At an opening of Barbara McGrady’s photographic exhibition at the Redfern Community Centre, Gary Foley said that one of her photos was worth thousands of pages written by historians like himself. At the same time, Gary noted that while there are many community photographers, Barbara’s photos were different because they…
When Radio Skid Row reporter, Em Couch went to interview Cathy Nisbit from Kogarah Community Services about her work, Cathy wasn’t sure if she considered herself an activist. ‘I just never thought of an activist as having painted nails and wearing lipstick,’ she said. Cathy is a part-time community worker…
The Cycle Re-cycle Club, sometimes known as the Nunnery Bike workshop, is a group of volunteers who spend their time fixing old bikes. Cycle Re-cycle accepts donations of old and broken bikes and then put the bits and pieces together. What we like best about them is that they give the fixed…
If you live in the inner west, chances are you have heard about the Greenway Project. What you probably didn’t know is that the project started with a handful of passionate people. Jug Agius was one of them. Friends of Greenway is a community group that started a campaign which…
When we started this project we spent a lot of time searching the Internet for people to interview. We were surprised, when we were looking for people to talk about online activism and its relationship with direct action, how hard it was to track down some of the key players.…
The Marrickville Peace Group is a collective of individuals of disparate political views who come together to foster activities in support of peace and in opposition to war as a means of settling international disputes. They meet in the back room of a Marrickville cafe once a month and Nick…
Paddy Gibson is an organiser with Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney (STICS) and has studied the impact on those in the ‘prescribed communities’. Since 2008 he has been a researcher for the UTS Jumbunna House of Learning. STIC is an open collective of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people committed to the repeal…
If you ever found yourself walking down the streets of Redfern in Sydney, you may have come across a well-known figure, Ray Jackson. He was pretty hard to miss as he always wore a hat covered in political badges – often with a matching vest. Definitely an old school activist,…