morepraxis

Saturday 5 August, 5pm
Northcote Uniting Church, 251 High Street, Northcote
Wurungeri welcome and smoking ceremony, artists, music, food, fire art, poets, meditation and films, raising funds for East Timor, refugees and orphans
Guest Artists include – Wurungeri elder Joy Murphy, author Arnold Zable, Paolo Almeida and Sol Timorese Band, Circus Mistique, singer-songwriter Mick Thomas, Dursan Acar, Kavisha [...]

Sunday 6 August, 2.30pm
St James Conference Centre, 12 Batman St, West Melbourne
A presentation by:

Professor Jim Falk (Director, Centre for Science, Innovation and Society, Melbourne University)
Associate Professor Martin Sevior (School of Physics, University of Melbourne)

The Victorian Council of Christian Education CJ Wright event.
ENQUIRIES: Contact Rev Con Apokis at office@vcce.org.au

Want to use your art to make a stand against injustice, want to help make poverty history? If you have an urge to create and a passion for justice come to the Create to Advocate workshop. The workshop also aims to provide information, stimulus and inspiration for artists to create works for the Create to [...]

Sunday 6 August, 1pm: Hiroshima Day rally
Stand up against war and for a nuclear free future @ State Library, city.
For more information contact 9639 8622/ 0417 506 150 or go to www.nukefreeaus.org Endorsed by: Melbourne Stop the War Coalition, Nuclear Free Australia, Friends of the Earth, The Greens (Vic), National Union of Students, Greenpeace [...]

Sunday 30 July, noon: Women for Palestine special vigil @ State Library. Please wear black and white ? black for mourning and white for peace ? men * women * children.
To be followed by …
1pm, Sunday 30 July: Rally for Peace: Stop Israeli aggression against Palestine and Lebanon @ State Library, corner of Latrobe and [...]

now open for submissions!
Eureka Street magazine this week opened the second annual Margaret Dooley Young Writers Award, a competition open to all Australian writers under the age of 40. The award asks writers to submit two pieces of reasoned ethical argument, based on humane values ? a tradition kept alive by EurekaStreet magazine for the [...]

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Everybody is welcome and invited to the first gathering in the upper room on Aug 7th.
Shine cafe & bar. 6-8:30pm
Theme: Rise up – “We don’t come lightly and We will not go quietly.’
In our first night we want to engage in conversations about what we hope this gathering will be; what issues and ideas [...]

Below is an email reflection from Jim Rice editor of Sojourners
What is the proper, appropriate response of a nation to violent attacks by terrorists or other radical extremists? We have seen one model illustrated in the response of the British government to last year’s attacks on London’s public transportation system, in which 52 people were [...]