Re: Climate Change and ethnographic cinema

Terra Dumont — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:50:44 GMT

found another email, you Greenies might be interested in this: :)

Banner Painters needed.

The Wellington Young Greens are painting some banners to donate to other Green Party campus groups around the country and on Tuesday 27 January will be having a 'banners and beer' evening and we hope you can help us. Join us from 6pm to paint some banners (no skills necessary), have as few drinks (BYO), and listen to some music. Bring old clothes or we have over-suits to save your clothes.

Young Greens Summer Camp this Waitangi Weekend (6-7 February) at Jeanette Fitzsimon's farm in the Corromandel.

With the General Election all over and done with its time to take stock, celebrate our successes and great campaign and also plan for the future.

Over Waitangi Weekend 2009 young Green Party members (up to 30 years of age) from over Aotearoa are going to camp together at Jeanette's farm to plan the upcoming Young Greens year. Early in 2008, 35 Young Greens had a great time at the first camp and in 2009, we want to make it bigger with more events and more fun. We are going to cram as much as we can into two and a half days. We are going to have our Annual General Meeting and elect officials; decide on our priority campaigns; discuss how the election went; and workshops facilitated by Young Green members...and also hang out with Jeanette, watch some films, connect with nature, camp in the orchard and swim in the watering hole.

We have an awesome schedule of workshops planned – on economic issues, Transition Towns, open source software, the Global Young Greens, Youtubeing, effective campaign communication and public relations tricks and tips, social media campaigning, running campus groups – and new MP Catherine Delahunty and Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons will also be there.

A summer weekend of good green fun!

There is no registration cost at this time (we are looking for a donor to provide food costs…know anyone?) and we are planning to coordinate car sharing vehicles.

The times will be:

§ Arrive Thursday afternoon/night - 5 February

§ Workshops Friday - 6 February (Waitangi Day)

§ Workshops and AGM - Saturday 7 February

§ Depart Sunday morning 8 February.

We hope that you can make it. Please pass on to anyone who may be interested. if you have any questions or would like a registration form (deadline end of the week) contact Gareth Hughes on hughes.gareth@gmail.com

Check it out on Facebook

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Gareth Hughes

Postal: P O Box 19-136, Wellington 6149
Phone: (04) 801 5297 | Mobile 027 422 9290
Email: climatechange@greens.org.nz
Skype: gareth.hughes.nz
Web: www.greens.org.nz

Climate Change and ethnographic cinema

Terra Dumont — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:44:15 GMT

Here are some interesting things going on in the world of environment and socail justic...

Hi there,

Hope you are all having a fabulicious holiday and a swell summer.

We are sending out this e-mail to give you a heads-up about Oxfam New Zealand's recently launched 'Feel the Heat' climate change campaign which- amongst other things- gives you the chance to exercise your right to lobby our government by signing the 'Feel the Heat' petition. This petition can be found on Oxfam New Zealand's website www.oxfam.org.nz Just follow the climate change link found on the left hand side of the page.

Oxfam looks at Climate Change from the perspective of development and social justice. Climate change hits the poorest people first and worst, a grave injustice because these people are the least responsible for climate change and the least able to cope. The petition calls for the NZ government to take stronger action against climate change and to push for an effective climate change deal at the upcoming UN Copenhagen conference this year that not only keeps climate change under control, but also places the needs of developing countries at the heart of the deal.

For more information about how Climate Change impacts the world's poorest, about what the petition is calling for, or to sign the petition, visit www.oxfam.org.nz

Have a great rest of the Summer!

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VicIDS

Victoria International Development Society
Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand - Aotearoa
www.vicids.org.nz

Member of U8 Global Student Partnership for Development
www.u8development.com

Seeing Cultures Wellington Ethnographic Cinema 2009
Free entry - Thursday 29th - Saturday 31st January, - Lecture Theatre 2, Rutherford House, 23 Lambton Quay.

Wellington Ethnographic Cinema will showcase twenty films exploring a variety of cultural worlds, from the everyday lives of disillusioned Berlin teenagers to the last months in the life of an Alzheimer's sufferer.
This film festival is part of ANTH 215 paper running over summer and is student run and part of the course mark depends on the succe of the festival so please come along and distribute on your own networks.
For a full list of film find the attached programme.

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Climate Change and ethnographic cinema