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.
Hope you can make this!
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!
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."
Join us tonight for creative resources making to promo the blockade of the weapons conference. 6pm@128 Abel Smith St
"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/
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!
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.
Stop the weapons conference - please put a poster up at your school/workplace/local library/favourite cafe/community centre/church...thanks!
"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.
PAW at 70th anniversary commemoration of the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki to encourage Peace community to work to stop the weapons conference
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!




















