If you are reading this column, then Green Left Weekly has successfully completed its move to its new home in Sydney.
In the process, we have missed only a week of publication thanks to the volunteers who joined the ant army that carried all we needed down those flights of stairs in our old home, loaded the hire truck and emptied it into the new office — over and over again.
Our sparkling new premises is wheelchair friendly and accessible through a lift. So moving in was a lot easier than moving out — and the latter is far from over.
Over the decades we spent in the old Resistance centre at 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale, we accumulated a lot of stuff that we once used (or once thought we would use some day.) So now that we’ve moved there is still a big job to empty the old building and throw out or find suitable homes for all that is left.
Back in our old home are still some remnants from the time when newspaper layout was done on light tables, when paper galleys of typeset text was waxed and pasted onto pages.
What was once a dark room for developing photos is now a graveyard for bits and pieces of old computers that we kept alive well beyond their “use by” date by scavenging and patching up.
At the back of a shelf, a couple of cans of soup that are more fitting for an episode of The Collectors than anyone’s lunch were unearthed as well as boxes of stuff that could fit in that program’s “Mystery Item” section.
And amid the “collectables”, some real treasure: an unopened bottle of Cuban rum.
A big thank you to the supporters who sent in generous donations over the past two weeks to help us move. We received more than $2000. If you would like to make a contribution to the move or our project, please make a donation this week to the Green Left Weekly Fighting fund.
Donate online today. Or direct deposits can be made to Greenleft, Commonwealth Bank, BSB 062-006, Account No. 00901992.
Otherwise, you can send a cheque or money order to PO Box 515, Broadway NSW 2007 or phone in a donation through on the toll-free line at 1800 634 206 (within Australia).
And finally, if you are in Sydney then, please come along to the grand opening of the new Resistance Centre on July 16, from 4pm at 22-36 Mountain St, Ultimo. It is a block from the Broadway shopping centre and less than 10 minutes walk from Central Station.