Educate, Organise, Mobilise

The COSATU 9th National Congress is the political event of 2006. It is already an example of democracy in action. COSATU’s pre-Congress document on “Fundamental Change” is being discussed in structures all around the country. The 9th Congress programme linked below is taken from COSATU’s web site. The proposal for a consumer boycott against the Israeli colonialists is arising more or less spontaneously in many different places. Linked below is an invitation to an education workshop to be run by the Anti-Racism Education Forum this coming Saturday in Durban, which is also a planning workshop for this consumer boycott. Gilad Atzmon was born in Israel but lives in London. He is proud of being a jazz saxophonist. Let’s hope his playing is as good as his writing, which is in the tradition of the great Jonathan Swift. Click on these links: COSATU 9th National Congress Programme, 18-21 September 2006 (418 words) AREF boycott campaign planning, IPCI, Durban, 09h30 Sat 12 Aug (909 words) Operation Security Roof, Gilad Atzmon, Counterpunch (912 words)