Saturday 11th May – 10 to 2.00 Fair
Trade display Brisbane St. Mall a celebration of the local businesses and schools which support Fair Trade .discount vouchers children’s activities. 12.00 Official opening by the Mayor of Launceston (a Fair Trade Community) Fair
Trade
at the Uni Bar Thursday 16th May UTas Newnham at 3.30 $15 ticket includes a Drink, Chocolate, Cake Raffle Ticket – your hosts are the Uni Oxfam Group. All welcome. Allison 0408 075 863 or the Oxfam Shop |
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Climate Change and you! - Community forum Saturday May 11th, 7:30pm Deloraine Community Complex, Alveston Drive, Deloraine
Presenters: Peter Boyer - Science journalist + Dr Midj Jones - Meteorologist + Phil Harrington - Industry consultant on climate change and energy
- Are you tired of government backflips on climate change?
- Join this important conversation, learn how climate change affects you and what you can do about it.
Free admission. Supported by the Meander Valley Council and Tasmanian Climate Change Office
LOCAL OXFAM GROUPS are involved in the campaign on climate justice for the poor Hobart Oxfam Group meets 12:30 - 1:30pm on the 3rd Thursday of the month Launceston Oxfam Group meets 6pm on 2nd Tues of the month at the Royal Oak (except May - we meet 10th May 5.30 at the Oxfam Shop) University Oxfam Group for members on all UTAS campuses. |
NEWS: Saturday 5th May 2012 - Watch the local students in a Multimedia - movie from Examiner newspaper Connect the Dots in Launceston More photos about the Connect worldwide event |  |
Click here to read the December 2011 newsletter - Oxfam in Tasmania
| 3 things you can do ... Resources on climate change See a Report on the Fairer World Festival in involving hundreds of school students from all over Tasmania in July 2011 |
See below - an exciting project in Launceston last year
<<< view this clip & come back here in 2011 for more video clips from our part of Streets Alive youth arts festival in Launceston August 2010 Climate .... Change - it's starts with us Thanks to funding bodies, Tasmanian Community Fund & Launceston City Council Printable program and poster below
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Climate change will affect everyone, but it is affecting poor people in developing countries first and most dramatically, with rising sea levels, desertification, worse storms and food and water shortages. Often these countries are the least able to cope.
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