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Amazing double-speak at the UK Embassy in Wellington yesterday - They claim that the British government have no responsibility for refugee crisis while bombing Syria.

British Embassy in NZ claims 'we're doing better than most European countries' on refugee crisis - while David Cameron admits extra-judicial drone killings in Syria; Wellington residents protest
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Hope you can make this!

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SEP
Thu 6 PMNew Zealand Parliament BuildingsWellington, New Zealand
7,691 guests
Over the past week, the world has become acutely aware of the plight of people fleeing from wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
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Great stuff Wellington! Keep up the pressure. Open all the borders - the world is for all of us.

"Do unto others as we did to your mother," protesters calling for NZ's refugee quota to be lifted told the PM.
stuff.co.nz

Get along all ye Wellingtonians - there is only one world for all of us.

We're on for a regular Peace Action meeting tomorrow night (Wed) at Trades Hall, 126 Vivian Street in the Ernie Abbott Room (ground floor) at 6pm. Hope you can be there!

Reporter, cameraman and their fixer held by anti-terrorism department in Diyarbakir for filming
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Excellent write up by Hameet Sooden, NZ Christian peacemaker just returned from Iraq: "There is a straightforward way New Zealand can begin to protect the people of Iraq: namely, by withdrawing its support for the human rights violators in the coalition, and acknowledging that worthwhile alternatives exist."

Harmeet Sooden has recently returned from Iraqi Kurdistan, where he was working on a human rights project assessing communal tensions in a camp for internally displaced persons. In 2005, Harmeet was kidnapped in Iraq while working for an international ...
scoop.co.nz

Join us tonight for creative resources making to promo the blockade of the weapons conference. 6pm@128 Abel Smith St

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"War means many things to many people. War can be the setting for an action movie, an exciting game for children armed with plastic guns, a distant memory of grandad in an old brown photograph." Check out our latest blog post & pamphlet - War & YOU. https://peaceactionwellington.wordpress.com/

Peace with justice and self-determination
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Organising meeting - tomorrow night - 19 August at 6pm at Trades Hall, 126 Vivian Street - come along & get involved in the campaign to shut down the weapons conference!

A Bush likes nothing better than getting rich by murdering a few million people on the other side of the world.

It was a pretty good deal for defense contractors.
firstlook.org

Examples of successful community campaigns on this scale are few and far between in today’s world. For this reasons the defeat of the East-West toll road by a community must be analysed and learnt from.

31
AUG
Mon 12 AMChristchurch, Wellington, Auckland
55 guests

Stop the weapons conference - please put a poster up at your school/workplace/local library/favourite cafe/community centre/church...thanks!

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Lockheed Martin - sponsor of this year's weapons conference in Wellington - getting rich of the war in Iraq...

For the Middle East, the growth of the self-proclaimed Islamic State has been a catastrophe. For one American firm, it’s been a gold mine.
thedailybeast.com

"Peace" Mayor says no connection between weapons conference in Wellington and nuclear weapons proliferation - despite conference sponsorship by world's largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, Lockheed Martin.

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PAW at 70th anniversary commemoration of the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki to encourage Peace community to work to stop the weapons conference

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Peace Action will be at the 70th anniversary commemoration of the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki on Sunday at the Wellington Botanical Gardens at 10:30 - please join us!

3. Councillor Sarah Free. Wellington City Councillor.9. Sabrina Kao and Mio Shirataki. Queen Margaret College students
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