morepraxis

Today, Wednesday 10 October, is World Day Against the Death Penalty.
In the coming weeks the UN General Assembly will vote on a Moratorium on capital punishment. Over 20,000 people worldwide are awaiting execution by their own governments. Amnesty International takes a consistent and principled stance against the death penalty, and continuously campaign for unconditional reversal [...]

Hi guys below is one of the Burma support actions – please add others as comments as you find/engage with them.
“Hi,?I’m sure you know?about the crisis in Burma; ruled by one of the worst military dictatorships in the world.? Last month Buddhist monks and nuns began marching and chanting prayers to call [...]

CPTnet – 28 September 2007
BURMA REFLECTION: Monks, soldiers, and civilians on the march
by Gene Stoltzfus
[Note: CPT Director Emeritus Gene Stoltzfus worked in Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. The reflection below is adapted from a longer piece available at http://www.gstoltzfus.blogspot.com/]
Burma marches on to the world stage every other decade. Two [...]

[ October 1, 2007; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]
The Upper Room Project meets the first Monday of each month (6:-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet upstairs in the Shine Caf?/Bar (74 Kingsway Glen Waverley) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.

We hope the upper [...]

[ October 15, 2007; 6:00 pm; ] Hi Friends

Nuclear weapons are back on the agenda and we need your help to get rid of these worst weapons of terror.

Please join the letter writing campaign for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN):
http://www.icanw.org/mpletters

Also, there is a great event coming up organised by ICAN and Pax Christi about Australia’s Security and the politics [...]

[ October 6, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]
Saturday 6 October, 7.00pm, Her Majesty’s Theatre
Here is you chance to see some of Australia?s funniest comedians in Amnesty International?s Stand Up For Your Rights Comedy Gala!

Featuring the cream of Australian comedy, including Tom Gleeson, Andrew McClelland, Greg Fleet, Dave O?Neil, Wilson Dixon, Alison Bice and Courtney Hocking to name just a few, Stand Up [...]

[ October 12, 2007 to October 14, 2007. ]
 

Last year a small number of people gathered to converse about and ‘play’ with alternative worship, we called the event a “NOSH”.
Before the event Cheryl Lawrie said “If it turns out to be brilliant, we’ll certainly be doing another one. Even if it edges into disaster, we’ll learn from it and do another one. Disasters [...]

[ October 6, 2007; 9:30 am to 1:30 pm. ] This looks like a great opportunity for people looking into, or are interested in Worship, Art and Advent, if it wasn’t the first day of the NSW Synod I’d be there with bells on. Anything Mark’s involved in tends to shine, and the Advent resources he and Seeds have produced over time have been [...]