Ban the bomb
We did a good thing. Not many people noticed, but we did it anyway.
On 20 September 2009, we ran a public seminar on nuclear disarmament. The speakers were impressive. Rolf Ekéus, Gareth Evans, Kawasaki Akira of PeaceBoat fame, Tilman Ruff and others.
I really liked Kandori Shizuka (Japanese for Peace) who talked about her grandparents at Hiroshima and about teaching Australian kids about Hiroshima. And I could listen to Tessa Morris-Suzuki forever, I think.
It was an enormous amount of work (but not enough on publicity, clearly). About 75 people turned up. We got a couple of press articles about it. By the time it arrived I was too exhausted to even spam my friends about it, much less try to push it on forums, social networks, news groups...
Thanks to the Australia-Japan Foundation for funding us, and the RMIT Foundation for funding Rolf to come out. In fact, RMIT turned out to be brilliant. Tech support was wonderful (thanks, Danny), the video conferencing was excellent (thanks, Chris) and RMIT Events saved my arse (thanks, Sally).
Two more days to go. I love my job, but sometimes it kills me.