Peace and Our Planet
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Con Pakavakis, Tony Milne and Romina Beitseen discuss what we can learn from local and global campaigns for peace, and how a commitment to peace and non violence can influence our communities and behaviours. They will reflect on how peace activism has changed over the years from anti-imperialism and conscription resistance to anti-nuclear and climate campaigning. Moderated by Skye Cusack.
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Constantine Pakavakis
Constantine Pakavakis is the Co-Convenor of No AUKUS Coalition Victoria and PEN Writers For Peace committee chair. A recently retired primary school teacher, he has returned to peace activism, something he began during the Vietnam War when he was arrested as a draft resistor. In 2024 Con was entered in the newly launched Australian Peace Honour Roll.
Romina Beitseen
Romina Beitseen is a member and treasurer of the Melbourne branch of the Communist Party of Australia. She has been in the party for over 30 years, having joined soon after she came to Australia in 1986 from Iran. Romina is active in the peace movement and is secretary of the Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD). She is also involved with The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN), the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW) as well as being a member of the Cuba Friendship Society.
Skye Cusack
Skye Cusack is a Dulgubarra-Yidinji, Indonesian and Chinese writer, journalist and accidental comedian living in Naarm (Melbourne). Skye shares stories that make you laugh, cry, and call your therapist. Common themes in her writing include mental health, disability, fatphobia, existential Blak crises, and people generally making fools of themselves. Skye is publishing two fiction novels in 2027: Queer romantic comedy 'Checked Out' with Penguin Random House Australia and New Adult novel 'The Dangers of Just One Person' with Magabala Books.
Tony Milne
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