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Rua Kenana | Lest We Forget
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Remembering Peacemakers on ANZAC Day. Following the example of Moses and the Israelites in the old testament, Kenana established a separatist Maori community at Maungapohatu, in the Urewera, attracting followers from Tuhoe, Ngati Awa and Whakatohea who had been deeply affected by government confiscations of land following the land wars of the 1870s. Paul Baker, King and Country Call: New Zealanders, Conscription and the Great War. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1988. Merv Browne and Chris Palmer.
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Malcolm Kendall-Smith | Lest We Forget
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Remembering Peacemakers on ANZAC Day. Dual British/NZ citizen Flight Lieutenant Dr Malcolm Kendall-Smith in 2006 was found guilty on five counts of disobeying orders and was sentenced to eight months in prison and ordered to pay $20,000 in costs for refusing to serve in Iraq. Http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm Kendall-Smith. Wwwstopwar.org.uk/StoptheWar-Kendall-Smith.htm. Enter your email to receive occasional updates by email. Merv Browne and Chris Palmer. Te Whiti o Rongomai. White Poppies for Peace.
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A. Lois White | Lest We Forget
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Remembering Peacemakers on ANZAC Day. In the 1930s and 1940s Auckland artist A. Lois White painted a series of political and social commentaries which were inspired by her left-wing, anti-war sentiments. These images range from the pointed and hostile criticism of the commerce of war in War Makers (1937) to the light-hearted celebration of war’s end in Jubilation (1948). Of War Makers, first exhibited in 1937, White wrote,. Auckland City Art Gallery. Enter your email to receive occasional updates by email.
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Moana Cole | Lest We Forget
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Remembering Peacemakers on ANZAC Day. Early in the morning on 1 January 1991 Moana Cole, from New Zealand, Ciaron O’Reilly, from Australia, and Susan Frankel and Bill Streit, from Washington, D.C., calling themselves the ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand and U.S.) Peace Force Plowshares, entered the Griffiss Air Force Base in New York, USA. Bomber Grounded, Runway Closed: The Prison Diary of a War Resister. Rosehill Books, 1995. Http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic Worker Movement. Enter your email to recei...
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Rod Donald | Lest We Forget
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Remembering Peacemakers on ANZAC Day. As well as making speeches, Donald was an active protestor, taking part in the Anti Bases Campaign from 1997, attempting to close the Waihopai spy base near Blenheim so that Aotearoa New Zealand was not supporting United States wars through intelligence gathering. Our generation owes the conscientious objectors to both world wars a particular debt of gratitude. Without their sacrifice it would not so easy for us to campaign for peace today. It comes down to prioritie...
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Alan Graham | Lest We Forget
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Remembering Peacemakers on ANZAC Day. During the Second World War close to 800 men were considered to be defaulting conscientious objectors, and punished by being sent to detention camps for the duration of the war. Intended to be a cross between a prison and a work camp, the detention camps were established around the country, the inmates clearing scrub and weeds from the surrounding countryside, or digging drains, making tracks or planting shelter belts. When Graham was finally released from the detent...
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John Miller | Lest We Forget
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Remembering Peacemakers on ANZAC Day. Photographer John Miller has spent his life documenting protests with his camera. Part of a rich tradition of documentary photography which, in the twentieth century, has captured some momentous events and moments in the struggle for peace, Miller has been an observer of anti-war protest since he began taking photographs, as a secondary school student, of demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1967. Enter your email to receive occasional updates by email.
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Peacemakers | Lest We Forget
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Remembering Peacemakers on ANZAC Day. Below are links to a number of short profiles of peacemakers from New Zealand. 8211; Te Whiti o Rongomai. 8211; Archibald Baxter. 8211; Rua Kenana. 8211; Ormond Burton. 8211; A. Lois White. 8211; Alan Graham. 8211; Merv Browne and Chris Palmer. 8211; The families of conscientious objectors. 8211; John Miller. 8211; Moana Cole. 8211; Rod Donald. 8211; Malcolm Kendall-Smith. Enter your email to receive occasional updates by email. Merv Browne and Chris Palmer.
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References & Resources | Lest We Forget
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Remembering Peacemakers on ANZAC Day. King and Country Call: New Zealanders, Conscription and the Great War. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1988. Paul Baker discusses the issues around compulsory conscription during the First World War, and outlines the pacifist and anti-militarist response. Chapter Seven of his book examines the way in which conscientious objectors such as Archibald Baxter were treated by the government, as well as discussing Maori resistance to fighting in the war. Eight individu...