A special campaign event featuring Jerome Small – lead Victorian Socialists candidate for the upper house in the northern metro region – in conversation with Safe Schools founder and VS candidate for Richmond Roz Ward.
Help us launch our campaign to elect socialist, union organiser and long-term environmental and anti-racist campaigner Jerome Small to Victoria's upper house. Compere for the evening will be Roz Ward - Safe Schools founder and VS candidate for Richmond - who will introduce Jerome in a conversational journey through his three decade long history as an activist and fighter for a better world.
Jerome has been on the front lines struggle for decades, helping ordinary people stand up and fight back.
From high school walkouts against the nuclear arms race, to civil disobedience with the climate movement. From picketing the South African embassy in the Apartheid years, to organising blockades of mining companies in solidarity with the Mirrar Aboriginal people in the successful fight to stop the Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory.
From pickets with the radical Builders Labourers’ Federation in the 1980s, to helping workers in aged care, warehouses, call centres and other workplaces in battles over pay, dignity and job security.
As well as introducing Jerome, the discussion will uncover a hidden history of activism in Melbourne that shows in practice the difference a socialist political movement can make.
Entry: $10 unwaged, $20 waged, $50 solidarity
Sunday, 11 September
5:00 pm
Thornbury Bowls Club, 27 Ballantyne St, Thornbury