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.

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.

Oxford Women in Black hold a silent vigil for Peace and Justice every Saturday from 2pm to 3pm at the Martyrs Memorial, bottom of St Giles, Oxford.
Contact oxfordwib@gmail.com to go on our WhatsApp group for up to date information about forthcoming vigils.

Vi Gostling Memorial Lecture. Speaker: Paul Atkinson. It can feel like Artificial Intelligence is taking over. AI is in the news every day, celebrated as the answer to every problem, & feared as an existential threat to our jobs & our control over our own lives. As a psychotherapist, until recently I thought at least counselling & psychotherapy would be exempt from the march of the machines, that our emotional worlds would always need the attention of fellow suffering human beings. I was wrong. Private companies who provide Talking Therapies for the NHS are using recordings of millions of NHS sessions to teach AI ‘conversational agents’ how to be therapists, independent of human supervision.

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.