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The Australian Government's Department of Defence will be hosting a Defence +
Industry Conference and Trade Exhibition at the Adelaide Convention Centre,
North Terrace, 30 June to 2 July 2009. At this conference, potential contractors
will "maximise their business opportunities" with the Department of Defence.

In terms of government funding, Defence receives special treatment. Over the
past 14 years, there has been a 37% increase in Australian Defence expenditure
in real terms. Defence spending has been guaranteed to increase by 3% per annum
in real terms up to and including the Federal Government's 2017-18 budget. By
comparison, these projected increases are more than three times the budget
allocated to restore the Murray Darling River System (about $12B).

If you would like to express your opposition to this disproportionate government
spending and to the arms trade in general, you are invited to join us in a
series of four workshops. People of all sexes, ages and singing abilities are
welcome to come to any or all of three singing workshops and one non-violent
direct action workshop.

Singing protest workshops: 1.30-4.30pm Saturdays 9th May, 30th May and 13th June
Quaker Meeting Hall, 40A Pennington Terrace, North Adelaide

Non-violent direct action workshop: 1.30-4.30pm Saturday 27th June
Westcare Church Hall, 216 Wright St, Adelaide
Entry from Millers Court which runs alongside

We will be learning suitable songs and deciding how we can use music most
effectively as part of the wider campaign to protest this Conference in
particular and the global arms trade in general.

You are welcome to come to as many of the workshops as you can, and to sing with
us for peace to protest the Conference in June/ July.  There will be no
auditions.  These FREE workshops are being organised by Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom and will be run by Mary Heath.

If you have email access, please sign up to our online mailing list so that we
can keep you up to date with planned events, times and places. Adelaide Peace
Singers:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/adelaidepeacesingers


More information:

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: http://www.wilpf.org.au

#51

From: Cathy Picone <cpicone@...>
Date: Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:23 am
Subject: Please ask your friends and contacts who you think would be interested to join us to subscribe to this list

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PS to my last message:

Meanwhile, please ask your friends and contacts who you think would
be interested to join us in the singing protests to subscribe to this
list.

thanks,

Cathy

#50

From: Cathy Picone <cpicone@...>
Date: Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:20 am
Subject: Singing protest workshops 2009

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Dear Adelaide peace singers/ protesters,

As you may know, the Australian Government's Department of Defence and the Defence Materiel Organisation will be hosting a Defence + Industry Conference and Trade Exhibition at the Adelaide Convention Centre, North Terrace, 30 June to 2 July 2009.

In order to allow us to protest this conference and trade exhibition in a non-violent way, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) will once again be holding a series of workshops similar to last year's APDSE singing protest workshops.

During the months of May and June 2009 in the lead-up to the Defence + Industry Conference, WILPF will be holding three singing protest workshops, and one non-violent direct action workshop.

You will recall that last year's workshops were led by Mary Heath and Vicki Bennett. Mary and I met this morning to arrange dates for the 2009 workshops and a venue. When we've got those details sorted (hopefully by tomorrow!), we'll get back to you with the full information.

In peace,

Cathy

#49

From: Melina Magdalena <meliflowerchild@...>
Date: Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:10 am
Subject: Re: Defence+Industry 2009 Conference Trade Exhibition 30 June - 2 July 2009

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me too.

From: Andy Merrigan <andym_2@...>
To: adelaidepeacesingers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, 15 March, 2009 1:41:49 PM
Subject: Re: [adelaidepeacesingers] Defence+Industry 2009 Conference Trade Exhibition 30 June - 2 July 2009

I would support the initiative to start singing again.

Count me in,

Andy Merrigan

--- On Sat, 14/3/09, Peter Kelly <epicurus@aapt. net.au> wrote:

From: Peter Kelly <epicurus@aapt. net.au>
Subject: [adelaidepeacesinge rs] Defence+Industry 2009 Conference Trade Exhibition 30 June - 2 July 2009
To: adelaidepeacesinger s@yahoogroups. com
Received: Saturday, 14 March, 2009, 4:53 PM

Should we start singing again

http://www.defencea ndindustry. gov.au/

Defence Industry 2009
Conference Trade Exhibition
30 June - 2 July 2009

Adelaide Convention Centre
North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia

Discover thr Defence Way of Thinking

More than $110 billion will be invested in Defence capability over the next decade. Around 60 per cent will be spent in Australia with the acquisition and sustainment to be managed by the Defence Materiel Organisation.

Areas of spending will include:

* Electronic systems
* Weapons and munitions
* Maritime
* Land and vehicles
* Aerospace

Understanding our strategies for procurement will be critical to your success in making Defence capability your investment into the future. Maximise your business opportunities in 2009 with the Department of Defence and its contractors at the Defence + Industry Conference and Exhibition from Tuesday 30 June to Thursday 2 July.

Registrations open 6 April – Don’t miss out. Reserve your place at this year’s most important defence event.

2009 conference
The Defence + Industry Conference and Exhibition will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia. Situated just minutes from Adelaide’s central business district on the banks of the Torrens River, the centre is one of Australia’s premier conference facilities.

Program coming soon.

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#48

From: Andy Merrigan <andym_2@...>
Date: Sun Mar 15, 2009 3:11 am
Subject: Re: Defence+Industry 2009 Conference Trade Exhibition 30 June - 2 July 2009

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I would support the initiative to start singing again.

Count me in,

Andy Merrigan

--- On Sat, 14/3/09, Peter Kelly <epicurus@...> wrote:

From: Peter Kelly <epicurus@...>
Subject: [adelaidepeacesingers] Defence+Industry 2009 Conference Trade Exhibition 30 June - 2 July 2009
To: adelaidepeacesingers@yahoogroups.com
Received: Saturday, 14 March, 2009, 4:53 PM

Should we start singing again

http://www.defencea ndindustry. gov.au/

Defence Industry 2009
Conference Trade Exhibition
30 June - 2 July 2009

Adelaide Convention Centre
North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia

Discover thr Defence Way of Thinking

More than $110 billion will be invested in Defence capability over the next decade. Around 60 per cent will be spent in Australia with the acquisition and sustainment to be managed by the Defence Materiel Organisation.

Areas of spending will include:

* Electronic systems
* Weapons and munitions
* Maritime
* Land and vehicles
* Aerospace

Understanding our strategies for procurement will be critical to your success in making Defence capability your investment into the future. Maximise your business opportunities in 2009 with the Department of Defence and its contractors at the Defence + Industry Conference and Exhibition from Tuesday 30 June to Thursday 2 July.

Registrations open 6 April – Don’t miss out. Reserve your place at this year’s most important defence event.

2009 conference
The Defence + Industry Conference and Exhibition will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia. Situated just minutes from Adelaide’s central business district on the banks of the Torrens River, the centre is one of Australia’s premier conference facilities.

Program coming soon.

Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look.

#47

From: "chris branson" <chrisbranson2@...>
Date: Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:50 pm
Subject: RE: Defence+Industry 2009 Conference Trade Exhibition 30 June - 2 July 2009

echidna246

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Dear Peter, Damien, Mary, Vicki etc

I think there’s never a really good reason to stop singing. However I think we have an especially good reason to start again with this “trade exhibition”. I hope the organisers of the group will feel able to start it again. I only joined just before the cancellation of the APDSE, so never actually attended a rehearsal, but I’m keen to do so now.

From: adelaidepeacesingers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:adelaidepeacesingers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Kelly
Sent: Saturday, 14 March 2009 4:24 PM
To: adelaidepeacesingers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [adelaidepeacesingers] Defence+Industry 2009 Conference Trade Exhibition 30 June - 2 July 2009

Should we start singing again

http://www.defenceandindustry.gov.au/

Defence Industry 2009
Conference Trade Exhibition
30 June - 2 July 2009

Adelaide Convention Centre
North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia

Discover thr Defence Way of Thinking

More than $110 billion will be invested in Defence capability over the next decade. Around 60 per cent will be spent in Australia with the acquisition and sustainment to be managed by the Defence Materiel Organisation.

Areas of spending will include:

* Electronic systems
* Weapons and munitions
* Maritime
* Land and vehicles
* Aerospace

Understanding our strategies for procurement will be critical to your success in making Defence capability your investment into the future. Maximise your business opportunities in 2009 with the Department of Defence and its contractors at the Defence + Industry Conference and Exhibition from Tuesday 30 June to Thursday 2 July.

Registrations open 6 April – Don’t miss out. Reserve your place at this year’s most important defence event.

2009 conference
The Defence + Industry Conference and Exhibition will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia. Situated just minutes from Adelaide’s central business district on the banks of the Torrens River, the centre is one of Australia’s premier conference facilities.

Program coming soon.

#46

From: Damien Coghlan <damien.coghlan@...>
Date: Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:37 pm
Subject: when will they ever learn?

damiencoghlan

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Where have all the flowers gone,
Long time passing.
Where have all the flowers gone,
Long time ago....

When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

#45

From: Peter Kelly <epicurus@...>
Date: Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:53 am
Subject: Defence+Industry 2009 Conference Trade Exhibition 30 June - 2 July 2009

meteorite_de...

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Should we start singing again

http://www.defenceandindustry.gov.au/

Defence Industry 2009
Conference Trade Exhibition
30 June - 2 July 2009

Adelaide Convention Centre
North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia

Discover thr Defence Way of Thinking

More than $110 billion will be invested in Defence capability over the next
decade. Around 60 per cent will be spent in Australia with the acquisition and
sustainment to be managed by the Defence Materiel Organisation.

Areas of spending will include:

     * Electronic systems
     * Weapons and munitions
     * Maritime
     * Land and vehicles
     * Aerospace

Understanding our strategies for procurement will be critical to your success in
making Defence capability your investment into the future. Maximise your
business opportunities in 2009 with the Department of Defence and its
contractors at the Defence + Industry Conference and Exhibition from Tuesday 30
June to Thursday 2 July.

Registrations open 6 April � Don�t miss out. Reserve your place at this year�s
most important defence event.

2009 conference
The Defence + Industry Conference and Exhibition will be held at the Adelaide
Convention Centre, South Australia. Situated just minutes from Adelaide�s
central business district on the banks of the Torrens River, the centre is one
of Australia�s premier conference facilities.

Program coming soon.

#44

From: "Anne McMenamin" <anniemac@...>
Date: Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:24 pm
Subject: Re: Fwd: "This Land Is Your Land" Like Woody Wrote It

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Thanks for posting this, Cathy. Friends in the US referred me to it earlier in the week - more than one said it had them in tears. I took some copies of all the words and we sang it at the Rainbow Sessions at the Brecknock tonight.

Anne

----- Original Message -----

From: Cathy Picone

To: adelaidepeacesingers@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:35 PM

Subject: [adelaidepeacesingers] Fwd: "This Land Is Your Land" Like Woody Wrote It

Dear Adelaidepeacesingers,

Even though we're in a sort of "recess", I thought you might like to see this one:

http://www.truthout.org/011909R

Pete Seeger (at 89 years of age) getting half a million people to sing along to "This Land Is Your Land" Like Woody Wrote It

Ciao,

Cathy

#43

From: Cathy Picone <cpicone@...>
Date: Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:05 am
Subject: Fwd: "This Land Is Your Land" Like Woody Wrote It

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Dear Adelaidepeacesingers,

Even though we're in a sort of "recess", I thought you might like to see this one:

http://www.truthout.org/011909R

Pete Seeger (at 89 years of age) getting half a million people to sing along to "This Land Is Your Land" Like Woody Wrote It

Ciao,

Cathy

#42

From: Cathy Picone <cpicone@...>
Date: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:34 pm
Subject: Peace and Remembrance Festival, Sunday November 9, 12 - 6 pm Elder Park, Adelaide and protest action at DefenceSA, Tuesday November 11 4.30 pm

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Dear South Australian WILPF members and friends,

As you may know from previous emails, the Peace and Remembrance Festival is coming up very soon - on Sunday November 9, 12 - 6 pm in Elder Park. The Peace and Remembrance Festival is part of the ongoing campaign of peace and environment groups to highlight (and eventually stop) South Australia becoming "the Defence State".

SA Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) will be having a stall at the Peace and Remembrance Festival. Many thanks to our stall keeper, Cynthia James, who has gathered a good team of WILPFers to staff the stall for the Festival.

Thank you all for your help with publicising the Peace and Remembrance Festival by distributing (and/ or printing and displaying) the poster for the Festival which was sent to you earlier. Another copy is attached with this email. Please forward it to your friends/ networks in SA if you haven't done that already.

There will also be a protest action at DefenceSA, 99 Frome Street, Adelaide on Tuesday November 11 at 4.30 pm. The leaflet for that action has also been sent out recently. If you'd like that one sent again, please let me know.

WILPF (SA)has made a donation of $200 to the Peace and Remembrance Festival but still needed are loans of shade tents and/ or beach umbrellas, to shade the mixing desk for the sound mixing system, as well as for other purposes. As performers at the Festival will be given hampers, if you have some item/s that could go well in a hamper or shade tents or umbrellas, please let me know.

With warm wishes and thanks for your help,

Cathy

Cathy Picone, Coordinator

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (SA branch)

PO Box 345 Rundle Mall, SA 5000, Australia

Phone: (08) 8296 4357

Email: wilpf.sa@...

Web: http://www.wilpf.org.au

CC.: WILPF (Australian Section) email list

#41

From: Cathy Picone <cpicone@...>
Date: Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:57 am
Subject: Peace and Remembrance Festival 2008, Elder Park, Sunday 9 November 12 - 6pm

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To assist us with publicity, please forward

#40

From: Peter Kelly <epicurus@...>
Date: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:40 am
Subject: SA - Defence State vs Green State

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A public forum at the on the topic of

SA - Defence State vs Green State

at the

Govenor Hindmarsh Hotel,

59 Port Road,

Hindmarsh

Thursday November 13 at 7.00pm

#39

From: Robin Eadha <robin_eadha@...>
Date: Tue Oct 7, 2008 12:43 am
Subject: Sing for water and participatory democracy 14th Oct 7pm

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Hello Singers

On Tuesday evening 14th October at 7pm there will be a public meeting at the Woodville Town Hall, 72 Woodville Rd.

The State Government has decided to sell off 70% of the Cheltenham Pk Racecourse site for development, having agreed to keep only 30% for wetlands and green space.

Several grassroots groups have called this meeting in the hope of raising awareness and interest in calling for a governmental re-think of those figures so that the land be only (or at least mostly) used for water harvesting and community space (Water and the state we're in pdf).

Anne McMenamin has written a song 'Participate or Perish' which is to be sung during the meeting by a small group on stage and we thought it would be good to have more people in the audience singing it too, to invite the community to sing along.

If anyone is interested and available for this sing, we're planning a practice tonight at the Bowden Brompton Community Centre at 7pm (Come and sing pdf). If you can't make this one, we are also planning a practice before the meeting itself at 6.30 at Woodville.

Feel free to contact me on my mobile 0411 536 649 if need be.

Robin Eadha

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#38

From: Cathy Picone <cpicone@...>
Date: Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:54 am
Subject: WILPF 2008 International Day of Peace Statement

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www.ReachingCriticalWill.org

WILPF 2008 International Day of Peace Statement

On 30 November 1981, the United Nations General Assembly, in resolution A/RES/36/67, declared an international day of peace. This resolution recognized that "the promotion of peace, both at an international and a national level, is among the main purposes of the United Nations, in conformity with its Charter". Since 1915, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) has worked to promote peace by non-violent means, promoting political, economic and social justice for all.

World military expenditures are estimated to have been USD 1,339 billion in 2007, or about 202 spent for every person on earth.[1] Article 26 of the UN Charter obliges the UN Security Council to "promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least division for armaments of the world's human and economic resources", and the Security Council has failed to meet this obligation. You get what you pay for, and when governments of the world decide to prioritize peace building through education, health care, strengthening public infrastructures, and sustainable development over the purchase of arms, then these governments will begin walking down the path towards peace and break the military spending- poverty cycle.

WILPF calls on all governments to allocate one day of their military expenditures USD 3,668,493,151 towards addressing a real security threat such as catastrophic climate change. We must have a paradigm shift in resource allocation. We can meet this challenge, but only if we are prepared to face the fact that bombs, guns, cluster bombs and landmines will not deter or remove the threat of a Tsunami, a hurricane, a flood, a virus, or a water shortage. WILPF rejects the idea that the military industry and the weapons trade bring jobs, prosperity or security. The arms trade has turned people into mercenaries and parts of our planet into cemeteries.

Misusing words such as "safety" and "protection", military security concepts and weapons profiteers develop machines that threaten and violate the human right to life and freedom. This year, 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in order that all peoples enjoy all human rights military and national security concepts that rely on weaponization and militarization must shift towards a holistic human security concept that recognizes people not profits, sustainability not strife, multilateralism not militarism.

In the name of "democracy�" powerful actors make profits at the expense of our planet, its finite resources and the rights of future generations to exist. In the name of "increasing women's role in peace and security", more women are militarized and sent to war zones, which is a distorted application of the UN Security Council resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. WILPF believes that the concepts of safety and security must shift so that they include the full enjoyment of all human rights for all, away from military and national security concepts.

Peace is more than the absence of war. On this International Day of Peace, WILPF calls for the peoples of the world to lay down their arms and raise their voices for peace and freedom, for there cannot be one without the other.

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is the oldest women's peace organization in the world, established in 1915 to oppose the war raging in Europe. It has been working ever since to study, make known, and abolish the causes of war, and to support human rights and general and complete disarmament.

1 - http://yearbook2008.sipri.org/05

Susi Snyder

Secretary General

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

1, rue de Varembe

Case Postale 28

1211 Geneva 20

Switzerland

Tel: +41.22.919.7080

Fax: +41.22.919.7081

Skype: susi_snyder

www.WILPF.ch

www.PeaceWomen.org

#37

From: Melina Magdalena <meliflowerchild@...>
Date: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:50 pm
Subject: letter to Kevin Foley

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16/9/2008

Esteemed Treasurer, Honourable Mr Kevin Foley,

"pervers", "feral", "low-lifes", "anarchists" - Nazis used these kinds of words to justify the genocide they carried out against cultural minorities in European society.

Might I remind you that Adelaide in 2008 is not a fascist dictatorship! On the contrary, you are merely a democratically-elected functionary; member of State Parliament in a state that has long valued and upheld cultural diversity, and has postively encouraged creative expression AND dissent.

As citizens of South Australia, our right to protest and express our opinions is enshrined in law.

Furthermore, your use of such bombastic language does not become you. It detracts from your credibility. I would caution you against making further such ludicrous and oppressive statements about people whose opinions differ from yours.

We protesters are not afraid of you, or your bullying, strong-arm tactics. Do you stand outside the law, in which formal business contracts are legally binding?

I am not a feral lowlife anarchist. I respect the law. Your public denigration of my associates and me on 7/9/2008 is very poor form. Please apologise to us and mend your petulant ways.

Yours faithfully,

Melina Magdalena

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#36

From: Robin Eadha <robin_eadha@...>
Date: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:24 am
Subject: Community Singing at Bowden Brompton

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Attached is the flyer for or the Tuesday night community singing group at the Bowden Brompton Community Centre 19 Green Street Brompton (7 'til 8.30).

Robin

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#35

From: Maz <sls4slm@...>
Date: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:33 pm
Subject: Re: apologies for tomorrow

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get well soon!  mary

Melina Magdalena wrote:
> Dear Peace Singers,
> I'm sorry to miss tomorrow's workshop. Hope it is a joy like the last.
> I'm suffering from a hacking cough which makes me sing an octave lower
> which is not such a bad thing, but I don't want to inflict the virus
> upon everyone.
> Melina
>
> ps I'll be in Parliament House on Wednesday listening to my daughter
> debate in her grand final. Does anyone have any choice messages they
> would like me to deliver to Mr Foley? I can think of some quite feral
> actions, but would never dream (of course) of actually carrying them
> out. I am a fine, upstanding citizen, though I must continue to
> maintain my preference for the grassroots over the lofty heights of
> elected representation. Interestingly, Mr Foley's children go or have
> gone to the same school as mine. Does that mean we are all low-lives?
>
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#34

From: Leigh Newton <lnewton@...>
Date: Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:46 pm
Subject: Re: Letter writing campaign: please write to Mike Rann about Kevin Foley's public use of oppressive language

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I wrote to Adelaide Now but I don't think they published it. �They went for one supporting the Government. �Maybe they would have looked biased if they included a fourth letter supporting the move to end the Killing Fair.�

Thanks for the nudge. �I'll send one to Rann.�

Leigh�

On 12/09/2008, at 5:49 PM, Cathy Picone wrote:

Thanks, Leigh! Will you be able to write a letter too?

Love

Cathy

>Dear Cathy and other WILPFers
>
>great letter! Thankyou for that great initiative.
>
>Regards
>
>Leigh
>

#33

From: Cathy Picone <cpicone@...>
Date: Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:49 pm
Subject: Re: Letter writing campaign: please write to Mike Rann about Kevin Foley's public use of oppressive language

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Thanks, Leigh!  Will you be able to write a letter too?

Love

Cathy



>Dear Cathy and other WILPFers
>
>great letter!  Thankyou for that great initiative.
>
>Regards
>
>Leigh
>

#32

From: Leigh Newton <lnewton@...>
Date: Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:02 pm
Subject: Re: Letter writing campaign: please write to Mike Rann about Kevin Foley's public use of oppressive language

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Dear Cathy and other WILPFers

great letter! �Thankyou for that great initiative. �

Regards

Leigh�

On 12/09/2008, at 9:28 AM, Cathy Picone wrote:

Dear Adelaide peace singers,

Earlier this week, the South Australian branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) wrote to the South Australian Premier, Mike Rann concerning the oppressive language that his Treasurer and Deputy Premier, Kevin Foley, recently used against peace activists. A copy of the WILPF letter is appended below.

WILPF (SA) wishes to encourage members and supporters to write to Mr Rann in support of this letter-writing campaign.

With thanks,

Cathy

Cathy Picone, Coordinator
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (SA branch)
PO Box 345 Rundle Mall, SA� 5000, Australia
Phone: (08) 8296 4357
Email:�wilpf.sa@wilpf.org.au
Web: http://www.wilpf.org.au

==============================================

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Ligue internationale des femmes pour la paix et la libert�
Liga Internacional de Mujeres por la Paz y la Libertad
Internationale Frauenliga f�r Frieden und Freiheit
Consultative Status with United Nations ECOSOC, UNCTAD and UNESCO
Special Consultative Relations with FAO, ILO and UNICEF
International Headquarters Geneva Switzerland
Australian Section Office Adelaide
PO Box 345 Rundle Mall, 5000
(08) 8296 4357
�Email:�wilpfaustralia@wilpf.org.au
SA Branch

10th September 2008

The Hon Mike Rann, MP
Premier and Minister for Social Inclusion
200 Victoria Square
ADELAIDE�� SA�� 5000

Dear Mr Rann,

We write in reference to various public comments by your Deputy Premier and Treasurer, Mr Foley. While the grave implications of the substance of Mr Foley's statements are the subject of separate correspondence with you and members of your Ministry, we write now in particular concerning Mr Foley's language.

Over recent months, Mr Foley has demonstrated a pattern of immoderate public speech.� Indeed, it has become clear that Mr Foley is in the habit of using oppressive language.

We note, for instance, that Mr Foley was quoted on Wednesday 7th May 2008 in a number of media outlets as having spoken thus in reference to prisoners in our state's penal system:

"What we're making very clear is that if we've got to rack 'em, pack 'em and stack 'em, we will."

More recently, he has described peace activists, among whom we number ourselves, as "feral low-life" (Adelaide Now, September 7, 2008).

We can only presume from these of his public comments that Mr Foley believes that he may stand to gain some electoral advantage by portraying himself - and your Government - as "tough and macho". This is not the case. You will no doubt be aware that Mr Foley's comments are unwelcome to many women voters in SA, and, we suspect, to many men as well. In a changed electoral climate when the Northern Territory and West Australian Labor Governments have struggled in recent times to maintain their electoral advantage, we believe that Mr Foley has become a liability for SA Labor.

Of more concern to us, however, is the climate of intolerance and xenophobia which is fueled and cultivated in the community by such comments in the mouth of a person who holds a high office in the state government. This is especially the case when there is apparently no attempt within the government to moderate Mr Foley's style of language. Mr Foley's language is not simply flamboyant; it is speech of hatred and violence and, as such, is indefensible.

We therefore respectfully urge that Mr Foley be encouraged to undertake an appropriate anger management course and that he be counselled against the use of immoderate, oppressive and violent language.
Yours sincerely,

Cathy Picone
Coordinator (SA branch)
CC.:
Hon Gail Gago, Minister for the Status of Women
Ms Frances Bedford, Member for Florey
Ms Steph Key, Member for Ashford

#31

From: Melina Magdalena <meliflowerchild@...>
Date: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:19 am
Subject: apologies for tomorrow

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Dear Peace Singers,

I'm sorry to miss tomorrow's workshop. Hope it is a joy like the last. I'm suffering from a hacking cough which makes me sing an octave lower which is not such a bad thing, but I don't want to inflict the virus upon everyone.

Melina

ps I'll be in Parliament House on Wednesday listening to my daughter debate in her grand final. Does anyone have any choice messages they would like me to deliver to Mr Foley? I can think of some quite feral actions, but would never dream (of course) of actually carrying them out. I am a fine, upstanding citizen, though I must continue to maintain my preference for the grassroots over the lofty heights of elected representation. Interestingly, Mr Foley's children go or have gone to the same school as mine. Does that mean we are all low-lives?

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#30

From: Cathy Picone <cpicone@...>
Date: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:28 am
Subject: Letter writing campaign: please write to Mike Rann about Kevin Foley's public use of oppressive language

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Dear Adelaide peace singers,

Earlier this week, the South Australian branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) wrote to the South Australian Premier, Mike Rann concerning the oppressive language that his Treasurer and Deputy Premier, Kevin Foley, recently used against peace activists. A copy of the WILPF letter is appended below.

WILPF (SA) wishes to encourage members and supporters to write to Mr Rann in support of this letter-writing campaign.

With thanks,

Cathy

Cathy Picone, Coordinator

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (SA branch)

PO Box 345 Rundle Mall, SA 5000, Australia

Phone: (08) 8296 4357

Email: wilpf.sa@...

Web: http://www.wilpf.org.au

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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Ligue internationale des femmes pour la paix et la libert�

Liga Internacional de Mujeres por la Paz y la Libertad

Internationale Frauenliga f�r Frieden und Freiheit

Consultative Status with United Nations ECOSOC, UNCTAD and UNESCO

Special Consultative Relations with FAO, ILO and UNICEF

International Headquarters Geneva Switzerland

Australian Section Office Adelaide

PO Box 345 Rundle Mall, 5000

(08) 8296 4357

Email: wilpfaustralia@...

SA Branch

10th September 2008

The Hon Mike Rann, MP
Premier and Minister for Social Inclusion
200 Victoria Square
ADELAIDE SA 5000

Dear Mr Rann,

We write in reference to various public comments by your Deputy Premier and Treasurer, Mr Foley. While the grave implications of the substance of Mr Foley's statements are the subject of separate correspondence with you and members of your Ministry, we write now in particular concerning Mr Foley's language.

Over recent months, Mr Foley has demonstrated a pattern of immoderate public speech. Indeed, it has become clear that Mr Foley is in the habit of using oppressive language.

We note, for instance, that Mr Foley was quoted on Wednesday 7th May 2008 in a number of media outlets as having spoken thus in reference to prisoners in our state's penal system:

"What we're making very clear is that if we've got to rack 'em, pack 'em and stack 'em, we will."

More recently, he has described peace activists, among whom we number ourselves, as "feral low-life" (Adelaide Now, September 7, 2008).

We can only presume from these of his public comments that Mr Foley believes that he may stand to gain some electoral advantage by portraying himself - and your Government - as "tough and macho". This is not the case. You will no doubt be aware that Mr Foley's comments are unwelcome to many women voters in SA, and, we suspect, to many men as well. In a changed electoral climate when the Northern Territory and West Australian Labor Governments have struggled in recent times to maintain their electoral advantage, we believe that Mr Foley has become a liability for SA Labor.

Of more concern to us, however, is the climate of intolerance and xenophobia which is fueled and cultivated in the community by such comments in the mouth of a person who holds a high office in the state government. This is especially the case when there is apparently no attempt within the government to moderate Mr Foley's style of language. Mr Foley's language is not simply flamboyant; it is speech of hatred and violence and, as such, is indefensible.

We therefore respectfully urge that Mr Foley be encouraged to undertake an appropriate anger management course and that he be counselled against the use of immoderate, oppressive and violent language.

Yours sincerely,

Cathy Picone
Coordinator (SA branch)

CC.:
Hon Gail Gago, Minister for the Status of Women
Ms Frances Bedford, Member for Florey

Ms Steph Key, Member for Ashford

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From: adelaidepeacesingers@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:59 am
Subject: Singing Workshop, 9/13/2008, 2:00 pm

adelaidepeacesingers@yahoogroups.com

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Title:		Singing Workshop

Date:		Saturday September 13, 2008
Time:		2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Location:		Quaker Meeting House, 40A Pennington Terrace, North Adelaide

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#28

From: Cathy Picone <cpicone@...>
Date: Mon Sep 8, 2008 3:25 am
Subject: Fantastic protest this morning in Adelaide

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Hey all,

What a fantastic protest we had this morning in Adelaide!  For the
very busy peak hour between about 8 and 9am, twenty (or so) of us
carried placards around the four sides of the most central pedestrian
crossing, right in the centre of the city.  Our placards read:
"Ordinary people stopped the arms expo" and "SA says no defence
industry state" etc. etc. There was a great variety of words - which
had been painted last night on many placards by Irene and Kate and
Richard. Thanks!!  And thanks to Craig and Jake for a great press
release - which got Jake at least two interviews, one with ABC TV and
one with Radio Adelaide.

We got lots of encouragement and thanks from pedestrians and
motorists. One bus driver was very, very welcoming and full of
smiles. Lots of people took our fliers - thanks to Jason for bringing
them back from Melbourne, and to Dimity and team for the graphic
design and printing - to Kate and Irene again for putting an updated
sticker on them announcing "peace activists win - arms expo
cancelled".

The idea for the moving protest came out of our meeting in Adelaide
yesterday afternoon - thanks, Ruth! With our team work, we made such
a friendly protest this morning that two young women passing by
joined us in the protest - and carried placards with us. Even a
policeman passing by said he supported us - except for some graffiti
he'd seen on some private property!

Cathy

#27

From: Cathy Picone <cpicone@...>
Date: Sun Sep 7, 2008 1:35 pm
Subject: Fwd: Media Release: "Peace gets a chance: Arms expo cancelled"

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Forwarded FYI:

Media Release: "Peace gets a chance: Arms expo cancelled"

#26

From: Leigh Newton <lnewton@...>
Date: Sun Sep 7, 2008 1:18 pm
Subject: Feral protesters? :-)

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Dear Protest Singers

My guess is that the event would have been a public relations disaster for the SA government. � �I wonder if they did their own polling that showed an unfavourable public response. ��

Ya gotta be proud of what public protest can achieve.�

Hey, if it comes up again, lets aim for a choir of a thousand. �They'll need 2000 police for that. �:-)

Leigh Newton�

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On 07/09/2008, at 5:55 PM, Cathy Picone wrote:

Dear protest singers,

I thought you might like to see this video link - courtesy of�
smh.com.au - The Sydney Morning Herald.

It's entitled: "The faces of APEC violence?"

2008-09-05 18:26:43

To view the entire video, click on:�
http://media.smh.com.au/?rid=41399&category=Breaking%20News

Please ignore the advertisement which precedes it.

Ciao,

Cathy

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#25

From: Cathy Picone <cpicone@...>
Date: Sun Sep 7, 2008 12:55 pm
Subject: Video - The faces of APEC violence?

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Dear protest singers,

I thought you might like to see this video link - courtesy of
smh.com.au - The Sydney Morning Herald.

It's entitled: "The faces of APEC violence?"

2008-09-05 18:26:43

To view the entire video, click on:
http://media.smh.com.au/?rid=41399&category=Breaking%20News

Please ignore the advertisement which precedes it.

Ciao,

Cathy

#24

From: Cathy Picone <cpicone@...>
Date: Sun Sep 7, 2008 7:40 am
Subject: Singing workshop and moving protest

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Dear protest singers,

Although the arms expo has been cancelled, the singing protest
workshop will go ahead next Saturday 13th September in Adelaide as
scheduled. And, if you're able, you may like to join us in the moving
protest tomorrow morning, Monday 8th September, 8am to 9am. For that
hour, we will walk around the pedestrian crossing at the corner of
North Terrace and King William Street, Adelaide, holding placards.
Thanks to Kate and Irene and Richard for making the placards!

Ciao,

Cathy

#23

From: adelaidepeacesingers@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat Sep 6, 2008 3:59 am
Subject: Singing Workshop, 9/13/2008, 2:00 pm

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