From the Advance Notice department

1. Monday, June 20, World Refugee Day. There does­n’t appear to be any­thing planned in Mel­bourne that i can see. Anyone know anything?

2. Tues­day, June 21, 4.45pm East­ern time: Winter Sol­stice. Prom­ised nigelw I would work this out. Earlier than I thought. Any plans?

3. Thursday 30th June, 10am: Protest against new Indus­trial Rela­tions Laws.
Tear­ing Up Work Laws Will Hurt You and Your Family
Stop Work & Rally 

Trades Hall Lygon Street Carlton
Fair for all, not a free for all. 

Bring a sense of humour, songs, poetry, cos­tumes, pup­pets, for it shall be a fest­ival of the oppressed and it is your duty to not know your place ! Warn­ing some speak­ers may be tedi­ous so talk to the person next to you. [more info]

I’d like to get a gang together for this. I’d like to do some­thing more cre­at­ive than usual. Let’s get together and organ­ise some­thing. I’m spe­cific­ally inter­ested in talk­ing about/highlighting this issue of pre­cari­ous work. Maybe we can build a papier mache St Pre­cari­ous like the Itali­ans did, or hand out fake Centrelink forms or some­thing entirely dif­fer­ent. Come on, I know lots of you are shift­work­ers and temp work­ers: this is your life. Who’s inter­ested? When is a good time for a get together for you?