Message forwarded onto the Climate Change Action Group,
Please forward throughout your networks...

and Felicity, please add "Global Climate Change Action" to your list of
supporters
http://globalclimatechangeaction.org

----- Original Message -----
From: Hillel Freedman
To: nfanews@...
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 8:46 AM
Subject: NFA meeting pyramid rock & Palm Sunday


Next NFA meeting is this thursday Dec 7th 7pm Ross House 247 Flinders Lane
Melbourne please let us know if your coming Hillel 0417506150

Pyramid Rock Festival

http://www.thepyramidrockfestival.com/layout.asp

We have a stall at this excellent festival.

Its on Fri 29 Sat 30 & Sun 31 December at Phillip Island. We would be coming
back to Melbourne on new years day

We have been gievn 4 free tickets for a stall. We still have 2 of these
available.

Please contact me asap if your interested.

Hillel
0417506150

Featuring
Fifty artists including SILVERCHAIR, THE LIVING END, UGLY DUCKLING (USA), XAVIER
RUDD, EVERMORE, THE FREESTYLERS (UK), MYLO DJ SET (UK), END OF FASHION, THE
BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, FAKER, LIOR, KARNIVOOL, MIA DYSON, ASH GRUNWALD, BOMBA, XAVIER
RUDD, TZU, TRUE LIVE, CARUS & THE TRUE BELIEVERS, JOSH OWEN BAND, ROB SAWYER,
THE RED EYES



PALM SUNDAY

April 1 is a date we can have some fun with, while driving some serious
messages home.


The fools who started foolish wars in Iraq, Afghanistan,
Palestine/Israel and too many other places around our world must be
seriously protested.


We should also say no to nuclear fools and their fool hardy ideas about
25 nuclear power plants for Australia. No Way! The ALP also need to
hear a loud and clear "No Uranium Mining" before their national
conference in late April. Kim Beazley should not be fooled by the dodgy
uranium mining industry; our country should not go nuclear and we should
stop exporting uranium, especially to Nuclear Weapon States like China
and the US, and perhaps also to India. Leave uranium in the ground so
that it never becomes part of nuclear weapons or plutonium that lasts
for 250,000 years!


Organizing will start in earnest next year, but for Melbourne Groups, a
brainstorming meeting will take place at 6pm on Monday 11 December, in
the Baretto cafe on the corner of Grattan and Barry Streets in Carlton.


If you would like to register your interest in staying informed, or in
organizing an event in your local area, please simply send an email to
felicity.hill@...


You will be sent the minutes and ideas raised in our local brainstorm
for possible activities and themes you might like to use. Feel free to
send in your ideas and suggestions!

best wishes
Felicity

Felicity Hill
Campaign Coordinator
ICAN - International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons
Medical Association for Prevention of War
www.icanw.org www.mapw.org.au www.ippnw.org
Phone: + 61 38344 1637
Fax: + 61 38344 1638
Mobile: + 61 43239 8261
Skype address: icanflick
Postal Address: MAPW, P O Box 1379, Carlton, Vic 3053, Australia
Visiting Address: MAPW Alan Gilbert Building, 2nd Floor, 161 Barry
Street, Carlton, Vic 3053

Listen to 3CR 855 AM every Friday morning at 7.45 for an ICAN update!
Streaming via www.3cr.org.au

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN A NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION

Palm Sunday
1 April, 2007


Your organisation is invited to join a broad and diverse coalition of
organisations that will be established to plan and organise successful Palm
Sunday events with churches, unions etc in capital cities and towns across
Australia.



Palm Sunday in 2007 is an attractive date to:

· Harness and expand the anti-nuclear sentiment that is re-emerging
across the country by reengaging people and bringing new people into the
campaign;

· Remind the ALP not to back down on their No New Uranium Mines policy at
their national conference in late April;

· Inform Australians in the lead up to the November federal election.



The size, flavour and scale and events will vary across the country, but it is
proposed that the underpinning 'feel' of the event is a positive party type
atmosphere with a campaign boosting 'up feel.' The fact that this is April Fools
Day already suggests some joviality, and might encourage some themed slogans,
"Don't be a Nuclear Fool Howard/Beazley", Nuclear Fools: Not us" etc.



Groups present in each location would decide on the best kind of action or event
for their community - it might be a rally, a silent vigil, or a cultural event.
The generous lead-time we have could be used to work on a joint communications
strategy, and to use our collective strength to secure big name/appealing acts,
venues, networking, and promotions. It may make sense to pool our finances for
adequate and attractive promotion materials, venue hire, technical equipment
etc.



We urge you to indicate your participation and endorsement of this proposal by
contacting Felicity Hill, co-ordinator of the Medical Association for the
Prevention of War's International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons??,
<felicity.hill@...>, ph (03) 8344 1637?.



This initial proposal has been endorsed so far by

Medical Association for the Prevention of War

Friends of the Earth, Australia

Australian Conservation Foundation

Environment Centre of the Northern Territory

Peace Organisation of Australia







" Chief Red Cloud of the Sioux observed otherwise. In the end, every
old warrior, chieftain or common soldier who ever fought knows what
the fool continually ignores: the most enduring fort is a permanent
peace built on a foundation of justice."


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