Praxis08 Planning Bubble
July 31, 2008
What’s Adrian saying here?
And what do YOU want to do at Praxis08?
Join the celebrations
July 31, 2008
After campaigning with others on refugee and asylum seeker issues since 2001, TEAR, UCA, RAC, GetUp and all the rest can join the celebrations.
(Ben’s take from the tear network below)
The Immigration Minister has proposed changes to make detention of aslyum-seekers a last resort and put in place clear boundaries so that it cannot be indefinite and unreviewable.
Asylum seekers coming by boat to one of the places that the previous Government excised from Australia’s migration zone will now also have access to assistance and review of their cases – rights the former
policy stripped them of.
We are very supportive of the Government’s proposed changes. We hope and pray that we will never again see people (including many children) locked up for years, with all the associated mental and physical harm,
while they seek protection in Australia.
A new, humane policy
The Government has decided to take a risk-based approach to deciding whether an asylum seeker should be detained or not. If a person poses no danger to the community, they will be allowed to remain in the
community until their status is determined.
You can read the Minister for Immigration’s entire speech here
http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/media/speeches/2008/ce080729.htm
The Minister outlines the values that will inform the new policy as well as some of the practical details.
Children will not be detained in an immigration detention centre. People who arrive by boat at excised places, which include Christmas Island and Ashmore Reef, will be detained soley for health, identity and security checks. People who arrive by boat at excised places will now have access to legal assistance and an independent review of unfavourable decisions. Only people who pose a risk to the community or who have repeatedly refused to comply with their visa conditions will be detained. Once in detention, a detainee’s case will be reviewed every three months to ensure that further detention is justified.
Thank the Immigration Minister
Send an email now
Senator.Evans@aph.gov.au
thanking the Immigration Minister for these changes. Ask him to
make these policy changes law so that no future Government can return
to detaining children, or keeping people in detention indefinitely and
without review.
True Evangelical Faith
July 30, 2008
“True evangelical faith cannot lie dormant.
It clothes the naked.
It feeds the hungry.
It comforts the sorrowful.
It shelters the destitute.
It serves those that harm it.
It binds up that which is wounded.
It has become all things to all people.”
- Menno Simons
GetUp-Climatetorch Relay
July 29, 2008
To solve the climate crisis, we will need a movement unprecedented in Australia’s history. To mobilise this movement, GetUp has invented a new device to respond to the climate crisis. You can hold it in one hand. It combines solar power, a wind-turbine, and…. a lemon.
It’s our climate torch, designed exclusively for GetUp by the creators of the Sydney Olympic torch, and with your help we’ll take it to a hundred towns, cities and suburbs across Australia - before arriving in Canberra, where thousands of GetUp members will present it directly to Parliament. Click below to get a first glimpse of what it looks like, and to nominate your town to host it.
No government will ever soar higher than its citizens demand - and most will sink as low as we allow. Now more than ever we must demand this government soars above political spin and vested interests - high enough to provide the climate leadership we need over these coming months when Australia’s response to climate change will be locked in.
We have a vision for this torch relay. As it travels around Australia, GetUp members will collect tens of thousands of submissions to the government’s climate policy consultation: an unprecedented flood of public opinion. Our leaders need to hear from us - from your town, city and suburb - because industry lobbyists will win this fight if we don’t.
After nominating your area you can volunteer to run the torch, or help organise the torch leg in your town. We can only bring the torch to your town if it will be supported on the ground, so register your help today!
To a renewable future,
The GetUp! team
Thriving Youth Australia Event- Clay Roberts
July 28, 2008
| October 1, 2008 | ||
| 8:30 am | to | 5:00 pm |
Creating a Value Focussed Learning Environment –
Wellbeing and the Future of Learning
with Clay Roberts
“As a trainer, I am constantly looking for ways to support trainees in changing their behavior. People leave trainings energized and with good intentions, but find the follow-through with young people hard to achieve. People know what to do; they just have a hard time doing it. Our job as trainers is to narrow that “knowing/doing” gap”
Clay Roberts, Search Institute senior trainer, April 2008
Clay Roberts from Search Institute is visiting Australia in October. This is your chance to hear one of Search Institute’s most experienced trainers.
Where: Knox City Council offices
511 Burwood Highway, Wantirna South
When: 1st October, 2008
8.30am – 5.00pm
Cost: Individual $195-
Students / health card holders $95-
Discounted group bookings available
Places for this special event are limited. Book now with
Steve Goldsmith
at Thriving Youth Australia,
0404 370 907, or
thrivingyouth@optusnet.com.au.
Clay Roberts is a senior trainer with Vision Training Associates and the founder of Roberts & Associates, a U.S. educational consulting firm. He has been featured on NBC’s Today Show as a prevention expert, and his programs have been highlighted on Frontline and in Good Housekeeping, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report and has been a keynote presenter at over 200 international, national, regional, state, and local community events. He is a co-author of the Search Institute book Great Places to Learn: How Asset-Building Schools Help Students Succeed. He holds a master’s degree in health education from the University of Oregon.
Search Institute Survey
July 27, 2008
Some of us in Australia want to add our voice to this - please help out and give it a go - Age
Dear Friends of Search Institute:
Search Institute’s Center for Spiritual Development is conducting a world-wide survey on the spiritual development of youth between the ages of 12 and 25. We’re looking for youth in the United States who can participate in this survey, (along with youth from seven other countries). All youth who complete the survey will be entered in a drawing for the chance to win either a $25.00 or $50.00 Target gift card.
This new survey explores how young people think about and experience life. It asks questions pertaining to how they find meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in their life, how they think about their place in their family, community, and the world. We hope to include a wide range of young people in this survey, including those who do not consider themselves to be spiritual or religious.
If you are a parent of one or more young people in this age group, we would be delighted to have them participate in this study. Feel free to invite other parents you know to include their children. And if you are a young adult, ages 18 to 25, we would be pleased to have you participate as well.
To learn more about the survey and to volunteer your child/children (or yourself), please click on the link below:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lGdyMwHBcwZjwfkEEUABfQ_3d_3d
If you have any questions about the survey or this email, please contact Angela Hackel at angelah@search-institute.org.
Thank you for your support, and have a great day.
Search Institute
Search Institute
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55413 USA
Toll-free (within the U.S.): 1-800-888-7828
Praxis08 - Let’s Shape It
July 26, 2008
Hi guys
There has been a bit of a chatter between those who said they would organise this years gathering.
The toasted stories around campfires seemed very popular as did informal discussion time and the space to pray and relax with family and like minded or at least interesting people. Having content was good, as was free time and including families was great.
The idea that seems to have legs is to free up the program even more to engage the passions and talents of those there.
How? Good Question.
Currently we think that food should be programmed into the mix and that the arrival of food could be used as a gathering point to invite people to the various options. So if no one comes to that option the host just flows into a group they have an interest for - that conversation may arise later over a drink in the eve.
What Options? Good Question.
To find out what are our passions and talents - we are playing with two questions and hope to see a good think:act:reflect:community mix appear.
- Q1 - What do you get asked about or lead other in?
- Q2 - What would like to engage with over this gathering?
Q1 helps us see what people are good at or engaging and Q2 picks up the interests of those gathering.
Current options floating around are, building a sand prayer labyrinth, a Bible Study, VJ workshop, a tea ritual, mess around in the canoes with the mind bending questions again, becoming a movement, a water ritual, plan a political stunt/action,some design thing, an art space and exhibition, open mic, a round table, reflections on being arrested for Jesus, go swimming, finish early to join a peace action, spiritual formation group time, local and OS mission, basketball comp, faith talk cards with the kids, play the Ched Myers DVD…… got some ideas yet?
So answer the questions and help build the program.
Offer to lead or suggest another to lead…. lets make sure we get into what we want to get into.
“Anarchy is not chaos, but order with out control.” — David Layson
Praxis08 - Cancelled see “talkin bout the revolution”
July 25, 2008
| September 19, 2008 7:00 pm | to | September 21, 2008 2:00 pm |
Cancelled see “talkin bout the revolution” and crunch time post
Think, pray, play and meet with more of your tribe who long for a Christian spirituality that interconnects social action and theological reflection.
Been waiting for this? Good, so have we.
Where: Merricks Lodge (3670 Frankston-Flinders Rd Shoreham Vic - 1hr40mins from Melbourne)
Online Rego here and online payment here
Costs: $100 Full, $60 5-10yrs, $30 3-5yrs, Free 0-3yrs
This is an All Play event - Come ready to share.
You have been preparing all your life to lead a conversation on something - come prepared to engage that conversation but don’t stress on the preparation. Currently options include a sacred space installation, sand labyrinth, a tech hub, activist hub, conversations on community leadership and conflict, sleep out in a slum experience, a kids quest, questions & canoes + your ideas/talents we would enjoy??
Also, there will be a space set aside for participants to propaganda/promote their group, cause, next action, t-shirt, study, book…. you get the idea. (byo stall & table for your promo space)
If you are at a junction where you need to think and chat about your vocation and the direction of your life with active, prayerful and wise mentors and co-travelers … there will be a bunch at praxis>08 to bounce ideas with.
If you are a family that is interested in connecting social justice and spirituality then this gathering has space for your needs. The site is well equipped for free play and organised chaos
Olympic Protest Flares - Action
July 24, 2008
| August 8, 2008 |
Urban climbers, city mountaineers - your time has come!
I though this may combine some interests of our friends.
There is a “final ignition” planned for the 8th August to coincide with the lighting of the Olympic torch to begin the Olympics in China. Basically lighting red flares from peaks, landmark and monuments to protest China’s poor human rights record and its occupation of Tibet.
“We shall make these monuments talk the language of smoke, “the evanescent color of blood”, on the day on which the olympic torch, a double-headed symbol of peace and hypocrisy, will light the Peking Olympics. At exactly sixty years from the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the repression of Tibet during an event of world-wide interest has become the symbol of failure and betrayal on behalf of international governments: the principles then ratified have been and are still, more or less diplomatically, denied.
My friends and I in unison with other French activists, will move near, on sight, on top of, beneath, besides… the Eiffel Tower, in the heart of the city where UNESCO has it’s general headquarters, in a city that more than any other one has consigned culture and intelligence to the fundamental freedoms of man. Other cities throughout the world, mountains, hills, scenic areas, natural or urban sites are there, available, in their unchangeable locations, waiting. For You.”
http://www.sadsmokymountains.net/
RAC- Rhythms for refugees
July 21, 2008
| July 25, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
a refugee action collective fundraiser • www.rac-vic.org
BAR 303
303 High St Northcote
$8 unwaged - $12 waged
Featuring…
THE CONCH
11 piece Cuban ensemble!
PATAPHYSICS
Melbourne hip hop group
and more - from 7pm til late…
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