PEACE ACTIVITIES 2015
*Attended the Women’s International League for Peace (WILPF) and Freedom’s centenary conference and congress in the Hague and being actively engaged in forming the environmental policy re climate change refugees.
*Instigated an ANZAC day gift of an olive tree by WILPF women for the Hague Commonwealth War Grave Cemetery Commemoration, which we later planted at the Peace Palace at a ceremony attended by both the NZ and Australian ambassadors.
PEACE ACTIVITIES 2016
*Elected as WILPF Aotearoa vice President.
*Organised from scratch a Hiroshima Day function in Hawke’s Bay at the Napier Cathedral attended by 30 people, including publicity in local newspapers.
*Set up a new Hawke’s Bay branch of WILPF with 15 members.
*Attended the Independent and Peaceful Australian Network conference in Alice Springs representing the Anti Bases Campaign, NZ.
*Took part in a ‘Peace Convergence’ at the 50th year anniversary of Pine Gap along with many other Australian peace organisations.
*Supported ‘Quaker Grannies For Peace’ presence at Pine Gap and Alice Springs.
*Assisted with media for visit of Dr Helen Caldicott with Peace Foundation, including organising an interview with TV3’s Paul Henry.
*Organised Auckland Peace Action’s ‘Peace ships not Warships’ activity on the waterfront with a ‘Make Tea not War’ Picnic with assorted colourful ‘Grannies for Peace’ and the revised Peace Band, featured in the NZ Herald newspaper and website; also attended blockade of arms fair.
*Published articles in publications including ‘Peace Researcher’, and ‘The Common Good’.
PEACE ACTIVITIES 2017:
*Ran a workshop on peace activities at Pine Gap at Waihopai (January 28).
*Co-facilitating a Quaker Peace weekend at the Wanganui Settlement 19th-22 May.
*Ran a session during an Australian Quaker workshop entitled ‘Peace Witness in a Time of Endless War’ in Canberra on 24-28 April.
*Organised Dr Robert Howell’s talk on Socially Responsible Investment at Eastern Institute of Technology, Hawke’s Bay.
*Held meetings with WILPF women, Brisbane, Canberra and Sydney.
*Meet Fr Claude Mostowik, Pax Christi, Sydney to discuss the disarmament conference he attended at the Vatican.*Attended Yearly Meeting at Kapiti
*Wrote to Australian ambassador on behalf of WILPF executive expressing disappointment re lack of participation in UN Nuclear Ban treaty, and send out appropriate press release.
*Talked to dramatist Jo Randerson promoting socially responsible messages through theatre.
*Organised a talk by Nicky Hager In Hawke’s Bay attended by 50 people re his book “Hit and Run’ on concerns re the NZ military campaign in Afghanistan
*Took part in the Hit and Run Inquiry national campaign team and attended rally in Wellington to bring public attention to concerns and gain support for a inquiry .
*Received the Sonia Davies Peace Award at Premier House in Wellington and attended training in USA including:
-One week ‘Peace Literacy’ course at Santa Barbara, run by Paul K Chappell of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
-Attended four day Wilpf congress in Chicago as a leadership trainee.
-Attended one week “Peace and Conscience ”training with Quaker Nadine Hoover of the Conscience Studio in Michigan,
-Attended talk by Sr Megan Rice, nuclear activist, Detroit
*Attended 30th anniversary Nuclear Free NZ celebrations at the Auckland Domain
*Took up position as World Beyond War NZ as voluntary coordinator
*Attended IPAN (Independent and Peaceful Australian Network) conference Melbourne - partly funded by WBW.
*Organised Non Violent Direct Action training Clive Hall by Peace Action Auckland.
*Took part in ongoing training as a member Nonviolent Communications training group.
*Took part in Quaker vigil outside Wellington Railway Station during the NZ Defence Industry Association conference and coordinated meetings with various participants, plus organised a ‘Peace Picnic’ also outside the railway station.
*Attended online-WBW conference live streamed from Washington DC on the theme of divestment from weapons.
*Gave a public ‘Pecha Kucha’ talk entitled “Diary of a Peace Activist’.
*Arranged first WBW meeting plus screen the film ‘Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives-the effects of War on the Environment’.
*Spoke at ‘Beyond Pacifism’ conference, Otago University Peace and Conflict Studies department, on 23 November.
PEACE ACTIVITIES 2018
*Helped out at Otaki Summer Camp, January.
* Participated in Kotare Educational Centre Summer School for Activists, Wellsford, January
*Hit and Run Enquiry Campaign- ongoing.
*Work with Peace Action Manawatu for Weapons Expo, Palmerston North.
*Gave talk to Napier Cathedral Environment, Justice and Peace group.
*Created a petition to reduce military spending in conjunction with Actionstation.
*Gave a talk to ECO conference, Pukimokimoki Marae (Environment and Conservation Organisations)
