Saturday September 4, 2pm @ the International Bookshop, organised by Direct Action

The exhibition and seminar are part of a nation-wide commemoration of the anti-colonial struggle of the Vietnamese people, and the solidarity hundreds of thousands of people in Australia showed in opposing the war in Vietnam. Forty years on from the first anti-war moratorium in Australia, this is an opportunity to celebrate the Vietnamese struggle and re-live a movement that changed Australia and the world.

The seminar will include panel discussions on Vietnam's long struggle for liberation and the Australian campaign against the war in Vietnam. Guest speakers will include Harry Van Moorst, the Vice-Chairperson of the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign and involved in organising anti-war and draft resistance activities in Melbourne; John Percy, activist in the Sydney Vietnam Action Campaign and founding member of the socialist youth organisation, Resistance; Max Lane, writer and lecturer on Indonesian politics, history and literature and Southeast Asian affairs, most recent book Unfinished Nation: Indonesia before and after Suharto, Verso, 2008 and; John Tully, Lecturer and writer on Southeast Asian history, French Indochina and Cambodia. Recent work includes A Short History of Cambodia: from Empire to Survival, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2006.