{"id":29546,"date":"2012-03-15T14:45:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T04:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=29546"},"modified":"2012-03-18T16:48:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T06:48:15","slug":"anarchists-against-the-wall-speaking-tour-and-moar-march-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=29546","title":{"rendered":"Anarchists Against the Wall Speaking Tour (And Moar), March 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beginning Friday, March 16, a member* of the Israeli group ‘Anarchists Against the Wall’<\/a> will be speaking at various events around Melbourne. (Barricade hosted another speaker back in April 2009<\/a>.) NB. Details of some events are TBC.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Friday, March 16<\/em>
\n7pm, Melbourne Anarchist Club<\/a> (62 St Georges Rd, Northcote)
\n\u2022 Tuesday, March 20<\/em>
\nMonash University
\n\u2022 Wednesday, March 21<\/em>
\nVictoria University
\nUniversity of Melbourne (Union Building)
\n\u2022 Thursday, March 22<\/em>
\n1pm, Latrobe University (Agora Cinema)<\/p>\n

…And Moar<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the Department of “Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools” (“Der Antisemitismus ist der Sozialismus der dummen Kerle”<\/em>)<\/strong> comes news of another tour (of the United States) by Gilad Atzmon. Some folks aren’t all that happy about his tour or his work — especially the support given him by left or progressive organisations — and have issued a statement about it: Not Quite “Ordinary Human Beings”\u2014Anti-imperialism and the anti-humanist rhetoric of Gilad Atzmon<\/em> (March 13, 2012). You can read it here<\/a>. Another statement — Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon<\/a> (March 13, 2012) — has been issued by a mob called the US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN).<\/p>\n

Closer to home, I’m aware of only a handful of Australians to have attached their names to the former statement. Otherwise, in July 2010, Michael Brull complained<\/a> about ‘Australians for Palestine’ re-publishing some of Atzmon’s work — the latest such activity occurring in May 2011. (AFP published an editorial statement<\/a> responding to such criticisms in July 2010.) In the UK, Atzmon’s work has been supported by the SWP, tho’ it seems to have distanced itself in recent times<\/a>, presumably on account of his batshit.<\/p>\n

Here’s a song (or three):<\/p>\n