Fair Share festival and School of Social Justice

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  1. Michaelangelica

    Michaelangelica Junior Member

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    Fri. 22nd and Sat. 23nd October - Fair Share festival and School of Social Justice

    The Fair Share Festival is organised to go from Friday 22nd 4pm-8.30pm, then Saturday 23rd 9am-4.30pm and will be held at Hamilton Public School, Tudor St, Newcastle. It an Eco-Social Expo and School, (10-12 workshops) aimed to educate and inspire the public towards achieving sustainable and caring society, so it includes a holistic focus on all 3 of economic, social and ecological sectors, as being all inter-dependent (as also now taught in Permaculture meaning "Permanently sustainable culture").
    We'll focus on... equitable, sustainable, community-strengthening financial/economic and eco-social systems.... as ethical, enduring alternatives to the "greed is good" system which have produced not only boom-and-bust disasters like the GFC -Global Financial Crisis - but great costs to communities (the poor in particular), culture, the environment and health.

    The still-unravelling disasters of both the GFC- Global Financial Crisis - and the eco-system crisis of species extinction and climate change, necessitate changes to business practices and structures, economic policies, attitudes and life-styles....from excessive individualism, greed and materialism, to a new basis of co-operation, respect for the community of all species, and the strengthening of human communities.

    FSF is also a Festival, with exhibitors, displays and "edutainment" breaks of relevant issue-highlighting drama, comedy/satire, songs and even a magician with a sustainability-teaching show.
    See our website for more info. www.transitionnewcastle.org.au
     
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    andrew curr Moderator

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    what a lovley idea
    incidentally i was in newcastle the other day and happened to see some canola plants growing on the side of the road (new eng hwy)near the grain handling facility
    I wonder what sort of canola plants they were????? i would suggest if any of u hippies were to spray them with glyphosate they wouldnt die!
     
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    I've seen them too Andrew - now where would I get the roundup?
     
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    Don't bother - the council already sprayed it! And it didn't die...
     
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    would someone kindly pull them out, arrange them as a bouquet and give them to the PM.
     
    abdullah, Oct 11, 2010
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