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UN International Day of Peace

Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday was the International Day of Peace and I was out like many others trying to create a more peace filled world.  I wonder to my self at times if any thing I do makes any difference. But participation in events to celebrate this day are growing. Last night I was heartened to recieve an email that reported the [...]

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Climate Change: A Call to Action

Posted in NV Reflections, tagged , on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

With Ross Garnaut finding a conclusion that doesn’t match his own evidence, the challenge for the climate movement is to move quickly and strategically to ensure the Rudd Government does not settle on a weak target (eg. 10% by 2020) for CO2 emissions.
I propose that the time has come for a large-scale campaign of nonviolent [...]

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Strategic nonviolent action on climate change

Posted in NV Reflections, tagged , , on September 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

On the train today I was mulling over what a strategic campaign of NVDA might look like on climate change, rather than just a bunch of random symbolic actions (good as they are).
It seems to me that NVDA plays a strategic role when it exerts pressure on the political system.
For this to happen, it would [...]

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9/11 Seven Years On

Posted in NV Reflections, tagged , on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This comes from Sojourners in Washiongton DC. If only, huh?
Seven years ago this morning, airplanes were flown into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and a field in rural Pennsylvania. The next day I joined with a few others to draft the following statement. In a few weeks, more than 4,000 of America’s religious [...]

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Pilgrimage to USA

Posted in Uncategorized on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I have recently returned from my months’pilgimage’ to the US, to places that i consider Holy Places. My first ten days were spent at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker House. LACW has been present in East LA for 30yrs serving the most disadvantaged of God’s sons and daughters on Skid Row in downtown LA. The soup [...]

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Arms Expo Cancelled!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on September 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Fantastic news – the arms expo to be held in Adelaide this November has just been cancelled!
News report here (note: the paper was a strong supporter of the arms expo).
OzPeace (key organisers of the planned nonviolent protests) press release here.
And a wonderful analysis provided by one protestor:
Us violent feral low life people armed with our [...]

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