Calendar of Events

All meetings will be held at the town hall at CAMPBELL TOWN.

2^nd August – upstairs meeting room

4^th October – downstairs supper-room

6^th December – downstairs supper-room

Meetings start at 1pm and end at 5pm at the latest. The room is open at 12 for those who would like to have lunch and catch up with each other before the meeting. Any changes to times will be notified.

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SUPPORT FOR PULP MILL HASN’T STOPPED YET - PEACEFUL COMMUNITY PROTEST - TRAINING WORKSHOP

Join with others and learn the skills of Peaceful Community Protest. Together we stop this mill.

Peaceful Community Protest Workshops occur on the 1st Sunday of every month.

No booking is required.

3 August 08, 10.00am- 4.00pm at the Launceston Environment Centre, 72 Tamar St, Launceston (opposite the Design Centre, City Park).

Participants bring: notepad+pen; own lunch and cup (beverages are supplied or byo – no alcohol!); suitable clothing for outdoors whether rain or shine; donation ($10 preferred)

Can you bring your children? PCP is not recommended for people under 18yrs.

What’s supplied: handouts: Basic Principles, Peacekeeping, Legal Issues

For more information or to register your participation, send an email to pcptasnorth@gmail.com

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WOMENS MYSTERIES 
5 DAY MOUNTAIN RETREAT

6th to 10th August 2008
Golden Valley, 45 mins from Launceston

The program is facilitated by Shivam Rachana, founder of the International College of Spiritual Midwifery, co founder and director of the Center For Human Transformation, inspirational teacher and author of “Lotus Birth” co-author of “The Tantric Path”.

This residential retreat takes women into the mysteries of the feminine, and covers all aspects of a woman's life cycle. We sit in comfort surrounded by nature and are nurtured for 5 days - body, mind and spirit.

Women’s Mysteries is now in its 15^th year, some women return each year seeing it as a professional and personal development opportunity. Join us to take time out to regroup, to explore your inner life as a woman, extend your experience of working with chakra’s and meditation and experience the joy of meeting and working with Rachana.
For more information please call Niecy Brown (03) 63695280  tigerhill@bigpond.com   
Women’s Mysteries: http://www.womenofspirit.asn.au/

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PUBLIC FORUM - ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

WHEN: 3PM, Saturday, 9TH August

WHERE: Town Hall Conference Room

WHAT: Public Forum to Commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki

PUT YOUR QUESTIONS TO THE PANEL -

WHO: Chairperson      - Deputy Lord Mayor Eva Ruzicka

      UNAA                    - Lisa Singh MP

      MAPW                  - Dr. Gerry McGushin

      Labor                    - Hon. Duncan Kerr MP

      Liberal                   - Ald. Elise Archer

      Greens                  - Senator Christine Milne

      Socialist Alliance - Susan Austin

      WILPF                   - Dr. Margot Roe

      Mayors for Peace  - Lord Mayor Rob Valentine

For further details contact Hobart Peace Coalition -

www.PeaceTasmania.org; phone 6224 8061

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GLOCAL POLYLOGUE – 2^nd Tuesday of month –

Tuesday 12 August 08, Starts at 6:00pm – Ends by 7:30 pm – at the Royal Oak Hotel (meals available), junction Brisbane and Tamar St, Launceston

- It’s informal, it’s social, it’s memorable - Last month’s topic: More food or more fuel

THIS MONTH’S TOPIC: Transport and Peak Oil

Explore, share and learn about what matters to you, and us, and them: engage in conversations which have somewhere to go.

A new topic is agreed by participants each month. Any participant can facilitate our conversation. Participants can reconvene upon the topic in the following week. If something matters to you, then Glocal Polylogue creates opportunities to do something about it.

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Come and Meet Nick McKim our New Tasmanian Greens Leader

 Where: Devonport Library – Meeting Room 2

When:  7:30 pm Tuesday 12^th August 2008

Braddon’s first opportunity to meet the new Tasmanian Greens Leader in our electorate, ask those questions you have been thinking about, or raise the important issues for Braddon that Nick needs to hear.

Light refreshments will be served.

 Contact Patrick Johnson if required 6427 2133

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Next Denison Greens Branch Meeting

Thursday, 14^th August at The Green Shop, 83 Harrington Street Hobart.

Commencing 6pm sharp & finishing no later than 8pm.

Branch meetings are held on the second Thursday of every month. 

Reports from Branch Executive members will be tabled.  Any items for discussion will be on the agenda as normal. 

If you have any proposals  for the agenda, it is essential that they be forwarded to the secretary rscott1@vtown.com.au by Sunday 6^th July.

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SAY NO TO THE PIPELINE – COMMUNITY DEMONSTRATION

15 August 08, 1.30pm – 4.00pm, outside the West Tamar Council offices, Eden St, Riverside (near the Riverside shopping centre)

All WTC residents/ratepayers should try to support this media event to draw attention to the councils duty to stand by their vote of no confidence in the pulp mill assessment. 
For more information contact Derek at deckerslindsay@yahoo.com

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JULIAN BURNSIDE QC ASKS - DO WE NEED A BILL OF RIGHTS?

Tasmanian Peace Trust Annual Lecture

Where: Hobart Town Hall

When: 3pm Sunday 17th August 2008

Free public lecture, donations welcome

Copies of Julian's book Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice will be available for purchase and signing.

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NEXT BASS GREENS BRANCH MEETING: 3^rd Tuesday of month

19 August 08, 5.30-7.30pm, at the Launceston Environment Centre, 72 Tamar St, Launceston.

Supporters welcome to attend the Branch Meeting. Contact Secretary at bass@tas.greens.org.au.

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Climate Torch Spectacular in the Gorge

The Climate Torch relay will be in the Tamar Valley on WEDNESDAY 20 AUGUST and will be hurtling across the Gorge in Launceston on a cable to be set up by Bob McMahon soon after midday (time to be confirmed).

TAP would like a small team of 3 or 4 volunteers to assist with setting up and a small dinghy or canoe to transfer the rope across the water in the Gorge.

Also, anyone is welcome to be a spectator for the event when the Climate Torch reaches the Gorge probably around 1pm.

If you can help Bob set things up and would like a bit of fun please give him a call on 0448 547 290 or email bob@orielstudio.com.au

About the Climate Torch Relay http://www.climatetorch.com/?dc=439,428372,2

To solve the climate crisis, we will need a movement unprecedented in Australia's history. To mobilise this movement, GetUp has invented a new device to respond to the climate crisis. You can hold it in one hand. It combines solar power, a wind-turbine, and.... a lemon. It's our climate torch, designed exclusively for GetUp by the creators of the Sydney Olympic torch, and with your help we'll take it to a hundred towns, cities and suburbs across Australia - before arriving in Canberra, where thousands of GetUp members will present it directly to Parliament. Click below to get a first glimpse of what it looks like, and to nominate your town to host it.

No government will ever soar higher than its citizens demand - and most will sink as low as we allow. Now more than ever we must demand this government soars above political spin and vested interests - high enough to provide the climate leadership we need over these coming months when Australia's response to climate change will be locked in.

We have a vision for this torch relay. As it travels around Australia, GetUp members will collect tens of thousands of submissions to the government's climate policy consultation: an unprecedented flood of public opinion. Our leaders need to hear from us - from your town, city and suburb - because industry lobbyists will win this fight if we don't.

What is GetUp: GetUp is an independent, grass-roots community advocacy organisation giving everyday Australians opportunities to get involved and hold politicians accountable on important issues.  Whether it is sending an email to a member of parliament, engaging with the media, attending an event or helping to get a television ad on the air, GetUp members take targeted, coordinated and strategic action.

GetUp does not back any particular party, but aims to build an accountable and progressive Parliament - a Parliament with economic fairness, social justice and environment at its core. GetUp is a not-for-profit and receives no money from any political party or the government. We rely solely on funds and in-kind donations from the Australian public.

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Does Tasmania need an anti-corruption commission?

Public forum to discuss the issues and events.

When: 5pm to 6.30 Wednesday 20th August

Where: CCAMLR centre (the old Hutchins School), 181 Macquarie St  you need to R.S.V.P. – telephone 62344133 or info@taslawsociety.asn.au

Organised by the Tasmanian Law Society, the forum speakers will ask if recent events in Tasmanian politics have added to local pressure and perceptions that a misconduct, justice or anti-corruption organisation is overdue.

Speakers will include the former chairman of the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission, Sir Max Bingham, QC, Griffith University law lecturer Dr A.J. Brown and four University of Tasmania specialists will also speak.

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RESTORE DEMOCRACY RALLY

23 August 08, 12.00 noon, City Park, Launceston

TAP is organizing this rally and march. The advertising billboards have gone up around Tasmania. The speakers are being lined up. Organizing a big rally requires a lot of work. There are many relatively small jobs to be done, or alternatively a few extremely big jobs. Let's make it the former and turn up at the TAP meeting on Thursday 24th and put your hand up. TAP needs you.
If you went to the recent public meeting 'Failed Democracy' held at the Tailrace (organized by TAP) you will have a small idea of what we have planned for the rally.

Obtain the promotional banner [177Kb] (from www.tapvision.info ) and send it on to everyone you know. Then print it and stick it on your car window, post boxes, etc.

Ross Story (rally coordinator) has asked for huge 3 sided tents as well as large marquis tents for the day of the rally in case of rain. If you can help, please phone Ross 63943600 or mob 0418304642 or email rossnfi@hotmail.com. Also trailers are required. Anyone who can loan two 6X4 trailers to be mobile advertising for the Aug 23 Rally - please reply to Roger Law at pastimes@bigpond.net.au

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GREENS BILL TO REPEAL PULP MILL ASSESSMENT ACT 2007
Debated: 27 August 2008 (i.e. Wednesday after the TAP rally) at Albert Hall, Launceston.

Tasmanian Parliament House - Northern Parliament Sittings: Launceston (Albert Hall) 19-21 August and 26-28 August; Burnie 23-25 September

The Tasmanian Greens will bring on for debate (and a vote) their Pulp Mill Assessment Repeal Bill 2008, which will repeal Lennon's legislation as well as revoke any approvals granted under the Pulp Mill Permit, this WEDNESDAY, the 27th of AUGUST at 3:45 pm at the Albert Hall Launceston, with the vote to occur at 4:30pm.

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TASMANIAN GREENS STATE CONFERENCE – REGISTER AT www.tas.greens.org.au BY 29Aug08

6-7 September 2008, at the Mercure Hotel, 3 Earlington Street, Launceston

Includes Annual General Meeting. 

If you have any questions about the State Conference please contact Imogen, TG Secretary, at secretary@tas.greens.org.au or telephone The Green Shop (Hobart) at 62369334.

NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION – FOUNDATION TRAINING

Nonviolent Communication (Compassionate Communication) transforms habitual ways of relating, addressing the core of conflict - the pain and/or anger felt when needs are unmet.

Resolve conflict within yourself and with others, so that everyone's needs are heard.

Improve your listening and expressing skills, saying clearly what you mean.

Launceston 30-31 August 08 and Hobart 6-7 September 08

Bookings: Launceston: Bel Sloan at 0400 231 288 or at bel.sloan@gmail.com

Hobart: Jem Cooper at 63993410 or at Jemima.cooper@education.tas.gov.au

Investment: $220 for Weekend Training = 14 hours. Early bird fully paid by 16Aug08 minus $20. Concession rate = $180.

Money back guarantee if not satisfied after completing the training. If money is your deciding factor, talk to Bel.

Wild Wielangta

You and your friends are invited to celebrate the returning of the swift parrots home to feed and breed.  These precious creatures CURRENTLY FACE THE THREAT OF HABITAT DESTRUCTION!

Where: Dinner Dance at The Copping Hall

When: August 30^th 2008

Arrive 7pm  for 7.30 dinner

Bring food for a pot luck dinner.

Please contribute  $10 to $20 donation towards campaign costs for the protection of the Wielangta forest.

Book a table NOW for you and your friends as seat numbers are limited!

R.S.V.P  to Lisa Cuatt on 62 535493 or Rosie on 62535354 or email breamcreekartwk@southcom.com.au

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BUSH DANCE

August 30^th 2008 7.00pm – 12pm at Max Fry Hall, Trevallyn

Bottom Pub Ceiligh Band - $10 Per Person - $25 Family - Come And Have Some Fun With Us! - Food And Beverages Available - Enquires – Riversidescouts@Hotmail.Com

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