Peace And Environment Expert Panel U Syd Dan Cass 2009
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Where is peace? Personal reflections for ‘Making Connections’ University of Sydney Post-graduate summer school 2009 Dan Cass
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Personal reflections on the connections between peace and environment, for University of Sydney summer school. Most of the postgrads were in peace and conflict studies.
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Where is peace?Personal reflections for ‘Making Connections’
University of Sydney Post-graduate summer school 2009
Dan Cass
1980s :growing up under the cloud
Young People for Nuclear Disarmament
• Vigils / camps : Watsonia Barracks, US Consulate, City Square
• Stop the City ‘Flash mobs’ versus war toys
• Gigs, benefits, badges, newsletters, talks, films
• Palm Sunday street festival
• "Phyllis Cormack" 15 September 1971 Amchitka test zone
• Test series later cancelled• Quaker history of non-violence• Core mission and method of
Greenpeace• 3 million supporters
Peace first but always Green
New Zealand 2003
Germany 2003
Chile 2004
Iraq 2003
• Global Peace Initiative : defining the good• Triple Threat : Peak Oil + climate change +
financial crisis• Green New Deal
Approaches
• IPCC/Al Gore Nobel Peace Prize “tells us that the fossil fuel industry is waging war on the world's climate and we must make peace with the planet if we are to survive”
• Relocalisation is the new community organising
• New Energy Radicals blessed by James Hanson, Al Gore
Definitions
Why civil disobedience ? • We already have majority support to free
world of nuclear weapons according to polls– 1997 USA 87%– 1998 Russia 61%, India 62%, Japan 78%, Australia
92%, Norway 92%, Belgium 72%, Canada 93%– 2004 Turkey 72% – 2005 UK 54%
[REF : http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/peace/abolish-nuclear-weapons Accessed 8.1.9]
• United Nations annual vote: most of 191 states support abolition of nuclear weapons
Resources for making connections
http://relocalize.net/
http://www.zerocarbonbritain.com/
www.visionofhumanity.org
http://whosepower.wordpress.com/
Thank you.
Dan CassCommunications managerGreenpeace Australia Pacific
[email protected] blog | http://www.greenpeace.org.au/blog/energy/Personal blog | greenfunkdan.blogspot.com
