“They face Geelong Magistrates Court on Wednesday June 16th and would love you to join them in a celebration of active, vibrant resistance to war on that day.

We will meet at Johnstone Park (Railway Terrace, opposite Geelong Magistrates court) at 9am and then process to the court. Please bring your own lunch.

After court the Bonhoeffer Peace Collective will invite you to join them in returning to the gates of Swan Island, at Queenscliff. Swan Island is a training base for Australia’s elite SAS soldiers, who are playing the most active combat role for Australia in Afghanistan. We will meet at 2pm at the park opposite Bridge St in Queenscliff before processing together to the gate of the island. There you will be given the opportunity to refuse continued warmaking on the people of Afghanistan by stepping onto the prohibited land (thereby risking arrest), or to participate in a peaceful, nonarrestable demonstration at the gate.

We will hold a briefing/information/nonviolence session for those who wish to participate in either arrestable or nonarrestable actions on Saturday June 5th from 1-4pm at the Den, 116 Little Bourke St Melbourne. Please let us know if you will be at this session, or if you’d like to be but cannot make it that day.

This is an opportunity for your voice to be heard on the war in Afghanistan. If you could indicate a) your interest in being involved and b) whether you would like some preparatory briefing as soon as possible, that will help us plan logistics, and set up communication and support [contact smoyle[at]gmail.com]. And of course please pass this on to anyone else you know who might be interested.

With thanks for all you do to make this world a more compassionate place,

Simon Moyle, Jacob Bolton, Jessica Morrison, Simon Reeves and the rest of the Bonhoeffer Peace Collective.”

Al Macrae (UCA President) did a fantastic job connecting why we as the UCA engage justice issues.

It seems yesterday’s session/chat at parliament of mine was helpful to a fair few. Chuffed.

Today I got to host/chat with about 100 young adults from faith communities. We talked and conspired about engaging their churches in justice and social action. That is 10% of the 1000 peeps on the roadtrip. Very Chuffed.

All in all I think it was a good action to raise the millenium goals, a great opportunity for young people lobby pollies and I think us (UCA) being there helped/was important.

Mike Symon was Ok put the issue of more people need to be raising the millennium goals and 0.07% as an important issue before they do more about it - I wonder how many millions of people he thinks he needs? It is not like millions of people haven’t signed petitions and attended action over this issue?? I guess it means we all should raise aid and extreme global poverty with our local members - so go make an meeting The road trippers asked good questions of him. Well done.

Had chats about UCA Ringwood’s commitment to justice as evident by the notice boards and the make poverty history hand made banner with Millennium goals RUC made back in 2005!!! I said welcome aboard an issue UCA is well versed in. All in all good stuff.

However, I do need to apologise for being as an email described me - a big duffer. When I changed the picture on the facebook event for the forum I somehow changed the date of the forum to the Sunday not the Sat. Thankfully, the main text remained correct. So this UCA minister had put off mothers day stuff with his mum and encouraged his congregation to come to the forum that Sunday morning only to find, once he got there that we met the night before. A great story but I am a classic duffer and now find my self in the bad book of a minister’s grumpy mum. Sorry

So I have pulled together a cool party activity for the kids but wondered if other have more awesome ideas?

Currently have a couple of craft activities, a few games like ‘Steal the taxes’ ‘ Find the taxes’ and an archery comp. Maybe a quarter staff fight