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.
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