BOOK LAUNCH: SEA NOW: Eva Meijer in conversation with Lucy Mercer
LondonN1 9DY
‘Sea Now joins Meijer’s rich oeuvre of novels and philosophical meditations on multispecies coexistence. Eva Meijer is a philosopher, visual artist, writer and singer- songwriter. Their fiction and non-fiction has been translated into over twenty languages. Since the publication of their first novel in 2011, their works have received numerous awards, including the Halewijnprijs honouring their oeuvre. Meijer’s books have been met enthusiastically by the Dutch but also international press including reviews in the Guardian, Der Spiegel and New York Review of Books.
Lucy Mercer‘s first collection Emblem (Prototype, 2022) was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Her nonfiction essay on wax and mortality, Afterlife, is forthcoming with Fitzcarraldo Editions.
£4, £12.99 inc book
Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road
Housmans Bookshop
This is not a regular event
Thu, 04/12/2025 - 19:30
Open Meeting ‘Gospel Nonviolence’
Worthing
Pax Christi Schools and Youth Education Worker, Asiling Griffin will be joining Rev David Mumford as a speaker at this event.
Women in Black vigils take place at the War Memorial, Old Steine, Brighton.
War Memorial, Old Steine, Brighton
brightonwib@11qp.co.uk
This is a regular event
Fri, 05/12/2025 - 14:00
'Euro-Atlantic Nuclear Relations in the Age of Trump'
London
Dr Marion Messmer will discuss Europe's options after: the collapse of the INF Treaty; an increase in investment in missile technologies across the European continent; and declining confidence in the US nuclear umbrella, at a time of regional and global instability.
Marion is a senior research fellow in the International Security Programme at Chatham House. She has expertise in arms control, nuclear weapons policy issues and Russia-NATO relations.
Before joining Chatham House, she was the Co-Director of BASIC, where she led on the organisation’s nuclear risk reduction and disarmament work.
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.
This is a regular event
Sat, 06/12/2025 - 19:00
BOOK LAUNCH: A Short History of Queer Parenting with Kirsty Loehr
LondonN1 9DY
Kirsty Loehr's first book A Short History of Queer Women, a brilliantly written and incisive history of female same-sex desire was one of Housmans' best-selling titles in 2024. So we are DELIGHTED that she's back with another brilliantly written and incisive (and warm and funny!!) history, this time of Queer Parenting!
£4, £8.99 inc book
Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road
Housmans Bookshop
This is not a regular event
Tue, 09/12/2025 - 00:00
Witness and protest
MENWITH HILL.
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.
Main Gate, NSA/NRO MENWITH HILL
Menwith Hill Accountability Campaign
Contact Sarah sswift64@gmail.com
This is a regular event
Tue, 09/12/2025 - 18:00
Meeting with Russian and Ukrainian Conscientious Objectors
London/Online
Please join us at 6pm (UK time) on Tuesday 9th December for this valuable opportunity to speak with both Russian and Ukrainian conscientious objectors, as well as campaigners supporting their right to refuse to kill. Join online, or at the PPU office in London.
With speakers including:
Mikheil Elizbarashvili - peace campaigner from Georgia, working for the Peace and Service Network
Juergen Menzel - peace campaigner from Germany, working at AFPB Germany
Russian and Ukrainian conscientious objectors - we will hear from several COs who have managed to escape Russia and Ukraine (names withheld for their security)
After hearing about their experiences, there will be a chance to ask questions. We will also discuss what we, in the UK, can do to support their struggles.
Peace Pledge Union PeaceWorks 1 Peace Passage, N7 0BT
Peace Pledge Union
020 7424 9444
mail@ppu.org.uk
This is not a regular event
Tue, 09/12/2025 - 18:30
‘Gentle, Angry Women’
LeedsLS11 9YJ
Join Yorkshire CND for a film screening of ‘Gentle, Angry Women’, a new documentary following the journey of three young women as they retrace the march to Greenham Common, rediscovering the lost legacy of the 1980s Women’s Peace Camp.
MICHAEL MEARS ESSENTIAL THEATRE:
four dramatic online perspectives on war and nuclear weapons are still available -
THE PRIEST’S TALE https://vimeo.com/438259377
Peace News has recently printed 1,000 copies of Daniel Hunter's wonderful Climate Resistance Handbook (foreword by Greta Thunberg) in order to make it available *at cost price* (£1.65 each + p&p) to U