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Posted on 14-7-2003
2
GE Events, 2 On Iraq
~ FRI, 25 to SUN, 27 July - National GE Free hui, a conference
for anti-GE
activists from around the country, with the focus on developing
strategies
for campaigns to prevent the lifting of the moratorium in October.
Sessions
and workshops are planned on the following: current situation
with GE in
NZ, what effects will the lifting of the moratorium in October
have; update
on current campaigns (reports from anti-GE groups); strategies
for
campaigns; consumers, direct action, lobbying, GE-Free zone;
coalition
building skills; treaty issues; GE and GATS, WTO; GE and animal
rights; and
eugenics, human cloning, the new HART Bill. To he held at the
Trade Union
Hall, 147 Great North Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland. For more info,
and to
register, contact tel (09) 358 4105 or email gefreehui@yahoo.co.nz
~ THURS, 17 July - ‘An eyewitness account of the invasion of
Iraq’ - Ruth
Russell, from South Australia, was a human shield in Baghdad
for eight
weeks, including three weeks protecting a humanitarian site
during the
bombing which began in March 2003. She speaks about her experience
there,
what she and other human shields saw during the invasion; her
talk is
illustrated with photos taken at the time. "I decided to pack
my bags and
go to Baghdad because I believed this was the strongest statement
I could
make that this war was both illegal and morally wrong. So my
first and most
important effort was to speak out to try to prevent war. Right
up until the
last moment I thought the incredible world opinion and lack
of any UN
Resolution would work the people of the world did not want
it - only
three out of 180 countries supported the US government. When
war was
declared, I chose to stay at the Taji Food Silo to prevent bombing
of this
UN designated humanitarian site." Hear Ruth’s story at 7-30pm,
St Colomba
Centre, 40 Vermont Street, Ponsonby. Organised by WILPF, for
more
information contact Joan tel (09) 360 8001 or email joanmac@pl.net
~ MON, 21 July - ‘Peace: the sensible alternative to war’, an
empowering
community workshop run by Ruth Russell, human shield in Iraq,
which
provides opportunities for participants to work through the
many outcomes
of peace and war - personal, social, environmental, economic
and political.
From 7-30pm to 9-30pm, Flat 1, 5 Seymour Street, St Mary’s Bay;
please
RSVP if you are planning on attending so we have some idea of
the number of
people coming. Organised by WILPF, for more information, or
to RSVP,
contact Joan tel (09) 360 8001 or email joanmac@pl.net
~ TUES, 22 July - Mothers Against Genetic Engineering (MAdGE)
meeting, 7pm,
upstairs at Kocket Restaurant, 118 Ponsonby Road. Come along
and get
involved because there’s a lot to be done and we need everyone
to be active
as the lifting of the moratorium looms closer; for more info
contact email
madge@paradise.net.nz
If you would like your event for peace or social justice included
in these
listings, please send the details (including contact details
for at least
one of the people organising it) to <pma@xtra.co.nz>
Please put ‘for what’s
on’ in the subject heading of your message.
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