WAI MARCH 2009 is at the printers

The March issue of Wai is sitting at printers waiting to hit the streets. There’s articles from folks protecting the forests of Victoria and Tassie, of the campaigns against the Uranium industry expansions at Roxby Downs in South Australia and Angela Pamela just outside of Mpartnwe-Alice Springs. There’s also statements from the stop the Intervention convergence in Canberra, some reflections on working in top end aborignal communities, some poetry, some photos and a for the more practical amongst the readers some information about Guerilla Gardening and Grey Water Systems. Plus there’s the usual news, events, and campaign donation sections. The issue can be downloaded here: wai-march

Wai – second edition

We are seeking contributions for the second edition of Wai, a free
quarterly independent newspaper distributed across Australia.
Contributions can be articles, on anything from campaigns, collectives,
community projects, analysis of current issues, news items, events
updates; photos; art pieces; poetry; comics; food not bombs or
infoshop/community space listings (particularly in sydney, perth, brisbane
and non-capital cities/towns); books and websites to be included in a
resources section; listings for groups or campaigns seeking donations…
or whatever you want.

The final deadline for contributions for content of the paper is February
28, though the earlier the better to speed up the design process.

We are also looking for people who want to help with design, and
distribution in their area.

Wai costs $1600 to print 3000 copies of the 20 page paper. We are looking
at ways to raise this money so that the paper can be free. If you would
like to make a donation, or help us raise funds for the paper, please do!
Bank details are:

Bendigo Bank
BSB No: 633-000
Account Number: 135 225 514
Account Name: Wai Quarterly

To contact us, email waiquarterly@gmail.com

First edition out soon

The first edition of Wai will be out in a couple of weeks. If you would like to receive some copies to distribute, please email us at waiquarterly@gmail.com with your address and how many copies you would like. The paper is free!

Call Out for a Quarterly National Newspaper

CALL-OUT FOR A QUARTERLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER

We are looking for people to form a collective to produce a free quarterly creative political tabloid size newspaper. The newspaper’s primarily focus will be on local/national/regional, although articles from a wider part of the globe are more then welcome.

So far we have some very basic ideas and are looking for peoples interested in fleshing these out and making this publication happen.

For the paper in general our ideas are:

Design…

· 12 to 16 pages, A3 tabloid format, newspaper printed by an independent press company on recycled paper

Content…

· a couple of main feature articles and some smaller ones

· analysis of current issues

· historical information

· report backs from actions and convergences

· practical advice and information

· political philosophy/ideas about social change

· explorative articles on alternative ways of living, environmental practices, communities,

· campaign updates and news sections

· a calendar for each state

· comics

· Infoshop and Food Not Bombs locations/times/contacts

We are aiming to produce the first publication by the end of October so are calling for people who want to be involved in:

· Submissions of articles,

· photos,

· campaign updates,

· news,

· calendar items,

· comics,

· or whatever you like…

Deadline for submissions of articles and photos is October 1, but news/updates/calendar sections just in by mid-October.

Articles in the works for the first publication are:

· An analysis of the NT intervention, and its links to moving people off land for uranium mining and dumping of radioactive waste

· an article about the arms fair in Adelaide this November

Some other ideas we had, if people are interested in writing them, are:

· Lex Wotton’s trial

· water crisis and conservation, corporate water usage, mining water usage…

· world food crisis

· g8 japan, what is g8

· traditional owners’ declaration of sovereignty in Newcastle area

· sustainable farming practices, community gardens, guerrilla gardening…

We also looking at having updates on regular campaigns, so far our short brainstorm has come up with the following:

• tassie forests and the pulp mill
• g20 solidarity, and other prison solidarity
• east gippsland forests
• lake cowal
• nukes and uranium mining
• refugees
• world without
• coal action
• climate change action
• parkies vic
• rollback the intervention
• and whatever else anyone can think of

These ideas are inevitably narrow and we are looking for people to contribute things of as wide range of issues and styles. Poetry, Photography, Creative Non-fiction, Reflective pieces, Practical advice, any idea you’ve got email us and we’ll get talking about it.

Also if you are interested in Distroing and fundraising let us know. The paper will be printed at streamline press and cost between $800-1000 for 3000 papers. We need folks to mail the papers out for us and to write grants and attain uni funding.

We are also looking for people with in design skills as ultimately we want this paper to be designed collaboratively.

As this is a collective interstate project we’ve started an email list for discussion of the ideas mention above and all the other ones you have got.

To be added to the list, you can email waiquarterly@gmail.com

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