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A weekend of radical Eureka activities will culminate in Sedition Sunday! this Sunday. Diggers Camp starts Friday night in Eureka Park.
SEDITON SUNDAY! THIS...
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As we witness the passage of the rights and liberty-destroying anti-terror and IR legislation throught the parliament it is more important than ever that we draw on the lessons of the past and resist the onslaught of tyranny.
This coming weekend there will be a whole weekend of radical Eureka activities celebrating past resistance and encouraging new campaigns to emerge. If you would like to learn more or refresh your memory about the significance of the seminal events that transpired at Eureka (and that have been suppressed by the ruling class) see:
http://www.takver.com/history/eureka.htm
and
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/interventions/
Come for the day or come and camp over on Friday and Satuday nights (Dec 2nd and 3rd) at the Diggers Camp in Eureka Park in Ballarat (the site of the Eureka centre). Just off the main road coming into Ballarat.
Come and plot around the campfire. With a couple of dawn events happening, you will be right there and on time! Bring a tent. There are free gas BBQs available and facilities.
On the Saturday there will be a range of 'Reclaim the Radical Spirit of Eureka' activities and on Sunday there will be Sedition Sunday!
Ballarat is not that far out of town and it will be well-worth the effort to celebrate and feel the Eureka Spirit! This is a perfect opportunity to enjoy the company of and network with other likeminded activists and organise future actions.
It is time to honour the memory of the diggers who took a defiant stand for democracy and justice by fighting for our rights and liberties to-day.
More details below:
Eureka Sunday, Sedition Sunday
The 151st anniversary of the Eureka rebellion will be celebrated in Ballarat with the introduction of a new crowd participation event at the Eureka Memorial, Eureka Park, Ballarat, Victoria
from 11 am on Eureka Sunday 4 December 2005
Called Sedition Sunday! it aims to make the diggers' defence of rights and liberties in 1854 relevant to the times and the Howard government assault on civil liberties and the right to collective bargaining.
Billed as a speak out, Sedition Sunday! will be an opportunity for soap box oratory, song, comedy and the public airing of seditious sentiments.
The program will include a SENSATIONAL SEDITION COMPETITION and participants are being encouraged to be creative in their dissent and to wear a costume, bring a placard, make a speech, sing a song, to be passionate, funny and free!
The event is being produced by People for Civil Liberties and Graeme Dunstan of Peacebus.com. Graeme Dunstan is known to Ballarat people as the initiating lantern maker of the Eureka Dawn Lantern Walk.
"The diggers swore an oath to stand truly together and fight to defend rights and liberties," said Mr Dunstan. "At Sedition Sunday! we will be commemorating their courage in the face of the tyranny of Imperial Britain. We will gather in the Eureka Spirit and draw on their courage to denounce Government lies and to resist State terrorism in these times."
"Like the diggers before, the men and women who come to this event will be choosing to be visible and defiant in the face of government tyranny," he said. "And where better to do it than on the very ground of the diggers' defiance. May the blood sacrifice of Eureka never be forgot!"
Further information
Graeme Dunstan 0407 951 688
Marcus Neofitou 03 5348 3679
Celebrate and Reclaim Eureka
Sedition Sunday! is just one event of a program of artful commemoration events being coodinated by the City of Ballarat Eureka Centre. See the full Eureka Week 2005 program at http://www.eurekaballarat.com
Peacebus.com recommends the following particpatory events as the pick of the Eureka151 program
Saturday 3 December
from 4 am a Dawn Commemoration presented by Dr Joe Toscano as part of his Reclaim the Radical Spirit of the Eureka Rebellion beside the old stone memorial at the south end of Eureka Park. See http://www.anarchistmedia.org
10 am March to the Bakery Hill led by Dr Joe to affirm the EurekaOath,
10.30 am Presentation of Eureka Australia Day Medals by Dr Joe at Bakery Hill.
11.30 am Story telling walk to Old Ballarat Cemetery to pay graveside respect to those who died in the Eureka battle.
2 pm Diggers March, a story telling walk led by Professor John Moloney, author of Eureka!, the definitive history. It assembles at Bakery Hill and follows the route the diggers took when they marched to occupy the Eureka Lead and build the stockade.
Sunday 4 December
3.30 am Eureka Dawn Lantern Walk, assembles at Mining Exchange in Lydhardt St and follows soldiers route to Stockade arriving about 5.30 am.
6 am Eureka Prayer and Dawn Oration at the Eureka Memorial. Fr McInerny will lead the prayer and this year leading barrister, Brian Walters of Liberty Victoria, will be the orator. Followed by a sausage sauce and bread breakfast, gold coin donation.
11am Sedition Sunday A speak-out against the anti-terror and IR laws. A Sensational Sedition Competition. Networking and planning future events. Rebellion!
Camp over in Ballarat Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd
If you are coming from out of town, come and camp over night in the Diggers Camp at Eureka Park on Friday and Saturday 3 December. Plot around the campfire. Bring a tent. There are free gas BBQs and facilities.
The glorification of Gallipoli is militaristic bullshit. Let's reclaim Eureka as the people's celebration of real freedom and indepence!
Downloadable Sedition Sunday Flyer
Go here for a downloadable Sedition Sunday! pdf flyer (400Kb) @ http://www.peacebus.com/Eureka/051112SeditionFlyer.pdf
Rain here today an hours drive away. Wetter season so far this year than the last few
A weekend of radical Eureka activities will culminate in Sedition Sunday! this Sunday. Diggers Camp starts Friday night in Eureka Park.
SEDITON SUNDAY! THIS...
_macintosh_20hd_temporary_20items_nsmail40.jpgdizm1d.jpg, image/jpeg, 425x303
As we witness the passage of the rights and liberty-destroying anti-terror and IR legislation throught the parliament it is more important than ever that we draw on the lessons of the past and resist the onslaught of tyranny.
This coming weekend there will be a whole weekend of radical Eureka activities celebrating past resistance and encouraging new campaigns to emerge. If you would like to learn more or refresh your memory about the significance of the seminal events that transpired at Eureka (and that have been suppressed by the ruling class) see:
http://www.takver.com/history/eureka.htm
and
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/interventions/
Come for the day or come and camp over on Friday and Satuday nights (Dec 2nd and 3rd) at the Diggers Camp in Eureka Park in Ballarat (the site of the Eureka centre). Just off the main road coming into Ballarat.
Come and plot around the campfire. With a couple of dawn events happening, you will be right there and on time! Bring a tent. There are free gas BBQs available and facilities.
On the Saturday there will be a range of 'Reclaim the Radical Spirit of Eureka' activities and on Sunday there will be Sedition Sunday!
Ballarat is not that far out of town and it will be well-worth the effort to celebrate and feel the Eureka Spirit! This is a perfect opportunity to enjoy the company of and network with other likeminded activists and organise future actions.
It is time to honour the memory of the diggers who took a defiant stand for democracy and justice by fighting for our rights and liberties to-day.
More details below:
Eureka Sunday, Sedition Sunday
The 151st anniversary of the Eureka rebellion will be celebrated in Ballarat with the introduction of a new crowd participation event at the Eureka Memorial, Eureka Park, Ballarat, Victoria
from 11 am on Eureka Sunday 4 December 2005
Called Sedition Sunday! it aims to make the diggers' defence of rights and liberties in 1854 relevant to the times and the Howard government assault on civil liberties and the right to collective bargaining.
Billed as a speak out, Sedition Sunday! will be an opportunity for soap box oratory, song, comedy and the public airing of seditious sentiments.
The program will include a SENSATIONAL SEDITION COMPETITION and participants are being encouraged to be creative in their dissent and to wear a costume, bring a placard, make a speech, sing a song, to be passionate, funny and free!
The event is being produced by People for Civil Liberties and Graeme Dunstan of Peacebus.com. Graeme Dunstan is known to Ballarat people as the initiating lantern maker of the Eureka Dawn Lantern Walk.
"The diggers swore an oath to stand truly together and fight to defend rights and liberties," said Mr Dunstan. "At Sedition Sunday! we will be commemorating their courage in the face of the tyranny of Imperial Britain. We will gather in the Eureka Spirit and draw on their courage to denounce Government lies and to resist State terrorism in these times."
"Like the diggers before, the men and women who come to this event will be choosing to be visible and defiant in the face of government tyranny," he said. "And where better to do it than on the very ground of the diggers' defiance. May the blood sacrifice of Eureka never be forgot!"
Further information
Graeme Dunstan 0407 951 688
Marcus Neofitou 03 5348 3679
Celebrate and Reclaim Eureka
Sedition Sunday! is just one event of a program of artful commemoration events being coodinated by the City of Ballarat Eureka Centre. See the full Eureka Week 2005 program at http://www.eurekaballarat.com
Peacebus.com recommends the following particpatory events as the pick of the Eureka151 program
Saturday 3 December
from 4 am a Dawn Commemoration presented by Dr Joe Toscano as part of his Reclaim the Radical Spirit of the Eureka Rebellion beside the old stone memorial at the south end of Eureka Park. See http://www.anarchistmedia.org
10 am March to the Bakery Hill led by Dr Joe to affirm the EurekaOath,
10.30 am Presentation of Eureka Australia Day Medals by Dr Joe at Bakery Hill.
11.30 am Story telling walk to Old Ballarat Cemetery to pay graveside respect to those who died in the Eureka battle.
2 pm Diggers March, a story telling walk led by Professor John Moloney, author of Eureka!, the definitive history. It assembles at Bakery Hill and follows the route the diggers took when they marched to occupy the Eureka Lead and build the stockade.
Sunday 4 December
3.30 am Eureka Dawn Lantern Walk, assembles at Mining Exchange in Lydhardt St and follows soldiers route to Stockade arriving about 5.30 am.
6 am Eureka Prayer and Dawn Oration at the Eureka Memorial. Fr McInerny will lead the prayer and this year leading barrister, Brian Walters of Liberty Victoria, will be the orator. Followed by a sausage sauce and bread breakfast, gold coin donation.
11am Sedition Sunday A speak-out against the anti-terror and IR laws. A Sensational Sedition Competition. Networking and planning future events. Rebellion!
Camp over in Ballarat Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd
If you are coming from out of town, come and camp over night in the Diggers Camp at Eureka Park on Friday and Saturday 3 December. Plot around the campfire. Bring a tent. There are free gas BBQs and facilities.
The glorification of Gallipoli is militaristic bullshit. Let's reclaim Eureka as the people's celebration of real freedom and indepence!
Downloadable Sedition Sunday Flyer
Go here for a downloadable Sedition Sunday! pdf flyer (400Kb) @ http://www.peacebus.com/Eureka/051112SeditionFlyer.pdf
Rain here today an hours drive away. Wetter season so far this year than the last few
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