June
June 28 (fri): Rattle against the Saber 2013 – Guerilla Gig
Place: Under the William Jolly Bridge – south (West End) side
Time: 8pm on
To raise consciousness about the reasons we don’t want the Talisman Saber 2013 mid year military exercises in Rockhampton. Join your MC Gerald Keaney for plenty of agit-prop and music by the following comrads:
7.45 pm Scrabble
8.10 pm Johnny Vulcan
8.50 pm Gravel Samwidge
9.30 pm Dispatcha
10.10 pm Gunk
July
July 12 (fri): Planning for Peace- Australian lessons from the Iraq War
Place: Qld Council of Unions
Time: 6:30 for a 7pm start.
Speakers:
Vince Emanuele – Iraq Veterans against War
Dr Alison Broinowski – representing the Campaign for an Iraq war Inquiry
MC: Ron Monaghan – General Secretary of the Qld Council of Unions
More information: Annette Brownlie Just Peace/IPAN 0431597256
July 13 (sat): Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud’ – Exhibition Opening
Place: Queensland Centre for Photography Cnr Cordelia St & Russell St, South Brisbane.
Time: 5:00pm until 8:00pm
To be opened by Muckaty Traditional Owner Dianne Stokes
In 2007, Muckaty (Manuwangku), 120km north of Tennant Creek, was nominated as another site to be assessed for nuclear waste storage. Called Manuwangku by Warlmanpa and Warumungu Traditional Owners, this place is far from ‘middle of nowhere’. They maintain a deep spiritual and cultural connection to the area.Supported by people across the NT and Australia, the community has engaged in protests and legal action in the Federal Court to defend their right to live in a clean and safe environment, free of hazardous waste. The photographic narrative ‘Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud’ is a portrayal of this community’s spiritual connection to their land and resilience in the face of an overwhelming conflict through a common struggle to keep their traditional land free and safe.
Photography by Jagath Dheerasekara
July 13(sat): US Marine veteran, Vince Emanuele screens ‘On The Bridge’
Place: Windsor Bowls Club 69 Blackmore Street, Windsor
A short walk from Albion Rail Station
Time: 2.30 – 5.00 pm Saturday
Vince is a former US Marine of two tours to Iraq who refused to go again by laying down his weapon. He is now organiser for the Michigan chapter of Veterans for Peace and serves of the national Board of Directors of Iraq Veterans against the War . On the Bridge is a powerful and moving documentary insight into US war veterans and their experiences of PTSD. Vince is interviewed in the film. He hosts the Veterans Unplugged radio program on Radio WIMS, Michigan.
http://www.onthebridgethemovie.com/After viewing the film there will be a discussion session to enable our audience to ask Vince questions about the film´s message, PTSD and his impressions of the War in Iraq.
Contact Willy Bach 0438752691
July 15 (mon)- Aug 5 (mon): US-AUS joint military exercise Talisman Saber
Program of events for Rockhampton Peace Convergence below
Updates about Brisbane and other events:
July 22-23 (mon): Chamorro campaigner Vicky Leon visits Brisbane (begins Aus tour)
Brisbane Event details TBA
Vicky will be visiting Australia during the Talisman Saber war games. Guam or Guahan – the southernmost island of the North Mariana islands – a Non-Self Governing territory of the US is the traditional home of the Chamorro people. With the land 1/3 occupied by US military, the Chamorro people struggle to reclaim their land and keep their culture. Australian military agreements with the US support this occupation of Guahan; for example, US is permitted to conduct bombing practice over the NT that flies out of Guahan.
For more information: Annette Brownlie Just Peace/IPAN 0431597256
July 29: LAKE EYRE to WEST PAPUA FREEDOM Land and Sea Convoy for Peace and Justice
Brisbane event TBA
Calling on all our friends and families of all nations to join us at the shores of Lake Eyre (From July 20 in South Australia) for a music festival to celebrate the survival of the old country and to stand strong to make an action of creative resistance against the apartheid of colonization and destruction caused by multinational mining companies on this land.
From the shores of the Lake, we will follow the underground water across “Australia” in a freedom ride convoy of artists, musicians, activist, Original Sovereigns and Indigenous ambassadors from Australia and West Papua that carry the ancient water collected from the sacred mount springs of Arabunna country, the fire from the old Lake Eyre and ashes from Aboriginal tent embassies across Australia. These offerings of peace and justice will be taken on a flotilla as a symbol to support the freedom and justice for West Papuan people.
August
August 4 (sun): Brisbane Hiroshima Day Rally: 68 years on… and we still say Ban the Bomb!
Place: TBC
Time: early afternoon
US led nuclear-weapons-capable and nuclear-powered war games “Talisman Saber” is taking place in Qld July15 – Aug 5!
Australia must stop fuelling the nuclear arms race:, Stop uranium mining & exports, Stop the War Games, Close the bases
No uranium – no weapons – no war games – no war
More info: Robin Taubenfeld Friends of the Earth Brisbane 0411 118 737
August 6(tue): Hiroshima Day – possible US nuclear ship in port action TBA
August 9 (wed): Nagasaki Day – possible US nuclear ship in port action TBA
August 19 (mon): Rockhampton Tiger Ploughshare Trial
Place: Rockhampton District Court, Queensland
Time: 9:00am
Support Graeme Dunstan as he faces court. Graeme Dunstan has been charged with wilful damage of Commonwealth property, which carries a maximum penalty of 12 years jail, plus other related charges for his role in the Rockhampton Tiger Ploughshares action in 2011.
On 19 July 2011 in the midst of the biennial Talisman Sabre US-led military exercises at Shoalwater Bay, Bryan Law, wearing a Bob Katter hat, a dark suit and his Peace Preacher persona, cut a chain, opened a gate, raced across the Rockhampton airport tarmac on his tricycle, and, with a garden mattock, smote a brand new $35 mill Australian Army Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter.
A classical Catholic Worker Ploughshare action, it was a symbolic strike, a reference to the words of the prophet Isaiah 2:3-4. he words of the prophet Isaiah 2:3-4, that we will study war no more and instead “turn swords into a ploughshares, spears into pruning hooks”.
What was extraordinary about this Ploughshare action and, what made it a world first, was that it was videoed live and appeared on that evening’s WIN Tv News throughout Central Queensland.
For more information: Graeme Dunstan 0407 951 688
September
Sept 12 (thu): Songs of social justice and peace w Dave RovicsPlace: TBC
Time: 6:30 for 7pm start
Entry: suggested donation $10
Food and drink available for purchase
After costs and support for Dave’s travel proceeds will go to support the Qld Nuclear Free Alliance
More info: Robin Taubenfeld Friends of the Earth Brisbane 0411 118 737
Sept 21 – International Day of Peace – details TBA
Nuclear Free Queensland 