Multicultural Festival for Iraqi Children - Australia

AID FOR CHILDREN OF FALLUJAH

On the 5th of November, 2005 in Melbourne, Australia there will be a day to raise awareness of the plight of children orphaned in Fallujah, and to raise funds to assist them.  Please add to the International Peace Train at the World Dreams Peace Bridge table.   A selection of Peace Train art already created around the world, since the project began in 2002 ,will be on display.  There will also be flyers for the Aid for Traumatised Children Project, run through the World Dreams Peace Bridge, which specifically works with Iraqi professionals, such as doctors and psychiatrists and teachers, to help Iraqi children deal with the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
 

Submitted after the Festival...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor

Moreland Peace Group wishes to thank all those organisations and individuals who helped  make the Multicultural Festival such a success. We raised nearly $3,000 which we can send to Doctors for Iraq Society. These funds will help provide medical needs for Iraqi children in areas where there is an humanitarian crisis, such as western Iraq.

About 300 people attended the festival and many others assisted with publicity and preparation. In the context of the serious attack on civil liberties in Australia
we hope that we have been able to build stronger links with a range of community organisations, especially the Muslim community who are suffering more scapegoating.

Our next event will be held on Tuesday 29 November (7pm) at Caffe Mingo (600 Sydney Rd Brunswick) when we will welcome Donna Mulhearn who was a "Human Shield" in Iraq at the time of invasion. She also visited Cindy Sheehan who recently held a vigil outside the Bush  ranch, in memory of her son, an American soldier killed in Iraq.

There will be lots of time for discussion at this forum. As US-British-Australian forces get bogged down in Iraq, the peace movement in the US is growing and we look forward to  new opportunities to change our governmment's policies in Australia as well. Bring Australian troops home.

Judy McVey
Convenor, Moreland Peace Group
0418 347 374
www.morelandpeacegroup.org
 

Multicultural Festival for Iraqi Children Poster - Australia

 

The Multicultural Festival for Iraqi Children
5th of Nov 2005
The Festival Activities program  

Time

 

Activities

 
2 – 2:30 pm Guest Speakers
2 – 3 pm Children Workshops: Face Painting – Peace Train – Message Banner – “Stop the War” Video
3 – 3:15 pm “Ati” Indonesian Dance for children 
3:15 – 4 pm Children Workshops: Face Painting – Peace Train – Message Banner – “Stop the War” Videos
4 – 4:30 pm Eva Popov (Acoustic folk)
4:30 – 5 pm Adel and Denice
5 – 5:30 pm Screening Message from Iraq
5:30 – 6 pm Guest Speakers
6 – 6: 30 pm Didgeridoo, Aboriginal performance.
6:30 – 7 pm  
7 – 7:15 pm  Marina Bistrin, Flamenco, Chinese fan fusion.
7:30 – 8 pm Bill, Moreland Peace Group, middle eastern / European
8 – 8:30 pm Theatre Sports – comedy
8:30 – 9 pm  
9 – 9:30 pm Olgaa Fienco
9:30 – 10pm  
10 – 11 pm Ibrahim and bellydancers