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A Quaker Concern - The Increasing Militarisation of Our Schools
QPLC are inviting Friends and interested community members to seek to meet their State/Territory Ministers of Education about the increasing militarisation of education in primary and secondary schools. To equip people for this, we are facilitating a webinar which will provide a briefing about the issue, and suggestions for how to lobby decision makers.
Webinar: 6.30-8pm (AEST), Wednesday 30 October
Elise West, Author of MAPW report “Minors and Missiles” and Teachers for Peace
The Australian Education Union is deeply committed to peace, opposes militarism and asserts that war should never be used to resolve international conflict. There have been too many times in history when warmongering and armaments build-up have led to international conflict, death and destruction. Australian Education Union, March 2023
Important, inspiring and useful resources:
Raising Peace Festival 2023 Minors and Missiles (1.32 video) which draws from the 2022 report by the same produced by the Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRiaISdnmlg
The Raising Peace podcast Minors and Missiles is on amazon music at https://music.amazon.ca/podcasts/ee4e58bd-b79b-4c3c-9732-e4ab14ffea32/episodes/c2eab12d-39a7-4fe1-b21b-13d2f3a545a7/raising-peace-minors-and-missiles
The MAPW report, Minors and Missiles, can be found at https://www.mapw.org.au/weapons-industry/stem/
Lobbying resources including: Four major steps for a successful lobby visit, Lobby Roadmap and Six Key Lobby Tips can be found on the -Quakers Australia website: https://www.quakersaustralia.info/peace-action-resources
Organizing partners:
The Australian education Union
Quakers Australia and Quakers Peace & Legislative Committee
Medical Association for the Prevention of War
Please register for the free webinar by contacting the Quakers Australia Peaceworker Jessica Morrison at Peaceworker@quakersaustralia.info. The zoom link will be sent to those who register closer to the day.