Today I had the pleasure and privilege of attending and speaking at the conference of the Independent And Peaceful Australia Network, IPAN. I was asked to talk about how the #climate and #peace movements can work together more, but ended up doing my usual thang of saying let’s stop being so instrumentalist and rethink what we’re doing. Traditional campaigning in both spaces is failing, because it’s refusing to grapple with the systemic blockers, and continuing to ask those in power to do things we know damn well they won’t do (what I call supplicant politics in #LivingDemocracy ). It was fabulous to meet Emma Shortis properly - she and others gave great presentations. But I was struck again by the tendency of some peace campaigners to get drawn into a slightly disturbing fascination with the theatre of war, by the predictable one speaker spouting problematic conspiracy nonsense, and by how old and white the crowd was. Gotta change that stuff. Will blog and share my speech in the next day or so.