Peace Movement Aotearoa - What's On
12 April 2001
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NATIONAL -
WHAT’S ON
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*** NATIONAL ***
~ 12 to 24 April - ‘Getting It Right Together’
community report back forums to be held around the country.
NZ Council of Social Services, NZ Council of Christian
Social Services and the NZ Federation of Voluntary Welfare
Organisations are arranging a series of forums in
conjunction with the Chairperson of the Government Community
and Voluntary Sector Working Party and ANGOA's Community
Sector Roundtable. The reports of the Working Party and of
the Joint Umbrella Group's Social Services Relationship
Project will be available for discussion of the outcomes and
recommendations. Meetings schedule and contact details:
~ SUN, 15 April and
MON, 16 April - Radio New Zealand Insight programme on the
recent UN Asia-Pacific Regional Disarmament Conference held
in Wellington; interviews with World Court Judge
Weeramantry, Canadian Senator Douglas Roche, Rebecca Johnson
of the UK based Acronym Institute, Losena Salabula from the
Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (Secretariat of the Nuclear
Free and Independent Pacific movement), UN Under Secretary
General and Head of the UN's Disarmament Section Jayantha
Dhanapala, US Ambassador Norman Wolf and Alyn Ware. It will
be aired on 15 April at 8am (and replayed on 16 April after
the 8pm news). ***** LOCAL ***** *** AUCKLAND ~ SAT,
21 April - shared lunch and video about Bougainville, part
of the WILPF Tamaki Makaurau Branch AGM, 11am at 21 Horton
Ave, Avondale. For more info contact Rae Martell, tel (09)
828 6165. ~ SUN, 22 April - ‘1981 The Tour - 20 Years On’,
public meeting to discuss this year’s 20th anniversary of
the protests organised across New Zealand against the
Springbok Tour; and to make some decisions on activities to
recall and celebrate the heroic deeds of 1981 while at the
same time stimulate a critical look at our own country 20
years on. 3pm to 5pm at the Franciscan Friary, 50
Hillsborough Road. Contact John Minto tel (09) 846 3173 or
Dick Cuthbert (09) 376 5942. ~ MON, 23 April - Vernon
Jantzi (Director, Conflict Transformation Program, Professor
of Sociology at Eastern Mennonite University) speaks at the
Anglican Pacifist Fellowship Meeting, 7pm at 4 Roland Hill,
Glen Eden. For more info contact Hugh Tollemache, tel (09)
818 6959. ~ MON, 23 April - Ranggoaini Jahja, a visiting
activist from Indonesia speaks. Ranggoaini is a young woman
leader from PRD (Peoples Democratic Party) whose background
includes working with Nike workers and evaluating programmes
for street children, 7-30 pm at the Grey Lynn Community
Centre, 510 Richmond Rd, Grey Lynn. Organised by the
Indonesia Human Rights Committee. ~ WEDS, 25 April - Anzac
Day meeting with speakers Rev Jean Brookes and Hon Matt
Robson Minister of Disarmament, 9am at the Methodist Central
Mission, Queen Street. For more info contact Peace
Foundation, tel (09) 373 2379. ~ WEDS, 25 April - Anzac
Day ‘Peace in the Park’, includes Tamaki Treaty Workers
information stall, 1pm to 5pm at Craigavon Park, Blockhouse
Bay. Contact Cathie Peters (09) 820 4497. ~ FRI, 27 April
- Zonta International District 16 invite the women of
Auckland to join with them to honour the Hon Dame Silvia
Cartwright and to celebrate her installation as Governor
General, Dame Silvia will speak at a luncheon, from 12 noon
at Ellerslie Racecourse Convention Centre, $30. Contact Jo
Pinker, PO Box 51-360, Pakuranga or tel (09) 535 4030. ~
FRI, 27 April - End the War Against Iraq - join the National
Days of Outrage! Rally and protest from 5 pm to 8pm outside
the US Consulate, 23 Custom Street East, Citibank Centre.
For more info contact Joyce Browne, tel (09) 335 1455, fax
377 6413. *** WELLINGTON ~ WEDS, 18 April - ‘Tougher
sentences! Prison - who should go? For how long? why?’ Celia
Lashlie, former Superintendent of Christchuch Women’s
prison, speaks, 6pm to 8pm, at the Mezzanine Floor Meeting
Room, Wellington Central Library. ~ WEDS, 25 April -
‘Himalaya’ - screening of Eric Valli’s film to celebrate the
Panchen Lama's 12th birthday. Friends of Tibet Wellington
are holding a special fund raising evening to aid Tibetan
political prisoners and refugees; ‘Himalaya’ is an
astonishingly beautiful film set in the remote Nepalese
mountain province of Dolpo. Described as a "hymn to the
survival of an ancient culture and a classic tale of
rivalry", the film's actors are local chiefs, lamas and
villagers, screening starts at 8-30 pm, Penthouse Cinema,
Brooklyn, $15/$10 for film and birthday cake, the Penthouse
Cinema is fully licensed. Ticket inquiries please phone 025
237 8009 or 021 918 6449. If you are unable to attend but
would like to make a donation, please send your cheque made
out to ‘Friends of Tibet’, c/- The Treasurer, 72 Majoribanks
Street, Mt Victoria, Wellington. ~ Every Sunday, ‘Peace
Report’ on Wellington Access Radio (783 AM), broadcast at
11-45am, brought to you by the Peace Council, funded by
PADET. If you or your group wish to make a free programme to
be broadcast in this slot, please contact Des Brough tel/fax
(04) 388 3173. ************************************* If
you would like your events or meetings advertised, just send
them to pma@xtra.co.nz
and write ‘for what’s on’ in the subject
heading. *************************************
12 April - PORIRUA 9am to 12 noon, Whitireia Community
Polytech, Rooms D4 and D5, contact Raewyn Te Tau, tel 025
247 3576,
17 April -
PALMERSTON NORTH 2pm to 5 pm, Methodist Church, Broadway;
contact Ian Ritchie, tel (06) 354 3804,
18 April - CHRISTCHURCH 9-30am to 12-30pm, Campbell
Centre, 44 Bealey Avenue, contact Sharon Torstenson, tel
(03) 366 2050 or Catherine 03 366 5472,
19 April - DUNEDIN 1-30 to 4-30 pm, Community House, 283
Moray Place, contact Pam Warren, tel (03) 477 4181,
23 April - TAUPO 1pm to 4 pm,
Taupo Events Centre Conference Room, contact Sue
Christensen, tel (07) 377 3603;
24 April - WEST AUCKLAND
1pm - 4pm, Kelston Community Centre, cnr Awaroa and Gt North
Roads, Kelston, Waitakere City, contact Wadcoss office, tel
(09) 838 7903,
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