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The 'Million Pleas' Campaign
The Million Pleas campaign is an attempt to create the world's longest video chain letter through a unique website at 'millionpleas.com'. People from all over the world are encouraged to take part in the project and ask for a world free from nuclear weapons. The video is being started by a group of primary school children from Hiroshima, Japan, and is addressed to the 9 countries still in possession of nuclear weapons. The project asks that people from all over the globe upload a 2 sec video clip of themselves saying the word "please". The "pleases" will then be edited into a long, virtual chain letter, acting as a petition to abolish nuclear weapons, world wide. A Hiroshima bomb survivor delivers the final words in the video. The campaign will be launched on Hiroshima Day, 6 August, 2010.
Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki Events .
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Memorial Concert Sunday 8th August 3.00 - 5.00pm. Village Roadshow Theatrette at State Library of Victoria. Tickets at door: $15/$10 conc.
For more information contact info@jfp.org.au or visit www.jfp.org.au
Cluster Munitions Sunday 1st August, Noon – 5.00 PM, Waratah Room, St Michael’s Uniting Church Administration Building (at the rear of the church.) 120 Collins Street Melbourne. Cluster Munitions kill and maim for decades after conflicts end. The CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS comes into force on August 1st, 2010. Join us as we celebrate with an exhibition of photos DEADLY LEGACY by internationally renowned photo-journalist John Rodsted.
Make Poverty History: La Trobe Electoral Forum Friday 9th August, 6.00 – 7.30PM -Saint Margaret’s School, 27-47 Gloucester Ave Berwick
Every minute, 17 children in developing countries die of easily preventable diseases. Australia could make a difference by committing just 70 cents of every $100 in national income to aid (0.7%). We invite you to hear how your political representatives and their parties are responding to this important moral issue. Meet the speakers, ask questions and join like-minded people in your local community. Use your voice to help the world’s most vulnerable children. For more information contactJasmine Zapka 0430 556 082 jasmine.zapka@worldvision.com.au OR Peter Willis 0439 326 343 p.willis@theoaktree.org
Leadership for the Future - Hope, Dignity and Spirit in Organisation. A Non-Residential Group Relations Conference. Monday September 27th – Saturday October 2nd 2010. Treacy Centre 126 The Avenue, Parkville, Victoria, Melbourne.
GROUP RELATIONS AUSTRALIA P O Box 12246, A’Beckett Street, Melbourne Victoria 8006, AUSTRALIA www.grouprelations.org.au
The Simone Weil Lectures on
Human Value - Thursday 5 August 6.30pm, Michael Chamberlin Lecture Theatre, St Vincent’s Hospital Function Centre, 27 Victoria Parade (Cnr Nicholson Street), Fitzroy MelbourneFree, No Bookings Required
For More Information: Email: leonie.martino@acu.edu.au Phone: 9953 3160
JIM Convention 2010: Consuming Passions Saturday 2nd October, 9.30 AM – 4.30 PM. Centre for Theology & Ministry, 1 Morrison Close, Parkville (Melways Ref. Map 2B,D4). We are all conscious that over-consumption is bad for the environment and can be bad for our health. It can also mean taking more than our fair share of a sustainable use of the world’s resources. However, is there such a thing as ethical consumerism or is it just another marketing tool to keep us consuming the earth’s resources? Are we immune to the tactics of marketers and advertisers, or are we kidding ourselves? What biblical and theological insights will help us?
The Convention will seek input from participants on Synod recommendations for the 2011 Synod and the work areas of the Justice and Interna
For more information: Marylou Dellosa, 9251 5271, Marylou.dellosa@victas.uca.org.au
Special Lecture - Climate Change - Director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Thursday 12th August, 6.00 – 7.00 PM Copland Theatre, Economic & Commerce Building (Melway Map 871, H6). The University of Melbourne, Parkville Admission is free.
Register online: http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/plants or call (03) 8344 4392 or email: rtret@unimelb.edu.au
Destruction of wild vegetation contributes one-fifth of all carbon emissions to the atmosphere, accelerating global warming. Yet plant-based solutions could play a major role in mitigating climate change. How might an understanding of landscape evolution assist with local solutions? In this free public lecture, Professor Stephen Hopper will present new ideas for a sustainable future that have been developed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and its global partners. With a step change in applying plant science to global problems, no species need go extinct, nor should people have to endure the worst impacts of climate change. Professor Hopper says a reasonable and sustainable quality of life is within our grasp, if we can find the social, economic and political will to change some entrenched behaviours.
Towards nuclear abolition – The non-proliferation treaty review conference 2010 Sunday 15 August, 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Kildara, rear 39 Stanhope Street, East Malvern. Speaker is Tim Wright, who attended the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference as a non-government representative on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons (ICAN). He founded and is the current president of the Peace Organisation of Australia.Bring food to share.
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