- Jura Books
Jura Books is an
anarchist bookshop andinfoshop located inSydney ,Australia . The shop was named after theJura federation . It has operated since August1977 , first on King Street, Newtown, before moving to Petersham.Anarchist Resources Incorporated, a non-profit collective, manages the bookshop building, which also includes meeting space and an inherited library collection, The Fanya Baron Library, that was named in honour of Russian anarchist,
Fanya Baron .Australian Ethical Investment uses Jura Books as an example ofSocially responsible investing practice, stating that Jura is "a major source in Australia for a wide range of affordable books of community and educational interest including the areas of trade unionism, women’s rights, environment, permaculture, indigenous peoples’ issues, poetry, arts and non-violent revolution." [ [http://www.austethical.com.au/ethical_investment/ethical_company_profiles2/all_ethical_profiles/jura_books Ethical Investment profile of Jura Books] Accessed on 28 April 2007]Over the many years of operation Jura has built a collection of more than 4,500 Australian andinternational posters, believed to be one of the biggest and most complete collections of political posters known to exist in Australia. ["Old posters stick up for issues of the past" - Sydney Morning Herald 02/07/2003] . In 2003 a selection of over 100 political posters spanning from the 1960’s to the late 1980’s were on display at Jura Books. [ [http://www.arts.nsw.gov.au/WhatsNew/ArtsBulletin/2003/July%20bulletin.pdf NSW Government Arts Bulletin No 70, 2003] Accessed 28 April 2007]
Jura Books is also used for community meetings and talks. Members of the collective have been involved in organising several successful conferences in Sydney including on Workers Control, 1984 and Social Control, and the 1995 Visions of Freedom conference with guest speaker
Noam Chomsky ["Thousands turn out to hear US dissident" - Sydney Morning Herald 23/01/1995] .There is a second anarchist infoshop in Sydney called Black Rose Books.
References
External links
* [http://www.jura.org.au Jura Books]
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