LLOYD RUSSELL-MOYLE - THE WOODCRAFT FOLK
Thursday 8th July.

Well we are almost half way though the sitting, hasn’t it gone fast! I am shattered, the man had to come and wake us up today and I completely missed my breakfast, DAM, on the up side I missed the warm up or the majority of it (the facilitator did try to keep making us get up and be active, us UK delegate were too tiered and Reserve!?!? To take part we sat and laughed at the back. Why can’t we just get on instead of bursting in to movement every second.). At the joint sitting it was the most inspiring speech, it was on the Topic of Local to Global and the speaker was Eileen Pittaway, she and her organization from Australia have forget and been successful in lobbying the UN. She spoke how if a woman was raped she wasn’t eligible for asylum as the UK judge who set the president said that Rape was the ‘normal course of a women’s life’. They managed to lobby and persuade the leaders first of all to see it as an issue putting it on the agenda. The world leaders agreed not only to grant refugee status to those women but rape is not a crime against humanity the highest crime possible. What a success (male rape has always been counted as physical abuse) She talked about how to get around the UN process followed by a session of questions.

A quick break for tea and in to our action groups, in both sessions today I’ve been working harder on my action plan talking to others about it and we have been working out what and how we can improve them, sharing skills and ideas it is really useful. After Afternoon tea we had an action sharing session where we went to each other action group to find out what was happening. For the last session I was helping with the sustainability one and we had a discussion about sustainability and the way to reach it and if it was possible.
It was a really good discussion with people really bring theory of politics and the environment into play to try and debate how we must go about education about sustainable development and the challenges we face.

Dinner soon followed and I went to type some of David Diaries up and start finishing off my own LSP working group work for the Local Council, I have found that I have been so bogged down with work while I have been over here. I have really enjoyed it but it has been really non-stop, I feel like I have lived in Sydney for years not weeks.

Finished typing around 11 and went to the common room when I worked on my action plan till about 1230 when the music started blearing so David, myself, and Helen went out side to join the others in some stretching and just talking. Talked about random things (the state of public transept and fair trade to name a few) in to the wee hours of the night and at about 230/3am I went to bed leaving David and company talking.

Blue Skies (well I whish it would be)
Lloyd