Catholic Mission will be present at the National Climate Emergency Rally around Australia this Saturday 13 June 2009.
Climate change affects people all around the world and it is often the most vulnerable who are affected the most.
Catholic Mission’s Village Space program – an interactive performance educating school students about social justice issues through dramatised stories, is this year focused on climate change and its effect on people in the majority (developing) world.
Village Space will perform stories from Mexico, Kiribati, the Arctic Circle, Bangladesh and Australia to more than 15,000 students nationally.
“At Catholic Mission we realise the importance of understanding and addressing climate change. We support the Catholic Bishops and their call to change our ways of seeing, thinking and behaving as we accept our responsibility to protect the earth,” said Jenny Collins-White, Education Officer for Catholic Mission.
“So this Saturday’s rally is important for us to get behind as an organisation and as individuals.”
Rallies are taking place in all capital cities across Australia as well as Wollongong at the following times and places.
Sydney
10am, meet at Barangaroo, march through The Rocks and Circular Quay
Canberra
1pm, Garema Place, Civic, ACT.
Melbourne
1pm, State Library, corner La Trobe and Swanston St march to Treasury Gardens
Adelaide
11am Tarndanyangga (Victoria Square) for march through CBD
Perth
12.30pm, Forrest Place, Perth
Hobart
12 noon Parliament House lawns, Hobart
Brisbane
1pm at Queens Park, Elizabeth/George Streets
Wollongong
12 noon, Wollongong Mall amphitheatre (cnr Crown & Church Sts, Wollongong)
For more information please call Jenny Collins-White on 1800 257 296.
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