Here’s a brief summary of our time together at Voices for Justice in Canberra:

320 participants of all ages from around the country
We held more than 140 appointments with MPs and Senators
67 Politicians signed the Giant 40 metre scroll, including then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott who also addressed us at the Signature [...]

A town reinvents the Net.

By Bill McKibben
June 7, 2010

Michael Wood-Lewis and his wife, Valerie, moved to the south end of Burlington, Vt. in 2000. He recalls, “We’d landed in what we thought was our dream neighborhood. It was walkable, near the lake, full of trees. But we were having trouble getting to know the neighbors. [...]

The 2010 Football World Cup takes place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010, the first time the event has taken place on the continent of Africa. Click here for a range of useful web links and teaching resources to help you explore and celebrate this festival of football in the classroom. CAFOD [...]

prayingforchange.com is a new prayer initiative to equip people to pray intelligently for issues of justice and compassion. Together we want to seek our God of justice and ask for mercy, for light instead of darkness, for hope instead of despair in the relationships and places that are in need.
The central idea is to provide [...]

bshirts.org has officially launched and we are super excited about bringing this simmering idea to the boil in 2010!
Some t-shirts try to convince others of your ideas, but bshirts remind you of who you want to be.
Each shirt promotes an idea or value, and the wearer aims to live that value in their own day [...]

Turning a crisis for the banks into an opportunity for the world!
Jubilee Australia is delighted to be coordinating a broad alliance of development organisations, green groups, think tanks, unions, faith communities, to bring the Robin Hood Tax down under.
A global phenomenon, the Robin Hood Tax, is a suggested “tiny tax” on financial transactions that could raise hundreds of billions of dollars [...]

The Charter for Compassion is the result of Karen Armstrong’s 2008 TED Prize wish and made possible by the generous support of the Fetzer Institute. It will be unveiled to the world on November 12, 2009.  

Why a Charter for Compassion?
The Golden Rule requires that we use empathy — moral imagination — to put ourselves in others’ [...]

TEAR is committed to working for change – change in the world, change in the church, change in people’s lives. But we know that we can’t really change anybody else but ourselves.
In the Beatitudes, Jesus blesses all those who work for change by practising the Be-Attitudes that embody the Kingdom of Heaven on [...]

Pace e Bene launched its new website this week. Check out all the resources it offers for the nonviolent journey!
http://paceebene.org/

Peace Prints: the South Asian Journal of Peacebuilding provides a forum for academics and practitioners in South Asia to share their experiences internationally while at the same time receiving insights from projects around the world. The inaugural issue focuses on strategic peacebuilding.
The articles cover a variety of issues from academic papers personal experiences. These include:
Strategic [...]

Sabeel is an ecumenical grassroots liberation theology movement among Palestinian Christians. Inspired by the life and teaching of Jesus Christ, this liberation theology seeks to deepen the faith of Palestinian Christians, to promote unity among them toward social action. Sabeel strives to develop a spirituality based on love, justice, peace, nonviolence, liberation and [...]

Irene’s place is an intentional community for interns to come and learn about peace and discipleship. The name Irene comes from the Greek word for peace. We are starting a place in Canberra for learning about what it means to be people of peace. For an application or more information contact: moriah@canbap.org
http://irenesplacecommunity.blogspot.com/