After the AGM at 3.00 p.m. the talented photographer, Brijesh Patel, will give a lecture and answer questions on his latest project 'Salt/Land and People'. Brijesh Patel has retraced the path of Gandhi's historic Salt March of 1930 and produced a film relating the lives of people living on the route of the March to Gandhi's message over 80 years ago.
The event is free but donations will be welcome on the day.
Peace
Gandhi Foundation AGM and Lecture for 2012
Gandhi Foundation Summer Gathering
The Gandhi Foundation Summer Gathering will be held at The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, Oxfordshire from 28 July to 4 August. The theme this year is 'The Power of Nonviolence'. Fees for the week range from £140 with children half price.
Nonviolence in international affairs: nonsensical dream or urgent necessity?
With Diana Francis.
Diana Francis, a Quaker, is a former President of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and was Chair of the Committee for Conflict Transformation Support for most of its life. She is an associate of Conciliation Resources and Responding to Conflict, a former Chair of the Committee for Conflict Transformation Support, and has worked for twenty years as a consultant facilitator, mediator, trainer and adviser, with experience in many countries, particularly the former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus region, the Middle East, Africa and South and East Asia.
Huddersfield Quaker Meeting
Huddersfield Friends organise an annual Peace Lecture, usually in October, along with many other peace & justice related events.
Mystery Walk
The Children's Mystery Walk along the London Peace Trail is primarily for children aged 5 to 11 and is a fun day out for all the family. Children are given a Mystery Walk puzzle book and a Mystery Walk passport. They find clues, solve puzzles and decode messages along the route in order to get their passport stamped at each site. On arrival at the Imperial War Museum refreshments will be provided and there will be paper crane-making and other activities.
Registration from 11am at Friends House, Euston Road, London.
Launch of Peace Trails through London
Launch of Valerie Flessati's booklet, Peace Trails through London. All welcome.
2012 Peace History Conference: From Local to Global the north's role in peace & co-operation
This year's Peace History Conference will be in Manchester.
9 November at Friends' Meeting House, Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS
10 November at The People's History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester M3 3ER.
Please make cheques out to GM&D CND and return booking to: Jacqui Burke, Greater Manchester & District CND, Bridge 5 Mill, 22a Beswick St, M4 7HR
Fundraising Concert
CONCERT to benefit Movement for the Abolition of War with Vladimir Choi (violin) and Richard Black (piano) playing Mozart: Violin Sonata in A major; Schubert: Duo Sonata in A major; Brahms: Violin Sonata in A major; Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A major.
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Commemorating 30 yrs since Upper Heyford Peace Camp and the Peace Blockade at which 752 people were arrested.
Meeting at the site of the old Peace Camp on Camp Road, Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, then at the village Community Centre for shared lunch and discussions. Kate Hudson, CND, will be with us.
Please bring food to share, memories, photos and memorabilia plus a stone so we can make a peace cairn at the site of the old Peace Camp.
Peace Party candidate standing for Woking Borough Council
Peace Party candidate, Julie Roxburgh, is standing for Woking Borough Council in Westfield Ward. Your opportunity to actually vote for Peace - if you live in the Ward - or to help Julie in her stand for Peace.
100 Days for Peace - Olympic Peace Legacy
Launch of 100 Days for Peace. Overnight Vigil at St Martin-in-the-Fields starts at 11pm. More events during the 100 Days.
On 28 October there will be Closing events for 100 Days of Peace - A lasting legacy of Peace for everyone.
Life in the Spirit day
Life in the Spirit day at St Agnes, West Kirby with a focus on Israel-Palestine. 10.00 - 4.00pm. Speaker Pat Gaffney of Pax Christi and Friends of the Holy Land.
Ecumenical Service in memory of Archbishop Romero
Speaker: Peter Price, Anglican Bishop of Bath and Wells Supported by Romero Trust, Pax Christi, CAFOD, Christian Aid and others.
WILPF AGM
WILPF UK Section AGM. Followed by an afternoon Seminar on the UK Universal Periodic Review. Speakers to be confirmed. The AGM is free (to members) and seminar £5. Lunch is available for an additional £5. email office@ukwilpf.org.uk to register.
Iran: War or Peace?
Public meeting. With Milan Rai, co-editor of Peace News.
From Hastings to Kabul: Maya Evans' Afghanistan Speaking Tour
Well-known activist Maya Evans is speaking to groups around the country about her recent visit to Kabul, Afghanistan (see http://fromhastingstokabul.wordpress.com).
From Hastings to Kabul: Maya Evans' Afghanistan Speaking Tour
Well-known activist Maya Evans is speaking to groups around the country about her recent visit to Kabul, Afghanistan (see http://fromhastingstokabul.wordpress.com).
From Hastings to Kabul: Maya Evans' Afghanistan Speaking Tour
Well-known activist Maya Evans is speaking to groups around the country about her recent visit to Kabul, Afghanistan (see http://fromhastingstokabul.wordpress.com).
Network for Peace AGM
Following a short business meeting, our guest speaker Maya Evans will report on her trip to Afghanistan last December. Since then she has been busy on a speaking tour around Britain. See http://fromhastingstokabul.wordpress.com/
All welcome.
Join me on the Bridge
On International Women’s Day, 8th March, we are invited to take this opportunity to stand in solidarity with women on bridges around the world united in taking a stand for Peace and Women’s equality.
In London women will meet at 10.30am at the south end of the Millennium Bridge for banner making, photo-op on the bridge at 11am followed by a march returning via Hungerford Bridge for speeches at Royal Festival Hall. More details of this and other events in UK on http://joinmeonthebridge.org.events