A night of food, music, short film and presentation on the courageous struggle of the Carterets Atoll Community
Date : Tuesday 28th July 2009
Time : 7.00pm till late
Venue: ABC Gallery 127 Campbell Street (cnr of Vere Street) Collingwood. Melways Ref: 2C G9)
Price: $20 or $10 low waged. Donations welcome Scrumptious finger food
RSVP if possible by COB 27th July 2009 by e-mail: k.lewisohn@acfonline.org.au (one of our students!),
call 03 93451147, or take your chances at the door!
Guest speaker: Ursula Rakova
Guest performers: David Bridie (Not Drowning Waving, My Friend Chocolate Cake), Genevieve & Jezebel (Harp and Percussion Duo)
Join us for a night of music, food and presentation and bask in the warmth of open wood fire amongst friendly people.
Ursula is the spokesperson for the Carterets community. Born on the Carterets atoll of Han, she is the founder and the current Executive Director of Tulele Peisa, a local NGO based in Buka in the Bougainville province of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Tulele Peisa is entrusted by the Carterets community to co-ordinate and to liaise with the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) to oversee the safe and smooth voluntary relocation and resettlement of the islanders.
Ursula is a pioneer in the environmental movement in Papua New Guinea. She is well respected for her integrity, commitment and conviction to building strong, transparent and accountable as well as ecologically conscious civil society movement. She is a tireless environmental campaigner and a strong advocate of human rights for PNG and for her home province of Bougainville. Ursula is has to raise funds to help her people to start relocating and resettling whilst working towards an ecological sustainable for them.
Carterets Atolls and Climate Change
The Carterets atolls are among the first casualties of rising sea levels from climate change. Geological movements often affect coral atolls. For the Carterets, rising sea levels exacerbated the situation. Climate change has brought more frequent and severe storm and wave surges which increasingly inundate arable land, threatening food security and fresh water supplies. For the last 3 years they have began to plan for their relocation and resettlement. For them, adaptation is not an option because their home will be submerged as sea levels rise.
About 600 families with an estimated total of 2,500 people are currently living on the six Carterets atolls. They are facing increasing hardships as their lands are encroached upon by the rising sea as the atolls progressively ‘sink’.
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