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SRC COLLECTIVES

The SRC collectives are groups of students mobilising around distinct issues or identities, and are our main branch of activism. joining one (or a few) is a fantastic way to get involved in activism at USyd, meet like-minded people, and learn more about issues you care about.

Queer Action Collective (QuAc)

The USyd Queer Action Collective is an autonomous activist group that organises around the rights of queer people, both on and off campus. We prioritise intersectional analysis in this collective, recognising that other axes of oppression (e.g. race, gender, capacity) indelibly impact people’s experience of queerness. We are engaged in the ongoing process of decolonising activism and working with several queer community organisations to uplift queer people in all settings.

Queer people often must rely on chosen communities for both material and emotional support; in the isolation of 2020, we were especially vulnerable to alienation and economic insecurity. Amidst this crisis, 2020 saw further attacks on the rights of trans and gender diverse people by governments at all levels. In 2021, we renew our commitment to queer solidarity and to uncompromising campaigns against all attacks on our lives and rights. We appreciate that a strategy for queer liberation includes not only winning legal protections but in material solidarity with the most vulnerable members of the queer community.

Get in touch with us through our Facebook at USyd Queer Action Collective (@ USydQueer) to see what campaigns are upcoming and join our private organising group. Feel free to email us at queer. officers@src.usyd.edu.au if you have questions! During semester, we hold meetings in the QueerSpace (Level 1, Manning House) where all queer students can attend - just look out for meeting times in the Facebook group! Autonomous Collective Against Racism (ACAR)

The Autonomous Collective Against Racism (ACAR) is an autonomous collective that organises activism and education against racism, colonialism, imperialism and all other forms of oppression that impact people of colour. In 2021, we seek to centre the voices and concerns of Indigenous communities whilst working on more cross-collective mobilising and engaging with international solidarity actions from a student perspective.

As an autonomous collective, we are only open to students who identify as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, who come from a minority ethnocultural background, or who are marked or marginalised by white supremacy. However, we actively encourage white people and those who benefit from white supremacy to attend or help out with the various events that we’ll run throughout the year.

If you have any questions or would like to get involved and join our private group to keep updated, you can find us at Welcome Week Stalls or contact us online via:

Facebook & Instagram: @USydACAR Twitter: @ACARUSyd Email: ethnocultural.officers@src.usyd. edu.au

Young Workers Collective (YWC)

Young Workers Collective is a radical, anti-capitalist collective of workers and students that organises against wage theft, workplace abuse and any entity that seeks to restrict the wellbeing, rights and autonomy of workers. We fight for workers ownership of the means of production, true democracy and the abolition of commodity production and the bourgeois class.

Facebook Page: @UsydYWC Education Action Group (EAG)

The Education Action Group (EAG) is an activist collective on campus that is committed to organising protests and other activist actions in defence of students rights and other social justice issues. Last year the EAG organised around 15 actions that mobilised hundreds of students. These were primarily in defence of the massive attacks to our education; fee increases, course and staff cuts, and restructures. Although these cuts were sparked by the COVID crisis, they were also cuts that universities had been planning previously. At Sydney Uni, this was proven when the year ended with a surplus and drop in enrolments for Semester 2.

We plan on continuing these protests. It seems highly likely that the university will continue cutting courses, and mobilising around these cuts is vital. This year is also an EBA (Enterprise Bargaining Agreement) year, which means that the staff here have the opportunity to go on strike and negotiate an agreement with better pay and conditions. Staff and student solidarity is essential for both parties, so the EAG will put resources into mobilising students to support and stand with staff to our full capacity.

Lastly, we believe that students care and can be mobilised around other social justice issues as well. Not only do students face a future with a deteriorated education system, we also face an impending climate catastrophe and economic crisis. As an activist group, we want to mobilise around these issues as well, not to mention other issues of injustice and oppression. 2020 marked a decided shift in global and Australian capitalism. Although it is hard to predict where 2021 will take us, we can be sure that the ruling class will try to stymie our rights and living standards, and that the only way to defend these things is through mobilising on the streets.

Facebook Page: Sydney University Education Action Group Facebook Group: Sydney University Education Action Group (EAG) - Organising

The Women’s Collective is a horizontal autonomous organising space for radically left-wing feminist activism. WoCo has organised at the University of Sydney for over 50 years, primarily focusing on activism against sexual violence on and off campus, and for abortion access and reproductive justice. We fight to free all who suffer under patriarchy.

WoCo does not settle for neoliberal or reformist incremental reforms, but fights for true liberation from patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism. Above all, we recognise the stolen land on which we meet, and recognise that there is no feminist justice without Indigenous justice and decolonisation of the carceral, settler state.

The Women’s Collective meets weekly to discuss the current landscape of feminist issues, and to strategise and organise our activism accordingly. We host many rallies and organising events, as well as community education events such as panels, reading groups, and open discussions. We also have our own Welcome Week publication called Growing Strong.

Please don’t hesitate to get involved. Our main point of contact is our closed Facebook group, just answer a few short questions first!

Facebook: facebook.com/usydwoco Instagram: @usydwoco Twitter: @usydwoco

Disabilities Collective (DisCo)

The Disabilities Collective is a radical autonomous collective for disabled students at the University of Sydney. We hold social events, publish an edition of the student newspaper each year, and engage in protest and activism in conjunction with broader community groups, such as the Disabled and Neurodiverse Workers Alliance (DNWA).

If you would like to get involved in the collective, our activism and our social events, please get in touch! You can message the Facebook page (@USYDdis) or or email us at disabilities.officers@src. usyd.edu.au to contact the 2021 OBs Margot and Sarah to be added to our mailing list or secret Facebook group. The Welfare Action Group is an organising space around student rights on and off campus. The government and university don’t meet many students’ basic food, housing and health needs, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds or those unable to find work. We aim to highlight and address these problems and fight for equity and against discrimination.

Some issues which we plan to mobilise around in 2021 are: safe and affordable housing for all students, protecting workers rights, safety on campus, adequate provision of student services, solidarity with First Nations people and ending the exploitation of international students.

We will hold fortnightly meetings, contingents to protests and educational events throughout the year. The Welfare Action group is non-autonomous and open to all.

Join the Facebook page and group: USyd Welfare Action Group

International Student Collective (ISC)

The International Student Collective works side-by-side with other student bodies to provide support and advocacy for all international students, serving to make the campus a more egalitarian place.

Due to the current pandemic, most international students are still barred from entering Australia this semester, yet several webinars and networking events will still be held regularly by International Student Collective, with an aim to assist students with making connections with their peers. In addition, concerning the increasing tuition fee for international students, we will endeavour to negotiate for more financial aid this year.

Email international.officers@src.usyd.edu. au for any concerns in your university life and join our Facebook group for more information (International Students Collective USYD). The Environment collective is the USyd branch of ASEN (Australian Student Environment Network): a space for USyd students to have a voice on environmental issues on and off-campus, work together to build community and facilitate environmental activism. We are anti-hierarchical, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist, and we stand together in solidarity with Indigenous communities and workers.

We aim to expose the ties between the university and fossil fuel industry who still invests millions in coal, gas and oil, showing that the very institution which claims to be preparing us for the future is complicit in its destruction. We deserve a better future than the one for which the University is planning.

More widely, we support progressive movements like the education protests, staff and student strikes, anti-coal, gas and oil protests and anti-exploitation projects (e.g. Coles Boycott December 2020). If you have questions about the capitalist, colonial project, how that translates into real-world harms and what you can do to resist, joining Enviro is a good place to start.

Of course, we need people power to make change happen. This is where you come in. We are a grassroots collective meaning that we rely on consensus decision-making, teamwork, solidarity and collaboration to struggle for a better world. You can join us by writing for our publications, speaking at rallies, representing the collective at external meetings, presenting at strategy days, attending blockades, rallies and poster runs, leafleting and banner paints. We organise primarily on unceded Gadigal land. Issues of land and environment are intrinsically linked with Indigenous identity and there is no climate justice without Indigenous justice. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

Facebook: USyd Enviro Collective 2021 Facebook organising group: USyd Enviro Collective 2021 Instagram: @usyd_enviro Twitter: @EnviroUsyd