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Caritas Australia's free e-magazine, OzSpirit, this week focuses on rural poverty in Fiji. To learn more about this and other social justice issues in Australia and around the world, take a look at OzSpirit.
It is available at www.ozspirit.com or through the Caritas Australia web site, www.caritas.org.au, where you can subscribe on-line for free.
Around Australia
Call to Abolish the Death Penalty
The Catholic Justice & Peace Commission of Brisbane are calling on all Australian’s to join with them this Lent in urging the Federal Government to take strong and swift action to convince our neighbours in the Asia/Pacific region to abolish the death penalty. They are asking us to please send an e-mail to the Government’s Senate Leader Senator Chris Evans, to take action on this issue. They are also asking us to make mention of the six members of the Bali Nine and the three Bali Bombers who are currently on death row in Indonesia in any communication with Senator Evans.
Senator Evans’ e-mail address is: Senator.Evans@aph.gov.au
International Day for the Elimination of racial discrimination, 21 March 2008 and National Harmony Day, 21 March 2008
www.harmony.gov.au
World Day for Water, 22 March 2008
The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. For information and resources go to
www.worldwaterday.org
Anniversary of the Assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero (1980), 24 March 2008
Earth Hour, 29 March 2008
Earth Hour will take place at 8.00 pm on Saturday March 29 around Australia. Created to take a stand against the immense threat of climate change, Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to deliver a powerful message about the need for action on global warming. To find out more, go to www.earthhour.org
NSW: "Human Rights in El Salvador Today", 21 March, 2007
The 27th anniversary of the assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero will be commemorated at the University of Notre Dame March 27 and 29 (Tuesday and Thursday) with a panel discussion, a Mass and a lecture by Judge Victoria Marina de Aviles of the Supreme Court of El Salvador. For more information contact: Rev. Robert S. Pelton at 574 631-8528 or Pelton.1@nd.edu or go to newsinfo.nd.edu
NSW: MICAH Challenge event: Martin Luther King, 5 April 2008
MICAH challenge would like to invite you to join leading Christian thinkers: including Rev Rod Benson, Dr Greg Clarke, Dr Armen Gakavian, Rev Dr Gordon Preece, and Rev Dr Andrew Sloan for a special day looking at the life, faith and achievements of Martin Luther King. This event will be held on Saturday 5 April 2008 at Macquarie University, Building E3A, rooms 247/244 9.30 (Registration) till 3.00 at a cost of $30 ($20 concession) which includes morning tea and lunch. For registrations to this event T: Micah Challenge on 9453 1586 E: amanda.jackson@
micahchallenge.org.au
NSW: Dance together for Peace, 27 - 28 March 2008
A group of young Cambodian dancers from the village of Tahen, in the province of Battambang, Northeast Cambodia, will tour Australia in late March and early April 2008. Tahen is a village that suffered much from the internal conflicts that plagued Cambodia for over thirty years and especially during the Khmer Rouge period. Their tour is being billed as the “Dance together for Peace” tour. The main purpose of the tour is to provide opportunities for young people from Cambodia and Australia to come together, share their culture and traditions as well as their life experiences. The dancers will be at St Ignatius College Riverview on March 27th (I'm going to this one) and St Aloysius' Milson's point on 28th of March. For further information please contact Sacha Bermudez-Goldman SJ on 0439 561 811 or email: sacha_goldman@hotmail.com
For events in Queensland subscribe to the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission's newsletter by contacting Peter Arndt at:
arndtp@bne.catholic.net.au
For more events around Australia subscribe to the Briefing papers from the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, which can be viewed online at:
www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au
