E-Card Campaign - Close the Gap in this years Federal Budget
February 29, 2008
Now is the time to show your support for the apology of 13 February and urge the Government to carry forward their promises. The Social Action Office has launched an e-card urging the government to allocate the additional $460 million (the amount recommended in the Oxfam CLOSETHEGAP campaign) in this year’s federal budget to set up the action plan and programs to achieve better health outcomes for Indigenous Australians. Government departments are working on budget submissions for the 2008/2009 budget now.
There are 2 cards – one to the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, and the other to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Jenny Macklin. Click here to access the e-card from the SAO website. http://www.sao.clriq.org.au/indigenous_issues/indig_health_ecard.html
UpperRoom - Palms, Protest, Peace & Pasta :)
February 28, 2008
| March 3, 2008 | ||
| 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 in the S Bar (Shop 18, Village Walk, O’Sullivan Road, Glen Waverley ) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.We hope the upper room will be
- Space to rest/relax with your tribe
- Be challenged by the prophetic call of compassion
- Connect with heartbeats for living
There will be food, wine and friends plus
- a gallery space for photos and other art.
- activist space - activities, information and people deeply into that topic to meet
- conversational space - multimedia and communally led (an interview, music, texts, a place to chat)
Please bring your friends - all are welcome
This month we will be thinking about the upcoming palm sunday peace march and random acts of kindness etc that we may like to get up to. Paul Dyson, peace & anti-nuke activist and very nice bloke, will be with us. He will be reflecting/sharing stories of activism and why the Christian church marches for on Palm Sunday. Of course there will be others of our tribe to eat, drink and chat with and some clips, info etc to fuel the conversation . So cya there. All are welcome 
If you would like to be part of the team this year or have ideas for topic/causes, artists (and we thought this year a couple of speakers would be nice), then speak up. I would like to get a new postcard with our plan/program out by April.
CafePraxis@Grassroots
February 25, 2008
| April 12, 2008 9:00 am | to | April 13, 2008 5:00 pm |
Hi guys, During the grassroots festival in the UCA basement,
Cheryl will be creating a sacred space and I will be running cafepraxis and a flash mob styled action.
If you are keen to help make coffees, art or trouble… I will need some help.
If you were thinking of attending grassroots then help out and get a discounted rego. Age
Here is some of the electives and more we are planning
morepraxis on facebook
February 22, 2008
So a week or so ago I was chatting with someone who mentioned they had joined the morepraxis group on facebook. They wondered if I was going to join. Meanwhile back at the ranch Mike aka ‘redfish’ and I continued our chat about how we could make it easier for morepraxis members to get to know each other on the site. As I was not on facebook I had to join to check it out. I found the group and who was the almighty creator but Mike. He had started the group to see what would happen. He had a big grin on his face when he discovered it took a day before I found out and was invited to join. I was the 11th member now up to 48 members.
Anyhoo if you are a part of facebook we have a group. So invite people to join and feed morepraxis into your space by being my friend. If your not then don’t worry we are still looking to expand/play with the rss feed (your feeds) so we can see what we are up to from our different networks.
After a couple of coffees at giant steps Mike and I thought that our facebook space is like the tables inside our more public cafe of morepraxis.org.au. Here around our virtual tables we can carry on smaller conversations, conspire and meet the morepraxis tribe - Basically it’s like a giant “get to know you game”
Palm Sunday Rally
February 21, 2008
| March 16, 2008 | ||
| 2:00 pm |
just got this from jess….
As the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war passes us by…..Would you like a world without war and nuclear weapons? Then come out on Palm Sunday on 16 March to show your commitment to create a peaceful world.
PALM SUNDAY - 16 March.
2pm: Rally for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
State Library - Corner of Swanston and Latrobe Streets. Rally through the city, and then return to the State Library for music by Martin Martini and the Bone Palace Orchestra.
1.15pm: Ecumenical Service of Prayer and Reflection: Wesley Uniting Church, City.
Bring your instruments for simple music; your protest banners, palm branches if you can -and your yearning for action for Peace in the world. This service will finish by joining the main rally.
PUBLIC MEETING - 12 March - 7pm
Kathy Black, convenor of US Labor Against the War will whare her experience at Trades Hall (cnr of Lygon and Victoria Sts).
For more information, fliers and other events in Australia - see http://www.iraq5yearstoolong.info/
Thanks for your support. A lot of effort is being put in to ensure that this iconic peace day remains. Please come along and bring everyone you know!
Cheers
Jess
Bangladeshi Trade Unionist in Danger
February 15, 2008
This is urgent - please act and pass this message on to friends, co-workers and colleagues. Mehedi Hasan, a field investigator for the U.S.-based Workers Rights Consortium, was jailed seven days ago in Bangladesh as part of crackdown on trade unions.
His family is not allowed to see him, and workers’ rights activists have expressed fears for his safety.
Please help us to mobilize thousands of people around the globe in a massive email campaign and flood the Bangladeshi government with messages calling for his immediate release — and for an end to repression of trade unionists in that country.
Click here now to send a message to Bangladesh
Fair Trade Volunteer Workshop
February 15, 2008
| February 17, 2008 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
The workshop is being run by People for Fair Trade and will:
- Have a few people talking about how they have promoted fair trade in their network and communities
- Discussed some common questions about fair trade and how to respond to them
- Talk about how fair trade fits in the bigger context of addressing global poverty.
RSVP by Friday 15 February e-mail orders@fairtrade.asn.au
30 Wellington Rd, Clayton
Sorry
February 13, 2008
Well it happened!!!! It seems a weird mix of emotions that saying ’sorry’ wells in me the need to celebrate.
I’m sure most have seen it but just in case.
Links and a full transcript here
Back at Sahara
February 12, 2008
Dear Morepraxis,
It’s a year and a bit on and Angry Young Thing is back at Sahara.
We all need your prayers and support over here in India. Here’s a little glimpse of the situation as it stands. Many Blessings, Cara
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It’s Monday afternoon and I am under a flyover, balancing on the curb of one of the busiest intersections in Old Delhi. In the short space between the base of the flyover and previously mentioned curb, is a dusty gulf on which some 20 blanketed bodies lie.
They could be dead but for something in the mosquito spotted air above their heads that aches out ‘life’
Beside the bodies, touching evidence of shared humanness. A single cup, a plastic jug, razor blades, medicine ampoules and match ends. A shoe.
To breathe in is to inhale toxic emissions and crystallized urine.
To loose balance is to fall headlong into oncoming traffic.
This is not the sort of place a foreign tourist goes. It’s not the sort of place anyone willingly goes. It is, however, where many people marginalized by addictions, poverty and HIV/Aids live, and where Robert and the Sahara outreach team daily visit.
UCA - Welcomes Apology
February 9, 2008
Bear fruits in keeping with repentance (Luke 3:3)
The Uniting Church in Australia and the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC) have today congratulated the Federal Government on its planned formal apology to members of the Stolen Generations.
A formal apology was made to Australia’s Indigenous people by the Uniting Church more than a decade ago.
The President of the Uniting Church, Reverend Gregor Henderson, said the Christian view of confession was a recognition of wrongdoing.
“We take confession to mean that what has been done is not in accordance with the hopes and possibilities that God has for us,” Rev. Henderson said……
Also have a poke around therest of UCA- NYYAM site for exposures, info & resources
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