With squatters from all over the UK and other countries. Bring ideas, friends and things to share.
Forthcoming events
Easy to print list of events coming up in the next twelve months.
Fighting for a million new jobs; Fighting the threat of catastrophic climate change. Climate Job Centre in Amphitheatre.
7.30pm: Meeting, The Curve.
Twenty minutes' stillness will start or finish with a short reading or some brief practical guidance. Stay to bring and share vegetarian lunch after this if you like. Peace House, 19 Paradise Street, behind the Oxford Castle visitor centre. 1:15pm, Thursdays.
Accommodation: Warm and spacious barn.
You get all this by raising £100 or more in sponsorship.
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(This session is residential and for year-group only). Turning the Tide in collaboration with Huddersfield Quakers and other local peace and justice groups are hosting a series of workshops called 'Nonviolence for a Change.' This is a training programme for people with some experience of working with others to address injustices and make changes. You can sign up for the whole course, or just dip into the sessions that interest you. This course tends to be oversubscribed so get in touch as soon as you can. The fee is £350 for the year; £35 per workshop, and concessions and payment plan options are available.
With speaker Sheila Triggs.
The talk is at 1pm and will last about 30 minutes followed by questions.
You are welcome to bring a packed lunch any time from 12.15pm. A donation is invited for a hot drink and biscuits.
Mersyside CND will be taking part in a major Climate Change Event in Williamson Square, Liverpool on Saturday 19th May. Along with Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Stuent Action for Refugees and many more activists in an event organised by One Million Climate Jobs campaign and the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union group. For furter info, www.climate-change-jobs.org.
Troops out of Afghanistan, Don't Attack Iran, no intervention in the Middle East. Stop the War is calling a day of protest to coincide with big protests in Chicago against the NATO summit.
London event: 1pm outside US embassy, Grosvenor sq, London W1.
Speaker, Oliver McTernan, co-founder and CEO of Forward Thinking, an organisation set up to promote a more inclusive peace process in the Middle East and to facilitate a global dialogue between the religious and secular worlds.
Facilitators from Rhizome will help participants explore why and how we use nonviolence and direct action, develop skills for occupying space, keeping things calm or dealing with aggression, and tactics for blockading and impeding the arms trade.
The training will also be useful if you are interested in taking non-violent direct action on other issues.