Trade Unions and Women: Rights through Organizing

| November 30, 2012 | Comments (0)

منذ أكثر من قرن، بدأ العمال في جميع أنحاء العالم بتنطيم أنفسهم في نقابات عمالية من أجل تشكيل قوة تواجه أصحاب العمل وللمحاولة على الحصول على حصة أكبر من الأرباح وثمار الانتاج. نجح العمال من خلال نقاباتهم في الحصول على الكثير من الحقوق التي تؤخذ اليوم كأمر مسلم به مثل الضمان الاجتماعي، والتقاعد، و8 ساعات [...]

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Screening of Machuca

| November 25, 2012 | Comments (0)
Screening of Machuca

Film nights are back! We will be screening Machuca, this coming Wednesday at 6:30 PM at Nasawiya Cafe in Mar Mkhayel, first right after Pub Chaplin. Description: Machuca is a 2004 Chilean film written and directed by Andrés Wood. Set in 1973 Santiago during Salvador Allende’s socialist government and shortly before General Augusto Pinochet’s military [...]

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Urgent Call for Donations for Refugees and Families in Distress

| November 23, 2012 | Comments (2)

*Copied from Amar*   There is a Syrian Refugee Camp up in Ersal (apprx. 3h30m away from Beirut) where people are freezing as winter creeps up on us.   So in the next week, when you are taking down your winter clothes please put all the clothes you are not using aside and bring them [...]

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Act for the Disappeared- This Saturday

| November 14, 2012 | Comments (0)
Act for the Disappeared- This Saturday

ACT for the Disappeared, the Committee of the parents of the disappeared and kidnapped in Lebanon and SOLIDE call on all citizens to gather on November 17, at 1:30pm at Mathaf, to demand and defend our right to know the fate of the missing and disappeared. Fb event تدعو جمعية “لنعمل من أجل المفقودين” و”لجنة [...]

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Online protest in solidarity with “the Uprising of Women in the Arab World” & its administrators

| November 9, 2012 | Comments (0)
Online protest in solidarity with “the Uprising of Women in the Arab World” & its administrators

Fb event اليوم نرسل رسائل إحتجاج إلى فيسبوك بسبب ما يلي: Today we are sending messages to Facebook protesting the following <<<<<English below>>>>> يرجى مراجعة قائمة الصفحات التي انضمت الى الاحتجاج أدناه ، و الرجاء ترك لنا تعليق إذا كانت صفحتكن/مجموعتكن ترغب الانضمام ماذا يمكن ان تفعل 1-انشر الاخبار ، وجه الدعوة لاصدقائك ، انضم [...]

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دعوة الى اعتصام تضامني مع عاملات وعمال سبينيس‎

| November 8, 2012 | Comments (0)

 حضرة الزميلات والزملاء الكرام رفضاً لما يتعرض له أعضاء الهيئة التأسيسية لنـقابة الـعاملين في «سبينيس – لبنان» من صرف تعسفي، وتهـديد وضغـط. وخاصـة ما تعـرض له مؤخراً أمين سر النقابة مخيبر حبشي من ضـرب مبرح على يد عدد من «البلطجية»، وذلك بهدف ثنيـه عن عملـه النقابي ، ولخلق مناخ من الخوف والترهيب للعمال والعاملات في [...]

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The Migrant Communities’ Handicrafts Market

| October 6, 2012 | Comments (0)
The Migrant Communities’ Handicrafts Market

Join us on Sunday October 7th for the first ever Migrant Communities’ Handicrafts Market! There will be beautiful handmade crafts, paintings, coffee, food and other great items on sale! Ten Asian and African communities will have stands full of goodies for you to choose from! 5 to 9 PM. Get your friends and loved ones [...]

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Women’s Right to Abortion in Lebanon

| September 28, 2012 | Comments (2)
Women’s Right to Abortion in Lebanon

On the occasion of the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion, we publish this position paper on abortion rights in Lebanon. The Arabic translation will be available on Monday, October 1. Every woman has the right to life, bodily integrity, the highest level of reproductive health, privacy, self-determination, dignity, personal [...]

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Save the Earth: Live Tribal, Ambient, Psychedelic Beats

| September 19, 2012 | Comments (0)
Save the Earth: Live Tribal, Ambient, Psychedelic Beats

More on the facebook event.

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Trivia Night

| September 17, 2012 | Comments (0)

6 Categories, 5 questions each, so 30 questions in total. You can only participate in teams, minimum of 2 and maximum of 4. There’s a very interesting prize package for the winning team. Come along, sign up your team and have as much beer and drinks as you can. All the returns of course, will [...]

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