[Aidwatch] AID/WATCH E-Bulletin: Fight for Land Film Night

Sun Oct 12 18:33:05 PDT 2008

Hello Aidwatchers,

I hope you are all feeling energetic this month as there are a number of
excellent upcoming events well worth your attending! AID/WATCH will be
hosting a film night on land rights this month, launching our exciting new
"Guide to Australian Aid" and revamped website in November, then topping it
all off in December with our Annual Trivia night. 

Look forward to seeing many of you at our events over the next couple of
months. 

Lara Daley

Director

AID/WATCH E-Bulletin Monday October 13th 2008 

1.
<http://www.aidwatch.org.au/index.php?current=1&display=aw01243&display_item
=2> EVENT: The Fight for Land short film night

2.    EVENT: AID/WATCH guide to Australian aid Launch

3.    EVENT: AID/WATCH Annual Trivia Night

4.
<http://www.aidwatch.org.au/index.php?current=1&display=aw01235&display_item
=2> ARTICLE: Forget About Missy 

5.    ACTION: email the Colombian Consulate in support of worker's rights

6.    EVENT: Pacific Calling for Climate Justice

7.    EVENT: Film "The Doctors of Tomorrow" 

8.    Donate to AID/WATCH

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1.	EVENT: The Fight for Land short film night

On Thursday the 30th October AID/WATCH invites you to a night of
documentaries on grassroots struggles for land rights in Cambodia, Mexico
and Papua New Guinea. The evening includes an introduction from some of the
documentary makers and an AID/WATCH update on land reform in the aid
program.

When: Thursday 30th October 6.30-9pm

Where: Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt St, Sydney CBD

Cost: $10 concession, $15 Waged.

Click here for more information:

http://www.aidwatch.org.au/index.php?current=1
<http://www.aidwatch.org.au/index.php?current=1&display=aw01243&display_item
=2> &display=aw01243&display_item=2

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2.     <http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=41274> EVENT:
AID/WATCH's Guide to Australian Aid Launch

Join AID/WATCH for the launch of our exciting new publication AID/WATCH's
Guide to Australian Aid and the revamped AID/WATCH website. Both the guide
and new website make accessible vital information on the Australian aid
program and development NGO aid. These will be powerful tools to assist
AID/WATCHers in holding our government to account on aid spending and making
well-informed private donations.

Come along and hear from past AID/WATCH campaigners including AID/WATCH
Co-Founder Lee Rhiannon, view the new website and get your copy of the
hot-off-the-press guide to Australian aid.

When: November 20th, 6pm for 6.30pm start  

Where: Medium Rare Gallery, 70 Regent St Redfern

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3.    EVENT: AID/WATCH Annual Trivia Night - "Almost anyone can be
President"  

Following the long awaited November election of a new American president,
come and share your memories of the Bush administration that proved almost
anyone can be President. Our hosts Captain Belligerent and Cute Boy return
to delve into your knowledge of Bush-isms and faux-pas! Dinner and drinks
will be available for purchase.

When: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 6:30pm

Where: Camperdown Bowling Club, Mallet St, Camperdown

$20/$10 waged/concession or $50 for passionate supporters.

To book a table (of 6) or your seat, call Ozzie at AID/WATCH on

9557 8944 (mob: 0434 829 084) or email ozzie at aidwatch.org.au

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4.    ARTICLE: Forget About Missy 

Did Rudd's advisers muddle up the briefing papers? What with all the
hullaballoo over whether Kevin Rudd was only going to New York to meet Missy
Higgins, everyone, including the Prime Minister himself, seemed to have
forgotten exactly why he was in the Big Apple. 

Read AID/WATCH Director, Flint Duxfield's article on the need for Rudd to
remember the global fight against poverty and the Millennium Development
Goals. 

Follow this link to read the article:

http://newmatilda.com/2008/09/25/forget-about-missy

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5.    ACTION: email the Colombian Consulate in support of worker's rights

In Colombia, for the last 20 days between 12 000 and 18 000 men who work the
cane fields in have been on strike. Their strike has stopped 80% of all
production of sugar in Colombia and it is estimated that it has cost the
sugar sector around $450 million.  In the words of one of the sugar cane
workers, the strike is a historic moment against the exploitation of 200
years of slavery.  

Activists in Colombia have asked AID/WATCH members and friends to support
striking workers in Colombia by emailing:
<mailto:ConsulateofColombia at tpg.com.au> ConsulateofColombia at tpg.com.au in
support of their rights.

For information on this call-to-action click here:
http://www.aidwatch.org.au/index.php?current=1
<http://www.aidwatch.org.au/index.php?current=1&display=aw01244&display_item
=2> &display=aw01244&display_item=2

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6.    EVENT: Pacific Calling for Climate Justice

The Pacific Calling Partnership invites you to a participatory forum Pacific
Calling for Climate Justice: a human rights framework?

The forum will open with Indigenous representatives from Australia and the
Pacific speaking about the effects of climate change on their people. The
forum will then explore how an effective human rights framework can respond
to calls for climate justice from our neighbours.

When: 9.00am - 5pm Saturday 25 October 2008
Where: Gleeson Auditorium Australian Catholic University, 25A Barker Rd
Strathfield NSW
Registration fee (includes lunch and morning tea)
Full: $60, Academics/NGOworkers/teachers: $30, Concession:$10 

For booking details contact jillf at erc.org.au or phone 02 8762 4200

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7.    EVENT: Film "The Doctors of Tomorrow

A documentary on the Timor Leste-Cuba health cooperation. See interviews
with some of the 850 East Timorese students studying medicine with the
Cubans, in the biggest medical college on earth. From 2010 onwards these
young people will begin to take control of their country's health system.

39 minutes. Filmed in Timor Leste and Cuba

Produced by Tim Anderson, 2008

When: Wednesday, October 15, 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Where: Education Lecture Theatre 351 University of Sydney

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8.     Donate to AID/WATCH

AID/WATCH is a community-based organization and does not accept government
or

corporate funding. We need your help to continue our work as the independent
monitor of Australia's aid and trade and to improve the effects of
development on the planet and its people. Only through being financially
self-sufficient can we have the freedom to criticize or applaud with
objectivity. Together with you we can achieve change without compromise.

Click this link to give to AID/WATCH today:

 <http://www.aidwatch.org.au/index.php?current=6>
http://www.aidwatch.org.au/index.php?current=6

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