DEAR News Of The Area,
ON October 9, 2023, Anglican Minister Mark Leach attended a protest in Sydney near the Cathedral about the Middle East. The lone representative of his ethnicity, he was chased away by protesters threatening his life.
But in the true Australian spirit Mark didn’t give up.
In the following months, as Australian society became more polarised, Mark left his job of thirty years to form Never Again is Now (NAIN) an organisation dedicated to making anti-Semitism unthinkable.
In January 2024 ten thousand people attended the first major NAIN rally in Sydney.
Membership is now 40,000.
Members are encouraged to sign pledges, according to their faith or non-faith beliefs.
Mark’s goal is to get one million signatures.
On Tuesday September 16, Never Again is Now held an information evening in Coffs Harbour attended by forty-two people.
A descendant of a Holocaust survivor, Mark warned of apathy and indifference to the persecution of religious minorities in Australia, such as occurred in pre-World War 2 Germany.
After tracing the history of the current conflict in the Middle East, he urged political and other leaders to address the fragmentation and fissure in our culture by standing for traditional Australian values such as family, faith, community, and country.
A NAIN chapter is now being formed in Coffs Harbour.
Regards,
Alison BUCKLEY.
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