Posted on 28-5-2002

Street Talk - June 02

Thursday, May 30, 5pm, Cnr Williamson Ave and Dryden St (near Foodown).
Picket to stop the Auckland City Council plan to sell pensioner and other
community housing. An open house is being held from 5.00-5.30pm at units
slates for sale. Organised by the Council Housing Action Group which will
be meeting at 7.30pm in the Freemans Bay Community Centre later the same
evening. Contact Sigrid Shayer 361157, sigridshayer@ezysurf.co.nz

Monday, June 3, 9.30am, cnr Mt Eden Rd and Symonds St. "Convergence at
Tuakau" to protest against plans to use the Waikato River for Auckland's
drinking water. A motorcade will travel to the Tuakau pumping station for a
protest rally. For more info ph 8469825 or 8366389

Monday, June 3, 7.30 pm. Trades Hall, 147 Great North Road, Grey Lynn GPJA
FORUM: "The 'War on Terror'... VOICES UNDER FIRE" Speakers: Tuma Hazou:
Palestine; Abdullah Mujeidwardak: Afghanistan; Munjid Umara: Iraq;
Gul Zaman: Islamic Communities in Aotearoa/NZ; Zaeem Baksh: Moderator.

Wednesday, June 5, 7.30pm, Grey Lynn Community Centre, 510 Richmond Rd.
"The plight of East Timorese refugees" - there are still nearly 100,000
East Timorese Refugees being held in camps where the militias which ran
amok in East Timor two years ago are still in control. Find out the latest
news on the fate of these refugees and what you can do to help. Organised
by the Indonesia Human Rights Campaign, for more info email maire@clear.net.nz

Monday, July 1, 7.30pm, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn GPJA
FORUM: "Inside the War on Terror". Speakers: Nicky Hagar, Peace Researcher
and Wayne Hope, media commentator.

Ongoing to 21 July - ''Reporting the world: John Pilger's Great Eyewitness
Photographers" explores the close association of John Pilger, the
award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, with some of the
world's great eyewitness photographers, 10am to 5pm daily at the Auckland
War Memorial Museum, admission $10/$7-50. For more info contact Karyn Clare
tel 306 7084 kclare@akmuseum.org.nz

24 September to 17 October, Aotea Centre, BNZ Foyer, 9am-5pm daily.
Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-Bomb Exhibition - a collection of photographs and
artifacts that depict the consequences of the bombings from 1945 through to
the international peace initiatives of today; the exhibition aims to
promote the total abolition of nuclear weapons through increased knowledge
and understanding.