial Criminal Court in Lima and is facing a third charge from the
Provincial Criminal Court in Utcubamba, Amazonas, for “disturbing the peace”.

It is clear that this series of charges and in general the judicial and political
repressio0n is part of the State’s efforts to criminalise all popular protest and repress
just social demands, negatively influencing public opinion by presenting our indigenous
brothers and sisters of Peru as “mere vandals or savages, ignorant of the progress that
globalisation brings”.

Therefore, as libertarians we believe that the struggle of the indigenous people,
Amazonian and Andean, for the defence of their land, their way of organising themselves
and their culture, is part of a minimum programme that involves the conquest of the
demands of the peoples oppressed by the State, Capitalism and Imperialism.

This minimum platform should be based on the need for or the use of direct action in order
to expel the multinationals from their lands. This is necessary in order to protect the
integrity and sustainability of the region's habitat and ecosystem – which, it should be
remembered, is one of the "lungs" of the planet – and in order that there can be
sustainable development and planned usage of the flora and fauna, on the basis of criteria
established by the communities. Furthermore, there needs to be active self-defence of
their lands, which must be restored to their original condition.

We thus believe that true, active solidarity with the indigenous and Amazonian peoples'
struggle will take the form of popular protest (agitation, propaganda, union-led strikes
and popular strikes, direct action, etc.), to be incorporated into a general platform of
struggle based on that of the native peoples.

Support the just protest of the Indigenous and Amazonian peoples

As libertarian communists who expect nothing from the State (other than its destruction),
we sympathise with the struggle of the native peoples as an immediate part of a larger
project for the liberation of all exploited people, and thus part of a wider strategy or
maximum programme of social revolution.

For this reason, we should support demands which in the short term serve to improve living
conditions and to enhance their social, political and economic organisation with the aim
of facing up to the exploiter State and destroying it from within, building those kernels
of popular power which will bring down the giant with the feet of clay that is Capitalism,
mortally wounded at a global level by a global crisis from which it cannot recover if, as
we want, it is the bourgeoisie that has to pay and not the workers.

We thus support the struggle of the Amazonian people and their various communities to seek
immediate solutions, and we join the call to demand:

* Repeal of all laws that damage or violate the interests of Native and Rural
Communities: repeal of Law No.29317, the Forestry & Wildlife law, which is the product of
a forced and partial modification of Executive Order No.1090 (the "Jungle Law") and the
related orders 1089, 1064 and 1020. In other words, the 99 Orders that were imposed on the
people without any consultation.

* Respect for the autonomy and self-determination of the native communities and their
active political participation in the making of decisions. The final decision of whether
or not to approve legal regulations or contracts for concessions must be made by means of
direct-democratic mechanisms (popular assemblies, referendums, etc.).

* Benefits and facilities so that native communities or peoples can develop their
productive, commercial and industrial activities, with the prospect of direct control over
these processes by the people themselves, based on the principles of self-management and
socialisation.

* Benefits and facilities for the commencement and promotion of education and culture
within the communities (by them and for them). More schools and qualified teachers to
promote the education of native students. In other words, the development of a rational,
high-quality educational system without those competitive, voracious tendencies that the
world capitalist market demands.

* Greater benefit from oil and gas exploration and extraction to devolve to the
native peoples, together with the building of hospitals, roads and all the necessary
infrastructure, provided it is approved by the people themselves, managed by the
communities themselves through mechanism giving them full control over their administration.

* An immediate cessation of the campaign of criminalising protest that the Aprista
government and the Peruvian Right has embarked on, together with an end to the harassment
of social activists and the other psychological means diverting attention from the
country’s social problems.


Internationalist solidarity with the struggle of the Amazonian peoples in Peru!
Immediate repeal of the Executive Orders that violate the sovereignty of the indigenous
peoples!

For the freedom and defence of the thought, culture and self-determination of all the
world’s peoples!

Against the authoritarianism of the State, organise and struggle from below!

Down with NAFTA and other capitalist trade agreements!

Imperialist multinationals and American military bases out of Latin America!

Stop the criminalisation of protest; immediate release for those arrested in the struggle!

Long live the heroic struggles of the indigenous peoples of the Abya Yala!

We are all Amazonians!

Long live those who struggle!


Lima, 5 June 2009

Signatories:

1. Unión Socialista Libertaria (Lima, Peru)
2. Red Libertaria Popular Mateo Kramer (Colombia)
3. Periódico Barrikada (Uruguay)
4. Convergencia Anarquista Específica (Chile)
5. Corriente Acción Libertaria (Chile)
6. Huancayo Rebelde (Huancayo, Peru)
7. Centro de Estudios Sociales Manuel González Prada (Huancayo, Peru)
8. Columna Libertaria Joaquín Penina (Argentina)
9. Organisation Communiste Libertaire (France)
10. Asociación Obrera de Canarias (Spain)
11. Frente de Estudiantes Libertarios (Chile)

Translation by FdCA International Relations Office

SLIT Magazine and Scarlet Alliance recently ran a film night at the
Red Rattler as a fundraiser for Womens Network for Unity. It was a
cold rainy night, a few hundred dollars were raised but we wanted to
give you another chance to donate some money towards Womens Network
for Unity before we send them the final amount.

The Cambodian sex workers group Womens Network for Unity is a
democratic and political sex worker organisation based in Phnom Penh.
It is led and organised by sex workers. Please consider donating any
amount, large or small, to their organisation, $10 or $100, it will
all help!

You can donate via electronic transfer: Scarlet Alliance, BankWest,
BSB: 305 122, Account Number: 0131249 Please put "WNU" in the subject
line.

Alternatively you can give cash to Elena from Scarlet Alliance when
you see her, she is flitting about the country (Brisbane, Canberra,
Perth, Sydney) in coming weeks, mob 0401 317 102.

What will this money support? As well as the day to day activities of
outreach and human rights work they have run amazing campaigns to
stand up for sex worker rights and dignity in the face of
globalisation:

- intense struggles against multinational drug company interests,
Gilead and UNSW trying to push a HIV-PREP trial onto their community,
link to video:
http://www.sexworkeurope.org/site/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=184&task=videodirectlink&id=22

- halting reactionary anti-trafficking measures that included the
jailing of hundreds of Cambodian sex workers in 2008, link to Scarlet
Alliance media release:
http://www.scarletalliance.org.au/media/News_Item.2008-06-22.2546

- challenging the huge USAID MTV campaign against trafficking in their
country, which they responded to in detail, link to the video:
http://www.ajws.org/where_we_work/asia/cambodia/womens_network_for_unity_wnu.html

Cambodia is a developing country that has been a minefield of UN Aid
workers, large NGO's with their own in-fighting and agendas, US
influence and trans-national pressure over policy influence.... The
Womens Network for Unity are a sex worker organisation that has stood
up to these pressures on behalf of their community, and our small
donations are a way to ensuring that they know we have solidarity with
them, and that Aussie sex workers and queers support their work now
and in the future!

LIMP WRIST TOUR EUROPE!

LIMP WRIST will be touring Europe in June and their tour dates are
something like this:
MON JUNE 15 AMSTERDAM, NL
TUE JUNE 16 BRIGHTON, UK
WED JUNE 17 NOTTINGHAM, UK
THU JUNE 18 BRADFORD, UK
FRI JUNE 19 LONDON, UK
SAT JUNE 20 THRASH FEST, NL
SUN JUNE 21 PARIS, FRA
MON JUNE 22 SAN SEBASTIAN, SPA
TUE JUNE 23 BILBAO, SPA
WED JUNE 24 MADRID, SPA
THU JUNE 25 VALENCIA, SPA
FRI JUNE 26 BARCELONA, SPA
SAT JUNE 27 LYON, FR
SUN JUNE 28 ESSLINGEN (near Stuttgart) , GER
MON JUNE 29 PRAGUE/CZECH
TUE JUNE 30 LEIPZIG, GER
WED JULY 1 BERLIN, GER
THU JULY 2 COPENHAGEN, DK
FRI JULY 3 HAMBURG, GER
SAT JULY 4 BIELEFELD, GER

http://www.myspace.com/limpwrist http://www.cheap-art.com

-His lethargic display of apathy and lack of industry is shameful!

-It is a legitimate response to the harsh and inconsequential nature of being. I celebrate his tenacity!

lifted from www.rolcats.com

May Day 2009

Adelaide May Day March & Family Picnic
Saturday 2 May
Assemble Victoria Square 10am for 10.30am start

March to Torrens Parade Grounds to the music of
Thunderbox Carbunkle & the Lonely Cosmonauts

Family picnic from 11am at Torrens Parade Grounds

• Speakers’ Corner
• Kid’s entertainment - Clowns, face painting, bouncy castle
• Sausage sizzle and other food and community stands

Speakers include

• Correna Haythorpe, AEU-SA President;
• Dave Noonan, CFMEU - National Secretary, Construction and General Division
• Janet Giles - SA Unions – Secretary

Sun May 3

• Workers Memorial Black Diamond Corner 10:00am
• BBQ & Beer Semaphore Workers Club 11:30-4:00

ANZAC Day Action*

Melbourne, Australia,
10:30 a.m. Sat 25 April
* An antiauthoritarian anticapitalist initiative

DOWN WITH MILITARISM!
Anzac day is approaching again. The media are full of myth-making about the "heroic" Australian military's exploits in Afghanistan, mourning the deaths of Australian troops but not those of their victims.

The ANZAC DAY ANTI-MILITARIST ACTION is on again.
It will be held outside the old headquarters of the Industrial Workers of the World. We'll be there again to oppose all wars past and present and particularly to oppose Australian imperialism.

Workers around the world are on the same side. All armies are our enemies.
Join us in protesting against nationalism & militarism and in promoting a working class alternative to war.

10:30 a.m. Saturday 25 April
Old IWW Headquarters
171 Little Bourke St (cnr Russell St) Melbourne 3000

Montreal Festival of Anarchy

FESTIVAL OF ANARCHY: Canada, Montreal, MAY 1-31 2009

No gods, no masters; no bosses, no borders!
* Theatre Festival * Art Exhibitions * Squat! * Films * Poetry Nights *
Parties * Benefit Shows * Workshops * BBQ * Book Launch * Demonstrations
* Guerilla Gardening * Community Dinners * Discussions and Roundtables *
Anarchist Cabaret * Bookfair * Day of Anarchist Workshops &
Presentations * and more! *

The entire month of May in Montreal is part of the Festival of Anarchy, with diverse anarchist-themed events occurring at different venues all over the island of Montreal. The Festival of Anarchy is organized as part of the 10th Montreal Anarchist Bookfair. The Festival of Anarchy is the largest anarchist event in North America.

---- Festival of Anarchy event venues include: ----
* Comité d’éducation aux adultes de la Petite-Bourgogne et de St-Henri
(CEDA) * Parc Cabot * Petit Café Campus * Divan Orange * Quai des Brumes
* Carrefour d'éducation populaire de Pointe-St-Charles * Cagibi * Casa
del Popolo * Théâtre D.B. Clarke * Alizée * Rhizome * Il Motore * DIRA
Anarchist Library * Independent Media Center (IMC) * Maison de l’amitié
* Parc Extension Community Center * Jardin de la Liberté * Bar Populaire
* and … the (new) Autonomous Social Center (Centre social autogéré)! *

Curious about anarchism?
Check out the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair and the Festival of Anarchy.
Welcome to all!

For more info:
www.anarchistbookfair.ca
514-679-5800
info@anarchistbookfair.ca

PERV Erotic Film Festival

PERV is a new international film, video and performance festival dedicated
to QUEEREOTICA. Encompassing a four-day program of screenings,
installations, panels, parties and play that promise to stimulate,
titillate and engage.

The Rattler Theatre
6 Faversham St Marrickville
Festival Pass $25 or film sessions $5 Festival pass includes
opening night PERV Peep Show.
The Box BROWNIE Special tickets sold separately.
Thursday 23rd April to Sunday 26th April 2009
www.pervfilmfestival.org

Highlights include

The Perv Peepshow Launch party
7pm-10pm $5 Thurs 23rd April 09
DJ Tokyolovekitten
Host Mr Big Pants
video sculptures, projections, peek a booth, slide
a celebration of installation, from the radical to the retro.
Drink up the sounds of DJ Tokyolovekitten as you mingle with the works of
Lady P, Marion Conrow, the peeping tomboy, Adonis,
Kino 55, Samuel Hodge, Regret and more..
Join our special review tour of installation destinations with
the honourable member Mr Big Pants.

The Box Brownie Flash
Friday 24th April 9pm-1am $20 $15
A very special night where all experimental media play goes, queer
performers bend your lens with KK No Pants, Catheterine and Necrotitties,
Adonis, Crash, Sarah Greenwood, Regret, Mighty Hermaphrodity, Stranger
Danger, and DJ Gemma and VJ Mim Visuals

Katrina Del Mar PERV’S Festival guest - meet the film maker
Saturday 25th April 6-8pm $5
Katrina Del Mar’s infamous gang girls have been tearing up our screens
since 2000. As a guest of the festival, this renowned New York filmmaker
dishes the dirt on her formidable cast of truck driving sluts, roughnecks,
petrol heads, surfer girls and candy lickin’ bikers. Del Mar will also
introduce new works A Beautiful Death and Punchin & Cussin. Be one of the
first to check out her lecherous lesbian vampires as they sink their fangs
into each other at this premiere event.

Archiving tales with Tom Fairweather
Sunday 26th April 1-3pm $5
Photographer Tom Fairweather has had his
lens trained on the Sydney queer scene for many many years. Join him and Domino (Slit Magazine ed) in conversation over lunch and a cup of tea as they chat about some of his favourite shots in his newest slideshow.
Food by the amazing Jaffle Café.

Perv International Short Film competition
Sunday 26th April 7-10pm
Celebrate the best global purveyors of queerotica with mistress of
ceremonies Kellie Jean Drinkwater. Cast your vote for the film that rocks
your jocks to decide who takes out the seriously cheeky prize for the
Audience Award. An illustrious panel of experts will also be on hand to
present the Grand Jury Prize.

Check out www.pervfilmfestival.org for the rest of the films program

Special Thanks to our Supporters Reactor Rubber and Slit Magazine

Today's (Random) Moment in History: I asked my laboratory assistant, who was informed of the self-experiment, to escort me home. We went by bicycle, no automobile being available because of wartime restrictions on their use. On the way home, my condition began to assume threatening forms. Everything in my field of vision wavered and was distorted as if seen in a curved mirror. I also had the sensation of being unable to move from the spot. Nevertheless, my assistant later told me that we had traveled very rapidly. Finally, we arrived at home safe and sound, and I was just barely capable of asking my companion to summon our family doctor and request milk from the neighbors.
— Dr. Albert Hofmann's recollection of "Bicycle Day" – the first deliberate use of LSD – on April 19, 1943


Thanks to Disinformation for this one.

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Audry and ****,

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Sad for him, but the good news is that I have a new child...***** **** ********. He is Palestinian and lives in the West Bank Gaza region.

I'm really impressed to be helping the Arabs this time while those bloodthirsty Israelis are bombing all the homes, schools, shops and medical centres

that these little kids need. Looks like someone got it right for a change!

AA February 2666

Cat: My spirit is being crushed within the machinery of industrial society

Mouse: Your failing is lack of hard work and diligence

Do you mistake us for sincere?

Translation:
We adorn ourselves thus to mock the capitalist sacrament of annual materials exchange…

N.T. sex worker takes on Bollywood!

Darwin, N.T., 19th February, 2009 –
Seranna, a local sex worker/activist/comedian turned movie producer, is jetting off to Delhi, India this week to start shooting her first film with award winning Indian filmmaker Vikrant Kishore.
The film is entitled Comparing Countries Compassion.
Her altar ego ‘Jessie Abraham’ plans to compare laws, culture, police corruption, and client condom usage to discover how these effect sex workers on a day to day level. Noting decriminalisation as a best practice for the sex industry, Seranna will interview sex workers, clients, HIV experts and sex work activists while attending an international conference.
What is Comparing Countries Compassion about?
1) Busting the myths surrounding sex work
2) A tour of the sex industry in various countries, comparing culture & politics
3) Jessie’s personal stories and experiences
4) Disseminating the message that sex work is real work, whilst being educational
5) The personal stories of individual sex workers, creating a realistic portrait of ‘the other’

Just five weeks ago it was decided the filming of the movie was to start in India, a choice made at random. It is a case of serendipity for Seranna— in India sex work is illegal. However, after many years of fighting stigma and discrimination, communities in India now consider sex work as an occupation. But there is still a long way to go, Seranna says,
‘In a country with a billion people, and government estimates that between to 25% Indians are living with HIV, I’ve never felt so proud to be an Australian sex worker: there’s never been a reported case of HIV transmission in a commercial setting in Australia.
‘Sex workers take pride in being safe sex experts. This movie will celebrate sex workers’ strength and achievements through interview, dance, and peer education. While we’re working alongside each other under state persecution, we’ve still managed to combat HIV/AIDS. I think that’s a big achievement, really.’

The unfunded project is fueled by Seranna’s passion and her desire to spread the word of condom use. ‘It’s important for everyone, all around the world, to have fair and equal access to condoms. Because informed people make educated decisions... If I can make even the slightest difference, I’ll be one happy hooker!’ Seranna gushes.

Donations are being welcomed to help fund the films production, which starts shooting on Tuesday the 24th February. The film will wrap on the day of the Festival of Colour, an event of great Hindu importance, in which locals splash rainbows of coloured paint into the streets.

For Further Media Information Contact :
Seranna Jane ALA Jessie Abraham
till 4pm Saturday 21st 0406748691 for more information
After 26th February + 8801731422010 ellemikah@hotmail.com

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