R2K campaign announces Freedom Week activities
Mark Weinberg @ AIDC
See below. Please circulate widely. Facebook event is here, if you'd like to invite comrades: http://www.facebook.com/events/190756057712138/
R2K campaign announces Freedom Week activities
24 April 2012
The Right2Know campaign is hosting a series of events to mark South African "Freedom Week" – 27 April (Freedom Day), 1 May (Worker’s Day) and 3 May (World Press Freedom Day) – in recognition and celebration of the struggles and victories that all citizens, workers and journalists have fought for, to secure our collective 'freedom'. (See list of events below)
Over the past 20 months, opposition to the Secrecy Bill has united ordinary people from across all manner of struggles, across geographical distance and across South Africa’s segregated landscape of race, class, and language. We are joined in a common struggle to defend and advance the ‘right to know’ for all, a right that is essential to the enjoyment of our freedom.
As the Right2Know, we seek a country and a world where we all have the right to know – that is to be free to access and to share information. This right is fundamental to any democracy that is open, accountable, participatory and responsive; able to deliver the social, economic and environmental justice we need. On this foundation a society and an international community can be built in which we all live free from want, in equality and in dignity.
In Parliament, the Secrecy Bill has been the subject of delays, diversions, and disciplinary actions. Despite a number of crucial victories in 2011 to amend the Bill, the outstanding concerns around the scope, concentration of powers and harshness of penalties will continue to galvanise civil society opposition to the Bill (see attached pamphlet summarising our outstanding concerns). There is a great deal of work to do as the NCOP seeks to finalise the Bill by 17 May 2012, in less than four weeks.
Recognising that the Secrecy Bill and more recently the Spy Bill are symptoms and symbols of much broader and longer-term threats to our right to know and freedom of expression, this is a campaign that goes beyond any single piece of legislation. The rights to access and share information, to speak up and to shout out, have always been and will always remain central to all struggles for justice, freedom and equality.
We call on all corners of society to mark 27 April (Freedom Day), 1 May (Worker’s Day) and 3 May (World Press Freedom Day), as opportunities to recognise and celebrate hard-fought battles and hard-won victories in the struggle to realise these rights, and to reflect on the challenges that lie ahead.
For comment please contact:
R2K National coordinator Murray
Hunter: 072 672 5468
R2K Gauteng Dale
McKinley: 072 429 4086
R2K Western Cape Nkwame
Cedile: 078 227 6008
R2K KZN Desmond
D’Sa: 083 982 6939
R2K Eastern Cape Thembani
Zion Onceya: 078 843 7489
Gauteng
|
DATE |
TIME |
EVENT |
VENUE |
CONTACT |
|
Fri 27 April |
9am-3.30pm |
“Speak out on Secrecy” – public meeting in Kliptown |
Soweto Kliptown Youth, 29 Station Rd Kliptown |
Bongani 071043221 |
KwaZulu-Natal
|
DATE |
TIME |
EVENT |
VENUE |
CONTACT |
|
Friday 27 April |
9am-12pm |
“UnFreedom Day March” – joint march to City Hall |
Starts at Botha/King Dinuzulu Gardens, Durban |
Des 083 982 6939 |
|
Thurs 3 May |
12.30pm-2pm |
“Fighting for the Right2Know” – public seminar |
Centre for Civil Society, MT Building, UKZN |
Percy 083 472 2873 |
|
Thurs 3 May |
12pm-1pm |
Roundtable discussion on Media Freedom |
Arthur Smith Hall, DUT City Campus |
Nosipho 072 541 8282 |
|
Fri 4 May |
6.30pm |
R2K KZN benefit dinner (booking is essential) |
NJM Islamic Centre, Hendry Road, Overport |
Eric 082 924 9822 |
Western Cape
|
DATE |
TIME |
EVENT |
VENUE |
CONTACT |
|
Fri 27 April |
11am- 2pm |
“Speak out on Secrecy” – public meeting in Langa |
Ikwezi Hostel, Langa |
Nkwame 078 227 6008 |
|
Sat 28 April |
12-2pm |
“Housing & Secrecy” – public meeting in Khayelitsha |
Andile Nhosa School Hall, Mandela Park |
Khaya 078 024 1683 |
|
Sun 29 April |
10am |
Right2Know Church Service |
Central Methodist Church, Greenmarket Square |
Alan 083 654 8568 |
Freedom Week Film Fest
|
DATE |
TIME |
FILM |
VENUE |
CONTACT |
|
Fri 27 April |
4pm |
“Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony” |
Labia Theatre |
Vinayak 079 165 8873 |
|
Sat 28 April |
12pm |
“Flow: For the Love of Water” |
Andile Nhosa School Hall, Mandela Park |
Khaya 078 024 1683 |
|
Mon 30 April |
6pm |
“Site-seeing” (documentary on Chappies Toll Saga) & “Battle for Hangberg” |
Hout Bay, venue tbc |
Bronwen 082 318 3308 |
|
Tues 1 May |
11am |
“The Trouble with Truth” |
COSATU Rally, Good Hope Centre |
Mark 0741036704 |
|
Tues 1 May |
4pm |
“The Imam & I” |
Labia Theatre |
Vinayak 079 165 8873 |
|
Wed 2 May |
6pm |
“The Battle of Hangberg” (followed by discussion with the filmmaker) |
Mannenberg People’s Centre |
Rugchanda 083 769 1296 |
|
Wed 2 May |
7pm |
Wikileaks, Wikirebels” |
Rooftop Cinema, Penthouse, Long St |
Murray 072 672 5468 |
|
Thurs 3 May |
6pm |
“The Most Dangerous Man in America” (discussion with Ivor Powell, investigative journalist) |
Labia Theatre |
Vinayak 079 165 8873 |
Murray Hunter
National Coordinator
Right2Know Campaign
www.r2k.org.za
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "R2K_working_groups" group.
If you received this email and are not active in a www.r2k.org.za working group please altert ma...@aidc.org.za.
To post to this group, send email to r2k_worki...@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
r2k_working_gro...@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.co.za/group/r2k_working_groups?hl=en
Mark Weinberg
t 0214475770
c 0741036704
www.amandla.org.za
www.r2k.org.za
www.communitymedia.org.za
www.capetowntv.org
www.aidc.org.za
www.siyathanda.org.za