Event dates - January and February 2010 - together with information from the Diocesan Justice & Peace Office. If you are interested in attending an event, please check the details via the individual contacts given.
Mary Conway, the Bishop's Adviser on Justice & Peace, can be contacted on 01752 260856 or by email at jp [at] plymouth-diocese [dot] org [dot] uk. Please get in touch with her for requests to be added to the mailing list for monthly email updates from the Justice & Peace Office, or to send details of events/information for the update mailings.
DIARY
January
26 Why I became a peaceful,unarmed bodyguard in Colombia Louise Winstanley, Dan Slee Peace Brigades International 7pm Global Centre, Exeter Community Centre, 17 St David's Hill, Exeter EX4 3RG. Tel: 01392 438811
27 Holocaust Memorial Day 12.30pm The English Rose Garden, Mount Edgcumbe
‘The Legacy of Hope', An Evening of Reflection - 7.30-9.00pm Lower Guildhall
Holocaust Exhibition, Lower Guildhall 12.00-7.30pm Plymouth
29 Holocaust Memorial Event The Corn Exchange, High West Street, Dorchester. 12.30pm -1.30pm (Doors open 12 noon). Hosted by the South West Dorset Multi Cultural Network Sue Bickle on 01305 252314
30 Jan -7th Feb Poverty and Homelessness Action Week - Enough for All : www.actionweek.org.uk/html 0161 236 9321
February
3 Beyond Reach? ‘Make Poverty History' comes alive John Madeley discusses his latest book 7pm Global Centre, Exeter Community Centre, 17 St David's Hill, Exeter EX4 3RG. Tel: 01392 438811
6 Talk: Air Commodore Alastair Mackie CBE DFC, Vice President of CND, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. United Church Hall East Street, Bridport 7.30pm
9 Stand Up Two! All- day fundraiser for toilets and clean water for Ugandan schoolgirls. Global Centre, Exeter Community Centre, 17 St David's Hill, Exeter EX4 3RG. Tel: 01392 438811
20 Beyond Copenhagen What next? Conference 1.30 - 5.30 pm at Jury's Inn, Exeter admin [at] transitionexeter [dot] org [dot] uk
24 Faith in Justice Conference for Faith Communities - prison chaplaincy, caring for victims, prison reform, preventing re-offending etc Shire House Suite, Bodmin PL31 2DQ Andrew Yates 01872 274351 andrew [dot] yates [at] truro [dot] anglican [dot] org
22nd Feb-March 7th Fair Trade Fortnight
The Diocese of Truro is encouraging all faith groups to hold holding a ‘Big Supper' in Fair trade fortnight. Join in and help realise the vision of a world in which justice and sustainable development are at the heart of trade structures and practices so that everyone, through their work, can maintain a decent and dignified livelihood and develop their full potential. For further information contact Jill Edwards Tel. 01872 247213 jill [dot] edwards [at] truro [dot] anglican [dot] org
TAKE ACTION
HAITI: DONATE NOW - http://cafod.force.com/donate?id=70180000000fKQU
PREPAYMENT METER EXCESS CHARGES CAMPAIGN organised by the National Housing Federation. On average those on prepayment meters are charged an extra £200 p.a. NEA (national fuel poverty charity) estimate costs to suppliers as £97. So energy companies are making double and putting/keeping people in fuel poverty. Please take a minute (it's really that quick) to join the campaign and send an email to your MP (it's all done automatically for you) asking them to support a new motion. This is a new motion so you need to sign even if you have done so already! http://www.housing.org.uk/default.aspx?tabid=485
FOR INFORMATION
Despite illegal logging being an important driver of deforestation, EU agriculture ministers, meeting in Brussels, rejected an outright ban called for by Britain, Spain and the Netherlands and agreed instead on measures including stricter rules on the certification of timber entering the EU. See http://www.progressio.org.uk/progressio/internal/98592/brussels__shamefully_waters_down__timber_laws/
Hospital cleaners worth more to society than bankers, a study by the New Economics Foundation suggests...read more at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8410489.stm
Open my hands, God, to share my gifts and my skills
Open my eyes, God, to see clearly
Open my heart, God, to that which unites me with you and with all your creation
In my openness, give me the strength to change, and so to change our world.
In Jesus' name. Amen.
Enough For All - Alastair Cameron and Alastair Murray