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January 2022
War and the Environment Online Course
Grounded in research on peace and ecological security, this course focusses on the relationship between two existential threats: war and environmental catastrophe. We will cover: • Where wars happen and why. • What wars do to the earth. • What imperial militaries do to the earth back home. • What nuclear weapons have done and could do to people and the planet. • How this horror is hidden and maintained. • What can be done. This course is 100% online…
Find out more »Summer Gardening & Landcare Week
Summer gardening and landcare week at Silver Wattle Quaker Centre Sunday Jan 23, 4:30 pm – Friday Jan 28, 2022, 1:30 pm Join the Silver Wattle community for a time of gardening, fellowship and fun. Everything is growing… including the weeds so there will be plenty to do besides harvesting and looking after new tree plantings. We will adapt the rhythm of the day to weather conditions. Gardening weeks are free (donations are appreciated to cover costs.) Whether you wish…
Find out more »50th Anniversary Aboriginal Tent Embassy
50 YEARS AND STILL FIGHTING Founded on the 26th January in 1972, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, one of the world's longest continuing protest sites. For 50 years The Aboriginal Tent Embassy has continually occupied the lawns of what is now Old Parliament Housing, protesting the conditions relating to Aboriginal People across Australia such as Land Rights, Truth and Reparatory Justice. Most of the political reforms we have today that have befitted Aboriginal People…
Find out more »Creating Desired Futures
Saturday, January 29, 2022, 3.30-5.00pm (AEST) "Creating Desired Futures" zoom “ "Creating Desired Futures" features a short talk by Adrian Glamorgan, followed by discussion.” Creating desired futures: What does Quaker experience tell us about organising ourselves to live well together? How do we make our ‘faith’ visible as we choose and enact ways to organise ourselves to live well together in our immediate, medium, and long term future? As individuals, groups, Meetings, and organisations, many of us are thinking about…
Find out more »Is COP26 enough? Peace, Militarism, and the Climate Crisis
Objectives of this event: Draw out the outcomes from COP26 in relation to Climate and Peace. Hear from communities affected by militarism, the climate crisis and its interplay. Offer approaches to bridge the gap between policy and actions in communities, Reflect together, support and promote actions that will make a difference in challenging militarism and its climate impacts. Register for the zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwocOCtpzgoH9Oa3LmDstHt2BAbtNz5nFYF
Find out more »February 2022
AGM of Religious Society of Friends (Canberra) Inc
AGM of Religious Society of Friends (Canberra) Inc - In person and Via Zoom The Annual General Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Canberra) Inc.-Canberra Regional Meeting known as Canberra and Region Quakers- will be held on Sunday 6 February 2022 at 12:30pm. It will be held at the North Canberra Meeting House and by Zoom and will be followed by the February Meeting for Worship for Business. For the agenda and Zoom connection details, please contact the Clerk…
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