Jura Books
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Jura Books is an anarchist bookshop and infoshop
located in Sydney
, Australia
. The shop was named after the Jura federation
. It has operated since August 1977, 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 of Socially 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."
Over the many years of operation Jura has built a collection of more than 4,500 Australian and
international posters, believed to be one of the biggest and most complete collections of political posters known to exist in Australia.. 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.
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
.
There is another anarchist bookshop/infoshop in Sydney called Black Rose Books http://www.blackrosebooks.org/. Both are on comradely terms with each other, putting on Sydney's first Anarchist film festival together in June, 2009.
Infoshop
An infoshop is a storefront or social center that serves as a node for the distribution of political information, typically in the form of books, zines, stickers and posters. Infoshops often serve as a meeting space and resource hub for local activist groups....
located in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. The shop was named after the Jura federation
Jura federation
The Jura Federation was the federalist and anarchist section of the International Workingmen's Association , based largely among watch-makers in the Jura mountain range in Switzerland. The Jura federation was founded on October 9, 1870 at a meeting in Saint-Imier of local sections of the IWA...
. It has operated since August 1977, 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
Fanya Baron
Fanya Anisimovna Baron was a Russian anarchist revolutionary who is rumoured to have assassinated the head of the Okhrana . She lived in America from 1915 to 1917 when she returned to her homeland to build a post-revolutionary society...
.
Australian Ethical Investment
Australian Ethical Investment
Australian Ethical Investment Limited is an Australian owned company established in 1986 for the purpose of environmental and socially responsible investing...
uses Jura Books as an example of Socially responsible investing
Socially responsible investing
Socially responsible investing , also known as sustainable, socially conscious, or ethical investing, describes an investment strategy which seeks to consider both financial return and social good....
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."
Over the many years of operation Jura has built a collection of more than 4,500 Australian and
international posters, believed to be one of the biggest and most complete collections of political posters known to exist in Australia.. 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.
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
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...
.
There is another anarchist bookshop/infoshop in Sydney called Black Rose Books http://www.blackrosebooks.org/. Both are on comradely terms with each other, putting on Sydney's first Anarchist film festival together in June, 2009.