Greater Manchester & District CND are teaming up with the Wigan Diggers Festival to host two back-to-back screenings of Gentle, Angry Women, Barbara Santi’s wonderful film connecting the struggles for peace and climate justice today with the iconic Greenham Common women who kicked the cruise missiles out of Berkshire.

Speaker: Mike Nellis, Strathclyde University. The Ministry of Justice anticipates a minimum daily prison population in England & Wales of 95,000 by 2029, up from its present 88,000. More people go to prison, increasingly for longer. Some ‘smart’ prisons infused with digital technologies will allegedly strengthen security & improve rehabilitation. The moment when campaigners believed an array of alternatives to prison would enable sentencers to use prison less has long passed; alternatives are themselves becoming more punitive. ‘Prison outside prison’ & ‘incarceration without walls’ are recent government watchwords involving even greater uses of electronic monitoring, delivered by the private sector & risk turning probation into a surveillance agency, more closely involved with the police. The British Left never agreed on a viable, radical critique of carceral practices, but there are still resources to draw on.

Meetings start with a buffet at 7:30pm followed by a talk at 8:00pm, then discussion at about 9:00pm.

All meetings are free of charge. Voluntary donations welcome. No need to book. If you can, please bring some vegetarian/vegan food and drink to share.

On 14-20 September, our movements will come together worldwide for the Global Week of Action for Climate Justice.

We’re coordinating events and activity organised by groups and organisations in Great Britain during the week of action. Click the button below to sign up to join our coordination space, chip in to support our activities and then keep an eye out here for more information and resources about the Global Week of Action.

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.