Events
Anti-Poverty Week
PLEASE NOTE: days for each event have now been changed. Please refer to the days BELOW and not the above poster.
When: Tuesday 13 October 2009 - Thursday 15 October 2009
Where: UTS Concourse in the Main Tower Building (near the grass area)
Where: UTS Concourse in the Main Tower Building (near the grass area)
Anti-Poverty Week (11-17 October 2009) is about strengthening the public's understanding of the causes and consequences of poverty and hardship around the world and in Australia.
UTS AIA will be hosting a different activity each day from Tuesday to Thursday, so please come by and get involved!
- TUESDAY: Bake sale and BBQ lunch
- WEDNESDAY: Banner painting
- THURSDAY: Movie screening
Past Events
- Film Screening of The Life of David Gale (April 2009)
- Speakers Forum - Refugees in Australia: the past, present and future, Peter Johnson Building (October 2008)
- Q n A, ABC (September 2008)
- The Amazing Race, The Concourse (August 2008)
- Great Firewall of China, The Concourse (August 2008)
- Lucky Miles Screening, The Loft (May 2008)
- International Women's Day Morning Tea, The Loft (March 2008)
- O'Day Stall at Orientation Day, UTS Broadway (February 2008)
- BBQ and letter writing petition to Mr Aung Soe Win at the Embassy of Myanmar, Canberra, UTS Alumni Green, Broadway (October 2007)
- Screening of ‘Road to Guantanamo’, with guest speaker Michael Otterman (US journalist and author of ‘American Torture’) and light dinner, UTS Broadway (August 2007)
- Stall and petition to pressure Australian authorities to push for the closure of Guantanamo Bay, held at UTS Broadway and Haymarkets campus (May 2007)
- UTS AIA Launch Party at the Loft bar, UTS Broadway (March 2007)
"The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for."
-- Peter Benenson (1921-2005), founder of Amnesty International
-- Peter Benenson (1921-2005), founder of Amnesty International
"Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'"
-- Peter Benenson (1921-2005), founder of Amnesty International
-- Peter Benenson (1921-2005), founder of Amnesty International