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Terra Dumont — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:29:53 GMT

EVENTS, EVENTS, EVENTS (details further down)

* Complementary Currencies talk, Friday 11^th April, 7:30-9:30pm

* Sustainable Living Workshop – Conscious consumption, Sunday 13^th April, 12-4pm

* Opening of 'Dignity in Resistance' photo exhibition, Monday 14^th April, 5:30-7:30pm

* 'Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad' (A little bit of so much truth) – Film screening, Wednesday 18^th April, 8pm

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* Complementary Currencies workshop

Friday 11^th April, 7:30-9:30pm

Centre for Global Action, 2^nd Floor, James Smith Building, 55 Cuba Street

Transition Towns of Wellington is hosting as evening on Complementary Currencies. With the collapse of yet another financial institution this should be a very interesting and timely session.

Everyone knows money doesn't grow in trees, so where does it all come from?

Nowadays more and more people are concerned about sustainability but very few attempts have been ever made to apply this concept to money.

Key Note Speaker:
Miguel Yasuyuki Hirota (Japan)
Author & international expert in local trading systems & complementary currencies
Plus Don Northcott (South Africa)

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* Sustainable Living Workshop – Conscious consumption

Sunday 13^th April, 12-4pm

Evolve, Eva Street, Wellington

Gecko is going to be running a series of workshops this semester to help students learn how to easily and practically live more sustainably. The theme of 'Conscious consumption' is shopping and gardening.

Reply to urban.living.guide@gmail.com to register.

No charge.

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* Opening of 'Dignity in Resistance' photo exhibition

Monday 14^th April, 5:30-7:30pm

Thistle Gallery, corner of Cuba and Arthur Streets

In 1994 the Zapatistas in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas said "Enough!!" and took a stand against attempts to further dispossess them of their indigenous lands and culture. Within days of the 1 January armed uprising, a peace deal was brokered, and since then they have committed to pursue a peaceful path, constructing from below and to the left a "world in which many worlds fit". Despite their public commitment to peace and inclusion, they have suffered, and continue to suffer, ongoing repression and attack from military and paramilitary alike.

Through the eye of the camera, this exhibition captures rare glimpses of largely unknown aspects of Zapatista life – at home, at church, at school, in the fields and the kitchens, and sharing their struggles and achievements at 'Encuentros', as well as the more familiar protests in the streets. The photos have been selected for the strength, dignity, humanity and spirit of the subjects and their environment in their struggle not only to survive, but to build a better world.

Proceeds from sales will go to the La Garrucha Health Project, to train health promoters in the autonomous Caracol 111 of the La Garrucha Tzeltal Selva Zone, Chiapas, Mexico. *Help the Zapatistas help themselves!!!!*

Exhibition runs 14-20 April, 10-4pm daily

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* 'Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad' (A little bit of so much truth) – Film screening

Wednesday 18^th April, 8pm

Happy Bar, corner of Vivien and Tory Streets

'When the people of Oaxaca decided they'd had enough of bad government, they didn't take their story to the media... they became the media!'

A Latin American Solidarity film screening.

Entry by koha

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