Join CND and British Pugwash for an evening of discussion with Annie Jacobsen Author, the bestselling writer of Nuclear War: A Scenario, the chilling minute-by-minute account of how a nuclear war would unfold.
Annie’s talk will be followed by a Q&A session, where all participants will be invited to ask questions.
Members' forthcoming events
Easy to print list of NfP member events coming up in the next two months.
Panel featuring Jeremy Corbyn, Francesca Albanese, Ahmed Alnaouq and others on the arms trade, the rule of law, and Europe's moral standing.
Booking https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/between-gaza-and-rearmament-tickets-13639...
This is a hybrid meeting, online and at the PPU office. Details: https://www.ppu.org.uk/AGM2025
This year we have a panel discussion with three brilliant speakers, all PPU members, working in different fields for peace and against war and violence:
Ceri Buckmaster - Facilitator in Nonviolent Communication and an Interfaith Minister
Kate Smurthwaite - Political comedian, writer and activist
Anastasia Taylor-Lind - photojournalist and poet reporting on the war in Ukraine
NB The AGM is only open to members. If you are not yet a member, you can join the PPU here https://www.ppu.org.uk/join-or-renew-your-membership-ppu.
Join activists at the Main Gate at US Menwith Hill, to take opposition to the workers as they go into the base.
Bring a placard saying why you are there.
Please bring a high viz if you can. It will be a peaceful non-arrestable action, static, not blocking the entrance.
For further information please contact Sylvia on 07985 102580
The London CAAT group meets monthly to discuss arms trade issues. Currently they are organising around the #StopArmingSaudi campaign.
For more information about the group, to request to be added to their group email list, or to confirm details of the next meeting, please email londoncaat@riseup.net. Third Tuesday of the month at 6.30pm, currently via Zoom
How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery. Paul Lashmar will be joining us for an evening at Housmans to discuss his latest book, Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery. A brilliantly detailed and probing study of a how powerful British family came by their wealth through the worst kind of brutal, dehumanising violence.
With a forward by David Olusoga, this book, which spans 400 years and 18 generations, tells a story that has never been told. While all the British landed gentry profited from chattel slavery in the West Indies, the Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax family of Dorset pioneered it.
Advanced Booking Strongly Recommended.
This event will feature two short films and a discussion on the catastrophic wars in Yemen and Gaza - how they are linked, how Britain is complicit, and most importantly, what we can do about it.
John McEvoy (Declassified UK), Katie Fallon (Campaign against Arms Trade) and Yemeni peace activist and data scientist Abdulrahman Abdolaham, will discuss recent developments and actions to challenge the UK's complicity, and Emma will be discussing the UK-Israel Roadmap.
With unimaginable suffering in Gaza and the renewed bombing of Yemen, exposing and challenging the UK’s complicity has never been more important. Register for the event https://tinyurl.com/6pvk3vp4
In this invigorating new collection, Briony Hughes uses her experiences tracking bats through the Surrey Hills as a means to expand ‘communication’ beyond the human body. The bat as a cultural figure is small, blind, nocturnal, and occasionally sinister, but in Hughes’ poems they become a medium through which to interrogate the most pressing issues of our time; what happens when we abandon concepts of human exceptionalism and see ourselves as animals existing with other animals within an ecosystem? In a book of innovative engagements with language and visuality, Hughes explores the enmeshment of humanity within the natural world, and finds a moving kinship with these exceptional, easily overlooked creatures.
Briony will be joined by guest readers Sarah Westcott, Robin Boothroyd, and Redell Olsen.
This is a free event, but we ask that you RSVP via the website.
Join CND and others to tell the government to end the genocide; stop arming Israel; and stop starving Gaza!
March through central London, assembly point and route TBC.
Protest called by: Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Stop the War Coalition, Muslim Association of Britain, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Annual ceremony of Nipponzan Myohoji with various Buddhist traditions. Interfaith prayers for peace. Messages and speeches. Devotional music and dance.