Peace And Environment Expert Panel U Syd Dan Cass 2009

Where is peace? Personal reflections for ‘Making Connections’ University of Sydney Post-graduate summer school 2009 Dan Cass

1980s :growing up under the cloud

Young People for Nuclear Disarmament
Vigils / camps : Watsonia Barracks, US Consulate, City Square
Stop the City ‘Flash mobs’ versus war toys
Gigs, benefits, badges, newsletters, talks, films
Palm Sunday street festival

"Phyllis Cormack" 15 September 1971 Amchitka test zone
Test series later cancelled
Quaker history of non-violence
Core mission and method of Greenpeace
3 million supporters
Peace first but always Green

New Zealand 2003

Germany 2003

Chile 2004

Iraq 2003

Global Peace Initiative : defining the good
Triple Threat : Peak Oil + climate change + financial crisis
Green New Deal
Approaches

IPCC/Al Gore Nobel Peace Prize “tells us that the fossil fuel industry is waging war on the world's climate and we must make peace with the planet if we are to survive”
Relocalisation is the new community organising
New Energy Radicals blessed by James Hanson, Al Gore
Definitions

Why civil disobedience ?
We already have majority support to free world of nuclear weapons according to polls
1997 USA 87%
1998 Russia 61% , India 62% , Japan 78% , Australia 92% , Norway 92% , Belgium 72% , Canada 93%
2004 Turkey 72%
2005 UK 54%
[ REF : http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/peace/abolish-nuclear-weapons Accessed 8.1.9]
United Nations annual vote: most of 191 states support abolition of nuclear weapons

Resources for making connections http://relocalize.net/

http://www.zerocarbonbritain.com/

www.visionofhumanity.org

http://whosepower.wordpress.com/

Thank you. Dan Cass Communications manager Greenpeace Australia Pacific [email_address] Work blog | http://www.greenpeace.org.au/blog/energy/ Personal blog | greenfunkdan.blogspot.com

Peace And Environment Expert Panel U Syd Dan Cass 2009

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