This conference organised by the Centre for Dialogue at La Trobe University will be held in Melbourne at the Bundoora campus from July (7th to 9th) . It will include young Christians, Jews and Muslims in dialogue about the difficult issues that face everyone who cares about peace in the region.
We do recognise that there [...]
Join us on 28th April
Please Come along to the UCA, 130 Litlle Collins Street Melbourne at 5pm on the 28th and join us for this lively Inter-faith Forum. Baptist Minister Simon Moyle will be one of the speakers and he has written the article listed below.
A few days ago, a group of Christians interrupted the workings of a secretive military facility in Victoria. One of them, Baptist minister Simon Moyle, explains why the time had come to act.
In the mainstream media, people who take action are often marginalised by being painted as irresponsible fringe radicals. “Activist” is made to sound [...]
We pay tribute to the late historian, writer and activist Howard Zinn who died suddenly on Wednesday of a heart attack at the age of 87. Howard Zinn?s classic work A People?s History of the United States changed the way we look at history in America. …
The belief that people in disaster (particularly poor and nonwhite people) are cattle or animals or just crazy and untrustworthy regularly justifies spending far too much energy and far too many resources on control — the American military calls it ?security? — rather than relief. A British-accented voiceover on CNN calls people sprinting to where [...]
The stories we are told by our leaders and the stories we tell each other help to build our worldview. We have to take back control of these narratives to empower each other and construct a more peaceful world.
MELBOURNE, Dec 8 (IPS) – For the global religious community, the use of nuclear arms is an overwhelmingly important ethical issue for the human family. Thus, nothing less than the immediate abolition of such weapons is needed from the highest levels, said speakers at the Parliament of the World?s Religions currently underway in this Australian [...]
It was revolting, monstrous, inhumane ? and scarcely different from what happens in Africa almost every day. The oil trading company Trafigura has just agreed to pay compensation to 31,000 people in Cote d?Ivoire, after the Guardian and the BBC?s Newsnight obtained emails sent by its traders(1). They reveal that Trafigura knew that the oil slops it sent there in 2006 were contaminated with toxic waste(2). But the Ivorian contractor it employed to pump out the hold of its tanker dumped them around inhabited areas in the capital city and the countryside. Tens of thousands of people fell ill and 15 died(3). It is one of the world?s worst cases of chemical exposure since the gas leak at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal. But in all other respects the Trafigura case is unremarkable. It?s just another instance of the rich world?s global fly-tipping.
In a speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of Australia’s human rights prize, the Sydney Peace Prize, John Pilger describes the “unique features” of a political silence in Australia: how it affects the national life of his homeland and the way Australians see the world and are manipulated by great power [...]