Peace Movement Aotearoa - Latest News [Page 10]
Former Iraq hostages to issue statement
Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 9:26 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
Former Iraq hostages, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden, will arrive in the UK this week to be reunited with fellow captive Norman Kember, and issue a statement concerning their alleged captors who may face the death penalty. This will be the ... More >>
Gaza: Stop The Sige - Stop The War
Tuesday, 28 November 2006, 9:14 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
This message is primarily about the international Gaza: Stop the Siege - Stop the War! campaign that has been running through November and will culminate in demonstrations around the world on Saturday, 2 December. There are five sections below: More >>
Farhan Alqam, Mayor of Beit Ommar, freed
Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 12:24 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
On 12 September, CPT learned that the Mayor of Beit Ommar, Farhan Alqam was back home after 15 days detention by the Israeli Defence Forces - see release 27 August, Palestine Mayor abducted, at http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/hb270806.htm More >>
Nighttime round-up of Hebron men.
Monday, 18 September 2006, 10:21 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
Christian Peacemaking Team (CPT) Hebron received a telephone call at 10pm on 13 September, saying that soldiers were holding a dozen men near the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee (HRC) building in the Old City. Team members also saw that soldiers were ... More >>
Report/Images: Nighttime round-up of Hebron men
Monday, 18 September 2006, 10:05 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
To view the photographs with this article, please go to http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/hb140906.htm Christian Peacemaking Team (CPT) Hebron received a telephone call at 10pm on 13 September, saying that soldiers were holding a dozen men near the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee ... More >>
Hebron: Israeli military abducts Palestinian mayor
Monday, 4 September 2006, 3:31 pm | Peace Movement Aotearoa
We have just received an update to New Zealander Christina Gibbs' interview with Farhan Alqam, Mayor of Beit Ommar, last month - see 'Another face of Hamas' at http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/hb070806.htm Alqam was abducted by Israeli soldiers on 24 August, and is being held without charge, ... More >>
Updated details for W Papua national speaking tour
Monday, 28 August 2006, 12:46 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
From Friday, 18 August, through to Tuesday, 5 September, Reverend Socratez Sofyan Yoman will be speaking at public meetings around the country about West Papua - the hidden Pacific conflict. Below is some biographical information about Socratez, and ... More >>
Campaign Against The Taser Public Meeting in Wgtn
Friday, 11 August 2006, 2:18 pm | Peace Movement Aotearoa
In September, the New Zealand police intend to 'trial' taser stun guns, initially in Auckland and Wellington. The government has supported this move without any public consultation, yet it has the potential to dramatically change the relationship between ... More >>
2005 World Military Spending Data Available
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 9:52 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
The SIPRI Yearbook 2006 'Armaments, Disarmament and International Security' was released earlier this week - the new edition of SIPRI’s annual compendium of data and analysis of developments in security and conflicts, military spending and armaments and non-proliferation, ... More >>
Peace Movement Aotearoa May 2006 Update
Wednesday, 3 May 2006, 12:58 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
~ Wednesday, 3 May - World Press Freedom Day - to celebrate the struggle for press freedom and to remember the journalists who have been killed, persecuted or jailed because of their work; the main theme of World Press Freedom Day 2006 is the correlation ... More >>
Support for Malcolm Kendall-Smith
Friday, 21 April 2006, 2:44 pm | Peace Movement Aotearoa
we have received a number of requests for information about how to support Flight-Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith, the RAF doctor who refused to return to Iraq because he considers the invasion of Iraq contravened international law, the Nuremberg principles and ... More >>
CPT rejoices in the release of our peacemakers
Friday, 24 March 2006, 8:38 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
this message is to let you know that Christian Peacemakers Teams have confirmed that Harmeet Sooden, James Loney and Norman Kember have been released; although we do not yet know what state of health they are in. There will be a statement from Christian ... More >>
Third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq
Thursday, 16 March 2006, 9:41 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
During the week of 15 to 22 March 2006, there will be protests, vigils and rallies all around the world to mark the third anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Below are the details of what is happening in Aotearoa New Zealand More >>
Act Now! Imminent Nuclear Weapons Test
Friday, 24 February 2006, 9:07 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
The US and British governments are planning to conduct a subcritical nuclear weapons test some time tonight (NZ time). As with their other nuclear weapons tests going back over the past 61 years, this nuclear device will be detonated at the Nevada ... More >>
Muslim community joins 'Human Shield' in appeal
Monday, 9 January 2006, 5:40 pm | Peace Movement Aotearoa
Australia's Muslim community has joined forces with former 'human shield' and aid worker in Iraq, Donna Mulhearn, to make a direct appeal on Al Jazeera television to the kidnappers of four members of the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) still held ... More >>
Israel Prepares To Demolish Elderly Couple's Home
Friday, 16 December 2005, 4:37 pm | Peace Movement Aotearoa
The Israeli authorities are preparing to demolish the house of an elderly couple in East Jerusalem, on the grounds that it was built without a permit. Mohammad and Zarifa Abbasi are in poor health, and there are serious concerns that if they were ... More >>
NZ Free the Peacemakers Messages + Wgtn Vigil
Thursday, 8 December 2005, 10:11 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
As the deadline approaches when those who are holding the four abducted Peacemakers - Harmeet Sooden, James Loney, Norman Kember, and Tom Fox - have threatened to execute them, please take the time today to write a message of support and hope for their ... More >>
Update on NZ support for Peacemakers
Wednesday, 7 December 2005, 9:32 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
- how you can add a personal message to the NZ Support for Peacemakers web page, something you can do wherever you are; More >>
NZ support for Peacemakers abducted in Baghdad
Monday, 5 December 2005, 10:08 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
- NZ web page for Harmeet Sooden and his fellow Peacemakers - sign the on-line petition - vigil in Auckland tonight More >>
Solidarity for West Papua in Aotearoa
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 12:01 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
This alert has four sections: 1) About West Papua; 2) About 1 December, West Papua Independence Day; 3) 'Messages of solidarity' - something you can do wherever you are to add your voice to those who are calling for justice, peace and self-determination ... More >>