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Last updated: 05 March 2010

 

 

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New members

Huddersfield Quakers
A warm welcome to Huddersfield Quaker Meeting as members of Network for Peace. We are looking forward to meeting Huddersfield Friends at our AGM on 27th February! Huddersfield Quakers meet at the Meeting House, Church Street, Paddock, Huddersfield, HD1 4TR.

Together for Peace
We recently welcomed Together for Peace as new members of NfP. T4P is a small charity working with a wide range of people and organisations, developing and supporting cooperative projects that strengthen communities and promote peace-making. Projects include festivals, community dialogue programmes, youth and schools projects, social forums, arts & film, food and sport. T4P, The Fred Shed, 45 Westfield Road, Leeds LS3 1DG. 0113 350 8085/86.
hello@t4p.org.uk www.t4p.org.uk. Charity reg no. 1125153.

Aldermaston Blockade 15th February 21010
First photos available at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cnduk

World Peace Directory on the web

Now online, this is a fuller and more frequently updated listing of the peace, environmental and human rights organisations in the Housmans Peace Diary. An invaluable resource, the address at http://www.housmans.info/wpd   should be bookmarked by any activist in these fields. Please note that the easiest way to bring up all the results for a particular country is to use the ‘Advanced search’ option and not limit the search with any of the other criteria – but you can, equally, narrow down very considerably what you are looking for, e.g. contacts for a particular organisation. Updates also welcome from around the world – see ‘Contribute’ tab.

The Citizen and the Law of Armed Conflict Conference

The successful conference was on 1 & 2 September 2009 and took place at Friends House, Euston. Full  Transcription available at: http://yourmpandwar.pbworks.com/

 

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Housmans blog
This month sees the launch of the new Housmans blog, which promises to be a hub of for all the latest news from us and from our partners and comrades. Expect info on up and coming actions and events, book recommendations, and other insights and wonders! The blog can be found at
http://www.housmans.com/blog/ You can subscribe to our blog via RSS to receive live updates on postings and discussions: http://www.housmans.com/blog/?feed=rss2

 

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Flushing Away Poverty - Toilet Twinning Launched

Tuesday, 09 June 2009 11:31

CORD is launching the FIRST GLOBAL TOILET TWINNING - an innovative campaign linking toilets around the world with those being built in Burundi by families returning from exile in Tanzania.

For just £60 you can exclusively twin your toilet at home, at your office or school with one deep in the African bush of Rutana Province- and track it down to its exact location via Google Earth.

Improving water and sanitation is key to CORD’s programme in remote Giharo Commune. Over the past 18 months we have helped local returnees to build 870 pit latrines, each benefiting a family of six. That’s 5,220 people who can now go to the loo in a safe, private and hygienic place. We plan to double that number.

Blocks of toilets have also been built at 3 primary schools, alongside water points- all part of our hygiene and sanitation training. ‘At current rates of progress the Millennium Development Goals for sanitation will not be met until the 22nd century, over eighty years too late,’ said Jasmine O’Connor, CORD’S Head of Africa Programmes.

‘Our work in Giharo is going to be duplicated in the coming year and the Toilet Twinning is a novel but vital way of lending your support to people who have returned home and are rebuilding their lives from scratch.’ As a Twinner you receive a special one off certificate to display in your smallest room picturing your twin, its exact location and Google map reference.

The first 500 Twinnings are on sale now via a special CORD website: www.toilettwinning.org or by calling 01926 315301. Get your friends twinning too via CORD’s Twitter page twitter.com/corduk

A Peace Map of Britain

Some time ago the Movement for the Abolition of War (MAW) started to collect information that would allow us to build a Peace Map of Britain, showing as many peace-related sites as possible (memorials, buildings, gardens, sites of actions or protests), with information on their history, a description of the sites and how to find them.  This project is still active, and we are again requesting people to send us details of any sites, if possible with photos.  A form indicating the kind of information we need can be downloaded from http://www.abolishwar.org.uk/downloads/PeaceMapForm.pdf   or write for a copy to Peace Map, 11 Venetia Road, London N4 1EJ - email: info@abolishwar.org.uk

Balkan Peace Park Project

This project aims to facilitate the creation of a trans-national, cross-border park in the adjoining mountain areas of Kosovo/a, Montenegro and northern Albania. BPPP is now a registered charity in the UK and is looking for new members and volunteers. Some NfP members are involved in the project, and so we would like to encourage people to look at the newsletter/website and perhaps consider making a donation or becoming a member. Talks and slideshows about the project can arranged by emailing Richard Hargreaves. For more information see www.balkanspeacepark.org

 

 

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Purchasing for peace

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Concord Media is a charity which distributes programmes mainly concerned with social services and the arts. Current titles on environmental themes include:

Alice in Wasteland
Animated film which follows Alice on her travels round the world discovering the impact of human activities on the natural environment, at local and global level. Leeds Animation Workshop. 12 mins. DVD Sale Price: £20.00.

Everyone can Save Energy
This animated DVD is mainly for people who have learning disabilities. It contains three short stories that show ways to keep warm, ways to cut electricity and gas bills, and ways to combat climate change. Made in consultation with CHANGE and Mencap. The voices are those of actors with learning disabilities. Leeds Animation Workshop, 2008. 8 minutes. DVD Sale Price: £40.00.

Homo Homini plus Acceleration
Homo Homini Animated film which shows Rodin's 'The Thinker' trying to create a better world but each solution creates further problems. Sponsored by The World Council of Churches. 11 mins.
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Acceleration
A quick cartoon that brings mankind from the Garden of Eden to the Space Age with the implied question has there been all that much progress after all? World Council of Churches. 2 mins. DVD Sale Price: £15.00.

Life Running out of Control
An exploration of the progressive and continual genetic manipulation of plants, animals and human beings. In India farmers face ruin owing to a disastrous crop of genetically modified cotton, and are selling their kidneys or committing suicide. Denkmal Films (who made 'Blue Eyed'). 2004. 95 mins. DVD Sale Price: £30.00.

Postage and VAT is added to all prices. To view the other programmes, or to order online please visit our website http://www.concordmedia.org.uk

 

Warfare or Welfare?

This A4 book, written by Colin Archer, Secretary General of the International Peace Bureau, is essential and easy reading for all who want to show how direct are the links between poverty and militarism. Single copies £5 plus £1 postage. Cheques made out to IPB. Orders to: MAW(WW), 11 Venetia Road, London N4 1EJ.

 

Fairtrade Palestinian Olive Oil

You can buy Palestinian Olive Oil from the Fairtrade company Zaytoun.  The organisers of this initiative are putting forward their own funds to guarantee the Palestinian farmers get a reasonable payment for their oil.  The first bulk order will go in at the end of March and Zaytoun are asking you to pledge to purchase a certain number of bottles so that they can ensure the overall venture is viable.  You can get price list and further details by emailing Atif at stormy.night@virgin.net or call on 07776243164.  You can find out more about Zaytoun by visiting their website at http://www.zaytoun.co.uk

War No More

The Movement for the Abolition of War presents a 14 minute educational and campaigning video and DVD. The message is: Wars are not inevitable. We can take the steps needed to resolve conflict in other ways. With contributions from Martin Bell, Bruce Kent, Kierra Box, Caroline Lucas MEP, Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat, Phil Shiner, Jon Snow, Tahrir Swift and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The video comes with photocopier-friendly printed discussion outlines and a list of available resources. The price of the video and booklet (inc p&p) is £8. For orders of 5 or more the price is £7. to order send a cheque made out to MAW to: MAW, 11 Venetia Road, London N4 1EJ.

 

 

 

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JOBS

To place your vacancy here contact NfP

Note that Network for Peace does not have any vacancies but if you’re willing to volunteer please get in touch! We would particularly be interested in hearing from anyone with web designing skills, and anyone keen to update the website regularly by adding events, news items etc.

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Volunteer vacancies and internships

For more organisations with voluntary opportunities see http://www.peaceexchange.org.uk/

 

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Peace News needs regular or irregular volunteers to help dispatch Peace News to subscribers. It’s usually on the last Thursday of the month but can vary by a week. 10.30am onwards. We will pay your fares up to £5. You will get tea, decent coffee, possibly a biscuit or two. Lunch will be provided if you’re in the office around 1.30pm. You will get a complimentary copy of Peace News. And interesting conversation with whoever else is hanging around or got roped in to help! Please give us a ring on 020 7278 3344 or email admin@peacenews.info if you can help. If you can only stay for an hour or so you’re still welcome to come along – the more the merrier! Next dispatch dates are 25 March and 22 April.

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Campaign Against Arms Trade

CAAT's volunteers are invaluable to its work. Without them, we simply couldn't cover the range of activities we do. Now we have an opportunity for two volunteers to work with our Local Campaigns and Fundraising Co-ordinators. The volunteer Universities Network Coordinator will communicate with student activists around the UK, providing them with information and support as needed. We are looking for someone keen on campaigning and with knowledge of university activism. Our volunteer Fundraising Assistant will support our fundraising in various ways and learn valuable fundraising and admin skills.

Both posts are for one day a week. You can read job descriptions and further information on our website.

 

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Other volunteer opportunities:

London

*         Campaign Against Arms Trade, emailW: www.caat.org.uk

*         Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: emailW: www.gn.apc.org/ccnd

*         Conscience, the peace tax campaign: emailW: www.conscienceonline.org.uk

*         Pax Christi (Catholic peace group): emailW: www.paxchristi.org.uk

 

Birmingham

*         West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: email, W: www.wmcnd.org.ukc

Manchester

*         Manchester Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: email, W: www.gmdcnd.org.uk

 

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