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In this month’s Mutiny Zine: We see JuraVision and hear songs of the future! Comrades see deep inequality in Manila We have a call to action against the Asia Pacific Defence & Security Exhibition in Adelaide We hear news of the FAB bookfair with reportbacks from around Europe. and reviews of Baby Machine and a zine with no name! utiny began as a group exploring different ways to resist war at home & abroad. We started a monthly zine to explore different avenues of Mdisobedience. We know there are lots of radical ideas around & we want people to write about their experiences & opinions. The Mutiny collective is Aof zine with nothings obvious title meeting regularly again: we’re looking at Australian imperialism & avenues of ReviewsBaby Machine zine author: [email protected] resistance in the Pacific & the region. Contact us if you’re interested. 2 gigs and Birth is Imminent album This is a sweet little zine, a ‘my first arrest zine’. (The mutiny zine collective does not necessarily agree with all the opinions of contributors. I’ve only seen Baby Machine at two gigs – once It’s the story of the author’s arrest as part of a Contributors do not necessarily agree with all the opinions of the mutiny collective. The mutiny in Wollongong and more recently at Maggotville group who walked onto, and refused to leave, collective doesn’t agree with all the opinions of the mutiny collective.) and the overwhelming feeling I’m left with after the construction site of the new coal loader in obsessively listening to their album the last few Newcastle. weeks is that rockin’ out to Baby Machine is There’s a good line in this zine about how c/- po box 4, enmore, nsw, 2042, australia just sooo fucking good; whether at a party, in a talking about being arrested is a bit like telling bedroom or at a gig. The fat bass guitar drives mutineers@graffiti.net people you’ve got a new partner – you want to the songs with relentless force and guitar riffs share the experience with people, but worry that Back issues of Mutiny will soon be back online via jura.org.au just make you want to rock out and the vocals it’s a bit like bragging. The zine is written in a scream lyrics that are worth rockin’ out to. way that normalises and humanises protesters Editors for this month: Graf Cat, Maximum Solidarity, Dumpstered Twin, Did I mention that they make you wanna for people outside activist circles. It’s written Princess Mob, Potatoes. rock out? Cos rockin’ out to Baby Machine is for people like the author’s extended family and completely awesome. I recommended Baby friends, some of whom would previously be Front cover picture by Rini Templeton: see www.riniart.org. Machine to a guy at a party and he was all like likely to dismiss protesting hippies on the TV Pictures this page & back cover thanks to Agent Conspire. “oh their a bunch of man haters” and I went news, in the hope that a the personal connection on a rant about how that’s a stupid feminist will bring them to reassess the issue people Extra thanks to SweeteTooth. stereotype and now I think that if they made him protested about and the process of social change. feel insecure maybe that was proof that they The politics of the action are explained simply are fucking with gender roles enough to make and concisely, and there’s a sense of hope: a Mutiny zine #27 conservative people a bit scared. And I think feeling that this action is connected to others June 2008. that’s rad and makes me want to rock out to in a broad movement, a long history. It’s nicely Baby Machine even more. illustrated too, with photos of the action and The album starts with coal infrastructure. the awesomelicious The best thing about this zine, like all good song Eat More zines, is that it’s written with honesty from the challenging the author’s individual experience – it’s a snippet pervasive image of how someone else sees their life. One thing the media put out I would have liked to see was a more explicit that women have acknowledgement that this author’s process of to, or should be, all arrest and sentencing – choosing to get arrested skinny and pretty in a civil disobedience, pleading guilty and or whatever. And the album just keeps going getting community service – is a very particular on and on with one revolutionary song after experience. Not because other events are ranked another. Songs like Let’s Go about yearning for on some hierarchy of (activist) hardcoreness, revolution and Fuckin’ Hate It with lyrics that but because every encounter with the criminal just float around in my head and I find myself justice system brings structures of privilege into screaming them up the street when I’m mad cos’ play which need to be recognised. of work. The lyrics are about stuff I care about Overall, I liked this zine: while the pride the and see and feel in everyday life. There are no writer feels in their actions is clear, they walk dud songs. No songs not worth rockin’ out to. the line between sharing and bragging pretty So listen to Baby Machine and rock out. well, and there’s a muted but genuine current of Fuck yeah. optimism in the story they tell. Review by Max Solidarity Review by Princess Mob including migration, political prisoners, privatisation, anti-terror laws, & workers’ struggles. � � � � � � � � � � Melbourne: G20 trials fears of rollout into other states were They create broader assemblies or participate in important actions that already exist, A trial date was finally set for the ongoing expressed by South Australian Aboriginal for example, AK groups are very active in the broad coalition No Borders Patras, who cases from the protests against the G20 in leader Brian Butler and Barbara Shaw, and are organising a No Borders camp on 28th August 2008. On the weekend of 24th & November 2006. There will be a number Harry Jackamarra Nelson (an elder from 25th May, members of AK Salonica & others travelled to the refugee camp in Patras of separate trials about different incidents: Yeundemu) detailed how the intervention is to re-connected the water supply after the municipality cut the water in an attempt to the first charges relating to the street affecting their community. demolish the camp in January this year. demonstrations will begin on June 30 next Barbara Shaw from Yeundemu says that year, while the charges related to office AK have been involved in student struggles against changes to the Greek constitution. “the intervention is yet another example of occupations will probably be heard before These changes will enable private Universities to operate. AK’s contribution to the Aboriginal people not being listened to and that. student strikes has been to support the formation of non-hierarchical student groups who once again our rights to self-determination make collective decisions via direct democracy. AK has more recently been involved in Akin Sari has been granted leave to appeal are being taken away”. Among the main the new wave of education strikes regarding working conditions for teachers. the 28-month prison sentence he’s currently objectives of the ongoing campaign are to Ukraine serving, & funds are urgently needed for the project Aboriginal peoples voices from the legal costs of this appeal. NT, and to break the silence in the media No delegates from Ukraine groups were present, however a Canadian delegate living with voices of people whose daily reality is in Serbia showed a film she had made. Donations can be made to the Ongoing G20 this racist intervention. Solidarity Network: The film demonstrated that 90 – 100 per cent of migrants who come to Ukraine illegally On the National Day of Action June 21, at are refugees. They pay hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars to the Russian mafia Melbourne University Credit 11am we will rally at the Block, Redfern and to take them to the border of Ukraine. The mafia simply leave them at the border & they Union Limited march on Sydney demanding a withdrawal often end up in one of Ukraine’s eight immigration detention centres. In 2007, well over Account name: of all Intervention legislation. 3000 people were detained while trying to cross into Ukraine. G20 Arrestee Solidarity Network cuscau2sxxx (only if transferring from For more information: aboriginalrightscoali The sole purpose of the book fair was to share information between groups. There was overseas) tion.wordpress.com no attempt to create a formal publishing network or regional anarchist federation & BSB: 803-143 there were no resolutions passed or commitments to any higher degree of activity. This A/C number: 13291 (all transfers) Tasmania: Enviro news could be considered a wasted opportunity as these groups rarely have the opportunity For more information: www.afterg20.org A Tasmanian man let off a flare in the foyer to travel so far. It is clear that there is a need for greater solidarity between Balkans of Launceston’s Public Building as a World anarchist groups in order for these groups to develop. Perhaps the creation of a formal Sydney: Aboriginal Rights Coalition Environment Day protest against forestry network would be one way to achieve this. At this point in time, the small & varied National Conference burn-offs, which have aggravated his asthma groups do not share a common politics & to some extent they are stuck in ideological From the 23rd to the 25th of May the national to the extent to which he has repeatedly been discussions between themselves, while social issues such as migration need urgent campaign against the Intervention in the hospitalised.