National Sorry Day Walk Join the Cooks River Valley Association, for an hour with Jennifer Newman and Dr Anne Maree Payne for a morning walk along the Cooks River, to mark National Sorry Day. When: 10.00 am Saturday 26 May 2018. Where: Meet in Steel Park, Illawarra Road, Marrickville 2204 Concluding at ‘Richardson’s Lookout - MarrickvillePeace Park’
Saving Our Private Ryan and Sgt. Wilkinson's Memories Private Ryan and Sgt Wilkinson two very different stories of two very different men and their experiences in the Great War. One fought for his anti-war beliefs and the other only told his grandson his story on his deathbed. Get tickets online
Sydney Peace Foundation - Screening of Border Politics On Monday 2 July, 2014 Sydney Peace Prize recipient Julian Burnside will be in Sydney for a Sydney Peace Foundation screening of his new film Border Politics. Border Politics follows Burnside as he travels the globe examining the harsh treatment of refugees at the hands of western democracies.This contemporary story is about…
Pax Christi Victoria - Agape "A Conversation on Active Non-violence" - including the showing of the film Priests, Nuns and the Bomb. This documentary depicts nuclear disarmament activists challenging the security and legality of America’s nuclear weapons when they break into two top secret facilities: the “Fort Knox of Uranium” and a U.S. Navy Trident nuclear submarine base. Are they criminals…
Anthropocene Flyer June 2018 Dr Clive Pearson is currently a research fellow within the strategic research Centre for Public and Contextual Theology (PACT), Charles Sturt University. He is a member of the executive of the Global Network for Public Theology and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Public Theology. His current areas of research are in the fields of climate…
Let's Talk About West Papua SYDNEY The Australian government is aiding the Indonesian police and military. They are refusing to tell you how your taxes pay for the Indonesia Military to conduct training, intelligence operations, joint exercises, and weapons and ammunition. The Indonesian military and police kill, torture, arrest and displace West Papuans, your neighbours. Hear first-hand accounts of this…
Commemorating 70 Years of Nakba The Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine presents its annual Nakba commemoration event, which this year features a presentation by Dr Ramzy Baroud, a US-based Palestinian journalist, writer and media consultant who will speak about his latest book, The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story. The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story tells the story of modern…
This free event is part of Dr Ramzy Baroud's Australian and New Zealand tour in May when he will speak in Sydney at 3 events to mark the 70th Commemoration of the Nakba. Challenging both academic and popular takes on Palestinian history, Dr. Ramzy Baroud unearths the deep commonalities within the story of Palestine, ones that draw the people together…
Galipoli Centenary Peace Campaign (GCPC) invites the public to an Anzac Day Reflection on Wednesday 25 April 2018 between 10.00am and 11.00am in Richardson’s Lookout – Marrickville Peace Park (cnr Richards Avenue & Holt Crescent in Marrickville 2204). GCPC was formed to confront many of the misconceptions about Australia’s war experience, especially those associated with the Anzac legend. We reject…
Joan Beaumont - Serving Our Country - Thursday 19th April In conversation with Mick Dodson and Karen Mundine, CEO of Reconciliation Australia After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s participation in the Australian defence forces, edited by Joan Beaumont & Allison Cadzow. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in…