Each autumn, events take place around the globe to highlight and challenge the increasing militarisation of space. Here in the UK, protests will take place at military sites connected with space warfare, while other events aimed at raising awareness will also take place in town and city centres.
On Sunday 12th October we shall hold a protest outside the main gate of MoD Corsham, a major of the key sites connected with the UK’s space warfare plans. MOD Corsham is home to the MoD’s Global Operations Security Control Centre (GOSCC), the Joint Security Co-ordination Centre(JSyCC), and Defence Digital. Skynet, a family of military communications satellites that provides strategic communication services to the UK Armed Forces and allies, is managed from Corsham with Ground Control facilities adjacent.
Forthcoming events
Easy to print list of events coming up in the next two months.
As part of Lakenheath Alliance for Peace’s tour to highlight how we can work together to end the threat of nuclear weapons, increased militarisation of our state, and endless wars, please join us for this public meeting in Reading.
With guest speakers including Sophie Bolt, CND; and others to be announced.
Free entrance (donations welcomed to cover costs).
Mutant Ecologies: Manufacturing Life in the Age of Genomic Capital Ecologies (Pluto Press) traces the spinning of new synthetic threads into the web of life. It is a critical cartography of the shifting landscapes of capital accumulation conjured by recent developments in genomic science, genome editing and the biotech industry.
Menwith Hill Base, regular demonstrations
Tuesday evenings at the Main Gate of the Menwith Hill surveillance base, from 6pm to 7.30pm. All most welcome for this peaceful witness.
THE MISTAKE by Michael Mears at the Arcola Theatre, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
Last chance to see this award-winning play about Hiroshima and events leading up to the first atomic bomb.
Direct from tours to the USA and Japan. Performed by Riko Nakazono and Michael Mears.
WiB - London meets every Wednesday, around the statue of Edith Cavell in St Martin’s Place 6-7. We are very happy to welcome new women to the vigils – even if they can only come once in a while.
Housmans and both are worse are delighted to be launching two new excellent essay collections, Training Exercises by Danny Hayward and Kingfisher by Matthew Goulish. ‘both are worse‘ publish short prose books that make an engaging comment on the state of poetry and/or poetics, stretches some horizons, pushes out beyond an impasse, heaps up obstructions, or makes life more difficult or liveable in any way that seems compelling, vital, or beautiful. Studies of single authors, histories of communities or forms, manifestos, treatises on metre, philosophies of phonation, provocations of every stripe and blotch, dream diaries, long jokes, spreadsheets or inscrutable swirls of one-dimensional Venn diagrams are all possible: anything that works.
Join the87press for a very special Hummingbirds event featuring Alia Al Ghussain and Rayya El Zein to celebrate the launch of Filling the Head: Listening to Rap in Arabic (Indiana University Press, 2025).
Women in Black vigils take place at the War Memorial, Old Steine, Brighton.
Evening of song and discussion in Stroud. 7:30pm – Peace and social activist songs by Eleanor Holliday with Acapeeps Community Choir from Stroud.
8pm – Talk by Professor Danny Dorling, Oxford University. Danny is a geographer who researches burning current issues such as inequality, structural violence and social injustice. He will unpack what we really think about when considering the future, showing that our real concerns are often different from the headlines. Followed by a Q and A with Dr Simon Opher MP.
Tickets are £15/£10 concessions/under-21s free: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/87754