WAWAN - Wollongong Against War and Nukes

  • Speakout: Cut ties with Trump's America — Scrap AUKUS!

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    Trump is a lunatic. He has threatened to invade Panama and Greenland, declares that the US should “own” Gaza, and is using the weight of US financial and military might to force the world to submit to his bullying. The Albanese government has shamefully gone along with all of Trump’s madness in the interests of maintaining the AUKUS agreement, handing over the first $800 million…

  • Beats not Bombs

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    Beats not Bombs, music and words against war in the Chambers Gallery. Featuring Maurie Mulheron and others.

  • Palestine: The environmental impacts of war and occupation

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    Join us in a public forum featuring Palestinian academic and writer Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh. Professor Qumsiyeh has been writing on Palestine for the past three decades, on topics ranging from the environmental impacts of colonization to environmental and climate justice to cultural heritage to human rights to biodiversity conservation to cancer. The forum will be hosted by a…

  • Bisalloy Steels & the arms trade with Israel

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    5.30pm for a 6pm start. Join Wollongong Against War and Nukes to learn more about the struggle for peace in the first event in our new series of teach-ins.  Yaakov Aharon, a Jewish-Australian journalist for Michael West Media, will explore the role Wollongong is playing in the global arms trade and discuss what we can do to stop arming genocide.

  • Don't nuke the future

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    What is behind the new push for nuclear energy in Australia and how is it connected to the AUKUS nuclear submarines? Join this forum to find out who really benefits from nuclear, and what the alternatives are in the Illawarra. Speakers: Senator David Shoebridge (Greens) Gem Romuld (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) Arthur Rorris (South Coast…

  • Remember Hiroshima - march for peace!

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    Join Wollongong Against War and Nukes for a lantern parade to commemorate the victims of wars past and present, and to demand a future without war. Bring your own lantern, light, or candle!