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Greetings from the Palm Sunday Alliance for a Peaceful and Nuclear Free Future in Melbourne!

*Below you will find:*
1. Welcome to Palm Sunday Nuclear Fools Day list
2. Update on plans around the country
3. How you can help in Melbourne
4. Invitation to submit news to future email updates

Thanks for signing up to the Palm Sunday update list! Let your friends
and colleagues know they can sign up on the front page of our website –
http://www.NuclearFoolsDay.org

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*As you know, Palm Sunday falls on April Fools’ Day this year.*

Shortly before the Christmas break it dawned on many of us in Melbourne
who have been involved in the peace movement over the years that this
was a significant congruence of dates as Australia heads into an
election year with a Government intent on establishing a nuclear
industry in Australia.

We called a meeting, brainstormed a lot of ideas, and in Melbourne
planed a Public Meeting with Helen Caldicott and others on Thursday 1
March and a parade and festival on 1 April, ending at the Sidney Myer
Music Bowl. We think now is the right time for an iconic anti-nuclear
peace event in Australia.

Following the April Fools Day theme, we decided to plan an up-beat,
theatrical and comedy based approach to the serious issue of peace. We
will protest war, the fool on the hill and the nuclear fool cycle!

We came to consensus on the following demands:

Stop nuclear power in Australia: Renewables not reactors!
Stop uranium mining: Leave it in the ground!
Stop nuclear weapons and wars: Reject the US nuclear umbrella!
Stop nuclear waste: No waste dump in Australia!

More about these demands here: http://nuclearfoolsday.org

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*Update:*

- 39 organisations have signed up! http://nuclearfoolsday.org/endorsers

- A leaflet is available on the http://www.NuclearFoolsDay.org website.
Let us know by emailing i...@nuclearfoolsday.org if you would like to
adapt it to advertise your activity
http://nuclearfoolsday.org/files/PalmSunday2007FINAL.pdf

- Leunig’s poster artwork nearly finished! Let us know if you would like
to use it for your event. i...@nuclearfoolsday.org

- Next Adelaide Palm Sunday Alliance meeting 31 January, 6pm at the
Conservation Centre, 2nd meeting will be 6pm 20 February at the
Community Meeting Room, Christie Walk

- Next Melbourne Palm Sunday Alliance meeting 13 February, Trades Hall, 6pm

- Brisbane, Palm Sunday Peace Rally and March, 11 am, 1st April, Queens
Park, crn Elizabeth and George Streets, Brisbane

- Townsville Palm Sunday group started to organise.

- Advertise your meeting in the next email update!

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*Help!*

If you are in Melbourne….

Do you have a few hours to help out with outreach? We need help in doing mail outs and reaching out to organisations via fax, email and calling.
Please email Louise if you can help loui...@graffiti.net

Do you need some exercise and would like to help with letterboxing?
Please email Fiona if you can help fijr...@hotmail.com

When we get our posters, we will need help to paste them up and get them into shop fronts, leaflets too. Please email Nuclear Free Australia if you can help hill...@optusnet.com.au

Do you have access to a photocopier and would like to generate some
leaflets for distribution? Please email Felicity if you can help
feli...@mapw.org.au

Does your organisation want to have a stall at the Palm Sunday parade?
Please email Kylie kymo...@yahoo.com.au

Do you know clowns, fools and entertainers who might juggle, unicycle or adopt a foolish character on the day? Invite them! If they want to
register to coordinate or get more information, email
f...@nuclearfoolsday.org

Are you someone who would like to offer some time to create props,
banners and decorations? Please email crea...@nuclearfoolsday.org

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These updates will not clutter up your inbox too much – please check the website often as it is being updated constantly.

Please send news and updates on what you are doing on Palm Sunday and we will include them in the next update, and post the details on the website!

Best wishes

Palm Sunday Alliance for a Peaceful and Nuclear Free Future in Melbourne

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