Bevan Ramsden

Wednesday, 1 November 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Bevan looks at the viewer. He is a white man with white hair and wears glasses.

"Things are not going to change unless we do something about it. Don't sit on the sidelines. Become involved". Bevan did get involved in activism and quit his job to work on the Vietnam moratorium movement in the 1970s. It was when Bevan first went to Africa as an Australian Volunteer Abroad in 1965 that his eyes were opened to African independence movements and other political struggles going on in the world. Bevan was born in Thornbury, Melbourne, in 1939. He was there at the beginning of 3CR and remembers its first transmitter, bought for $200 from the local fire brigade. Bevan has taught electrical engineering at TAFE and was pulled up by the cops in the 70s for his anti-conscription graffiti. He is a veteran of the peace movement in Australia and currently organises with theĀ Independent and Peaceful Australia Network. Bevan wants to tell you that IPAN currently has an important e-petition about the militarisation of Northern Australia on its website and urges you to sign. Thanks so much for joining us this week, Bevan, and for your lifelong commitment to peace work in Australia.

ipan.org.au/end-the-force-posture-agreement

ipan.org.au

The Radical Australia team, Joe Toscano and Kelly Whitworth.
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