273.108 – ROOM CHANGE
June 29, 2010
Due to unforeseen circumstances room 273.108 in the Pacific Studies building is no longer in use for the conference. Instead we shall be using 260.5115, which is on level 5 of the Business School.
If in doubt, please consult one of our OCIS ambassadors, who are in the blue t-shirts, and they will direct you.
Kit & Maynie: Tea, Scones and Nuclear Disarmament
June 28, 2010
Directed & Produced by Susi Newborn and Claudia Pond Eyley [Running time: 47 minutes]
WEDNESDAY, 30 JUNE 2010, 12:30 pm TICKETS: $5 for students / $10 for full conference delegates LOCATION: Room 260-098, Downstairs, University of Auckland Business School Grafton Road, Auckland
SYNOPSIS: Kit Nelson and Maynie Thompson are two 90 year old peace activists who live on Waiheke Island in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand. Not only did they make a stand for what they believed in, they walked the distance of true commitment to creating a safer world. This is their story. Selling tea and scones at the Saturday market to raise funds for peace activities, the two started campaigning for nuclear disarmament in 1984. With the Waiheke “Mum’s Army”, Maynie embarked on a 2 month Walk for or Life on Earth to parliament steps to urge the New Zealand Government to go nuclear free. (Under the Labour government, New Zealand was declared Nuclear Free in 1987.) Later in 1984, these feisty 65 year olds travelled to Greenham Common, Britain – where a US Air Force Base was housing Cruise missiles. Along with thousands of women at Greenham Common Peace Camp they risked arrest daily and lived in basic tents, cooking over campfires. After returning home from protesting in Geneva and Germany, Maynie headed for the Great Peace March for Nuclear Disarmament in the United States with friend Anne Macfarlane. The nine month journey from Los Angeles to New York then to Washington, DC ended with Maynie’s “proudest moment” when she spoke at the November 1986 rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In 1996, the French government resumed nuclear testing at Moruroa Atoll in the South Pacific. Kit and Maynie, now 77, were back in action – joining the NZ originated Women’s Peace Flight to Tahiti.
TD04: Special Roundtable: The Polynesian Panthers – Political Activism in Aotearoa New Zealand
June 23, 2010
For those interested in attending TD04: Special Roundtable: The Polynesian Panthers – Political Activism in Aotearoa New Zealand (room 273.104) please note that the panel will start at 3.15 rather than 3.30. This is because a short documentary (20 mins approx) will be shown first on the activities of the Panthers in the 1970s, especially the “dawn raids”, in order to set the context for the following talks and debates. If you cannot make it for 3.15, but still wish to attend, it is perfectly fine for you to turn up at 3.30.
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June 8, 2010
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