JustAct - Just act for young Victorian workers

The Victorian Government can legislate to specifically protect young people (15-17) in Victorian workplaces. The Government is currently reviewing laws in this area and the Justice & International Mission Unit of the Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania has been positively liaising with the Government and other community groups about this issue. The Victorian Minister for Industrial Relations, the Hon. Rob Hulls has congratulated the church and community groups for their feedback so far. We are very hopeful for a good outcome.

Ensuring decent conditions for young workers should be a priority for Governments, employers and all others involved in the employment area. Many young people do not feel confident about negotiating their terms and conditions of employment.

There should be a set of standards for Victorian workplaces that are stronger than Commonwealth protections for workers 18 or above.

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Kaiti Hill to kick off global Human Rights action

(From our Friends in NZ this morn - Great stuff guys) press link here

The lighting of a red flare at dawn on Titirangi (Kaiti Hill) will begin a worldwide action on Friday to
protest China’s human rights abuses within China and illegal occupation of Tibet.

Coinciding with the lighting of the Olympic torch in Beijing, red flares will burn from the highest

monuments and mountains around the world.  Meeting at 6.30am at the top car park, organisers have invited Gisborne residents to show their concern for the plight of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who have been tortured, disappeared and killed by the Chinese government.
“Our own government prioritises profit for NZ companies above the lives of innocent people and
refuses to challenge the Chinese government on their appalling suppression of the Tibetan
people” said organiser Dave Tims.  Mr Tims joined the global event through a contact in Melbourne and has connected with the global organisers in France who are rapt that the first flare will be lit in Gisborne as the first city to the greet the sun.
“We will remember Beijing housing activist Ye Guozhu and the thousands of other community
organisers and pro-democracy activists who have been killed or still languish in Chinese prisons
simply for speaking out and challenging the State.”
On a website promoting the call to action, international organisers made the following statement:
“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, beside… the Eiffel Tower, in the heart of the city where UNESCO has it’s general headquarters, in a city that more than any other.”
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For more information contact: Dave Tims: 027 486 8990
Global Action Website: www.sadsmokymountains.net
Independent information on China’s Human Rights violations: www.amnesty.org.nz

Vicmanian’s @ SOD

Hi guys, I thought we could see who is coming up to SOD from Vicmania. Maybe think about travel buddies

I know the brunswick UCA mob is thinking about a bus/ car pool road trip thing.

James is the contact person.

Fantastically we have lots traveling up.

and it goes a little something like this…..

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Honour Amos, Jeremiah, Jesus and Jameson – use FAIRTRADE products

Rev Jameson Mabviko is a member of the Kasinthula Cane Growers (KCG) in Malawi, whose members are now benefiting from the FAIRTRADE movement. “I want many things for my life –  my son Onesama to learn how to drive so he can get a job, my daughter Hannah to learn how to use a computer.”

Old Testament prophets such as Amos and Jeremiah attacked fraudulent trade practices (Amos 4:5; 5:11-12; 8:4-5, Jer 22:13-16). Jesus, too, shifted the priority of trade when casting out the money changers from the Temple.

Your church is invited to use FAIRTRADE tea and coffee products. Over 4,000 churches in the UK have now done so, but the take-up rate in Australia has been slower. Visit www.fairtrade.com.au for more information. If you wish to register as a FAIRTRADE congregation, talk to Antony McMullen at the Synod’s Justice and International Mission (JIM) Unit – ph. 9251 5286 or email: antony.mcmullen@victas.uca.org.au  

Vote With Your Life (plan2)

November 15, 2007
7:00 pm	to	8:30 pm

This election why not commit to “being the change you want to see in the world” no matter who gets in.

There is an election day action being planned at Shine (74 Kingsway Glen Waverley) on Thursday night 7pm. (note date change) If anyone is keen… your invited.

The action is designed to give people that are donkey voting, or not voting a place to register their dissent publicaly plus for those voting to make a stand “to be the change they want in the world” under the next government in spite of the government.

A chance to call for a more participatory government. A chance to call ourself to live consistently as the communities of hope we wish we were.

Curious ? Keen? please join us.

PS: I was thinking about people whose lives have been consistent with their worldview and shaped our world. So I made series of shirts with faces of people who did that - here. It was hard to decide on iconic faces for this series. I mean we are missing heaps of people like Rosa Parks, Tutu, Mandela, Florence Nightingale, Catherine booth, on and on… But I think Jesus, an Atheist / Anarchist, 2x Catholics (one liberation), Hindu, Civil Rights/Protestant, Civil Rights/Muslim & Environmentalist/Futurist is a good mix. Oh and a space for you

(They take 10 days to deliver… so if you want one for the election - order now.)

Give Gear

So morepraxis now has a fun place to buy your generous revolution tees - (thanks mike!)

Check out the range of tees (yep they are fair trade) and if you are a creative praxis person and would like to design us something… feel free.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/morepraxis

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November 30, 2007

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December 2, 2007

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Theatre @ Risk

Call for script submissions for:
2007 Festival of New Writting

Theatre @ Risk presents a ten day festival of new works, ideas & discussions with rehearsed readings and performances of local, national and international writing.

We are calling for submissions of full length plays based on the themes of FAITH, HOPE & CHARITY. Plays must be no longer than 90minutes, feature no more than 6 actors and have been written within the past five years. We are especially looking for plays that have not received a professional production yet in Victoria. Submissions open to all Australian playwrights.

Up to six plays will be chosen by a panel of readers selected from both within and outside the company, and presented in a rehearsed reading at the Old Council Chambers, Trades Hall, during the festival period of Fri 7th - Sun 16th September, 2007.

Each author selected will receive a small royalties fee ($200) for the one-off playreading. A small travel allowance will be available to assist interstate playwrights to travel to the festival.

Please send scripts along with a submission fee of $15 to cover readers’ fees (money order/cheque to Theatre @ Risk or pay online ) to: Theatre @ Risk Festival of New Writing - Office 7, The Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne, VIC 3051

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