Our first fundraiser nets $600!
On Monday December 6 Australia/Iraq Trade Union Solidarity held a "Solidarity Rocks" night at the Greek Club in Lakemba. The 35 attendees included a 10-strong group from the Iraqi community. Lynn of AusIraq welcomed everyone. Jalal representing the Unemployed Workers Union of Iraq gave us some information about campaigns the
UUI is conducting at the moment.
Guests enjoyed a Greek buffet dinner followed by some terrific live jazz,organised by jazz musician and AusIraq activist Michael Morphett. Our thanks go to Michael on bass, keyboard player Kelvin Hewitson, drummer Mark Fagan and Michael Brown on Sax ....all of whom performed for free. If you see their names up on posters for gigs around town please go along and support these fine musicians.
Around $1000 was collected at the door. The reception room was free but we paid $15 per head for dinner. This left us with around $600 in the kitty which will be spilt 50:50 between the two main Iraqi trade union federations.
The transfer of this money will be via APHEDA, the ACTU's foreign aid body. I'm looking forward to meeting with everyone in the new year to plan more intersting and enjoyable fundraisers. And to flesh out our plan to send a fact finding delegation of Ausralian trade unioinists to Iraq. Our friends in the UUI indicated on the night that they're keen to seethis happen and have promised to give the delegation their full support and protection while in Iraq.
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