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Just Peace / QLD
Peace Network Nov 2008 e-Bulletin
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Dear Friends,
Welcome to the
November 2008 issue of the Just Peace e-Bulletin.
What an extraordinary year it's been! And it’s
still not quite over.
The Prime Minister, on behalf of the Australian
people, finally made the long-overdue apology
to the Stolen Generations, ratified the Kyoto
Agreement and has partly dismantled the highly
unpopular Work Choices legislation – all
important items on the Just Peace agenda,
as outlined in our 2007 brochure, Australia
at the Crossroads.
There has also been a welcome move back towards
the political centre in the United States –
much to the barely contained relief of the rest
of the world – and, hopefully at least,
a partial reversal of eight years of extreme right-wing
foreign, social and environmental US policy.
Even so, the world is still a deeply troubled
place and, as we are reminded on a daily basis,
facing uncertain economic times ahead. Whatever
eventuates in the coming year, Just Peace
will continue to chip away at the wall of social,
economic and political injustice that stands in
the way of achieving lasting peace.
But all that can wait. For now we have much to
be thankful for and, for this reason, Just
Peace will join with the Combined Union Choir
to make our end of year party a celebration of
music, poetry art and drama from some of Brisbane's
finest. See below for details.
Yours in peace,
Stephanie Campion
e-Bulletin
enquiries:
Stephanie Campion, e-Bulletin
Editor, Just Peace Queensland stephanie@ansteadhouse.com
All other enquiries:
Annette Brownlie, Convener, Just Peace
Queensland
annettebrownlie@optusnet.com.au
Note: Although
we do our best to ensure that all dates and times
provided for the events listed in the Just
Peace e-Bulletin are accurate, it is always advisable
to contact the event’s organisers to confirm
details before attending.
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| Just
Peace/Combined Union Choir End of Year Party 2008 |
Members
and friends of Just
Peace and the Combined Union Choir
are cordially invited to attend our end-of-year
celebration of music, poetry, drama, great
food and general merrymaking.
Featured artists:
The Combined Union Choir
Robbie Dunn – singer, songwriter
Anthony Wheadon – musician,
actor, playwright
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Sunday,
7 December |
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Time: |
1 - 5pm |
| Where: |
Brisbane Workers’
Community Centre, 2 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington
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| Cost: |
$10 unwaged/seniors/students;
$15 waged
(Includes meal + 1 free drink) |
For
more information, click here for our flyer, or contact: Annette
Brownlie 3324-8459
annettebrownlie@optusnet.com.au
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Robbie Dunne
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Farewell
to Kevin Clements |
Earlier
this year, we at Just Peace were
sad to learn that Professor Kevin Clements,
Director of the Australian Centre for Peace
and Conflict Studies (ACPACS) at the University
of Queensland, will be leaving to take up
a new position in Dunedin.
Professor Clements’
new role will be Professor of Peace and Conflict
Studies and the Foundation Director of the
Aotearoa-New Zealand Centre for Peace and
Conflict Studies at the University of Otago.
He will take up his new position sometime
in the new year.
Kevin and his partner,
Valerie, are returning home to New Zealand
after 17 years of living overseas.
We wish
Professor Clements all the best in his new life and role and wish to thank him for all
the enthusiastic support he has given to Just Peace over the years.
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| Fair
Go for Palestine event |
Izzat
Abdulhadi, Ambassador for Palestine (and Head
of the General Delegation of Palestine to Australia,
New Zealand and Pacific), will present an open
discussion this Saturday with Queensland Palestinians
as well as Palestinian solidarity activists.
Interested peace and social justice groups are cordially invited to attend
and to join in the discussion on the current
political situation in Palestine.
| Date: |
Saturday
15 November |
| Time: |
7pm |
| Where: |
TLC
building, 16 Peel Street (corner Grey Street) |
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Click here to read more about Fair Go For Palestine.
Click here to read more about Izzat Abdulhadi.
For further information
regarding the event, contact: Ray
Bergmann 3630-4351, 0402-236903 OR email
raybergmann@yahoo.com.au
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| Walk
Against Warming |
Walk Against
Warming is a
community walk and festival to call for immediate
action to prevent dangerous climate change.
As in previous years, Brisbane's walk is a
unique Umbrella Parade featuring colourfully
decorated brollies.
This
year the walk is themed ‘Save
our Reef, Save our Pacific Neighbours’.
The walk through the CBD will end with a human
sign, bands, speakers and stalls at Roma Street
Parklands, Ampitheatre.
Source: greenpeace.org
| Date: |
Saturday,
15 November |
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Time: |
12.30pm |
| Where: |
Queen's
Park, cnr George and Elizabeth Streets,
Brisbane |
For more
information, or to download the WAW poster
or flyer, go to the Walk
Against Warming website.
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| 'One
Just World' Forum |
The
‘One Just World’
forum is the seventh in a national series
of public forums on global poverty and development,
to which Brisbane will be host.
The
forum will review how we (the world) are going
with meeting the UN’s Millennium Development
Goals. It will provide an update on progress
towards achieving these goals, and what needs
to be done if the lives of millions are to be
transformed.
Speakers:
Tim Costello
– Chief Executive, World Vision Australia
Ruankhao Ryce Chanchai - Policy
Analyst, UN Millenium Campaign's Asia Regional
office, Phillipines
Professor Ann Capling –
School of Social and Political Sciences, Melbourne
University
(Forum moderator) Dr Julianne Schultz
– Professor, Centre for Public Culture
and Ideas, Griffith University, author, and
founding editor of Griffith Review
Entry is free but spaces
are limited.
To read
more, go to the One
Just World Forum website.
RSVP to
3387 2700, brisbane@onejustworld.com.au,
OR go to the One
Just World website.
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| Date: |
Monday 17 November |
| Time: |
6.00 – 7.30pm (entry
from 5.30pm) |
| Where: |
State Library of Queensland
Auditorium |
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| International
Day of Peace Alliance – 2008 AGM |
| If
you are interested in becoming involved in the
International Day of Peace effort for 2009,
this is a good opportunity to learn more about
the IDP Alliance.
Guest Speaker:
Professor Toh, Swee-Hin
- Director, Multi-Faith Centre Laureate, UNESCO
Prize for Peace Education 2000.
Professor Toh will share his insights, experiences
and knowledge gained from continual, extensive
international travel and offer his vision
of the future, based on the current global
climate.
| Date: |
Monday, 24 November |
| Time: |
6.30pm |
| Where: |
Multi-Faith Centre, Nathan
Campus, Griffith University |
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A light supper will be provided, compliments
of the Multi-Faith Centre.
For
more information on Professor Toh Swee-Hin's work,
click here.
For more
information, email: Sarah
Cowley secretary@idpa.org.au
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| Campaign
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| Appeal to Lloyds
of London: Stop Underwriting the Burmese
Junta
The AVAAZ.org
global advocacy organisation is currently
promoting a campaign to appeal to the world’s
oldest and most inspected insurer, Lloyds
of London, to revise its insurance dealings
with Burma's military dictatorship. Many of
the Burmese Generals' West-linked business
ventures depend this one insurer.
’If enough of us email and call
key decision-makers at Lloyd’s this
week, we could shame them into pulling out
of this dirty trade, undermining the hardliners
and creating pressure for human rights and
the release of political prisoners like democratically
elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.’
- Avaaz.org
For more
information on the campaign, including Lloyds
contact list to send emails, click
here.
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