Upperroom - Faiths
August 28, 2008
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 Café/Bar (74 Kingsway 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 different faiths. We will have the info, resources and a discussion guide with reflections from ‘Speaking of Faiths’ and view doc of the Chicago Inter Faith youth Core. There was some chatter about a group of young people who were interviewed from a few different faiths but I don’t think they will be with us. Also, some interesting images to spark conversations.
Cya there.
C-Change - UCA Small Group Discipleship Resources
August 28, 2008
So I found these and thought they could do with some air play.
C-Change: small group discipleship resources for the 21st Century
Theology and Discipleship has developed a six-part series of short resources to act as discussion starters for congregations and small groups.
Worksheet 1: The Call to Discipleship
Worksheet 2: Spirituality
Worksheet 3: Evangelism
Worksheet 4: Covenanting
Worksheet 5: Hospitality
Worksheet 6: Multicultural and Cross-cultural Ministry
TELL TRIUMPH THAT FASHION REQUIRES FREEDOM: REINSTATE THAI UNION PRESIDENT NOW!
August 27, 2008
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Body Fashion Thailand, a subsidiary of Triumph International, has fired a union leader for wearing a political t-shirt. Thousands of workers are protesting her unjust dismissal.
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Take action now. Go to
http://www.cleanclothes.org/urgent/08-08-25.html#action
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On July 30, 2008, a Thai subsidiary of Triumph International, one of the world’s largest makers of intimate apparel, dismissed union president Jitra Kotshadej for wearing an unfashionable t-shirt. She wasn’t wearing the t-shirt at work, and it wasn’t the colour or the design of the t-shirt that caused offence. It was the message that caused the problem:
‘Those who do not stand are not criminals. Thinking differently is not a crime.’ The t-shirt refers to the abuse of lèse-majesté legislation to suppress political opposition and the right of people to refrain from standing during the royal anthem.
Work Justice advocates to be whipped - your help needed
August 25, 2008
Message from LabourStart:
Sousan Razani and Shiva Kheirabadi, have been sentenced to jail terms and whipping for the “crime” of having participated in a May Day demonstration this year. [Read more]
Clip Comments - Dance
August 25, 2008
So the youth ran the service at my church on the weekend.
They finished the time with this clip.
What do you think? feel?
Control Arms - Action & Game
August 25, 2008
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Peacemaking - a way to get involved
August 17, 2008
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About Talisman Sabre 09
In June 2007, 30,000 Australian and US troops descended on Shoalwater Bay on the central Queensland coast for a series of live-fire exercises including bombings and invasion tactics. They’re planning to do it all again in July 2009. At the same time, a new coal port has been proposed for an area inside the the Shoalwater Bay Training Area.
This is an invitation for you to be involved in planning to stop the Talisman Sabre military exercises in July 2009.
The Melbourne Peace Convergence Collective met recently to talk about what needs to be done between now and July 09 in order to make these exercises less likely to happen. We established two groups:
1. Movement building: This group decided to focus their attention and energy on getting as many people involved in protesting the military exercises as possible. This will primarily be done through education, public meetings, research and organisation. It would also involve liasing and networking with other peace groups to build a national movement to stop the Talisman Sabre exercises which fuel further wars of aggression, align us with US foreign policy, and are destructive to Australia’s ecology and national interest.
2. Strategic Direct Action: The direct action group decided to focus on training and equipping as many people as possible to be as disruptive as possible for as long as possible should all other attempts to stop the exercises fail. This will require both those who are willing risk arrest for nonviolent direct action, and significant support crew (people who can do media, legals, driving, logistics, etc). Ideally we would like this to be a nationally co-ordinated effort with people from every state.
We would therefore like YOU to join us on:
Friday September 5th at 6pm (bring some food to share) at 116 Little Bourke Street (Urban Seed), where both groups will meet to make further plans.
These are likely to be monthly meetings so if you can’t make this one, plan to be at the next one. Please forward this invitation on to anyone you think might be interested.
Even if you’re not planning to go to Shoalwater Bay in July 09, you’re welcome to be part of the planning and organisation process. We will need people in Melbourne involved as well.
For more information on the Talisman Sabre military exercises, go to http://www.peaceconvergence.com.
For questions etc email Kristy at kmhen7@gmail.com or Simon at smoyle@gmail.com, or just come along and find out more on the night.
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
August 15, 2008
Gday all,
Some people may have heard this already, but I’m prepared to lose my hair to get people to 2009’s National Christian Youth Convention (www.ncyc.org.au).
I’m really keen to see this raise at least $2500 (which is only 25 people donating $100) so I can hand over a lot of money to people who would desperately love to make it to 2009’s NCYC.
The plan is to give half of the money raised to NCYC in order for them to distribute to indigenous delegates, so it’s not all about us sending our own young people, it’s about us giving others the chance to go as well.
The National Christian Youth Convention is an event of the Uniting Church in Australia that gathers young people from all over the country to celebrate and study, to meet new friends and to broaden their vision of God’s calling on their lives and the world. This year’s gig has Shane Claiborne speaking ( http://www.thesimpleway.org/shane/ - he has long hair too!) who’s voice I believe could certainly shake our foundations a bit, and I’d love to see many others making their way to Melbourne to participate and live in the community of NCYC and hearing his voice.
So, I’m shaving my head, and I’m asking for donations to go towards the shaving….
If you’re interested in donating we’d love to hear from you, AND we’d love it even more if you would seek out others who may be keen on donating money to the cause…
Publicity posters, information and sponsor forms can be downloaded from:
http://www.riverinayouth.net/2008/08/14/hair-today-gone-tomorrow/
i’ve chosen to make the forms downloadable rather than emailing them out, if you’d like me to email you a copy please let me know.
Once again, go here for the forms:
http://www.riverinayouth.net/2008/08/14/hair-today-gone-tomorrow/
Shalom
Darren Wright
Climate change hits the poor hardest.
August 14, 2008
The developed world has created the problem but the developing countries will feel the heat of climate change the most!
Everyone has heard about climate change but what is it really? What can we do about it? How can we take responsibility so that the impact will not be the hardest on those least able to cope?
This month JustAct looks at the Garnaut report and how the Make Poverty History campaign is responding to the climate crisis.
Check out how you can make a difference at www.justact.org.au
Antony and Tess [Read more]
ACF - Campaign to stop proposed uranium sales to Russia
August 14, 2008
Why would Australia sell uranium to Russia - a country that fails to comply with their nuclear disarmament obligations under the Non Proliferation Treaty and has the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons?
Get informed on this issue and participate in this on-line campaign by sending an e Card to the Ministerfor Foreign Affairs Stephen Smith to reject a proposed treaty for sale of Australian uranium to Putin’s Russia, add your own views and ask the Minister to response to you – or Phone the Minister’s offices in Canberra Tel: (02) 6277 7500 and in Perth Tel: (08) 9272 3411.
Go to: http://www.acfonline.org.au/articles/news.asp?news_id=1880
ACF believes this flawed treaty will unacceptably weaken Australia’s policy and practice on nuclear safeguards, compromise our efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons and make Australia complicit in serious failures of the Russian state – where the rule of law, democratic values and human rights are not being observed. Read ACF’s Policy Brief on the Russian nuclear treaty.
The treaty was proposed and signed by then prime minister John Howard and Russian President Vladimir Putin at APEC in Sydney in 2007 and has been sent to a federal Parliamentary Inquiry by the new Labor federal government. This Inquiry may report back from mid-September and then Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith will decide Australia’s position.
Australia should not sell uranium to nuclear weapon states – like Russia – that fail to comply with their nuclear disarmament obligations under the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Russia maintains the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and is developing new weapons delivery systems.
This nuclear treaty would jeopardise the aims of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s new International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament to rid the world of nuclear weapons and would make the world less safe and more insecure.
Nuclear security risks far outweigh any claims for a nuclear expansion – see the ACF Policy Brief Reject the dangerous nuclear industry.
ACF is working with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) by the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW). For Australia to properly act on our international responsibilities and to take up a leadership role for the abolition of all nuclear weapons must involve the phase out of nuclear power and of Australia’s uranium mining and exports for the realisation of a nuclear free world.
In 2006 ACF and MAPW prepared a major report An Illusion of Protection: the unavoidable limitations of safeguards on nuclear materials and the export of uranium to China on the limitations of safeguards for the proposed export of Australian uranium. This critique applies equally to the proposed nuclear treaty for uranium sales to Russia which is based on the same set of inadequate Australian and International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.
“The contemporary nuclear threat is a key medical and public health issue with Australia priming the pump through irresponsible uranium exports,” said Associate Professor Tilman Ruff, President of MAPW.
David Noonan
Nuclear Free Campaigner
Australian Conservation Foundation
Level 1, 157 Franklin St, ADELAIDE SA 5000, Australia
Ph 08 8211 6838
d.noonan@acfonline.org.au
www.acfonline.org.au
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