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JUSTICE
EVENTS
World Fair Trade Day
- Where: Planet Earth
- When: Saturday May 9, 2009
- Contact: http://www.worldfairtradeday09.org/
- Details: It’s taken 60 years to get to World Fair Trade Day 2009. It’s vital that it doesn’t take another 60 years to correct the imbalance in trade that leaves millions of people living in poverty with the threat of climate change and a financial crisis hanging over us all.
Sign the "Micah Call"
- Where: http://www.micahchallenge.org.au/micah-call
- When: Anytime
- Details: Sign up as an individual to the growing list of almost 100,000 people who want to be a voice for justice. By signing up you will be informed of this issues and campaigns that Micah Challenge is involved with.
Pray for Change
- Where: http://www.micahchallenge.org.au/prayers
- When: Anytime
- Details: We are called to pray for our leaders and decision makers, and we ought to actively pray for our world. If we define advocacy as speaking to the powerful on behalf of the powerless then we must certainly speak to the most powerful God. Both prayer and action are essential components to Christian advocacy. . Click on the link to subscribe to a weekly prayer update from Micah Challenge International.
Contact/Visit your local Politician
- Where: http://www.micahchallenge.org.au/contact-your-politician
- When: Anytime
- Details: Visiting your local MP is by far the most powerful and significant way of letting them know that poverty matters to you. It is a very effective way to share ideas about poverty and we aim to be positive and prayerful in presenting our ideas.
Get a White Band
- Where: http://www.makepovertyhistory.com.au/
- Details: Send a clear message by wearing a Make Poverty History Wrist Band. The symbol of the international campaign is a White Band worn around the wrist, your arm - in fact anywhere you like that it can be seen by everyone! Get one here.
Watch/Screen "The Story of Stuff"
- Film Bio: From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. "The Story of Stuff" is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever. Watch it here.
If you would like to post an event or regular activity, or would like more detailed information regarding any of the above events or activities, please email us at:
info[at]theproject.org.au