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Hi guys got an email from James in Spain below.

Hi all
I can��t believe I��m going to miss this so please go for me and could someone video tape it?

What is it? well i don��t know about you but I remember watching the news one night several years ago and suddenly the people of serbia had all got up and decided to get rid of Slobodan Milosovic, so they all drove to Belgrade blockaded everything and kicked him out in a nonviolent revolution. well of course it wasn��t quite like that but it was only a few years later that I found out that this group called Otpor had been working towards this for a few years and their whole campaign has been documented in a great film called Bringing down a dictator. The film is being shown in Melbourne on Thursday and best of all one of leaders of Otpor will be there to address the gathering!

so yeah, I can��t believe I��m going to miss this so please go for me and could someone video tape it?

Where and when: Thursday 2 March, 7pm @ Trades Hall, 1 Lygon Street Carlton VIC

Presented by Pt’chang and the Nonviolence Training Project. Entry by donation.

 
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Friday 10 4-5pm     Gates Open         6:30        Music – Jane McGeough     7:30        Music – Adam Cousens 8:30        Bible Study  – Called to be agents of Change. – Age 9:30        Open House
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LED Throwies

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In solitude we realise that nothing human is alien to us, that the roots of all conflict, war, injustice, cruelty, hatred, jealousy, and envy are deeply anchored in our own heart. In solitude our of stone can be turned into a heart of flesh, a rebellious heart into a contrite heart, and a closed heart into a heart that can open itself to all suffering people in a gesture of solidarity.

If you would ask the Desert Fathers why solitude gives birth to compassion, they would say, ���Because it makes us die to our neighbour.��� At first this answer seems quite disturbing to a modern mind. But when we give it a closer look we can see that in order to be of service to others we have to die to then; that is, we have to give up measuring our meaning and value the yardstick of others. To die to our neighbours means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and them to be come free to be compassionate. Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other…..

From Henri Nouwen���s – The way of the Heart

…..When Anthony heard the word of Jesus, ���Go and sell what you own and give the money to the poor… then come and follow me,��� he took it as a call to escape from the compulsions of his world. He moved away from his family, lived in poverty in a hut on the edge of his village, and occupied himself with manual work and prayer. But soon he realised that more was required of him. He had to face his enemies ��� anger and greed ���head on and let himself be totally transformed into a new being. His old, false self had to die and a new self had to be born. For this Anthony withdrew into the complete solitude of the desert.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation, Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self. Jesus himself entered into the furnace. There he was tempted with the three compulsions of the world: to be relevant: (���turn stones into loaves���), to be spectacular (���throw yourself down���) and to be powerful (���I will give you all these kingdoms���). There he affirmed God as the only source of his identity (���You must worship the Lord your God and serve him alone���). Solitude is the place of the great struggle and the great encounter ��� the struggle against the compulsions of the false self, and the encounter with the loving God who offers himself as the substance of the new self…….

Public Forum – West Papua Asylum Seekers

Wednesday 15 February,
6.30pm: @ Kaleide Theatre, RMIT University, 350 Swanston St, Melbourne (between LaTrobe and Franklin Sts, diagonally opposite Melbourne Central train station).

Speakers Pamela Curr, Aslylum Seeker Resource Centre; Senator Kerry Nettle (Australian Greens), just back from Christmas Island; Herman Wainggai (video from Christmas Island), West Papua Asylum seeker; Scott Burchill, Deakin University.

Info 0409 268 978I
manukoreri@riseup.net